Before anything, indeed, thanks a lot to everyone for organising this and for participating 
. What can I say, it’s the first VN I’ve ever read and the experience has been a blast, not only because I could do it in its native language (which by default makes it a significantly more attractive experience for me, I don’t think I can go with translations anymore if its a language I know) but also because these threads made it a lot more fun. Completing a chapter and coming back to comment and theorise was a great experience. It was an awesome introduction to the medium I’d say, and a few years back if you told me I’d be reading VNs in the future I would’ve been surprised; now I really think this is a medium that I enjoy and would love to continue (I’m already slowly researching new things to play 
), both with the club and on my own.
Chapter spoilers and wrap-up thoughts about the game
Same! I actually loved the horror vibes and mystery, it’s probably a genre I’d enjoy quite a bit. It would’ve been cool if they kept that vibe for a bit throughout the game.
About the ending of the epilogue, I adhere to the side of “she’s alive and well in the present, everything is alright”, I don’t really think she’s in a coma, she just seems to be sleeping. I guess now that I think of it they might have added that for ambiguity but naaah I don’t buy it . In any case, both options could be true, which is nice.
So about the game as a whole, honestly I really liked it. It wasn’t something super groundbreaking or super memorable, but I still enjoyed it for what it is: a cute little story, nothing less nothing more. The art and the music were nice. Initially I really liked ヒルダ and thought she would remain as my favourite character until the end, but she ended up giving me side-character vibes sadly. It’s kinda sad in a way that everything is set up so that タイラ and ミア shine, and I guess they are for whom the story is made after all, but still ;-; . In the end I think サイモン ended up being my favourite character: super supportive, clever and smart but in a way that isn’t arrogant, didn’t hesitate to change his ways and adapt to the truth even if he was a bit sceptical at times, didn’t particularly stand out significantly like タイラ did but his role was still super important for the plot. I liked him at the start and I like him at the end, I think the game treated him very fairly. Plus I really like the way he speaks and formulates sentences, vocabulary choices, etc. Pretty polite but still close and warm, that scene of the phone call and when タイラ was completely defeated was nice.
The side characters ended up growing a tiny, tiny, very tiny bit on me. Still they were pretty plain, but since they were around relatively frequently, in the end I liked them more than I did at the beginning, so that’s a win. クロ and カイ though, I really didn’t fit them into the story at all after all. They ended up being used conveniently one time for the plot and that’s it. When they talked with a couple sentences before the end I was like… ughhh no, shut up, let’s not ruin the mystery . Remain in the unknown and let’s imagine you guys were amazing and super close to the main cast 
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What else… I wish they didn’t make タイラ a god on Earth, I said it before. I guess because of time restraints, he ended up solving every issue that came up with barely any struggle at all. I wish they let other characters excel a bit more, like ヒルダ or レオナ, it would’ve made タイラ a bit more human and the others a bit more capable. I would’ve loved more struggle overall, more mystery, more puzzles… I think the game would’ve been much better if it had been longer. At one point earlier, サイモン said he spoke with the American loopers, right? I don’t know, imagine if they come out of the time vortex without ミア and then they contact them to solve it, and they send one or two people over to ultimately help come up with the idea of the treasure spell, while sharing similarities or experiences from their time in the loop. I’m just imagining whatever , but yeah I guess the main issue for me is that everything felt super easy and it was pretty much all solved by one person who suddenly appears and puts a smile and energy on everyone.
Despite that thought, with its flaws, I still think it was alright. I really liked opening the game every week for the new chapter, I haven’t dreaded it a single moment nor wish a chapter was hopefully over soon. I thought the slice of life-y chapters were a bit long, but probably not because they were but because the weekly schedule of the club forced them to be like a month of slice of life, and I wanted so bad for the plot to advance at that point. VNDB has it rated with a 6.7 and I think it’s fair, nothing amazing but still something enjoyable.
Language wise I think the level was really good for where I’m at: nothing hard but still just right to get new vocabulary comfortably, though occasionally I did have significant trouble with some sentences here and there. I could get a lot of new vocabulary and that’s awesome. I don’t know exactly how many cards I had in my Anki deck prior to Loopers, because I started using Anki when I was playing FF7 a few months back, but I think it’s about 600 new words (though I did skip some words here and there, I don’t really add everything) (Edit: Actually nevermind, it might be less than that because I do have other words from other games, but I think it’s fair to say that I got at least 400 from Loopers). I also added unknown kanji to a Loopers collection in Kanji Study and it marks 53 new kanji so there’s that.
I’m probably missing something but anyways, was a fun VN! Can’t wait for the next one 
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