Pace
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So yeah I’m nearing the end of door 2. Possibly. Maybe.
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Forgot to mention my progress for a while, but I’ve now entered door 8. 
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Nice!! Congrats! Looks like you are enjoying it 
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Thanks. I’ll probably just lurk and wait until I am finished overall to make any more comments regarding the story.
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Alright! Do let us know when you get there
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I finally finished door 6! It certainly took longer than I expected, I had sort of forgotten how it’s structured around here. Suffice to say the door contents are probably half or less and we have a very long in between section. I’m choosing to count everything until you get DOOR 7 on the screen as falling under 6 for thread purposes, but I’ll separate them into two sections.
The door
It’s nice to see things wrapping back together and getting “the maid’s” perspective, understanding why she is always interested in ミシェル in particular but also so cryptic. Rose family backstory too! Was fun seeing a kind of grumpy old man open up and it’s really funny that the lie about how he died somehow got mutated into what メル says in door 1. I don’t have a lot to say here – it’s a story trying to show the mental toll of existing for centuries on top of most of your time being spent in a world of darkness and nothing so it sure is dreary. The commentary about creating a shell to protect yourself from the world’s harshness, then eventually losing track of the real you, is pretty good.
After
メル as the annoying rose garden fool was kinda making me laugh, but after that, oh man. I really like how this VN will change its presentation, even if going into NVL text mode and full on telling-only with a single backing track and little background image variation is obviously more simple and monotonous. She’s narrating it all to us and it feels different across the board.
Not a chapter for the squeamish. Now we have the tragic life of the witch and even Morgana is a sympathetic character, just someone lashing out in pain. The description around the time she’s in the tower and seeing birds, hearing people through the windows really does get to me. Dreadful tale, in the good way.
I thought I remembered something about gender with ミシェル, and now I’m really curious to see how Door 7 works out because like I’ve said, my memory has faded so much on these details. Now that I’m older and the world has changed a bit around gender things it feels like wading into a minefield if you don’t know to totally trust the author, but this VN is clearly super sympathetic to its characters so I have a lot of hope for this to be presented well, through the lens of like middle ages people dealing with it, heh.
Feeling pretty good about my progress, but knowing the final chapter is like more than double the length of these here makes it feel like I really have 3 to go rather than 2.
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Great progress for sure. And yeah, me trying to chew through the final chapter steadily, but it really is long
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