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This is my favourite game of all time.
Even after having played many, many games/genres over the years, this one has cemented itself as the one closest to my heart.
I played it for the first time roughly 1 year into studying Japanese and so all of this is independent of the localisation and only applies to the original script as this version ships with it.

This is a visual novel made by Visual Arts / Key, their stories have a reputation to be among the highest revered and influential Nakige, used for games that are meant to make you cry, while not written by Jun Maeda, the man behind other famous Key works, he did come up with the concept and wrote the opening track to the game which is one of the best non-vocal ones: ''Sea, You & Me''.
On that note, the OST itself is truly remarkable which is only aided by the handful added tracks Reflection Blue added, I can not think of a single track that doesn't fit the scene or is of lower quality than any of the others. A personal highlight of mine are the vocal tracks which have and still do while re-listening, have made me cry more than I would like to admit, but that is the beauty of games or stories in general, to me.

Personally, the strongest asset of this game is the consistent quality of all its routes, its characters, and its themes that go along with them.
Everyone on the cast be it main heroine or side character, everyone I firmly believe gets a moment to shine at their brightest and while I do have a favourite, I would be lying if I said that I dislike any of them, far from it, I love every single one of them.
For the routes, i do not want to even go into detail and simply implore to read them all, as everyone single one of them has made me shed many, many tears.
Instead of saying what I believe the themes of this game to be, I'd much rather that anyone even slightly interested in the game to come to your own conclusion, meet the game at eye level, avoid looking at guides and let the game speak for itself.

The game will absolutely not work for everyone, nor should it, but I believe that if the game works for you, it will leave an impression.
All this review is really meant to show what this game means to me and if just one person gets interested thanks to this then I'm satisfied, as I strongly believe this game embodies what Summer means.