Finally finished the VN and if I can only say one thing about Rewrite its this:
Oh my god this is an amazing soundtrack. Clannad and Little Busters have great soundtracks but there isn’t much diversity in either of these. They’re both primarily drama slice of life, so most of the tracks reflect this. Rewrite on the other hand is a mess. It has action elements, horror elements, mystery elements, romance elements. And the quality isn’t lacking either. Absolutely some of the songs are mediocre, especially the background themes used in Common, but there are so many greats as well.
(Should this go in the Key Sounds Label discussion? Eh, I’m probably fine as long as throw some other stuff onto the end)
More seriously though, I felt like Rewrite was pretty strong in the characters department. The heroines weren’t outstanding but they were, at worst, decent. Each route had a really solid supporting cast. I would have liked to see more overlap between routes though. A lot of characters play a part in one route then don’t do much for the rest of the game. The advantage to this is it allows them to be used more effectively in their respective routes and there are fewer chances of contradictions but it makes the character routes feel very disconnected from one another which I feel hurts the impact of Terra.
I had seen a lot of love for Sakuya before reading and didn’t get what the appeal was but as a read he slowly became my favorite character. I know he’s cheesy and generic, but he’s just so cool. He’s honestly become one of my favorite Key characters even though I know as a character he’s kinda lazily done.
Well, I’m going to go put the soundtrack on my phone now.