hello! this is my first day here and i want to greentext myself to you~
>install Angel Beats! 1st Beat
>“haha I love Key, time for some laughs and feels :^)”
>ten minutes in
>Yuri: “We’re fighting Angel.”
>me: lol okay
>thirty minutes in
>flashback to child trauma, death, hospitals, and moral philosophy
>me: oh no not again
>every route is like a time bomb
>you think you’re safe because characters are doing dumb hijinks
>suddenly they drop their tragic backstory and life regrets in one paragraph
>now you’re crying at 4am wondering if you ever actually lived
>Hinata route: starts with baseball
>ends with spiritual healing through broship
>I am emotionally compromised
>even the random side jokes go from 0 to 100
>“Haha that’s funny”
>3 scenes later the joke is recontextualized into pain
>MaedaLEGEND really just recycles the same themes
>and every single time I eat it up
>“What if regret was sad”
>“What if trauma had jazz piano”
>Yes chef
>you finish a route
>you stare at the main menu for 10 minutes
>sunlight creeping through the blinds
>birds chirping
>life has lost all color
>this is the true Key experience™

Angel Beats! 1st Beat is unfinished and still better than 90% of VNs out there
MaedaLEGEND you evil hero, you’ve done it again
I forgive you for everything
even Charlotte