bro, FVNs just ain't for you if you just dumb it down to just that.. i can suggest In Finite Space, One Last Night, Dog x Bloods, Demons Within, Undefeated, Pervader and Blossom City if you really wanted to find VNs that lack the things you dislike... but after that, you probably need to drop reading FVNs because you're going to struggle to find a VN out there to read in which it suits your tastes.. go read an anime or something, or watch a manga instead.. and i particularly love listening to edgy light novels.. go check them out..
it's funny how people get the bad ending.. so.. there are so called two routes.. you can have both of them in this which is a perk i kinda like..
also, i thought that the teacher would be a potential antagonist right from the start.. but nothing happened so i am looking forward to see his development in Blossom City: Winter..
so.. with positive comments out of the way.. all i thought about was that the story loved to be nothing.. outside of that thought, the situations were just way too random to push the non-existent "plot" in a direction and used all of it as a set-up for probably the best scene in the VN which was the family gathering scene even though it's also kinda random and it took way too loooong and had me thought about dropping it when said pay-off did not happen yet.
there's also a same situation of it when i saw that weed dude who appeared as fast as he left, i thought of that dude as a wildcard and that his randomness revealed an important info later on, even though it's not an info that affects the plot.
thanks for the chess minigame cuz without it, i sorta would never even bother reading the whole thing cuz i have adhd and the story was way too boring even if the main character is a bit relatable from hobbies down to mannerisms from the start. cuz all the VN had from the start was to randomly give set-ups and the pay-offs for said set-ups were relatively late.
i kept playing chess because the AI is kinda human-like at times and felt fair.. but there's something missing.. i need to promote, castle and en passant.. there are also gameplay issues like Ai not giving me checkmate and the 3 repetitive moves draw + 50 moves without eating a piece draw not happening.. it teaches bad chess when someone for some reason does not have any knowledge of chess plays it..
but- the Colossus on Rune's route was Rune's actual dad(the one that gave him love when he was a kid).. and he remembered him tho despite being corrupted and there's not much else that links them both like Burry grafting pieces of souls to him.. if Rune's situation was the exception and not the rule, then that would still change nothing cuz Teak might have done it after getting corrupted cuz i don't see Alon being the one who caused the shut down since it was implied that he was saved or "enlightened" by Luke alongside Burry, Rune and Max..
no but like- Teak was against the main character and then he invited Max to go outside the shelter an hour till the Skies Ablaze then just disappeared after the story when the shut down happened.
and i don't think it's Alon cuz his role was more of an observer and that he had all the time in the world to do it, cuz if you think about it.. why now? why did he wait for Teak to appear then cut the wire with Luke's absence? we knew Alon's the only one who can do that even with Luke's presence for the Skies Ablaze. It's why nothing happened when Luke decided to be a martyr and stay instead of automating the turret because it wasn't Alon who did it.. like bro is literally invisible to canines, so what more if it was Luke who wasn't even a canine but a human? and Alon also is just way too much of a dork to even do it.
