This is going to end up being a rather general review of Kinsenka because there's an awful lot in this visual novel and not much of the story can be spoken about without going into some spoilers.

Positives:

- Emotional scenes and stories within stories. This visual novel got me emotional multiple times throughout starting from relatively early on.

- Just enough tone changes so that the story does not become one-note. Some sections had some comedy or some light slice of life sections in order to change it up.

- The music is atmospheric and adds to the experience. I also think the theme song is very well done.

- Localization was done well. If you want to nitpick I'm sure you can find some things - but overall it's well done.

Neutral:

- It's a heavy story. There are some things in here that are hard to stomach and are not for everyone. Including - general spoilers -

so it may not be for everyone. I didn't find any of it to be too heavy, but this is definitely a place where YMMV.

- I feel like the ending was a bit of a letdown compared to how well everything had been built up. To be clear I do not actually think the ending is bad, but I feel it didn't live up to the rest of the visual novel's quality quite as much.

Negatives:

- The story is a bit uneven. Two of the chapters dragged a bit, including the last one. Pacing was quite a bit better through the first half of the visual novel.

- A few unanswered story threads still remain, namely:

Overall, I'd recommend this to most readers looking for a good nakige. It's not perfect, but if you liked this writer's other works then you'll probably enjoy this. I don't think any of its flaws are enough to stand in the way of this getting a high score from a lot of readers. It took me 20 hours to finish it - and I usually land somewhere between 50-75% of average VNDB time - so I think it's worth the $30 cost at full price, but if it ever goes on sale it's definitely worth picking up.