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My initial impression for 1/2 summer and Sora's route.

Spoiler for spoilers for Sora:

While the premise is pretty generic, but the female heroines were all likeable. The concept that Kuroha could transport Kaname to an alternate or futere world (it's unclear from only reading Sora's route) was interesting and it motivated the main character to find out more about Sora, but in the end it was somewhat a cheap plot device to get the 2 together.
Also i find Sora's change from sheltered , androphobic and sometimes rude kuudere/tsundere to a more openly extremely cute, more energetic deredere character a little hard to believe and somewhat too at the beginning of her own route
This wouldn't be a problem if it had some nice romantic and ichaicha moments, but even that was lacking in Sora's story. The reason is that her entire story focuses way too much on the boring and dragging story about helping lost/abandoned animals (mostly cats) and finding them an owner.

Kuroha hardly appears at all in this route, so nothing about her like the alternate worlds or why she wanted Kaname to get paired with a girl so fast etc. gets explained. I think there is some vague hints about her story when Tsugumi was talking about the legend about the dragon and lake and at the end of the route you get the chance to read more about it narrated by Kuroha, but that's still not too much.
Also this route had pretty much no drama, so it remains pretty bland.

Atleast Kazuha (she ended being my favorite character, but sadly this imouto didn't get her own route) and Kanami brought some humour in this otherwise boring route :/

The visuals are ok, but nothing amazing eventhough some character proportions were a little off in some scenes and some of the backgrounds in the inn looked odd. Some of the BGM's like "Reminiscent" were very nice and quite relaxing.

Let's hope that the other 3 stories are better, because Sora's route ended being disappointing


edit:after playing it the 2nd time while aiming for Kanami i realized that i mistook the last part of the common route (picking the choices (3 times) that lead to a specific heroine) as the first part of Sora's route. So that means Sora's route was even more boring than i thought

late edit:
finished Kanami's story and it was so much better than Sora's

Spoiler for spoilers for Kanami:

I liked her alot because of her genki personality and that she was used for comedic moments in both the common and Sora's route.

While she was still as fun in her own route, her story is slightly more serious as it turns out that she is the ghost of the sickly girl whom Kaname met when they were kids.
She lived again because of her wish or regret (i kinda missed that part how she became alive, but i guess it's thanks to Kuroha) of wanting to meet Kaname again (and have sex with him o_o ). Kuroha says that Kanami only has a few weeks left before she disappears from the world. While this story could have been depressing , the writer went for a more happier approach because the 2 used their last few moments for creating happy memories (with lots of ichaicha moments and nice romantic scenes),
While there was still some drama , it didn't overshadow all the fluffy moments. Well except near the end, when Kanami did disappear. They did pull a huge deus ex machina at the end though.

In the end i really liked Kanami's route , eventhough the

Spoiler for spoiler:

ghost plot

kinda came out of nowhere and the story itself is not that original.