Lucia's route occupies a quite unique place amongst the heroine routes.
Only one writer devoted to it.
The only route that doesn't follow from the "incident" with the Occult Research Group investigating a certain someone's disappearance in the forest.
It's also to my eyes the only route with the visible elements that make up your typical eroge plot. Confession>Rabu~Rabu~ Period>Obstacle Events>Conclusion. Thus, the "date scenes" were the least-focused things for me, because I'd seen them all before.
And yes, the high-pressure elements are a given, Rewrite was slated to be different.
The earlier discussion about past climax routes made me install Clannad, AIR and Little Busters! all over again. Now where to find those damn save files...