It is as most people here have said, this recap was actually enjoyable to watch, mainly because it was crafted like a bedtime story that Tomoya tells Ushio about.
And like how people recall events when telling their story, they don't do so in a rigid chronological way which plague how recap episodes in other series are narrated and ended up being scorned.
Instead, this recap has Tomoya narrate through "threads", like going from: meeting Nagisa -> gathering club members (brief introduction of said members) -> moving in with Nagisa -> graduating and working, etc.
So this was actually a breath of fresh air compared to the other boring recap episodes I never would have bothered with in other series. (AIR being the main exception, which is also done by Key/Kyo-Ani)
Of course, by structuring it as a bedtime story, there's the problem of how the "non-existent" events of episodes 17-21 could get explained. That got sorted out well by having Tomoya actually "remembering" these events "like a dream", and yet he believed he has experienced them, which he indeed has, but just couldn't figure out how.
Note that during the monologue concerning episodes 17-21, Tomoya makes no mention of the Illusionary World. This makes sense, as IW-Ushio told the Robot (Tomoya) that when he returns to the Real World, he will have no memory of ever being in IW, so we only see Tomoya "waking up" from his "dream" and finding Nagisa alive and well.
Wow, I'm actually singing praises for a recap episode.
But seeing as this is a good way to wrap things up, plus the original footage near the end was a nice touch as well, it's a good way to see off the series.
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