Dissolution of the Silent Union

I respect any piece of media that puts you through something you wouldn't otherwise enjoy and hits you with the final puzzle piece that brings it all together. You can call this game pretentious, slow, simple, with no actual choices. It's endings suck. Its animations and art are janky and simple. It's style over substance. The writing is constantly rambling. The voice acting is stilted. I accept ALL these things because that's what makes the game good for me. It's a huge wave of nostalgia that doesn't waste your time or money and re-contextualizes all it's lesser elements to be apart of the whole experience. It's abstract yes, but it touches on a feeling so real. It's nostalgic, but it's about nostalgia. It's about looking back. It's about wondering what you missed or what changed since your youth. All this I say to avoid spoilers and to put into words how the game made me feel by the end. I would change nothing, and I couldn't be more inspired to make my own visual novel.

It's cryptic in meaning, but it's beautiful nonetheless. It's painful, it's tormented, it's simple, it's nostalgic. It's... really sad. SPOILERS here onward. The second playthrough really put the metaphors in place for me, like with Vera shoveling coal into the furnace, ignoring the foreign language books and off-season clothes in Lena's wardrobe, and the bridge that Lena crossed when she moved. I love the art, the photography, and the soft music accompanying the story, specially in the music room. The writing at that segment, about recording the sounds of when the school is at its quietest was a highlight for me. I can almost feel like I'm there in that institution, listening to the guitar being played inside the music room. I like how most post-sovietic inspired media nowadays is tinged in this depressive yet hopeful style and mood. I like it here. WLW approved

a really lovely story <3 i hope this indie dev team continues to create games! this was beautiful!!

having no real expectations going into it, i had a pretty good time with it. the music was especially good and did most of the heavylifting for setting the mood. everything else though was alright and admittedly a lot of it probably flew over my head but for being so cheap and so short its worthwhile

My favorite part was when the Silent Union dissolute, please consider making a Latin American Spanish translation please so that I could recommend it to my friends

oh my goodness unbelievable its absolutely great i'm obsessed with it