Pros: Recreation is a visual artist, and I love the work they have done in creating beautiful characters and renders. While Ellie may not be everyone's cup of tea, I think she has a beautiful innocence about her, as well as being highly original and human looking, with well-crafted skin textures.
The first game is long enough to tell the story and situate the characters so that the backstory is at least understandable. The closeness between the MC and Ellie is told well, but not in a bawdy way. Even though the MC has bad feelings towards his dad's ex-girlfriend, he manages to put them to the side and they start to develop a relationship.
The side characters (the therapist, Ellie's friends) are interesting as well, and show some promise for adventtures in the future.
Cons: The creator uses some unconventional ways to convey story information without graphics by going to black screen. They then use a grey text popup with timing from Ren'py but a glitch in the software is making that grey text persist into later shots. I am sure this is just a matter of playing around with the timings somewhat.
The story has some typos as well. Running things through a grammar checker would help a lot.
Overall sentiment: This is a game with story and graphics which was painstakingly crafted (which is very clear in the visuals) and carefully written. I look forward to how the story will develop down the line and will update this as more content is added.
