Daft Punk was right - it's amazing what you'll find face to face! So many aspects of this VN are swagalicious. I got very hooked by the mid-point and I didn't expect a mystery at all, and suddenly - WHABAM. The writing had me on my tippy toes the whole time, I couldn't call any of the twists at all. Using the provided sprites but altering them to be silhouettes worked amazingly, giving this feeling of being unable to pick anyone apart, no idea who's acting in good faith and who isn't. Lack of backgrounds did not impact my experience almost at all, I would go as far as to say the grey background with text in the top left declaring what room it is supposed to be was an aesthetic choice on its own; it worked surprisingly well with the setting. (I only wish there weren't scribbles like the ladder or especially the painfully rushed trees in the final scene.) The resolution tied this all together into what feels like a complete bundle - a short and satisfying mystery in part impactful due to its own decision to leave threads hanging and still definitively concluding.
I'll remember the sound of rain.