congratulations, my friend. it is a banger. there are many visual novels this jam but this one is by far the meatiest. you coulda told me any of those chapters were an entire entry and i would believe you and still rate them well
and first lemme just say: silent protagonists in video games? very overdone. in fact kind of annoying by this point unless there is a very good in-story reason. but in a visual novel? stupid bold. thats a crazy thing to manage when you are doing much more conversing than jrpging or shooting. respect
the art is consistently very clean throughout and i absolutely appreciate even the slightest changes to the default ren'py aesthetics and the font you chose is very nice
speaking of aesthetics one thing you have probably heard about is the choice of real photos for backgrounds. and you know what: i totally get it (had to do the same thing)
i ended up putting some filters on mine before slapping them in and making some tweaks so first when i saw em here i was like "lame" but upon further consideration? ya know? kinda interesting
normally settings in gensokyo are idyllic or mystical or have some really heavy theme or something as goes anime-lookin environments but the very grounded aesthetics make gensokyo seem like a real place you could go to and then get arrested for trespassing. would not have fit my game but with what you are doing here (wandering around and talking to people) it is not even a problem at all and kinda cool
i got aya good ending. haven't gone for the others at the moment but i may very well do so later