This was really neat :3 The character designs are adorable, especially Mei's (but I love all of them!) The blinking eyes are a nice touch. I'm always jealous of anything like that in VNs cos I wish I could do it myself, haha. Speaking of which, I'm also always a little jealous of VNs made with RPGmaker! They always just seem to have that extra layer of depth to them with being able to have the option to physically move characters around a space. I even have MV on Steam, but I've never opened it because it looks so complicated and terrifies me x3
I'm a big fan of the game in a game concept, so that was awesome! But what surprised me even more was how much Mei's experience in school hit me. Our circumstances aren't the same, but I do remember what it was like to feel lost and alone during my school years. They were some of the worst years of my life >.< When I was a kid, I never knew why I had no friends. Just that I was different, and an outsider always looking in, excluded from everything. I wasn't bullied, and it's not like people disliked me. More that I was just invisible >.< I didn't find out until adult life that I have autism, and that was probably the cause of a lot of my social problems in life.
Like Mei, I used to come home from school and throw myself into video games (Final Fantasy X a lot of the time x3) because it was the perfect form of escapism. In those fantasy worlds, I could actually be someone, and life meant something. So yeah, the sorta stuff she was going through really resonated with me on a deep level that I wasn't expecting when I started playing! (In a good way :3) Our school did have a kind of leavers prom as well. I didn't go, haha. I stayed home and played video games xD
I don't wanna write any spoilers, but I got the little bird ending on my first go! Thanks so much for the guide by the way. That'll make it easier to get the other ending, much appreciated, and awesome job all round <3