I'll be honest and preface this with that this VN didn't work at all for me. The actual review will be based on what it actually is and does, but I'm including my personal opinions anyway. Also, this is all written with the assumption the reader (you) has played the game, or does not care about spoilers.
Pink "That's my opinion!": I guess a large part of it is because the concept of a furry convention isn't relatable to me as I've not been to one. It did do a good job convincing me I'm not missing out. It seems miserable. The internet speak and 1 million references per textbox quickly became grating. Getting rantsonad about THE PULSE SHOOTING sent my soul out of my body and I'm never getting it back. I'd like to believe 99% of players do in fact know about it (I'm not even American yet have this knowledge), and do not need a sexy possum guy giving a recap(?????) while holding his finger up ☝️ I... guess I respect the decision to have the main character ahegao blush and be horny about two textboxes after this (not really, it has disastrous consequences on the writing and not just because it's insane). For things I did enjoy: the music was neat, the art ate, Blake slayed, the 'conclusion' to each day was theoretically a good way to write this.
Actual review:
Starting off, the art is phenomenal. That's practically synonymous with saying "the art is made by Phwog", but it really is. Characters are expressive and dynamic, personality is shown through design/posture/movement. The most red flag man that would send anyone but bad-down furries into fight or flight to have ever been drawn upped the sleaziness by however many stars the American flag has with that tongue. And it all looks amazing, including the plentiful CGs. The backgrounds are filtered photos, which does work with the narrative here. The main character superimposes fursonas onto people with them - the world is still the same world we live in.
The music is good and fit the scenes they're for - although nothing really stood out as something I let the story be put on pause for so I could bop to them, nor really used as part of the storytelling. Which is fine! Good background music can certainly stand on its own.
It's mostly the narrative, and as such part of the writing, where there are issues. (And take this not as malignant or reflective of players who don't view the game through their own writing glasses.)
The writing from moment to moment is frankly good - character voices are generally strong, the prose tends to have a nice flow with colourful descriptions, and there's often good comedic timing. The twist about the truck driver in the elevator worked really well, especially with the visual storytelling going on in tandem. The abundant references kinda do, if I may harken back to Since November, work better here due to its setting and subject matter. Will things like the Amicus dildo be incomprehensible to anyone who was not a chronically online furry of the FVN variety ca August-November 2025? Sure. Will they kill anyone part of this in-group who isn't receptive to pop culture references-as-writing that made me think of YIIK(sorry...)? Sure. But their presence made some sense at least.
But the story is very... unclear what it wants to be about, and in the way it presents itself. Is it what the three part structure suggests on the surface: sometimes your sexual experiences (at a convention) are terrible? Or what i thought it'd be about: your experiences (at the convention) sucked because the queer and furry community is about more than sex - it's a community of friends and comrades? But it talks about a lot of issues so explicitly (like eeuuh, the Pulse shooting) to the point of making it feel like I'm just ascribing my own meaning to things. So conclusions like "maybe furries, or even PEOPLE, are just flaky" when the MC doesn't get responses from people when asking to hang out during the last day (he remembered that's a thing I guess) come off as the intended eureka moment.
Actually, despite bringing in the Pulse shooting in the way it was being insane, coming together to protest by drawing on a street is the emotional highlight of the story. It's what made me just assume it was gonna be about community. But then the MC doesn't talk to anyone else but the hot rantsona guy, and thinks more about getting fucked by him than political violence and resistance. And I don't get the sense the narrative even implicitly attempts to call him out on this. That plot thread resulted more in the "sometimes you don't get the dick" wheelhouse that the MC is a perpetual victim of.
This kinda culminates in something I'm taking actual issue with. When Swift goes with a "friend" to a techy panel, he doesn't find the panel interesting, but goes "Osgood [friend] is enraptured, which I guess checks out " with an aww, that's cute- tone. Followed by "this seems like a neurodivergence hotspot". Words have meaning, and I very much doubt people with dyspraxia are known for enjoying a good tech panel. We're talking about autism here. That friend later comes onto Swift, to which Swift's response is "I thought you were ace". This would be fine, but with how explicit everything else is, I can't tell if this is about how the infantalization of autistic people results in the assumption of sexlessness, or if it's reinforcing this idea - in the same way that I can't tell if it's the character or writer who doesn't have a good grasp on what the word neurodivergence means. There wasn't a sexy rantsona recapping autistic ableism to me!
So. The narrative, in my eyes, is just too unfocused in its goals. There's certainly good writing going on - it's particularly felt with Red Flag man with the way he talks, or Swift's assumption that a waiter is acting weird because she's homophobic when she's really concerned about the guy's literal red flag. But foreshadowing isn't nuance or complexity. And attempts at nuance fall flat when it is constantly undermined by either not being supported by the text, or contradicted by opposing explicit statements.
The ending certainly didn't help here at all. Last thing happening before leaving the city the convention takes place in, is dreaming about a last ditch hookup with the taxi driver. And then Swift gets back to his depressing job. But he can live with it after getting invited to ANOTHER CONVENTION by some guy who showed up for one scene at the start of the game? Pookie, you were miserable the entire time, you didn't get dicked down, your friendships flopped, and you learned literally nothing from this experience except that the Pulse shooting was bad. How does the prospect of another one fill your life with light, because I've seen literally no positives in this story besides that there's queer people and Amicus dildos there? And the more important question: does this even support either of the possible 'points' of the game? Or was there a secret third one I missed that explains all of my very many questions marks? A moot point, as it didn't comprehensibly deliver on any point aside from being a non-binary hoe is what everyone should aspire to (I wholeheartedly concur!)
In summary: looks good, sounds good, reads good - the point was buried so deep and messily I'll need a sexy rantsona so recap it, despite prompting me to write this 1280 word thing.