T'was good, but I did feel that Kogetsukan was the better one overall.
There were a lot of interesting ideas here, and the setting itself was really cool, but by the end it was tied up a bit too ... neatly? I mean I guess that's the point since this is mean to be Moriarty's own redo of a past failure and trying to make things "right", but it left out exploring the manner that things were taking. It didn't help that I felt that Sieg's decision and the revelation about why he did what he did was weaker than Harriet's. They both did something wrong, but Harriet had a more understandable reasoning for her decisions, while Sieg was going to let the town be destroyed because of this scheme.
I also wish we did get to vote on who was the culprit like we did in Kogetsukan. It might have been a basic mystery, but it was still fun speculating about it.
I think that Kogetsukan was a bit better in fleshing out the cast since it was needed for the mystery aspect to work there, while this one is more relevant in terms of connecting how Guda/ko's relationship with Moriarty is changing him/affecting his views since Shinjuku. Just wish there was an option to just fuck shit up with all of the gangs, since the ultimate result here was pretty much just a "good end" rather than a mischievous result.
Yeah, I think that making the event story longer so we could see how the dynamic between the gangs and the mages play out would have been really cool. As is, what's there is good, but there could have been a lot more.
tbh, playing as the male Guda, and the way Moriarty is, it sort of had that vibe, where this did feel like it was a side route where you are romancing the silver fox and helping him with getting over the past. Then again, I don't know if silver foxes are particularly popular in VN's, even if they are a stable of western romance novels.
That and some of his shop lines are kinda flirty.
(But You was talking bout the fanfic's contest on this forum
Probably)