![]() ![]() As the story goes on this part does get better and less obtrusive but the VN sadly gets back to it a bit too often to just write it off as a bumpy start. In this beginning period If My Heart Had Wings practically enters a delirium state whose only purpose seems to be to burn it into its readers brain that the girls are cute or beautiful and that the protagonist (and by that the reader) may develop a romantic relationship with them. The girl routes are a good keyword here since it clues us in that If My Heart Had Wings is a typical harem VN – luckily there are only a few choices to reach the routes – and this fact never shows more than in the dialogues at the beginning of the VN. This scene sums it up better than I ever could Simply because this element was practically completely lost there. It’s also the reason why I consider the common route to be much better than 4 of the 5 routes of the female protagonists (referred to as “girl routes” from here on out). As a result the whole visual novel feels much more alive and realistic. This doesn’t just show because the characters mention how much they love the sky and building a glider but also because they get lost in deeply illustrating concepts that are related to gliding itself. Simply because If My Heart Had Wings is amazing at portraying the joy and passion of the group about their hobby. I’m inclined to say that I’m a bit disappointed that there weren’t more scenarios and conversations in which the characters gloated over gliding. I never had this reaction while reading this visual novel however. There is always a certain risk attached to this that the reader might quickly lose interest as a result of the missing connection to the hobby and subsequently becomes bored in all scenes that deal with it. The hobby If My Heart Had Wings is all about couldn’t be further from my own though: Gliding. Therefore I’m glad that this aspect stands at the core of If My Heart Had Wings. They way they treat their hobby and which words they use to talk about it tell us a lot about them without someone having to point it out directly. Meaning that one could see this element as a lense for effective characterisation through which we can observe the characters well and subsequently understand them. ![]() Thanks to this I’m rooting for them and want to see them achieving their goal. That is mostly because the characters quickly become sympathetic and easy to support as a result of this. I’ve always had a soft spot for stories in which characters lose themselves in a hobby and give their all to reach a specific goal related to this hobby. ![]()
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