About two years ago I played Dies Irae and did the route with the obvious heroine, which ends up being a wrong move since, of the 3 other routes, two of them are more slow build up about the plot while the obvious heroine is very much the real end. Anyways, after seeing some people talking on the fourth route and remembering reading it supposedly has pretty sick moments I rebooted the game and played that route. And well, while I wouldn't say DI is a bad VN, it is like a crystalization of Light Novels and their shitty tropes.
Like characters have multiple names that are vague references to mythology, making keeping up with who's who a nightmare, characters gain abilities as the plot demands, villains are literally invulnurble because their power level is too high, but the worse part is that it's verbose as shit. By the end of the route I just fast forwarded entire scenes because they had people saying the same thing multiple times in a scene.
Anyways next up Subahibi. Wish me luck.