and kirbymuncher I finally started al fine in Symphonic Rain and what the fuck the rain is a hallucination?! I need to replay all the routes with the knowledge about Arie's letters and Chris' condition when I'm done this route.
this was definitely one of the best bonuses of a reread for me. once you know it, it's actually everywhere: when he's happy he barely talks about the rain, when things are going poorly the rain gets super loud, and there's even a rain meter on the textbox itself
the mirror scene near the start of al fine is super good too
I think the thing that made me feel like a fool the most was that I didn't expect any Torta pretending to be Arie shenanigans until "Arie" shows up at his door and she went into that talk about how he could always tell them apart. I mean, it makes total sense since you never see them together.
I still have a way to go in al fine but I like the way it showed how Torta has to play a sort of double-life and it's stressful and painful for her, especially because the way Chris interacts with her and the way her interacts with Arie would be more noticeable. ---
