I finished Amane's route in The Fruit of Grisaia tonight, bringing my time with this absolutely incredible visual novel to a close, and frankly I'm a bit of an emotional wreck right now, but I will do my best to try and collect my thoughts and post something reasonably meaningful.

One thing I will say before I jump into spoiler territory after the "More" tag is that I'm really glad I saved Amane's route for last. Not just because she was immediately my favourite girl — and still is after playing through her route — but because her route acts as a rather wonderful way to wrap up the entire experience. Her good ending is particularly "conclusive", and as the last thing I saw in the whole work, it feels like I've had a great sense of closure — although, as always with this sort of thing, I'm going to miss these characters very much. At least I have two more games in the series to look forward to!

All right. Let's get spoilery.

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