Train of Afterlife

I'm experiencing rather conflicted feelings regarding this VN, as I believe that the concept certainly has great potential, yet the general execution is underwhelming, in my opinion. I find the story itself quite intriguing and it includes clever ideas, additionally the setting and mysterious design create an interesting atmosphere. The art and music are very lovely too. While the writing managed to be thought-provoking and introduced interesting philosophical and psychological concepts to contemplate about, I wish that those elements were handled more in-depth, as the dialogues and explanations of nearly everything are very brief. To me, the writing was simply rushed and left out too many specifications, which was particularly a problem during the endings, flashbacks and characterizations and didn't quite allow me to fully get immersed in the story. The plot just offers a lot of complexity and layers, therefore it's understandingly difficult to compress it all into a short timeframe. What bothered me as well, is the technical situation of the game; the UI feels rather inconvenient and the gameplay itself can get rather irritating due to its repetitive nature and confusing password system (especially because unlocking something once doesn't keep it unlocked, forcing the player to enter the passwords every time anew). Altogether I have mixed feelings, on one side the VN has decent flaws that impacted my enjoyment, however I also appreciate it a lot for what it attempts to be and adore the concept and ambience.