I was the main QC tester of the full retranslation with 18+ content (which you can find on Reddit's /r/IMHHW). I heavily recommend this version if you want to make sure you read the original Japanese version as intended without MoeNovel's odd localization changes.

As for the main story itself, I'd been really excited for this VN ever since I heard the concept of a wholesome glider-focused slice life romance story. I ended up liking it even more than I expected to. I think right now it's my top 3 visual novels of all time.

I'm a HUGE sucker for super feel-good fun inspiring slice of life stories. I have since read A LOT of visual novels with wholesome feel-good slice of life like Sky Full of Stars Trilogy, Marshmallow All the Way Home, Full Kiss S, Aokana Extra 1, etc. However, the original If My Heart Had Wings/Konosora pound for pound is probably still my favorite VN in this particular sub-genre.

Despite it being an obvious feel-good story where everything will be alright in the end and cheesiness and blablabla I think what makes the VN even better is how real and relatable all the characters are (even the quirkier ones like Amane). In addition, it's not like everything is always convenient, there are definite struggles, both in what needs to be learned and just stuff about their personalities that I enjoyed seeing being developed.

Obviously one of the appeals is the main heroine being disabled and on a wheelchair. I'm kinda glad they didn't get too melodramatic with this, kinda similar to show Katawa Shoujo didn't get melodramatic with the disabilities themselves. It was cool to see how it was worked around and even utilized in interesting enough ways in the story.

It was nice to see a more futuristic-looking school for once. And of course, I learned a lot more about gliders than I would've in my entire lifetime if I didn't read this VN and they were pretty interesting. All the stuff seemed pretty well-researched and stuff.

One of the absolute best things of IMHHW is the overall presentation. The graphics are amazing, easily some of the most detailed and bright in the medium and really fits the setting and whatnot. I think the occasional use of 3D CG movies are nice. The backgrounds are super detailed, the CGs looks nice and the sprites are well-done. The voice acting (from what I can tell) are good. The music is overall solid, albeit maybe a bunch being just remixes of the main/ED themes. There's a few themes I REALLY like though, they usually play towards the end of the route or IN the end. The rest are fitting and nice enough.

I legitimately liked just abut all the characters in the game, minus Tobioka, though he was purposefully written to be unlikable in a way. There's a good variety of personality and development among a lot of them, though more good supporting male characters would've been nice. Yeah this is a harem romance moe charage and blablabla but if MajiKoi can at least try to have cool male supporting characters I dont see why others can't...

This visual novel is pretty long at around 50 hours after every route but it doesn't feel that way cuz for the most part the game is a blast with great characters, good humor, solid character development and engaging plots related to the glider club.

Even though IMHHW is in my top 3 visual novels, even I can admit there are some flaws I can't overlook.

As much as I love most of the routes, they follow a VERY similar familiar formula, slice of life that leads to a confession that leads into drama that leads to an epic final glider flight. Ageha's route just flat out sucks which is unfortunate since she's a good character in every route that's not hers. I get what they were going for but she was just frustrating to deal with and the 'justification' of this drama was not worth it, especially since she was kind of a beeyotch even after the drama was over.

While some people don't like Yoru's route because it ends up as a 3some, I actually thought it was fun the way they implemented it, and I'm generally not a fan of polyamory relationships. My issue is with Asa's route which was fine... but ultimately pointless when you consider the ending. I think they could have combined the drama of both routes to make BOTH character arcs satisfying in the same timeline and still have the great conclusion from Yoru's route.

Overall though, I don't have too much to complain about with If My Heart Had Wings. It's extremely wholesome, has solid character-driven development and drama, excellent presentation, and has a vision it executes mostly well. It's easy to see how the writer Konno Asta made many memorable VN stories like the rest of the Konosora Trilogy, SFOS Trilogy, ATRI, and Ginka.

It's a shame what the devs did related to the balancing of newer DLC and length to add in rollback... Because this is probably still my overall favorite anime fighting game to date. It does admittedly help I'm a big Dragon Ball/Z/Super fan so I'm biased.

But I really like how this is Marvel vs. Capcom 3 inspired tag fighting game gameplay but with the ArcSys touch to make this game imo MUCH more fun than MvC ever was.

Sure there are not too many actual fighting game archetype variety, but when you consider the context of DBZ's setting and makes sense there is a relative uniformity of how characters play. I still think there's plenty of variety in tuns of move animations, fan service, and detailed minute character differences to make teams stick out.

It does help the A/B/C Assist thing helped big time. I also think Sparking is much better than Xfactor or any team-based comeback mechanic.