Ai is a game that was a blast to play at the start, but unfortunately, just kept getting worse and worse as time went on. The twist of alternate timelines is so fucking stupid, and only added on to the pile of problems I have with Ai. The action scenes are so incredibly jarring and out of place, that they feel like they're out of a completely different game. The worst offender of this comes at the end of Mizuki's route, where her and Date fight a bunch of guards, and I genuinely couldn't believe it was happening since it was so silly. One of the two Iris routes isn't much better and leans so hard into the "wacky" aspects of the game that I got an insane amount of tonal whiplash since I had just come off of a big plot twist right before jumping into it. Ai could have really benefitted from a more enforced play order, since there were a few times where I'd be in the middle of an incredibly tense scene and then forced to do another route. If this game had just stuck to a (mostly) serious mystery story, I think it could've really been something, but it ended up just being disappointing.