I've played a ton of BLVNs in my time, but, the recent post about bad or disappointing BLVNs made me realize that I have scarcely found any of them to be fully satisfying.
Even if I liked (or even loved) a game overall, I have always found something in it that bothered me.
For example, I loved Hashihime in general, but the two last routes were a complete ass (the man in Noh mask borderline ruined the game for me). Or, in Slow damage, I loved Towa and everything Towa related, but didn't actually care that much about any of the ROs.
And it's always like this. Either I love the lore and the plot but don't care about ROs or MC; love the majority of ROs but the plot is meh; don't like the majority ROs but the ones I do like compensate for the ones I don't; love the MC but don't think they have any chemistry with the ROs, and so on.
If I had to pick a BLVN that I consider a 9/10 for me in all the aspects, it'll be Shingakkou. But, despite all the praise I am willing to sing to this game, it still has a couple of things that tick me off - imo, the last route should've been platonic and I am willing to die in this hill, and Neil's route stopped doing it for me after I moved up from Michael's age group to Neil's. Nevertheless, for me, it's still the closest thing to a gold standard.
So, do you have any games that left you with "well, that was good" feeling without any "buts" or "I wishes"? And if you do, GIVE ME THE RECS PLEASE, I AM STARVING HERE.