Review hfhklsioeuwnpt097 4/5 · Mar 23, 2019
Enjoyable
This is for the whole trilogy, which I just read back to back, and the non-HD versions because the HD gave me Unity crashes for whatever reason.
Great visuals if you like sci-fi, space stuff, outposts. The finance element is substantial, but this is an instance where the tendency of visual novels to explain everything three different ways is an …
This is for the whole trilogy, which I just read back to back, and the non-HD versions because the HD gave me Unity crashes for whatever reason.
Great visuals if you like sci-fi, space stuff, outposts. The finance element is substantial, but this is an instance where the tendency of visual novels to explain everything three different ways is an advantage. Music seemed forgettable throughout, a bit too background-y and lacking in hooks.
[spoilers below]
Good story, a few twists I didn't see coming. The hero's inner narration is written well, as he progresses from a callous teenage douche to a power player haunted by regret. I liked the variety of attitudes toward money and finance as expressed through different characters, more nuanced than the unexamined "money is baaad" moralizing found in other works.
Ep 3 gets kudos for commitment to the bit on the retelling of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, and might be the clearest explanation of ABS and CDO I've encountered to date, although it did mean I had a fairly good idea of how the next seven chapters would play out as soon as someone said "real estate." (I wanted to title this post The Big Lunar Short, but that's a spoiler.) The substitute bank names - Bull Stairs, Harald Bros, the IMMORTAL Mirror Wrench - are throwing-darts-at-a-dictionary, delightful nonsense. I was wiki-ing details when things started to go south, and they got pretty granular in their faithfulness to events.