Main game
3.00 average rating based on 1 rating
You've probably ended up at this game because you really like mystery visual novels. If that is true, you'll probably like this game. Maybe.
A review for this game somewhere referred to reading this in the same way that one might play Sudoku, which definitely fits my experience of playing it. Roughly half the characters have meaningful motivations, but pretty immediately everyone becomes a detective and you start spending a lot of time in the protagonist's mind. Hypothesis will form, they'll get stated to the group, characters will form counter hypothesis, then a tiny new occurrence happening will sprout more and more hypothesis. This is great fun for a certain kind of person. I myself liked this kind of intricate logic storytelling at times, but at some point I realized I wasn't quite the target audience for a game like this. You can read the whole story without understanding what happened, but you're really meant to utilize in depth dialogue search and note taking features.
The music was okay, though it was given the brutal task of remaining interesting over hundreds of thousands of words. If you like electronica, you'll probably dig it.
Art is generally okay with pretty good, …
You've probably ended up at this game because you really like mystery visual novels. If that is true, you'll probably like this game. Maybe.
A review for this game somewhere referred to reading this in the same way that one might play Sudoku, which definitely fits my experience of playing it. Roughly half the characters have meaningful motivations, but pretty immediately everyone becomes a detective and you start spending a lot of time in the protagonist's mind. Hypothesis will form, they'll get stated to the group, characters will form counter hypothesis, then a tiny new occurrence happening will sprout more and more hypothesis. This is great fun for a certain kind of person. I myself liked this kind of intricate logic storytelling at times, but at some point I realized I wasn't quite the target audience for a game like this. You can read the whole story without understanding what happened, but you're really meant to utilize in depth dialogue search and note taking features.
The music was okay, though it was given the brutal task of remaining interesting over hundreds of thousands of words. If you like electronica, you'll probably dig it.
Art is generally okay with pretty good, though rare CGs. Even though onscreen character art is generally just okay, they did a great job of updating the characters with little details that are relevant to the story at any given time.
Characters overall felt flat. You feel a lot of sympathy for two people in particular and one of the cast members is quite memorable for a bit, but even that one stops being interesting pretty quickly.
The writing is remarkably consistent in tone and vibe. That plus I didn't run into any spelling or grammatical errors, which was nice.
I'm not entirely sure if I enjoyed the experience as a whole, though at times it was thrilling. As you'll see elsewhere, check this out if you like the highly technical logic aspects of games like Ever17, Remember11, etc. If you're looking for a heartfelt story and aren't as interested in the logic of it all, I'd recommend checking out different visual novels.