A Very fun game, the premise is very cool and fun where you can jump to any point in the story. Story is overall insane but it still hooks you. Overall very fun!
Well written detective story with really weird (in a bad way) characters. Was quite annoying with these cringe dialogues but the overall detective experience is enjoyable with some plot twists here and there.
i really really loved this game. well, at least most of it.
i thoroughly enjoyed the plot and the relationships between these characters. i appreciate how the game feeds you information in a way so that you can actually figure out what's going on before the end. a lot of it is really quite beautiful, emotionally intelligent, and incredibly funny. i'm already pretty emotional when it comes to media, but man, i lost count of how many different moments in this game made me cry. and,,,, then there's the excessive horniness.
i wouldn't necessarily say im a prude or anything like that, but the amount of times that Date gets bricked up over nothing got kinda old eventually. some other characters get really fucking horny too and it's like-- why?? i get that Uchikoshi is just kinda like this, but i can only take so many mentions of "porno mags" before i'm praying at my screen for the section to pleaaaase just end already. the game is usually pretty good at knowing when to hit the brakes on the jokes down in its emotional moments, which is a boon of the writing. buuuut then i will still sometimes get a piece of internal monologue that can sour the mood a little bit. if the horny jokes were at least reduced by 50%, i think that i would say this game would be pretty close to 5 stars for me. definitely my biggest critique of the game by far.
yet despite that, i still love a lot of these characters. i really truly do love Date when you look past his perverted nature. Mizuki is awesome. Aiba rules. Iris is great. it's really quite a great cast when you look at it as a whole, and i think most of them compliment each other well. backstories are thorough and significant to the plot and motivations.
after just finishing Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma (2016), getting to experience character models and animations and environments that do not look like petrified burnt toast is a real treat. there's a whole lot of visual flair and style here. excellent english voice acting! everyone is so expressive and the fact that the models appear next to their textbox with the facial expressions is a really great touch, especially given that it lets us see our main character way more than we would have otherwise. even when they're not the person talking or appearing next to a textbox, characters look around and react to the things others are saying. it's a really really nice touch.
the "puzzles" are generally neat and inventive, but actually 'solving' them is sometimes annoying. it wasn't so hard that i needed to use a guide or anything, but sometimes it feels less like you logic'd out the solution and more like you just so happened to pick the correct option. the best somniums are the ones that truly lean into the wacky or emotional side of a character. they added a lot to the experience for me, especially with the branching paths.
in short: great game. loved it and most of the characters. excited to play the second one eventually! please less porno mags.
i thoroughly enjoyed the plot and the relationships between these characters. i appreciate how the game feeds you information in a way so that you can actually figure out what's going on before the end. a lot of it is really quite beautiful, emotionally intelligent, and incredibly funny. i'm already pretty emotional when it comes to media, but man, i lost count of how many different moments in this game made me cry. and,,,, then there's the excessive horniness.
i wouldn't necessarily say im a prude or anything like that, but the amount of times that Date gets bricked up over nothing got kinda old eventually. some other characters get really fucking horny too and it's like-- why?? i get that Uchikoshi is just kinda like this, but i can only take so many mentions of "porno mags" before i'm praying at my screen for the section to pleaaaase just end already. the game is usually pretty good at knowing when to hit the brakes on the jokes down in its emotional moments, which is a boon of the writing. buuuut then i will still sometimes get a piece of internal monologue that can sour the mood a little bit. if the horny jokes were at least reduced by 50%, i think that i would say this game would be pretty close to 5 stars for me. definitely my biggest critique of the game by far.
yet despite that, i still love a lot of these characters. i really truly do love Date when you look past his perverted nature. Mizuki is awesome. Aiba rules. Iris is great. it's really quite a great cast when you look at it as a whole, and i think most of them compliment each other well. backstories are thorough and significant to the plot and motivations.
after just finishing Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma (2016), getting to experience character models and animations and environments that do not look like petrified burnt toast is a real treat. there's a whole lot of visual flair and style here. excellent english voice acting! everyone is so expressive and the fact that the models appear next to their textbox with the facial expressions is a really great touch, especially given that it lets us see our main character way more than we would have otherwise. even when they're not the person talking or appearing next to a textbox, characters look around and react to the things others are saying. it's a really really nice touch.
the "puzzles" are generally neat and inventive, but actually 'solving' them is sometimes annoying. it wasn't so hard that i needed to use a guide or anything, but sometimes it feels less like you logic'd out the solution and more like you just so happened to pick the correct option. the best somniums are the ones that truly lean into the wacky or emotional side of a character. they added a lot to the experience for me, especially with the branching paths.
in short: great game. loved it and most of the characters. excited to play the second one eventually! please less porno mags.
TIENE MODO BAILE
It's one hell of a game. Great mystery that blends in comedy and drama quite seamless. Date and Aiba are a great pair together to help you find clues....and Mizuki is a great character in itself.
The gameplay is like walking point and click game, and it's done with Aiba...who is your eye, lol. She can create an area where she can see what happened in a certain area or get clues, it makes for an interesting time. AI also has a whole bunch of branching paths that give you multiple endings, and one main ending after you do everything.
The biggest compliment is the writing itself, it's so cleverly written whether it's when you find out about certain plots in the story, and the hilarity that happens with Date...he's quite the strange character who's a bit...uh...lewd, lol. He has some of the funniest scenes I've seen in a game.
I have to recommend this to everyone, its an awesome story with large replayability with the branching paths and just an overall good time!
The gameplay is like walking point and click game, and it's done with Aiba...who is your eye, lol. She can create an area where she can see what happened in a certain area or get clues, it makes for an interesting time. AI also has a whole bunch of branching paths that give you multiple endings, and one main ending after you do everything.
The biggest compliment is the writing itself, it's so cleverly written whether it's when you find out about certain plots in the story, and the hilarity that happens with Date...he's quite the strange character who's a bit...uh...lewd, lol. He has some of the funniest scenes I've seen in a game.
I have to recommend this to everyone, its an awesome story with large replayability with the branching paths and just an overall good time!
Even when I reached a conclusion, I only had so many questions before I came to the real end, it's strange, familiar, not really your typical sci-fi, even Inception won't prepare you for this. The strength of this game (which could be seen as a weakness for others) is how much it forces you to rewind time and to deduce things differently so you can access other routes. I don't have anything to tell unless you already played the game
silly, gorey and horny and yet extremely compelling. ace attorney’s chaotic evil cousin.
Im a sucker for text novel games like danganronpa and phoenix wright but I also really like mystery games, so this game was perfect for me. I really like a lot of the characters and the story is also written pretty well. While there is some pretty cringe shit and it can be weird, I enjoyed this game a lot and I have the 2nd one in my backlog. 9/10
Reviewing every game i've fully completed #20
Reviewing every game i've fully completed #20
This review contains spoilers
finished story: march 29
all achievements: april 1
stuck between rating it 4 or 4 1/2 but i really enjoyed playing this
story reveal was satisfying unlike some certain other games and the characters are all wonderful
the mystery stays interesting to the end and all the hints they drop along the way without outright revealing the Thing are really neat
mizuki, aiba, and date are my favorites for sure and the dynamic between each of them was what i enjoyed the most
very very sweet :< mizuki route had my favorite resolution too
did not mind the comedic tone although it is a little jarring when youre in an ultra serious situation near the end of a route and aiba is like date you motherfucker and dates like ^w^ lollllllllll but i have a bigger bone to pick with this game than that
qte sequences are funny but odd and not really tense
i didnt enjoy the somniums at first compared to the puzzles of ZE but i gradually warmed up to them, mostly for their very surreal atmosphere
well animated in a way that looks nice and doesnt take you out of the game but there are some clipping issues sometimes and the dance is just a liiiiittle awkward but its fine, the game looks good overall
played with jp voices and they were fantastic but many people seem to like the english dub too so maybe ill check that out at some point
onto my big huge enormous issue that actively holds back my enjoyment of the game. how fucking creepy every man is to iris
sometimes i didnt mind date being horny because it was kinda funny but every time it involved iris i just rolled my eyes so far back into my head it was bad
i really like iris. shes a sweet character, her being a streamer and an idol is fun, and shes a big nerd into the occult and conspiracy theories partially to cope
shes such a major character and most things male characters say about her are the most disgusting creepy shit
i know shes an idol and the obsessive love is just the way that these things go but the way this actually drives the story forward with kumakura and ota is maddening !!!!!!!!!!
SHES 18!!!!!!!! we dont need to hear these grown ass men be insanely horny for her and its never ever ever ever funny! i know thats what its supposed to be, comedy, but it fucking sucks!!!!
the thing i hated the most was them making date continue to be creepy as fuck towards her even after they both knew what their previous relationship was!!!!!
i know date regards himself as a different person from falco but i think it sucks to write him thinking of her like that anyways and it upsets me immensely
anyways. the rest of it was good and fun and the jokes were funny for the most part but that is such an enormous issue for me thats such a major part of the game that prevents me from liking it fully
all achievements: april 1
stuck between rating it 4 or 4 1/2 but i really enjoyed playing this
story reveal was satisfying unlike some certain other games and the characters are all wonderful
the mystery stays interesting to the end and all the hints they drop along the way without outright revealing the Thing are really neat
mizuki, aiba, and date are my favorites for sure and the dynamic between each of them was what i enjoyed the most
very very sweet :< mizuki route had my favorite resolution too
did not mind the comedic tone although it is a little jarring when youre in an ultra serious situation near the end of a route and aiba is like date you motherfucker and dates like ^w^ lollllllllll but i have a bigger bone to pick with this game than that
qte sequences are funny but odd and not really tense
i didnt enjoy the somniums at first compared to the puzzles of ZE but i gradually warmed up to them, mostly for their very surreal atmosphere
well animated in a way that looks nice and doesnt take you out of the game but there are some clipping issues sometimes and the dance is just a liiiiittle awkward but its fine, the game looks good overall
played with jp voices and they were fantastic but many people seem to like the english dub too so maybe ill check that out at some point
onto my big huge enormous issue that actively holds back my enjoyment of the game. how fucking creepy every man is to iris
sometimes i didnt mind date being horny because it was kinda funny but every time it involved iris i just rolled my eyes so far back into my head it was bad
i really like iris. shes a sweet character, her being a streamer and an idol is fun, and shes a big nerd into the occult and conspiracy theories partially to cope
shes such a major character and most things male characters say about her are the most disgusting creepy shit
i know shes an idol and the obsessive love is just the way that these things go but the way this actually drives the story forward with kumakura and ota is maddening !!!!!!!!!!
SHES 18!!!!!!!! we dont need to hear these grown ass men be insanely horny for her and its never ever ever ever funny! i know thats what its supposed to be, comedy, but it fucking sucks!!!!
the thing i hated the most was them making date continue to be creepy as fuck towards her even after they both knew what their previous relationship was!!!!!
i know date regards himself as a different person from falco but i think it sucks to write him thinking of her like that anyways and it upsets me immensely
anyways. the rest of it was good and fun and the jokes were funny for the most part but that is such an enormous issue for me thats such a major part of the game that prevents me from liking it fully
uchikinos.
Peak
Kaname Date you are ill
The story is great, and I liked the dream puzzles. The switch performance however was pretty bad.
This was so much fun because a friend who enjoys the game watched me play it. This is my first visual novel, so I was confused at the beginning, but I became obsessed with clicking on everything that had a window. It was very annoying to my friend. "This is a drawer," of course it is one, I just wanted to see the window anyway...
The somnium minigames were engaging and sometimes confusing, and everybody was so well written and naturally 2019. The ending almost brought me to tears, but I couldn't in front of my friend. The quick time events were so easy, what was the point with them? Date does things all the time...
The somnium minigames were engaging and sometimes confusing, and everybody was so well written and naturally 2019. The ending almost brought me to tears, but I couldn't in front of my friend. The quick time events were so easy, what was the point with them? Date does things all the time...
LITERALLY PEAK. MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY HASNT JUST BEEN CHANGED ITS BEEN REWRITTEN
I know its about a serious murder but the game does not take itself that seriously most of the time and I'm here for it. The mind synch sections are a bit nutty and are just trial and error I would recommend to look up a guide to save yourself the time.
aiba should've beat up date more
This review contains spoilers
Got to the part where surprise the guy is dead in the cafe and said "Oh brother." Closed the game and never reopened it
never have I switched back and forth from "I hate this guy" to "I love this guy" so many times
No sé muy bien qué decir de este juego. Por un lado, me ha enganchado a toda la trama de asesinatos. Es muy visceral en como relata poco a poco todos los acontecimientos que desenvuelve la historia. Todo está guiado por unos personajes carismáticos y con personalidad. Se siente muy natural el establecer un vinculo con ellos. Por eso, cuando sucede los diferentes puntos de giro, te choca mucho el papel que toman en cada parte, lo que hace que quieras saber más y más. He llegado a poner en ciertos momentos la consola con la patita de atrás para sostenerla encima de la mesa y con el dialogo automático activado porque estaba super metido y quería disfrutarlo como si fuera una serie
Sin embargo, y este es el contrapunto- toda esta atmósfera de misterio se ve chafada en muchas ocasiones por un alivio cómico cochino, con una capa sexual un tanto problemática, sobre todo a lo que se refiere a las preferencias del personaje protagonista, que no me han gustado nada. Incluso, han podido convertirse en excusas narrativas para solucionar ciertos problemas que han sido más anticlimáticos que otra cosa. Y es una pena porque tiene momentos muy buenos fuera de estos comentarios. Sabe ser gracioso cuando quiere.
Por ejemplo, en algunos puzzles sabe gestionar el humor para relajar y ayudarte también a probar diferentes combinaciones. Creo que casa muy bien el explorar los somnium con la limitación temporal, aunque en algunos casos, como los ya finales, la formula de exploración y el prueba y error -porque tampoco sabes que efecto tiene las opciones que te dan- llegan a ser un tanto frustrantes porque no aplicas la lógica ni la estrategia para distribuir el tiempo que tienes, el juego no da esa posibilidad. Todo parece coincidir más con un factor aleatorio.
Tampoco parece coincidir bien la ramificación que han elegido para contar la historia y la extensión de cada una de ellas. Aunque esto se nota mucho mas casi al final del juego, cuando intentan bloquearte el camino del verdadero final si antes no pasas por ciertas rutas que solo sirve para estirar el misterio y de sobreexponer la trama.
No voy a negar que en algunos momentos he vivido este juego como un fever dream, pero todo el tema de los chistes de colegialas tetonas y los deus ex de ciertas rutas no le hacen bien. También me sorprende mucho que, para lo que es, esté regulinchi en temas de optimización para Switch. Además de algún que otro tirón en los diálogos -muy normal en juegos de la consola- le cuesta reproducir las animaciones complementarias, lo que provoca que la conversación tarde 3 o 4 segundos en responder porque no se ha cargado el vídeo.
Eso si, en algun futuro me jugaré al siguiente 🙄
Sin embargo, y este es el contrapunto- toda esta atmósfera de misterio se ve chafada en muchas ocasiones por un alivio cómico cochino, con una capa sexual un tanto problemática, sobre todo a lo que se refiere a las preferencias del personaje protagonista, que no me han gustado nada. Incluso, han podido convertirse en excusas narrativas para solucionar ciertos problemas que han sido más anticlimáticos que otra cosa. Y es una pena porque tiene momentos muy buenos fuera de estos comentarios. Sabe ser gracioso cuando quiere.
Por ejemplo, en algunos puzzles sabe gestionar el humor para relajar y ayudarte también a probar diferentes combinaciones. Creo que casa muy bien el explorar los somnium con la limitación temporal, aunque en algunos casos, como los ya finales, la formula de exploración y el prueba y error -porque tampoco sabes que efecto tiene las opciones que te dan- llegan a ser un tanto frustrantes porque no aplicas la lógica ni la estrategia para distribuir el tiempo que tienes, el juego no da esa posibilidad. Todo parece coincidir más con un factor aleatorio.
Tampoco parece coincidir bien la ramificación que han elegido para contar la historia y la extensión de cada una de ellas. Aunque esto se nota mucho mas casi al final del juego, cuando intentan bloquearte el camino del verdadero final si antes no pasas por ciertas rutas que solo sirve para estirar el misterio y de sobreexponer la trama.
No voy a negar que en algunos momentos he vivido este juego como un fever dream, pero todo el tema de los chistes de colegialas tetonas y los deus ex de ciertas rutas no le hacen bien. También me sorprende mucho que, para lo que es, esté regulinchi en temas de optimización para Switch. Además de algún que otro tirón en los diálogos -muy normal en juegos de la consola- le cuesta reproducir las animaciones complementarias, lo que provoca que la conversación tarde 3 o 4 segundos en responder porque no se ha cargado el vídeo.
Eso si, en algun futuro me jugaré al siguiente 🙄
I downloaded this game through Game Pass, although I'm not sure why.
This review contains spoilers
twink death is real. it can happen to you. it happened to date.
characters: 9/10
The characters are one of the selling points making the game stand out IMO. What hinders the characters from being 10/10 is Dante's perverseness. I thought it was quite fine, however, I can see others thinking poorly of the MC due to it.
Story: 8.5/10
The mystery part of the game, and unlocking the story as you progress are all very good. What deducts points from the story are two things: 1) Spontaneous comedic moments appearing which can break immersion. 2) Depending on the order you play chapters you could get heavy implications of the truth behind the mystery, which otherwise would be seen near the ending.
As I think the characters are one of the Big points of the game, the spontaneous comedic acts although they did break emersion, were in line and reinforced the characters' personality.
music: 8/10
As stand-alone music, I would rate the general OST as 4.5/10, however, if we combine it with the story and characters in mind then the OST fits in perfectly with the game and helps the game to stand out.
Summary: 8/10
Quite a good game, but if you want a 100% immersion mystery game this is not for you as there are scenes that break the immersion from mystery/seriousness to comedy.
The characters are one of the selling points making the game stand out IMO. What hinders the characters from being 10/10 is Dante's perverseness. I thought it was quite fine, however, I can see others thinking poorly of the MC due to it.
Story: 8.5/10
The mystery part of the game, and unlocking the story as you progress are all very good. What deducts points from the story are two things: 1) Spontaneous comedic moments appearing which can break immersion. 2) Depending on the order you play chapters you could get heavy implications of the truth behind the mystery, which otherwise would be seen near the ending.
As I think the characters are one of the Big points of the game, the spontaneous comedic acts although they did break emersion, were in line and reinforced the characters' personality.
music: 8/10
As stand-alone music, I would rate the general OST as 4.5/10, however, if we combine it with the story and characters in mind then the OST fits in perfectly with the game and helps the game to stand out.
Summary: 8/10
Quite a good game, but if you want a 100% immersion mystery game this is not for you as there are scenes that break the immersion from mystery/seriousness to comedy.
SUPER good visual novel, i adore the whole cast
not usually a fan of this genre but this is built different
not usually a fan of this genre but this is built different