I have finished Gnosia and I must inform you that there is an awful glitch in the late-game that kinda hides some of the late-game functions without you knowing. Once you notice that nothing's happening in your loops except the loop itself (and characters aren't using any special commands), do note that that is a glitch and you have to do manually reset specifically by quitting the menu. I did at least 50 or so loops before realizing this and it drove me mad.

Which is a shame cuz it's this late-game stuff that's kinda the most unsatisfying part of the game story-wise and, if you got stuck in endless not-dev-intended bugged loops like me, makes things a little sour for having put up with all that.
Like seriously, some of the "epilogue" stuff (barely existent) is so unsatisfying I thought it was bait for the True Ending, but the True Ending is real short and doesn't actually say much about most of the other cahracters.
But uhhhh yeah good game regardless. Great art, the music really grew on me, the mechanics grew and evolved over time (and you had to both play with specific round settings as well as do some different challenges to progress the story), and the way the mystery unfolded was really cool.
Neat idea, has enough depth that I'd honestly wanna see these mechanics in perhaps another scenario. The mechanics used the character writing to its advantage and you could easily port this same game to a different story.

Reviewed on Nov 01, 2023


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