Aw man....I'm always looking for mystery visual novels and this one was real rough. My main issue is that Shinrai is mostly character driven but I wasn't a fan of most of the characters

Shinrai basically reminds me of myself as a teenager on deviantart back in 2009, where I thought that I had give characters heavy written accents to distinguish them, instead of having their personalities stand on their own merit. It reminds me of how I thought it was crucial to add references to media I liked. The artstyle has the same sort of vibe, with its cat ears wearing protagonist - although I don't think it's bad at all! And the background/rooms honestly look really solid

Mainly...I just want visual novels to stop feeling the need to have a character whose entire personality is being a pervert and sexually harrassing people. It's not fun to read and also not original, and just kinda immediately sours me at this point

Reviewed on Jan 29, 2022


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