I mean what's there to say? It's one of the most revered VNs of all time and there's good reason for that. For most people I think the answer arcs are gonna deliver on an insane setup. It's better paced than the first half, too. Gone is sitting through 2 hours of increasingly unfunny club activities and instead we actually get to know the characters and their struggles.
6 and 7 are the obvious peaks, I absolutely loved 7 from beginning to end. 8 feels a little anticlimactic with how the last conflict just slowly peters out rather than a big bang of an end, but I guess that's warranted given the themes it's going for. The only thing keeping this from a 10 is it's very very hard to sympathize with a certain character after what happens in episode 7 so some of what happens in 8 feels a little hollow, but that could be just a me thing.
Still, this is the best game I've played all year. There's not a shred of gameplay in this entire 50+ hour VN and I stuck through to the end because it's just fantastically written. Excited to read Umineko but I think I need a ryukishi07 tolerance break after I play Rei and Hou+ before I dive into another mammoth VN.
6 and 7 are the obvious peaks, I absolutely loved 7 from beginning to end. 8 feels a little anticlimactic with how the last conflict just slowly peters out rather than a big bang of an end, but I guess that's warranted given the themes it's going for. The only thing keeping this from a 10 is it's very very hard to sympathize with a certain character after what happens in episode 7 so some of what happens in 8 feels a little hollow, but that could be just a me thing.
Still, this is the best game I've played all year. There's not a shred of gameplay in this entire 50+ hour VN and I stuck through to the end because it's just fantastically written. Excited to read Umineko but I think I need a ryukishi07 tolerance break after I play Rei and Hou+ before I dive into another mammoth VN.