This review contains spoilers
I dunno what I was expecting when I started 999, but the anime successor to Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time was not it
Story = neat, full of conspiracy lore meta just like Uchikoshi’s other work. Unfortunately the number aspect felt deeply underutilized, with too-easy point-click puzzles mixed with a bunch of math problems, a map feature you never actually use, calculator feature you can’t use when you actually need it, clunkly visual novel mechanics desperately in need of a flowchart or full skip, and uhhhhh the final boss fight was literally just basic sudoku?.??..?
Moral of the story: better learn how to do sudoku before you turn ten or a mad scientist might incinerate you.
Overal solid 7/10, deeply entertaining but a bit of a spaz
Story = neat, full of conspiracy lore meta just like Uchikoshi’s other work. Unfortunately the number aspect felt deeply underutilized, with too-easy point-click puzzles mixed with a bunch of math problems, a map feature you never actually use, calculator feature you can’t use when you actually need it, clunkly visual novel mechanics desperately in need of a flowchart or full skip, and uhhhhh the final boss fight was literally just basic sudoku?.??..?
Moral of the story: better learn how to do sudoku before you turn ten or a mad scientist might incinerate you.
Overal solid 7/10, deeply entertaining but a bit of a spaz