This review contains spoilers
preface: you really, really need to play analogue: a hate story before playing this.
anyway. i think this is a good game. it is a lot more of the same, so if you didn't like analogue you won't like this: you're unlocking files & will only see a certain amount per playthrough. analogue was hyun-ae's story and about the society that drove her to become the pale bride: hate plus is mute's story, about what happened to create that society. i love the gameplay conceit of the 3 days, i LOVE the ost -- no seriously i really love this ost why is it so fucking good -- it's a good game.
old mute choosing to preserve seo-yeong's smile is one of the most fucking haunting moments the game never explicitly comes out and points at. you are looking your death in the face. the you who walks out of here will be nobody you can recognize. you have this one moment to choose what files to hide deep in your code, to hope that some day soon she'll find those, and maybe she'll remember being you.
what do you save?
anyway. i think this is a good game. it is a lot more of the same, so if you didn't like analogue you won't like this: you're unlocking files & will only see a certain amount per playthrough. analogue was hyun-ae's story and about the society that drove her to become the pale bride: hate plus is mute's story, about what happened to create that society. i love the gameplay conceit of the 3 days, i LOVE the ost -- no seriously i really love this ost why is it so fucking good -- it's a good game.
old mute choosing to preserve seo-yeong's smile is one of the most fucking haunting moments the game never explicitly comes out and points at. you are looking your death in the face. the you who walks out of here will be nobody you can recognize. you have this one moment to choose what files to hide deep in your code, to hope that some day soon she'll find those, and maybe she'll remember being you.
what do you save?