This review contains spoilers
Weird game.
The character writing is fun, and the portraits and backgrounds are great. The plot itself is Fine but didn’t blow me away, a decent but highly predictable mystery most of its runtime with a kind of lame ending.
The game has several instances where it tries to get meta with dumb gimmicks and those I really did not like. The first one is having to turn down a voice slider in the settings for a game that doesn't have a voice track, while the game asks why you can’t figure out that its randomly now doing a dumb meta gimmick. Then, at the end, when choosing who an unseen character is, early on into choosing I realized the bit that it was me, but it only progresses if you type your exact name and not something like “me”, a silly oversight that dragged the process on for much longer that it should have, killing the moment it was going for.
There are many things to insult Uchikoshi about but at least his meta stuff fits his game :/
The character writing is fun, and the portraits and backgrounds are great. The plot itself is Fine but didn’t blow me away, a decent but highly predictable mystery most of its runtime with a kind of lame ending.
The game has several instances where it tries to get meta with dumb gimmicks and those I really did not like. The first one is having to turn down a voice slider in the settings for a game that doesn't have a voice track, while the game asks why you can’t figure out that its randomly now doing a dumb meta gimmick. Then, at the end, when choosing who an unseen character is, early on into choosing I realized the bit that it was me, but it only progresses if you type your exact name and not something like “me”, a silly oversight that dragged the process on for much longer that it should have, killing the moment it was going for.
There are many things to insult Uchikoshi about but at least his meta stuff fits his game :/
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6 months ago