This review contains spoilers
i have extremely mixed feelings about this game... on one hand, i was pretty invested in it while playing. did it confuse me? sure ! but so did ai1 and for the first game it paid off really well by the time the annihilation/resolution route came around so i wanted to see if it was the same for aini.
the plot just felt kind of.. impersonal to me. the twists came off as written for shock value rather than something that i was meant to care about, maybe except the reveal about mizuki being adopted by renju and shoko and the whole true timeline thing. i had a hard time giving a shit about tearer if i'm being perfectly honest lmao ... if anything, i liked the subplots of the game way more with each individual character rather than the whole thing going on with naix
one thing that really put me off was the blatant disregard for any development we got in aitsf . i really REALLY enjoyed mizuki and date's found family relationship, mizuki route was my favorite part of the first game!!! so when date's death was barely acknowledged in relation to characters like mizuki and iris i got so ?? confused?? surely it would affect them both heavily right??? and mizuki and date only got one scene where they actually got to act like family... out of a 24 hour game T___T and iris is a whole separate issue, she barely mattered!!! like what!!!!!!
to be fair though, i think my favorite part of this game were the ai-balls. i loved aiba a lot already from aitsf, but i think tama was really good and fresh! i wish we got to see more of her, i love her personality and her dynamic with ryuki :]]]
that was a lot to say Lmao but yeah generally this game didn't stick with me the same way aitsf did, but i definitely did enjoy playing it
the plot just felt kind of.. impersonal to me. the twists came off as written for shock value rather than something that i was meant to care about, maybe except the reveal about mizuki being adopted by renju and shoko and the whole true timeline thing. i had a hard time giving a shit about tearer if i'm being perfectly honest lmao ... if anything, i liked the subplots of the game way more with each individual character rather than the whole thing going on with naix
one thing that really put me off was the blatant disregard for any development we got in aitsf . i really REALLY enjoyed mizuki and date's found family relationship, mizuki route was my favorite part of the first game!!! so when date's death was barely acknowledged in relation to characters like mizuki and iris i got so ?? confused?? surely it would affect them both heavily right??? and mizuki and date only got one scene where they actually got to act like family... out of a 24 hour game T___T and iris is a whole separate issue, she barely mattered!!! like what!!!!!!
to be fair though, i think my favorite part of this game were the ai-balls. i loved aiba a lot already from aitsf, but i think tama was really good and fresh! i wish we got to see more of her, i love her personality and her dynamic with ryuki :]]]
that was a lot to say Lmao but yeah generally this game didn't stick with me the same way aitsf did, but i definitely did enjoy playing it