CWs for Kaimaitachi no Yoru: Rinne Saisei: extreme graphic gore, graphic description of wounds

A foundational Sound Novel that's absolutely electric when tumbling you towards the main bad end, but kind of inert when time comes to wrap everything up. It's easy to see the ways that ryu07 and Uchikoshi looked to this game in the way shit breaks bad so suddenly and magnificently. It's really some of the best gruesome "And Then There Were None" type shit I've ever read crammed into a very succinct Novel Game.

The game never leaves the realm of pulp fiction, which leads to a weak resolution. The killer is given away by an easy to stumble into and very early bad end, and then this port let's you fumble through assembling the logic via the flowchart with more forgiveness than feels purposeful in an otherwise gruesome affair.

There's no big statement here which is both the game's weakness and strength. It's hard to strike the balance of being this exciting while being technically and intellectually conventional. Fun to grab and poke at for a few nights and forget when you're over it. Also always a great time reading ryu07 somewhat outside his wheelhouse.

Reviewed on Oct 27, 2022


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4 months ago

I later discovered that the choice making splits seem pretty congruent with the original. Not fluent at all and still in the process of getting even one end state in the SFC release.