Posted on: November 17, 2019
HeroPiggy95
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 70 Rezensionen: 2
Excellent look at tech and mental health
This is a visual novel game where all you have to do is read the dialogue and press next. There's not a lot of interactivity, except for checking your phone and playing the optional minigame Kabufuda Solitaire. Throughout the course of the game, you'll meet several clients (some of them are repeat visitors) who are experiencing depression, anxiety, and relationship problems. The AI you're interacting with goes through a fixed phase of Introduction-Discovery-Challenge-Intervention-Conclusion and will generate a script that you're not allowed to deviate from. As the game progresses, it made me think if such a formulatic and rigid model is the most effective and helpful approach or not. Outside of therapy sessions, you get to interact with several characters such as the rebellious Nora, the old yet ambitious Soren, and the cold calculative Rainer. They all are quite well developed with distinct personalities, with varying opinions on how technology should be utilised. Despite the lack of animation and artwork variety, the game makes up for it with solid voice acting that brings the characters' personalities to life. The background music complements the scenes, changing to reflect the current mood. Without spoiling anything, there are multiple endings to this game, despite it being mostly linear up till the last chapter. There's no 100% right or wrong decision, as the game shows, it's really up to you which decision you choose to make, there's no perfect choice, perfect moment. I'm really hoping there would be a sequel or prequel to the game, as there's still several areas and character backstories that could be further explored.
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