Posted on: July 22, 2022
DarkRootGabriel
Verified ownerGames: 46 Reviews: 9
So Much Wasted Time
I bought this because I heard of so many people saying that it "hit them in the feels". Unfortunately, it only hit me in the nethers. This felt like someone had an interesting seed for a short story (which is why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1), but thought somehow they had to wrap it in something game-like to make anyone care about it. You click to move your characters, but there's no way to do it wrong. There's no reason you need to do it at all. It's as if you were playing a visual novel, and it required you to click several times through blank boxes before you got the next bit of text. Eventually you have to click around to get items to move on to the next part, but that part requires no thought either. There are puzzles you have between sections. Do these puzzles help you understand the characters? The plot? The world? Not that I can tell. I can only guess they exist to have something game-ish to do. The dialogue is often cliche', the jokes are not what you see in most anime and sitcoms. When dialogue is trying to move the plot along, often the characters don't talk like normal people, presumably to keep things mysterious, but it's so awkward. The music is fine. The discovery of what is going on between the characters is at least a step above typical plots, but I never got close to bursting into tears or what have you, and I have cried at movies like Big Fish, so I'd like to think I'm not a heartless bastard. So all your enjoyment is likely to hinge on whether or not the surprise means anything to you. I bought it on sale, and I still regret the few hours I spent on it.
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