Song of Saya is a well known visual novel for a reason. The story and the premise of the game are interesting and captivating. The insanity and maddening hellscape affecting Fuminori (main character mentioned in the game's description) are conveyed to the player very well. To balance out the maddening and grostique scenes, you follow the story from the perspective of few other characters as well. The change of the view point both gives the player a respite from the horror and helps with pacing the story. The game's plot heavily revolves around an extremely weird love story. The game might be classified as an eroge by some, but that isn't exactly how I would classify it. The sex scenes in the game are - in a sense - necessary for the plot. Unfortunately I felt like they were somewhat poorly executed and there are too many of them. They do help in conveying their plot purpose relatively well and they also slighlty help with the horror aspect of the story. Song of Saya is a more linear visual novel and features only few choices during the gameplay. There are a few endings to the game, and they left me wondering what will be happening next. I was happily surprised that a few key details that I noticed before them becoming relevant actually had plot relevance - the foreshadowing was very well executed. I can absolutely recommend Song of Saya to anyone who's into dark stories. My only major critisims are the relatively bad use of the sex scenes and the lack of Japanese language text option. The writing during a few sex scenes was very bad, but I guess that either it was on purpose or the translation team fault.
