Baroque Syndrome

Baroque Syndrome

released on Jul 27, 2000

Baroque Syndrome

released on Jul 27, 2000

You take the role of Kitsune Kanazawa, a Japanese student that becomes entangled in the investigation of a series of supernatural murders, which will slowly introduce key characters who will play a part in the upcoming apocalypse. The game is played as an interactive novel, with 2D still pictures of settings and characters being the main graphic elements, and all actions being described via scrolling texts. At several intervals you will have to make a choice that branches the plot in different directions, but that's all the interaction you get to make.


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A fairly neat visual novel exploring the world of Baroque before the disaster that was The Great Heat. While the game itself was never translated to English, there do exist full English synopsizes of the plot. The visuals are decent and fall well into how Baroque looks with its grimy, gritty, rusty dark future stylings. Sadly the music is just very dull in composition and using mostly MIDI instrumentation which just makes it sound cheaper than it should.

A unique prequel game that I wouldn't mind seeing a full English patch for, but it's very much for die-hard fans of Baroque who need an injection of lore.