For me, this one has been the weakest title in the Science Adventure series so far. The plot is full of twists, even anime veterans won’t see most of them coming, I believe, and it’s also extremely complex, but if you finish all the routes, everything should be clear as long as you keep paying attention. So, in that sense, it’s not that different from its predecessors. I was a bit sad that they switched back to 2D character models, I, personally, really liked the 3D ones in Robotics;Notes, but maybe it’s just me.

The characters were, hm, OK, I guess, none of them were very memorable for me (the protagonist sometimes annoyed the hell out of me), and the gameplay was completely the same as in ChäoS;HEAd with the positive and negative delusion triggers popping up from time to time. This is not surprising, though – as the title indicates, this is a direct sequel of that one, so you can expect a similar, dark tone with quite a lot of gory parts depicting extreme violence and torture, both physical and mental, against adults and children alike. Sure, there are some occasional funny moments, even a few obligatory ecchi scenes, but all in all, we’re definitely in R-rated territory here, so keep that in mind. As far as I’m concerned, I felt like some chapters and routes were unnecessarily cruel and depressing, and after a while I got so burned out by all the brutality and wickedness that I became totally oblivious to what I was reading…

But yeah, maybe I’m just getting too old and sensitive. I guess I’ll go watch a comedy now to balance my emotions a bit.