"Life is like a waiting room, except people don't leave in the order they enter." Japan in the 1970s. Before the first hospices were established in the country. A boy grows up helping the family business, a senior citizen's home. Regularly skipping school to help at home, he gets left behind a year in school. One day, he meets a girl that had also been left back, and they become friends. This is a story about two kids growing up. About the wall between those leaving, and those left behind. It is about the origins of the Seventh Floor hospice. And finally, the origins of "the rules".
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i got 5 minutes into this and said "nope this is a waste of my time." i guuuuuuuuuesssss ill try sumire and iris but fuck man this shit is so boring the 4th time around. cant judge it fairly off 5 minutes tho.
edit: i just went to file explorer to start sumire and instinctively said "nope" i will not taint this series any more. i liked the first and second only. second more so.
edit 2: also i pirated this. something like this under zero circumstance should cost 70 dollars for 4 new 2 hour games. if youre a fast reader maybe 1 hour. that is a ripoff.
edit: i just went to file explorer to start sumire and instinctively said "nope" i will not taint this series any more. i liked the first and second only. second more so.
edit 2: also i pirated this. something like this under zero circumstance should cost 70 dollars for 4 new 2 hour games. if youre a fast reader maybe 1 hour. that is a ripoff.
With every one of these it's increasingly clear Kataoka is content to write more or less the same story over and over. This one feels a lot more formless because there's not really any conflict until the last third. Which isn't inherently bad but I don't think there's enough in here for it to stand on its own without that structure. And that waiting room line isn't nearly as profound as the story seems to think it is.