Punch Line is an upcoming Japanese adventure game with puzzle elements and is based on the Punch Line multimedia franchise. The game has the players visiting the heroines’ rooms in search of the “Nandala Gandala” book. While doing this, you can select a point in the room to try and trigger a prank. If your prank is successful and you level up, Chiranosuke will appear and the story will advance. When the player peeks at the heroines’ panties, their “Outbreak Gauge” will increase, and if it reaches its max, the entire human race is destroyed. The story will follow parts and mysteries not seen in the anime, as well as have different endings. According to scenario writer Kotaro Uchikoshi, the game adds 10 episodes over the 12-episode anime and the second half of the game will have entirely different mechanisms than the first half.
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weeb shiz....i should have just watched the anime tbh, it probably would have been a better way to experience this story, i clearly remember playing it for a few hours and then getting pretty bored and annoyed with the large amount of dialogue, which is fine for a visual novel but the 3D graphic style just wasnt particularly enjoyable to look at for that long... i still got the platinum
VN absurdity.
On the surface- A floating talking cat guides you on a journey of a lifetime…Where you try to find a way to regain your body as you roam the house you live in, as a spirit - But take heed, any inadvertent sighting of panties from your roommates and the world shall be destroyed! Literally. The End Complete. So tread carefully my friend. And there’s a countdown to Doomsday with an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, cheered on by a terrorist organization wanting to annihilate humanity. What’s the connection? 7 billion people are at risk and you’re humanity’s only hope to try and figure it out to save us all.
That’s the game and if you can’t see how enjoyable that could be, we can’t be friends.
But wait! There’s more!
Just when you think the game is about to conclude, you realize that you’re only halfway there, and a whole time loop, body swapping story emerges. And after all the ludicrous insanity early on, it is slowly revealed that there’s an actual method behind this madness. There’s more than meets the eye here. Stupid and ridiculously funny at times but some dark undertones and some thought provoking philosophical ideas on existentialism are at its core concept.
As for “playing “, the first half consists of scaring your roommates so you can feed off their fear and be able to perform Trick Chains of cause and effect to achieve a specific goal to move the story forward. The second half is a fairly straightforward VN, with a series of narrative options to choose from. Although it appears there’s only one true path to victory, as a few choices I made destroyed the earth and ended the game. Reload and choose the other path to continue.
The game is presented in episodic format like the anime it’s based on and actually has full sequences of the anime imbedded within.
I had fun with it, but It’s definitely not for everyone. Proceed with caution. Now will somebody get that theme song out of my head!
On the surface- A floating talking cat guides you on a journey of a lifetime…Where you try to find a way to regain your body as you roam the house you live in, as a spirit - But take heed, any inadvertent sighting of panties from your roommates and the world shall be destroyed! Literally. The End Complete. So tread carefully my friend. And there’s a countdown to Doomsday with an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, cheered on by a terrorist organization wanting to annihilate humanity. What’s the connection? 7 billion people are at risk and you’re humanity’s only hope to try and figure it out to save us all.
That’s the game and if you can’t see how enjoyable that could be, we can’t be friends.
But wait! There’s more!
Just when you think the game is about to conclude, you realize that you’re only halfway there, and a whole time loop, body swapping story emerges. And after all the ludicrous insanity early on, it is slowly revealed that there’s an actual method behind this madness. There’s more than meets the eye here. Stupid and ridiculously funny at times but some dark undertones and some thought provoking philosophical ideas on existentialism are at its core concept.
As for “playing “, the first half consists of scaring your roommates so you can feed off their fear and be able to perform Trick Chains of cause and effect to achieve a specific goal to move the story forward. The second half is a fairly straightforward VN, with a series of narrative options to choose from. Although it appears there’s only one true path to victory, as a few choices I made destroyed the earth and ended the game. Reload and choose the other path to continue.
The game is presented in episodic format like the anime it’s based on and actually has full sequences of the anime imbedded within.
I had fun with it, but It’s definitely not for everyone. Proceed with caution. Now will somebody get that theme song out of my head!
Not going to waste any more of my time by trying to properly review this steaming pile of shit. Uchikoshi is a two-hit wonder, and I'm beginning to suspect 999 and VLR were good not because of his involvement but in spite of it. Only reason I finished this was because the platinum was easy.
This one was a big disappointment for me. Honestly, the premise is quite silly, so my expectations weren't that high to begin with, but the story in itself is surprisingly complex and well written, so no complaints from me there. However, most of the characters are extremely childish and dimwitted, and not in a cute way, as the creators probably intended them to be... If you ask me, they were annoying as hell. As for the gameplay, I have to admit, I had a bit of fun during the trick chain puzzles in the first half, but even those disappear in the second half, where you don't have to do anything just watch and make a few choices here and there. The anime cutscenes were nice, I guess, so if you're interested in the plot, my advice is to watch the anime instead.
This game got so much better after I figured out how to skip cutscenes.
this game falls under the genre of "uchiokshi body swapping scifi mystery featuring a strange pink girl who is a minor celebrity and weirdo blonde guy who gains power from being horny" and its definately the worst one of the bunch