Root Letter (stylized √Letter) is a visual novel adventure video game that is developed and published by Kadokawa Games as the first title in their Kadokawa Game Mystery brand. In the game, the player must figure out what happened to the character of Aya, a girl who mysteriously vanished after receiving a particular letter. The gameplay will be split into two distinct parts; the adventure part, where the player interrogates characters who knew Aya in order to find more information about her, and the simulation parts, where the player relives and plays through prior interactions with Aya.
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Oh, I played this. And It was awful.
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I have abandoned because I never got that Golden Ending. I played through all the other ones and knew how to get it but I just stopped.
Maybe the updated release gives some of the endings more oomph but in the original they're all comically bad. The nature of the mystery and even the genre changes depending on which ending you get but it only affects the last chapter of 10 in every run. So there's big tone changes whenever you get to the final chapter and most of the endings aren't properly built up to and just fizzle out.
The best ending you can get on a first run is hilariously anti-climatic. It basically amounts to "There wasn't a mystery. She kind of just didn't want to talk to you that much and everyone is very stubborn about not telling you."
Maybe the updated release gives some of the endings more oomph but in the original they're all comically bad. The nature of the mystery and even the genre changes depending on which ending you get but it only affects the last chapter of 10 in every run. So there's big tone changes whenever you get to the final chapter and most of the endings aren't properly built up to and just fizzle out.
The best ending you can get on a first run is hilariously anti-climatic. It basically amounts to "There wasn't a mystery. She kind of just didn't want to talk to you that much and everyone is very stubborn about not telling you."
Utter dogshit, awful story, awful characters.
Very odd VN. It wasn't horrible, and the different alternate endings are somewhat interesting, but it's just a slog to get through the uninteresting story and unengaging gameplay.
A VN mystery with light Ace Attorney mechanics(and extremely similar music). For a game I'm sure no one I know has even heard of, it sure gets around. It was being optioned for a Hollywood movie at the time I finished it, but I have little hope for that. It's a little silly for that to be honest.
Comecei a jogar sem grandes expectativas, por não ser chegado nesse estilo de jogo, mas a história intrigante e os personagens misteriosos da trama me prenderam bastante, o que me fez criar expectativas com o desfecho e acabar por me decepcionar no fim.