não sei se foi a minha saudade de jogar algo com horror ou o que, mas twilight syndrome virou uma das minhas franquias favoritas, apesar do prólogo passar uma ideia de que esse seria um jogo de horror leve (até meio besta), essa ideia ja vai pro caralho quando você vai jogando, é um horror MUITO bem feito, gosto muito do ritmo lento e das 3 protagonistas (minha favorita sendo a Chisato por ela ser mais centrada, além do fato dela ser a sensitiva), o jogo se divide em capítulos que são chamados de "rumores", cada rumor é apresentado pela Mika para as outras duas protagonistas e elas vão investigar pra ver se é real, a maior parte dos rumores se passam na escola, mas você também vai pra outros lugares, um outro personagem muito legal é o Aramata, em alguns rumores você pode telefonar pra ele e ele vai te dar alguma explicação sobre fantasmas e o mundo espiritual, não é um jogo muito longo e funciona quase como uma sound novel da época, a diferença é que você controla as personagens, também tem um medidor de vida, se você por acaso acabar entrando em contato com os fantasmas várias vezes ou tomar alguma decisão errada em momentos chave é game over, no geral é um ótimo jogo e é uma pena que nunca tenha sido localizado pro resto do mundo.

Definitely a unique experience!

Sound design is really creepy and the amount of interactivity on offer is kept very ambiguous most of the time. Text crawl is relentlessly fast, and some dialogue choices seem to be on offer for only a short moment before becoming unavailable, so if you can't read Japanese about as fast as its spoken then you're gonna get familiar with your emulator's pause button.

The girls behave in a weirdly believable way, like even when they're investigating what is definitely a haunted area they still banter with each other sometimes.

I get the feeling that nothing in Kyuumei Hen is going to actually explain any of what's happened, it seems like the game's first priority is being atmospheric rather than telling a complete story.

TST is like a time capsule of horror games, I mean... beyond things like walkmans and stuff, the rumors are like very basic and focused on confronting a ghost and giving a quick tragic story, then moving on to something else when nowadays horror games usually have you explore X place and tell you the history of that place, the ghosts and inhabitants.

At first I didn't like how open it is and how outdated it feels in conveying horror, but then looking online, I saw that it was based on rumors of ghosts IRL in Japan, which made it more interesting on an educational level.

The game uses scaled down photos + pixel art, but the ghosts are less pixelated photos of real people, but not sharp enough to realize it's a photo and I love it! it gives it an uncanny look that I adore but sadly failed to enjoy beyond that.
The stories are very simple and quick, and most of them could be summed up to 3 minutes instead of 2 hours and I still have 2 twilight syndromes to play, so I hope they're better qwq

My biggest problem with TST is that it's very simplistic! it drags its story a lot to barely tell anything, but from the cliffhanger of the ending, the next game is going to be much better and less simple since it's not going to be more mysteries in the school..? I hope?? idk
I spoiled myself to see what's up with the twilight syndrome and silver case relationship and yeah, I saw that it gets better in the future, but that's about it. TST really feels like a biiiiiiiig buildup that while I didn't enjoy as much as I wanted to, I hope it was worth it.

(note: this is a watch review and I looked at the youtube translation from the user aRdW)
Game is about ghost rumor hunting with the girls group that doesn't love mystery but have to because baka Mika is their friend and they don't want her to die just because she can't stop her curiosity, so rest of the game happens.

Unfortunately stories feels like a demo compared to the next one. Most of the ghost cases are super short and forgettable in my opinion, only case that memorable for me was the piano suicide one. Other than that it was just bunch of "let me tell you random horror stories on this Halloween night" kinda random. At least, I liked that they had multiple endings. But game ended on a really interesting cliffhanger and if I found this game in the ps1's prime days I would be pisseddddd I tell you