This was rather disappointing.
The ironic thing is, Ryukishi07 had written “a horror VN about curses” before - that would be the question arc of Higurashi - and it was a thousand times more interesting, because the game had you questioning the true nature of the curse at the very least until the end of Questions Arc. Iwaihime has no mystery to it. Only a bunch of one-dimensional characters (excluding main character, who is quite literally a perfect being), a very straightforward problem and a solution to it that can only be described as a string of asspulls.
Iwaihime isn’t even a proper horror. Most “scary” moments boil down to physical/sexual violence - which can be repulsive, but not scary. There is no tension or anything. Compare that to early chapters of Higurashi or Umineko - the difference is like night and day.
Maybe people are right to worry about that Silent Hill spinoff that Ryukishi07 is working on.
The ironic thing is, Ryukishi07 had written “a horror VN about curses” before - that would be the question arc of Higurashi - and it was a thousand times more interesting, because the game had you questioning the true nature of the curse at the very least until the end of Questions Arc. Iwaihime has no mystery to it. Only a bunch of one-dimensional characters (excluding main character, who is quite literally a perfect being), a very straightforward problem and a solution to it that can only be described as a string of asspulls.
Iwaihime isn’t even a proper horror. Most “scary” moments boil down to physical/sexual violence - which can be repulsive, but not scary. There is no tension or anything. Compare that to early chapters of Higurashi or Umineko - the difference is like night and day.
Maybe people are right to worry about that Silent Hill spinoff that Ryukishi07 is working on.
Fernabo
4 months ago