AI: The Somnium Files is one of those games where you have to go blind to fully appreciate the story and its impact, what starts off as a murder mystery ends up becoming a psychological thriller revolving around the issue of identity and recognizing what is real and what is not, incredible experience and one of the best visual novels ever, having said that i think the game has 2 problems and this is qhere spoilers for both the game as well as the manga "Inside mari" by Shūzō Oshimi since both the game and manga deal with essentially the same theme at its core which is the exploration of identity through a body swap story: my main problem the the somnium files is that due to the game being a murder mystery the truth about body swaps is not reveal until almost the ending of the story and except for date and shoko we dont really see the effect that a body swap can have in a person which is where i think inside mari shines way more in this aspect, the mange whole story revolves around a big plot twist of a supposedly college drop out swapping bodies with a highschool girl and the psychological pain that what a real body swap would do to a person however in a very similar fashion to the somnium files we discover that the body swap in question was nothing more than a delusion product of the fracture psyche of said highschool girl, i would have like to see more of it in the game since the only 2 times we actually see the effect on the mind of a person after a forceful body swap is in date and shoko ( which despite only being mention once the description about the horror she experience after having her body stolen is one of the most chilling descriptions of any game ever and i would have love to see more of it) still the game is an amazing piece of storytelling and something everyone should experience once