DrowningCurious
Right here video game combat was perfected. Challenging, well-paced and incredibly cathartic. I still remember the first time I beat the final boss so vividly. The rest of the 15 times I played this game I remembered less but I still really liked it I think idk this became a podcast turn-your-brain-off game for me I need help
Takumi clearly wanted to go all out in the Trilogy's conclusion, and it was cool seeing all of the characters coming back to solve one final case. But the mysteries themselves (the painting in case 5, iykyk) and some of the "clever" foreshadowing dragged it down for me. Could have been a classic but it's just really solid.
2020
2019
2003
Somehow, the unholy matrimony between White Album 2, Doki Doki Literature Club, Undertale and NTR actually worked. The way meta elements are explored go beyond anything Doki Doki/Undertale tried to do and genuinely blew my mind multiple times, while also tying it with compelling drama and a love triangle I couldn't help but get super invested in. My only complaint would probably be the weak opening which literally made me drop the game for like a year, and the writer not being able to keep his fetishes in his pants (but that's par for the course with eroge). Also Kanako Itou song peak peak peak
2018
2020
2017