All in all, I'm afraid this one fails to live up to the first game. I was expecting something similar to and more in style of 'Corpse Party' but instead I got a visual novel with less interactivity than a Telltale game.

Also, this is not even a sequel but a collection of incoherent, individual chapters all taking place either in the past, or in an alternate universe, and there's absolutely no way to get a good ending in any of them, so I just stopped caring about the characters after a while knowing that no matter what I do, they'll die anyway.

Only the very last chapter can be considered an actual sequel, where we can finally see the Book of Shadows mentioned in the title, and unfortunately this one is one of the less interactive ones. And why couldn't I play as my favourite character, one of the main protagonists of the first game, Satoshi?

I guess I'll play the next game for the story but right now I feel quite disappointed.