Was hugely influential when working on a horror VN myself. Incredible direction making the most grotesque, uneasy, bonechilling atmosphere with nothing more than still images and music. Phenomenal OST.

On the other hand, gets a little too comfortable being gross and horrifying for shock value. MULTIPLE rape scenes doesn't scare me it just makes me wonder what your goddamn deal is. Found out the version on Steam was actually the CENSORED version too. Christ.

Either way, an essential horror experience if you can stomach that kind of stuff.

still A version of my favorite game, so it's still a good time. not much i can say about it that hasn't already been said -- female character route is really cool with some nice effort put into it's new presentation, music, social links, etc., but at the expense of flattening the presentation of the entire game into a visual novel format and diluting some of the game's impact. additionally, there are small tweaks made to the female route that i feel undermine and cheapen the original themes a little.

would absolutely recommend as a second playthrough for p3, but wouldn't recommend it as your first.