Unfortunately, the series traded in the originality it found in the first game for a Persona 5-style shell. The visual novel/gameplay split shifted heavily towards the VN side, as opposed to the fairly even distribution in Death Mark.

Similar to Chapter 6 in Death Mark in terms of fluff and character writing, NG feels more disjointed with its mysteries.

The graphics and UI interface was improved, if only to be a clone of other popular games in the genre.