This is a very hard game to review since it’s not really a game imo and I’m not big on visual novels. The only gameplay aspects you have is customising the tiny robots you see at the end of each chapter, moving in first person mode briefly to advance to the next chapter and read more background story (I skipped them) and a video editor mode. The last one seems to be editing some cutscenes, but I hardly spent time with it. So I’m not sure if there is more to it. I’m not big on visual novels or reading lots of text but I only have a limited time to try this game out before it gets removed from Apple Arcade. I was hoping the story would be worth it all but even that I found to be on the weak side. The story is centred around a bar that seems to be between life and death. The people who die can stay there before moving on to the real death part. Living humans can also visit the bar to speak with the dead. Then you have a council who collects payment in the form of someone’s life that is measured in time. This all sounds pretty interesting when it’s mentioned like that. But the real focus is on 5 characters at the bar, coping with real death and trying to get rid of their dept. The thing is. The story is boring for the most part and the characters are uninteresting. You mostly see them living their lives, doing mundane things and arguing with each other sometimes. The ending is also pretty bad when you find out that it wasn’t necessary after the epilogue. The game was trying to teach others about accepting one’s time but I’m not sure it succeeded. I enjoyed the 2 DLC stories far more. The characters were more interesting and there was more at stake. About the extra stories, I was willing to read them but I quickly found out it’s dumping pages of text on you. That would just kill the pacing if I end up reading them. The game also doesn’t have a lot of animations and sometimes text is hard to read. The story can be a subjective thing. So others might feel differently. Visual novel fans might like it more. But definitely skip it if you don’t see yourself reading a lot and not having much to do in terms of gameplay.

Reviewed on Jun 24, 2023


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