Snatcher, a visual novel I've been hearing about constantly lately be it from my friends or me looking up more info about this game just to get a clue as to what I'm getting myself into and after finishing it yesterday I thought I'd write my thoughts on the game.
This game was honestly a pretty fun experience, I love investigations and such in videogames so I was hooked from the start as well as the whole sci-fi theme of the game (I know its heavily inspired by Blade Runner but I've never seen the movie so I apologize in advance). However, as fun the theme of investigating is this game can honestly make the process a bit annoying from time to time, for example in the first act there's a part where you just have to keep going back and forth having to use a PC with info on whatever person you want to know more about and the game just keeps asking you questions over and over forcing you to keep going back and forth to that computer room if you haven't memorized or written all that stuff out, thankfully its only in act 1 where that happens after that it never happens again. My other issue with the investigation are the investigation and look options, they could've easily just been one single option and it would've saved me from a lot of hassle I had to go through while looking for clues on how to progress the story, like after investigating a piece of evidence i should not have to look at it again to take it with me that was just a waste of time but that isn't a huge deal and you get used to doing that. Aside from that the investigation is fine with some fun puzzles making you thing every now and then where even if you got no clue what you are supposed to do the game will eventually give you hints as to what you have to do so its fine.
Next I'd like to talk about the characters, they were honestly likable, Gillian is a really cool protagonist and it's fun to see how he handles every situation, the same can be said for the side characters too, they get some (sadly not as much as they deserve) of the spotlight and they were honestly fun to chat with. Now this is the point where I also have to mention the voice acting, my god seeing as i was playing a Sega CD game i did NOT expect this game to have voice acting this good and the quality was good too, I was honestly suprised by how much care and effort went into every single line recorded and props to everyone for managing such a thing.
Finally the thing I should've talked about first the story.
It's a pretty fun ride, it kept me hooked always speculating what exactly would happen in the next scene, act 2 was personally my favourite I did not stop playing throughout that whole act and I finished it one sitting. It was a pretty enjoyable ride and I don't have any complaints about the story writing.
Snacther is a pretty fun ride with an enjoyable cast and story that is sadly in my opinion a bit too short to fully flesh out the characters and make me care enough about them, however I would still recommend you to play it nonetheless, this was my first Hideo Kojima game and I really want to see what stories that man has in store for me in the future.
Writing reviews cause I'm bored in class is the only way to get me motivated to type all this stuff out.
This game was honestly a pretty fun experience, I love investigations and such in videogames so I was hooked from the start as well as the whole sci-fi theme of the game (I know its heavily inspired by Blade Runner but I've never seen the movie so I apologize in advance). However, as fun the theme of investigating is this game can honestly make the process a bit annoying from time to time, for example in the first act there's a part where you just have to keep going back and forth having to use a PC with info on whatever person you want to know more about and the game just keeps asking you questions over and over forcing you to keep going back and forth to that computer room if you haven't memorized or written all that stuff out, thankfully its only in act 1 where that happens after that it never happens again. My other issue with the investigation are the investigation and look options, they could've easily just been one single option and it would've saved me from a lot of hassle I had to go through while looking for clues on how to progress the story, like after investigating a piece of evidence i should not have to look at it again to take it with me that was just a waste of time but that isn't a huge deal and you get used to doing that. Aside from that the investigation is fine with some fun puzzles making you thing every now and then where even if you got no clue what you are supposed to do the game will eventually give you hints as to what you have to do so its fine.
Next I'd like to talk about the characters, they were honestly likable, Gillian is a really cool protagonist and it's fun to see how he handles every situation, the same can be said for the side characters too, they get some (sadly not as much as they deserve) of the spotlight and they were honestly fun to chat with. Now this is the point where I also have to mention the voice acting, my god seeing as i was playing a Sega CD game i did NOT expect this game to have voice acting this good and the quality was good too, I was honestly suprised by how much care and effort went into every single line recorded and props to everyone for managing such a thing.
Finally the thing I should've talked about first the story.
It's a pretty fun ride, it kept me hooked always speculating what exactly would happen in the next scene, act 2 was personally my favourite I did not stop playing throughout that whole act and I finished it one sitting. It was a pretty enjoyable ride and I don't have any complaints about the story writing.
Snacther is a pretty fun ride with an enjoyable cast and story that is sadly in my opinion a bit too short to fully flesh out the characters and make me care enough about them, however I would still recommend you to play it nonetheless, this was my first Hideo Kojima game and I really want to see what stories that man has in store for me in the future.