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.

Removing the cast i came to know and love in the original Fate/Stay Night was a risky move and I'll admit it must've been hard how much courage was needed to make such a move.
HOWEVER removing everything established in the first visual novel as well was such an awful move getting rid of the holy grail war the masters and servants and basically any sense of worldbuilding established in the 3 routes of Fate/Stay Night was such an awful move i cannot forgive them for that.

Final rating:
0.5/10

A visual novel consisting of 3 routes (plus a secret mini route if you're playing the realta nua version of the visual novel) each with its own take on the games core theme of idealism taking that concept and bringing it into a new perspective with every new route.

Along with the game's many deep topics it explores it is also accompanied by an amazing cast of characters that all have their own amazing stories that you get to learn about as the game progresses keeping you hooked waiting to see how each one of them will tackle any problem they are faced with seeing them struggle and rooting for them all the way, they are all so amazing and it has to be one of my favorite cast of characters in any media i have experienced so far.

The holy grail war itself was amazing providing countless of awesome fight scenes along with teaching you about the rules of the world of this game about magi and the different organizations around them while also teaching how the fundamentals of magic work in this game allowing you to be immersed in such a world.
While the fights were amazing most of them having a deeper meaning behind their reasons for fighting the same can be said for the slice of life scenes which while they can be fun little distractions from the war that is going on they can also grants you a glimpse inside each character's mind allowing you to come to a better understanding of their actions and their motivations.

This game provided for me one of the best and most engaging stories i have ever read making me sit and read on and on for hours without even taking a break, it was honestly such an addicting game and i would definitely recommend it to anyone that enjoys a good visual novel.

As for my personal ratings for the 3 routes of the game:
Fate 8-9/10
UBW: 11/10
HF: 10/10
Now i'll be taking a break from fate cause i do not remember what sleeping is like anymore.

I finally finished the 3rd and last route of Fate/Stay Night. It honestly felt the longest route and definitely the darkest one thus far while also having probably the best slice of life and comedy scenes than anything that came before it.

After 2 routes of barely doing anything Sakura gets the spotlight she's is a great character i would love to go into detail but i believe that should be kept for the player to find out on their own she was great and i don't want to spoil anything about her. Every character that didn't get a chance to shine in the previous 2 routes get the spotlight in this route and they're all so amazing and were written brilliantly every scene with any of them was amazing.

Shirou and Rin must also be mentioned cause they both somehow managed to rival their characters from the previous something which i thought wouldn't be possible but man I'm so glad i was proven wrong they were both so cool and well written showing their characters in a new perspective they were a joy to watch.

This route was honestly amazing from giving the remaining characters they spotlight they deserved and utilizing them to their fullest and using the previous characters in a new perspective while also exploring some dark themes made this route addicting to read just to see how the events would unfold (rip my sleep schedule) while also utilizing everything that came before it and adding new stuff at the same time tying this whole game together in such a beautiful way.

Final Rating:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/621346412059426819/958684011209846835/seiba_hawk1.mp4 /1000

"But still...I was not wrong."
The 2nd route of the Fate/Stay Night visual which completely takes advantage of that fact not wasting any time reintroducing stuff already established in the previous route and that made for a way better paced story in my opinion.

My favourite part of this route wasn't the main heroine of this route Rin Tohsaka (although she still plays a huge role) but instead the main hero Shirou Emiya who has everything about him turned up to 11 and expands on everything that was established about his character in the previous route while also proving why he is in my opinion one of the best main characters in all of fiction.
As previously stated Rin is the main heroine of this route with Saber actually getting more of a side character role this time. Rin is an amazing character a badass talented mage who descents from an old family of mages, she is funny really cool and honestly there isn't anything i can say is bad about the character.
Now another character that gets more focus in this route is Rin's servant Archer who is such a badass character and god his story moves techniques everything is just so cool i really love this man he is so cool (which also proves my theory of every character with white hair in any media is a guaranteed badass).

I definitely love this route more than the Fate route making for such an amazing read and i honestly never got tired of it there are barely any negative things i could mention in this route and im excited to see what Heaven's Feel has to offer.

Final rating:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/801774175379128330/952956326554783794/x4JaFLQK_3nBxrhY.mp4 /100

People die when they are killed.
Old and overused jokes aside this route was a great way to get reintroduced into the world of fate, however this time it was through the visual novel which was amazing adding some much needed context for me, having only watched ufotable's anime adaptations.

All the characters are as likable (or hateable) as i remember them although sadly barely none of them except the main duo and maybe the villains are used to their fullest potential (in this route anyways).
That doesn't mean this route was bad far from it though it was still a fun read learning the basics of this world's rules and even foreshadowing of what's to come.

Now onto the main topic the duo of Saber and Shirou. The duo was amazing and I can confidently say they are easily the best part about this route, Shirou is a great main character as to be expected all with his backstory personality and everything about him in general its so awesome how the game drops little hints of his motivations struggles ad the story progresses it legit had me trying to find meaning behind words that probably didn't even mean anything. The exact same thing can be said about Saber who is probably my favourite out of the 3 main heroines, i love how when you first meet her she's basically a killing machine with no goal other than getting the holy grail but as the story progresses and she interacts with Shirou she slowly opens up about herself and grows from just being around him.
As i said there isn't much i have to talk about other than the main duo Tohsaka and Archer are there being another really cool duo but aren't used to their full potential in this route.

Now for the best part of this route the goddamn ending. I won't spoil it but man it had me all messed up it was such a bittersweet ending that i legit reread it and the final fight 3 times when I finished the route oh my god I'm not even sure if the other routes can top how that one part made me feel.

Final rating:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/801774175379128330/952956327162961920/83VGgRkeDe6c7Pqt.mp4 /10

A game i have played countless times and i have never gotten bored of it.

Its a 3D collectathon that while it doesn't bring anything new to the table it's so well made with some really fun controls and the length of the game, while short in my case it made for lots of replays of the game that i never honestly got tired of.

Most of the levels are really fun and also look great accompanied by some well crafted level design.
Collecting power cells (and of course the animations are always fun to look at lmao) almost never feels tiresome or boring, same can be said for scout flies in my opinion cause i usually hate collecting stuff like that but i honestly enjoyed looking for them.

The music is sadly really forgettable and as for the basically nonexistent story it doesn't really bother me lmao.

Where to start with this game.
First the gameplay, its just usual yugioh which i find really funny that it used to be a really rare thing for yugioh games back then so no complaints there.

Now for the rest.
The partner AI has got to be some of the worst i have ever seen in a videogame i suffered through kissing a characters ass until they liked me enough so i could progress to the 2nd part of the game only to be stuck getting screwed over NOT by the enemies BUT MY ACTUAL TEAMATE i still wonder how i mamaged to win lmao all the medals needed

Everything else was mediocre at best about the game