One of the few Visual Novels on the western sphere worth reading -- at least back then, when its political commentary was still novel.
You are a faceless space inspector/prospector, far past the age of humans navigating with standard non-FTL drives. The goal here is to investigate relics of the past, upon which you happen on the Mugunghwa, an ancient colony ship converted into a Joseon Dynasty period piece by its inhabitants, where women are powerless versus their husbands. An AI, introducing herself as *Hyun-Ae guides you through its secrets, though she herself has a few secrets of her own... which you will discover.
The ending sequence is rather contrived, and serves to abruptly end your investigation while hastily wrapping up a subplot related to the ship's former inhabitants, but for what its worth, it did detail the horrors of a non-democratic civilization quite effectively, even if all you were doing was sifting through logs and being a glorified email reader.
You are a faceless space inspector/prospector, far past the age of humans navigating with standard non-FTL drives. The goal here is to investigate relics of the past, upon which you happen on the Mugunghwa, an ancient colony ship converted into a Joseon Dynasty period piece by its inhabitants, where women are powerless versus their husbands. An AI, introducing herself as *Hyun-Ae guides you through its secrets, though she herself has a few secrets of her own... which you will discover.
The ending sequence is rather contrived, and serves to abruptly end your investigation while hastily wrapping up a subplot related to the ship's former inhabitants, but for what its worth, it did detail the horrors of a non-democratic civilization quite effectively, even if all you were doing was sifting through logs and being a glorified email reader.