one of the worst things ever created. it's like if the concept of "fake deep" grew into an entity knowledgeable enough to develop and publish a video game from the ground up and yet couldn't manage to build more depth. i guess i'm meant to care about ame? i just felt so grossed out by her that i didn't want to acknowledge her existence anymore. and then the final ending tells me actually the player didn't exist. who the hell was she fucking then???

are half the endings meant to be gags? they're just not funny. here's ame fucking to death! here's ame jumping off a building while livestreaming! here's ame becoming a cam model! here's ame doing so many drugs she's now on a train! here's ame dumping you to date a guy in a horse mask! here's ame ghosting you because She Will Never Be Normal. okay take her to the psych ward then. the only thing these endings did was make me care less and less about her.

the game screen dims when you have *** (doing a self-harm minigame is allowed but tee hee we won't say sex!!! hahahahah!!!!) and little hearts fly from ame's webcam as the screen moves up and down. after you're done watching this unskippable pathetic performance, ame tweets on her private account that it feels good to do it from behind. who wants to read that? the game forces you into the aforementioned self-harm minigame if she's too stressed for two days in a row, where you press a button four times to make her cut her arm for every press, and i just had to roll my eyes. it's just so unbelievably unsubtle, and i don't think being subtle would make it better. i think it needs to go entirely.

like, wow. that finale? really? the max followers ending of the game is the most ridiculously pathetic "the internet has ruined us" thing ever. of course the internet has ruined you, look at you! look at yourself! you're playing NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD. and you LIKED IT, too. of COURSE the internet has ruined you, you have no sense of anything! and the secret ending??? the one you get for getting all other endings??? wow, so deep. just what we needed. the most unnecessary plot twist of all time.... you, the player, weren't real all along!!! wow!!! riveting stuff!!!!!!!

i know i'm giving it 4 stars but that's purely because of emotional attachment. i like the original more. i did not expect this game to be this bad because i had fond memories of it... but it is, and not in a way i can really formulate.

anyway, good parts: the music hits, i like the presentation and the cast is endearing. that's kind of it, though. if they gave me the writers' pen i could make this better than 5 (not very hard at all). i never got why people hated marie and didn't care about her but now i do: she adds nothing. the original was fine without her. adachi is very very good though congrats atlus! a hit after two million misses oh my fucking god.

also they added a moment where you can kiss teddie but if you try to do that he runs away like what the fuck?????? get OVER here you bitch.