Going in, I'm not sure I knew what exactly I was expecting but I came out of it quite impressed. While I'm not sure I totally bought into the mystery ever, the game does a fair few cool things with the medium and has a pretty likeable and entertaining cast that keep you going throughout.
Visually, the game looks excellent. It might look basic to some but I was very taken in by the beautiful character art juxtaposed with the real world 360 degree photos that were slightly toonified. The characters are very expressive during the dialog rather than behave as static head pieces and move around in the actual space. It's especially really cool that they use the camera panning across the 360 degree photos in pretty effective ways though it doesn't happen that often. There's no voice acting though which I feel would have elevated a fair few scenes but the music sets the mood fairly well throughout.
Being a story heavy game, there's not much I really want to discuss without giving away spoilers but what I will say is, while the core mystery and the horror didn't really grip me, the characters and the plucky ways in which they try to deal with a very unique and tense situation is pretty cool. A lot of info is dumped on you constantly and I found it very engaging to try and piece it all together. It's a very tangled web of history, family and conspiracy and it's fun trying to pull at the threads on your own.
I would pretty safely recommend this to anyone considering for a VN it's pretty short and a fairly straightforward mystery thriller without much fluff associated with the genre. It's unfortunate how this was given almost no marketing but I'd like to see more people play this and hope the team gets to put out more in the series if they want to return to this fairly interesting world.
Visually, the game looks excellent. It might look basic to some but I was very taken in by the beautiful character art juxtaposed with the real world 360 degree photos that were slightly toonified. The characters are very expressive during the dialog rather than behave as static head pieces and move around in the actual space. It's especially really cool that they use the camera panning across the 360 degree photos in pretty effective ways though it doesn't happen that often. There's no voice acting though which I feel would have elevated a fair few scenes but the music sets the mood fairly well throughout.
Being a story heavy game, there's not much I really want to discuss without giving away spoilers but what I will say is, while the core mystery and the horror didn't really grip me, the characters and the plucky ways in which they try to deal with a very unique and tense situation is pretty cool. A lot of info is dumped on you constantly and I found it very engaging to try and piece it all together. It's a very tangled web of history, family and conspiracy and it's fun trying to pull at the threads on your own.
I would pretty safely recommend this to anyone considering for a VN it's pretty short and a fairly straightforward mystery thriller without much fluff associated with the genre. It's unfortunate how this was given almost no marketing but I'd like to see more people play this and hope the team gets to put out more in the series if they want to return to this fairly interesting world.