A step up from the previous one. Some of the humor is still either a bad transcription of a comic book sight gag or else a valid pretext for a law enforcement search of the author's hard drive.
This time around there are fun little mysteries both before and after the midpoint tonal shift. The MC's transgression is also (seemingly) clearer in Watanagashi, while the others' reaction to it is surprising enough to sustain reader interest.
Before ever playing any of these, I was a little bit skeptical that a visual novel/interactive fiction game without branches was going to be worthwhile. This format allows for stories that branch without specifying a single clear point of divergence or requiring the player to fastforward through an introductory section over and over again for each branch after the first.
This time around there are fun little mysteries both before and after the midpoint tonal shift. The MC's transgression is also (seemingly) clearer in Watanagashi, while the others' reaction to it is surprising enough to sustain reader interest.
Before ever playing any of these, I was a little bit skeptical that a visual novel/interactive fiction game without branches was going to be worthwhile. This format allows for stories that branch without specifying a single clear point of divergence or requiring the player to fastforward through an introductory section over and over again for each branch after the first.