for me this was kind of a "mediocrity by a thousand papercuts" kind of situation. the base concept is cool and a ghost trick+mother mashup game should be right up my alley but my personal experience was just not very good. three times i had to redo stuff after the game spawned me in a wall and softlocked me, which led to me saving pretty often, which then led to me missing something earlier on which barred me from getting the true ending. when i realized this (i was following a guide) i started over and just mashed through the dialogue, and realized again about 30 minutes in that i missed something else i needed to do, at which point i just gave up and finished my existing save and looked up the best ending on youtube. at which point i found that there are no commentary-less recordings of the ending on youtube! so i had to watch the true ending with some guy narrarating it into an xbox quality mic.
the music is kind of meh, it doesn't really draw much from mother or ghost trick and opts for a more edm-ish chiptune which i didn't really care for. there were multiple bugs with 16:9 aspect ratio that i'd expect from an action replay code, not a finished game, stuff like textures cutting off and stuff not rendering correctly in the widescreen areas. i think it's pretty hard to squeeze many characters into a short game, and with a runtime of about 3 hours and 10 characters, it's nigh impossible to sufficiently establish them as anything before their own personal "twist" is revealed. there's also some plot holes, most memorably with the mechanic of being able to look at what people are thinking (a mechanic that serves no real functional purpose other than having a reason to put in earthbound-esque battle backgrounds into the game). like realistically you could just look inside the minds of everyone and just see who is thinking about covering their tracks
anyways although i have all these things i didn't like about the game i don't think i disliked it. i don't really know that i actively liked it either but all things considered it was just kind of a game for me. maybe it would be like a 6 or a 7 for me if it wasnt duct taped together and if it wasnt so easy to miss the true ending
the music is kind of meh, it doesn't really draw much from mother or ghost trick and opts for a more edm-ish chiptune which i didn't really care for. there were multiple bugs with 16:9 aspect ratio that i'd expect from an action replay code, not a finished game, stuff like textures cutting off and stuff not rendering correctly in the widescreen areas. i think it's pretty hard to squeeze many characters into a short game, and with a runtime of about 3 hours and 10 characters, it's nigh impossible to sufficiently establish them as anything before their own personal "twist" is revealed. there's also some plot holes, most memorably with the mechanic of being able to look at what people are thinking (a mechanic that serves no real functional purpose other than having a reason to put in earthbound-esque battle backgrounds into the game). like realistically you could just look inside the minds of everyone and just see who is thinking about covering their tracks
anyways although i have all these things i didn't like about the game i don't think i disliked it. i don't really know that i actively liked it either but all things considered it was just kind of a game for me. maybe it would be like a 6 or a 7 for me if it wasnt duct taped together and if it wasnt so easy to miss the true ending