Very nice game for, what i assume, was the first from the developer. It was a bit clunky and very frustrating for me at times but it grew on me the more i unlocked.
I really liked the style choices of the onis and the Map/Level design as a whole. It adds to the atmosphere feeling like a labyrinth of sorts. Maybe there could have been a few more added characteristics to each room to make it easer to pin point your current location. I think the Enemy path finding and behaviour was well programmed. The idea of making the player complain about the darkness level in the beginning, just to turn it to straight black after the first talisman was hilarious for me. You kinda get used to it over time. The jumpscare of the big oni girl appearing straight out of the wall gave me nice resident evil vibes and even brought my pulse up a notch. Though i have to critic. Its incredibly hard to run away from the big oni girl. If you end up in a small corridors corner you are doomed, because even if you push her away you are unable to walk past her. This leaded to some frustrating and unfair restarts and didn't seem intended by the game. I also would have loved getting at least a few more after scenes(loops) after the bad endings. I mean, this is kinda the most interesting thing for the player to see where his character ends up if he loses. Or at least a fade out and fade in to a loop where the char is sourrounded and gets girly handled till you press a button. I don't even care if the scenes are just reused shown in 3d person instead of first person with a bit new dirty text lines...it all adds to the imagination and thus adding replay value for me (its an hgame after all). I also was stuck and needed to use the Game Guide, from ci-en.dlsite, 2 times during my playthrough. Would have loved, if it would have been in the games folder from the get go, but i appreciate, that the dev put a manual inside the games folder to give hints and tips.I also saw both final endings and appreciate the dev putting them in. , but didn't like the implementation that much. To much slo motion effect, very few text lines,
Overall I can tell, the dev had put a lot of time and love into the game. For me its worth the price and would play it again (if more afterscenes were to be added into it^^).