Man, screw that true ending. You're really telling me she couldn't just have, I dunno, talked to the MC a single damn time and vaguely try to teach him that mindlock thing during the past years? Nah she HAD to mentally torture him for years (I think she was the reason the bullying became so bad?... even if that wasn't the case it still doesn't explain why she didn't just enlist his help normally) without giving him the vaguest directive, and them torture him even harder at the end but while giving him a good objective? And was the mindlock even fucking necessary to begin with?
I skimmed this game pretty hard since I stopped enjoying it much, particularly with the NTR-a-thon (hard to call it NTR but it was certainly framed that way), but my god her plan felt absolutely ludicrously stupid from what I managed to pick up. Can anyone tell me why I shouldn't just completely hate the bitch?
Anyway, none of the characters were likeable. MC gets manipulated every move he makes, he isn't funny, he's not cool, he's not smart and he isn't morally admirable - I have no damn reason to cheer for him. He's not even that hatable so I can't even enjoy his deaths. He's just painfully pitiful and that's it. His self-loathing also gets annoying to read after a while, since it's really quite repetitive.
All the girls except the shrine girl sucked. Main girl was obviously not very likeable, and everyone else wasn't likeable either because literally the ONLY thing occupying their thoughts when he looks at any of them at first is "oh god he's so disgusting get this freak away from me" - like, not even a little fucking pity, really? And even the shrine maiden wasn't that likeable anyway because she's either totally emotionless or practically brainwashed at all times - it's hard to say whether there was any genuine personality going on with her.
I don't hate dark fiction, even edgy fiction, but what was I genuinely struggle to see what I was supposed to enjoy about this. It doesn't do interesting commentary, it doesn't have anyone I want to cheer for through the misery, it doesn't grip me with compelling tragedy (in part because I have no capacity to be sad for any of these characters), it's not really even an edgy revenge story. Is it just misery porn?