So far, the remake is okay, but i liked the old version setup more as just a visual novel with choices. Why the change from house to apartment? Besides having an even shorter walking distance to Margaret's place. Is Juliet the nurse still in the game as she wasn't mentioned, also the prostitute? Nothing wrong with the designs, but I liked the mother’s look in the old version. At least there’s no “be at specific time & specific place to trigger story scene”. Just me, but stuff like picking the dirty clothes seemed redundant. There’s nothing that tells you that you seen and cleared every available content.
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As a matter of taste I usually prefer the choice based visual novel story-driven games, not the sandbox/free-roaming/map movement games. To me the Sandbox format takes longer for stories to progress in some games, having the redundant movements (manually going to sleep/skipping time) and repetitive content (like mini-games, searching around places), dealing with the stats & money grinding, story events triggered at a specific time & place, and hidden photos/items, It becomes a guessing game trying to make sure you seen every content available without the aid of a walkthrough or bad hints. Due to that personal taste, it's sad seeing games switch from a choice based visual novel to a sandbox/free-roaming type games, I'd still play them depending the individual games.
