Aside from people not liking the art style, what does everyone think of this game? I'm having post-game depression after beating The Somnium Files, so I really want a good VN to replace it.
I would not recommend this game after a comedy or at least light hearted vn that AI seems to be (at least form the reviews i watched for it). This game has pretty damn heavy elements to it as of now i got two endings and its clear this is not a light hearted vn in its endings. Its a drama very obviously.
For the vn itself there is a raging discussion in the steam sub if the TL they went with is great or utter shit, so its hard to tell as of now. Personally the remake feels rushed at times. A few examples would be black screens i got with ui, text and voice over still playing, so i have a very hard time figuring out if those are bugs or if that was intentionally done. If its intentional its lazy af. Oh also things like the dreaded god ray censorship are present in the "uncut" steam version.
Something personal. I really am not a fan of point and click games and this remake shows me again why that is. Its not even the combine everything with everything trope so many bring up so often, i didn't see much of that. Its the dialouge delivery and the fact that lines repeate themselves with slight alterations very, very, very often. Also you have to click trough every line sometimes even everything on screen to advance the scene and its mandetory with characters to even move on to the next screen.
The result is the pacing is borderline aggravating, at least for me. It took me 5 whole hours to see the title card, i do play it blind. So maybe i'm really bad at it, possible but even if i cut a whole hour off of this time its still very damn tedious. Not much of a fan of the save system itself as well. You have plot related crystals that allow you to place manual one time save slots, you get those crystals back after loading them, but the save point itself is gone for good, so you need to place another crystal to have a save solt again. There are ten in the entire game, you start with only four and you get a flowchart 3D kind of map to orient yourself as to where they are. You also get one manual saveslot, which overwrites itself everytime you save, so its not very much of use. It sounds like you have to have all ten of those crystals to finish the game, btw which is another layer of tedium to something that grates on my patience already.
On the plus side its very clear this is one of the prime inspirations for steins;gate (subject matter and the way the time travel is done) so if you love that as much as i do this game should still convince you to play it, even if its for the story only.
Hell maybe i imagine it but even the music tracks sound sometimes like nitro and 5bp were indeed inspired by yu-no as they did the ost for it. Its at times giving me nostalgia for music i never heard before.