So I saw all of the warnings and decided, what the heck, I can handle some disturbing stuff, I'll play until something messed up happens and toss it if I don't like it. So I just finished my first, erm, cycle?
Still waiting for something disturbing to happen.
Like...I literally knew almost exactly how this was going to play out. I especially love how the game is like "This is really serious, it's not just a game, you can't turn back!!" Um. No, game. You didn't earn that. It pulled an Undertale without actually giving me a reason to care about any of these people. It pulled a Christopher Nolan and explained to me how super for serious this is instead of presenting me with something I will naturally take seriously. My character says that he knows these girls, but as the player I don't, so why would I be at all bothered when something bad happens?
So now it's going all meta and shit. I guess I might as well go through the rest of it at this point, but if this is as "disturbing" as the game gets, then the hype around this game is ridiculously overblown. It's interesting as an exercise in game mechanics being used to tell stories, but it's been done before elsewhere, and better.
_Okay, so minor amendment to the above:
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I finished the game (as far as I know, the credits are over and all that, I could probably reset and try a different path, but it feels kinda pointless). It was a decent idea executed kinda clumsily and way too predictably. I will say that I finally saw something "disturbing," in the sense that little miss yandere's jittery crazy eyes were driving pretty hard into the uncanny valley. Other than that...Nothing I haven't seen before in some form or another already.
It was interesting. That's about it.
