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Day 5: Tuesday dakkAI

Okay, I feel like this as good of a time to mention my feelings toward the game so far.

I find somniums interesting, and I like the ability to move around and everything, but I don't like how the system is designed. I would go so far as saying it is a complete mess. It is time-sensitive, is based around trial-and-error mechanics, and your actions affect which path you will go on. So my fumbling around trying to figure out problems with illogical solutions is what decides what I ultimately experience and not, you, genuine actions of player agency?

I love a good mystery, but I am not on board for this one. I was, but they've kind of lost me. The majority of notable mystery stories are layered like this one, but they have a kinetic, apparent sense of progression. Yes the mystery gets more complicated, but depending on the perspective style, the protagonist(s) and/or audience continuously figures things out until everything is solved. In this game, we have Shoko murdered. Then many people go missing. Then we have a "phantom" murder to solve. Then we have an escaped convict. Then we have an attempted kidnapping and murder. I'm probably missing out on one or more things too. You know what we've figured out? Nothing, absolutely nothing. The game has just been going from scene to scene learning nothing or next to it or getting totally stonewalled from people of interest until something big happens then we drop whatever mystery we were in the middle of and go with the new one. We just keep getting further and further from what we started with that we might as well be on the moon.

I was also expecting something to the level of nuance that the Zero Escape series had (well 999 primarily, but VLR and ZTD had more nuanced writing than 95% of other Japanese games that I've played), but there's been far more "trashy anime crap" than I was expecting.
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