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Finished VLR. This game was very good! A bit surprising after I didn't like 999 much at all, but part of that is the vastly improved gameplay system. The flowchart is genius, and it's great that they added it into the later releases of 999, which I will never play. The way they integrated it into the plot here was cool too. I liked the cast in general a good deal more by the end - Luna had a lot of great scenes later on in particular. The plot was pretty cool in general, I think. All the twists made sense, and while I was able to predict some, there was surprising stuff too. I figured out the goal of the plan, but not how the plan was going to work, and I didn't figure out who Zero was either (though I probably could've if I'd tried a little harder...). The ending being kind of a cliffhanger was a little disappointing, but it still felt conclusive, so I didn't mind.

The puzzles were mostly pretty fun, but a few stumped me and a couple were annoying (looking at you, stupid dice puzzles). Not having to redo them was so nice. The music was super good in the puzzle rooms too. It felt like every one of them had a totally different style of music to it, but they usually managed to make the song feel intense or threatening in some way.

It's kinda interesting comparing this to Ghost Trick (since I played the two in close succession). I feel like this was the better game overall, but I think I still enjoyed Ghost Trick a little more. The story's ending was a little more powerful there. Both good games though.

Also started Zero Time Dilemma now. Played for a couple hours, and while I'm mostly liking it, there are a couple key flaws.

1. WHY ISN'T IT A VN!? Augh the "watch cutscenes play without being able to advance dialogue manually" style of modern games sucks. I think this is going to make me like the game a good deal less overall.

2. The art isn't that great? Like, it should be a big improvement over VLR, but there's something off about it. I think it's the way the mouths move.

Been fun so far though. Got a couple bad ends, and they feel like they had more effort put into them than the VLR bad ends did.
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