Okay finished first chapter, I REALLY dislike the trial system, good idea obviously, but they introduce evidence you know and is obvious, it takes SO long. And the stupid hangman's gambit, you have to get the letters in order, WHY? That's not how that mini game is played!! The time bullet is also meh and actually annoyed me and couldn't understand it at first! The comic is also meh, I usually like when you put the sequence of events in games, didn't care too much for it here, it felt like after you have introduced all the evidence and everything is clear, more of a reptation honestly. Okay, I HATE Time bullet with a passion, SO annoying, especially when they hide the interaction dot, I'd rather they just raise the temp to infinite over that, incredibly frustrating.
- Loading bullets from other people is SO RANDOM, like you know what to say, but the game wants you to do it a very specific way, which becomes very frustrating. Easy solution would have been to have no bullets, then you would know that you need to load from another statement.
- ONLY you give evidence, even if it was actually someone else that told you that the first place, I know the game wants you to engage with the trial, but it's quite silly. It's like they are saying 'hey, remember the thing I told you before and is very important to mention now, yeah, YOU say it now' WHY?
- The time and hearts are literally useless, you can just retry as soon as you lose all time or hearts and the game would have you retry from where you failed even on hardest difficulty !!
- The game KEEPS resetting the sound and music volume EVERY time I launch it, OMG, and it is so loud I have to mute and fix it lol.
All the motive for now is: I want to escape, which is fine but very basic + I don't feel it is a strong motive to start killing 3-ish days in rofl, who reaches their breaking point that fast?!
No one has a dark secret or something juicy unfortunately. (Edit: a couple of them did ig)
Like the DVDs should have had that, and not just what they show you, NOT that interesting to me, I barely know these characters to care about their families or connect to them, feel sorry, etc.
For now, not very sold on it, don't get me wrong, it actually hooked me with the murder mystery and whodunit, I love these things, and even though it's a visual novel, which I don't normally play, I am actually enjoying it and reading all lines, but a lot of the other things are questionable let's say, I'll hopefully see if I finish it, and see if I change my mind.
Ultimately,[spoiler] I REALLY hated a few characters, and most of them are just over the top, exaggerated to annoying limits. Toko is the most annoying, nonsensical character I have ever seen in a video game, they spent two years together and no one noticed a psychopathic killer, and you can see in a photo she was transformed, no one noticed, sure + her vulgarity is VERY off-putting to say the least, very out of place and disgusting comments. Really just skipped most of her dialogue, I hate how writers use characters to say perverted things, and make a female say them, cause no ones gonna say something to that, right? Ugh.
Junko's multiple characters are SO obnoxious, ruined the revelation honestly, just making her smart, calculated, cold, etc with her lines and a good voice would have been a million times better. Yasuhiro is too stupid it's not even funny or whatever they were going for with his character. The rest are mostly not memorable.
Also, It didn't help with not getting to know them more before they were killed, you didn't care about them.
Some cases were way too obvious, made well, but were a bit too obvious to me personally especially 3rd and 4th, even the first had that way too obvious clue, I do watch a lot of crime TV series lol :p
Some decisions are silly and go against literally normal human behavior and common sense, in 2nd case, stupid Byakuya messes with the crime scene to make things interesting, when literally his life and everyone else is on the line 🤡
Final revelation is good, it does sting a little that they didn't have to kill each other, I know it adds to the despair theme tremendously, but it feels empty to me.[/spoiler]
