√Letter - Root Letter -

Zero keyboard mapping can be found and controller hardly controls anything. Can only save and use phone which controls menu in extremely specific parts of the game it seems. Have to wait for a very long time to get to a spot where you can access your phone and do anything so it makes saving very difficult. With that being said, the art, animation and music are beautiful. Plot seems really good. Just sucks the controls are so bad.

[b] It all goes well until the ending. [/b] The story is original and really interesting, to the point where I wanted to know more and more about the truth, but the ending makes everything that came before feel so dumb. Still, the game was really enjoyable, and even the gameplay was more engaging than in most visual novels. Also, unfortunately, the true ending can't be achieved on the first playthrough.

不错，我觉得比较好玩，像在看日本推理小说、 可惜的地方有2点： 1是选择回复信件的时候是默认没显示全所有选项的，由于第一次选项前是教学，就默认以为带着图标的那个选项才是正确选项。后面几次回信几乎都是只选了第一个选项，其实根本不是我心里想要的回答，甚至我都不咋地还有第三个选项的存在。 2是打完一遍结局以后不能从中间部分选择，只能从存档导，但这个游戏是只有在有手机界面时才能存档。所以基本上只能再多周目才能全结局，打一遍虽然流程不是很长，但是涉及到很多需要看文本选择的地方还是很麻烦的

果然完不了这种游戏么？都玩完了都不知道玩了个啥

故事的悬疑性发挥到了极致，体验了和男主Max一起抽丝剥茧式地寻找15年前的真相。在游玩中才会发现，原来这根本不是一个“杀人事件”，而事情的真相其实是很复杂的，不同人看待同一件事会有不同的角度不同的想法，而这些混杂在一起铸就了15年前的历史走向。 很庆幸这并不是一个经典的恋爱向游戏，甚至可以说完全没有恋爱成分，男主自始至终只在乎寻找笔友，这让我一直到结尾都十分心安。不过其他结局我暂时还没有玩到，所以也不知道自己是不是话说的太早。 刚开始玩的时候，会觉得在地图上不同地点之间穿梭有点摸不着头脑，但是玩久了习惯了之后，甚至开始觉得还挺有趣的，而且要去往什么地方有时候也需要动动脑子才能知道。调查模式也挺有意思的，需要依靠线索选择正确的提问方向，虽然时常觉得男主为了达到目的有时候口不择言会伤害到对方，可是面对如此守口如瓶的这群人，或许男主确实也别无他法了吧，所以选择体谅他的难处。 又是一款没有中文的游戏，但是鉴于之前已经玩习惯了水仙，再次玩英文版的视觉小说简直毫无困难，感谢游戏充分锻炼了我的英文阅读能力，这放在之前简直不敢想象。也确实，从这款游戏学到了更多英语词汇和表达，虽然不知道本地化到底做的怎么样。。。 通关后发现竟然还有其他结局，根本不知道是从哪分出去的，暂时先抛下了。。。

Root Letter is a mystery VN . When you find a letter from an old penpal that was delivered 15 years late you discover they were involved in a murder then disappeared. Travelling from Tokyo to her quaint hometown, you investigate the murder using your penpal's past letters as clues to find her old friends and uncover the truth. Overall the VN is okay. The exploration of the town can be slow paced but nicely depicted and atmospheric (I got hungry at the scenes at the local udon restaurant, Japanese food is so good). Nice drawn backgrounds and character art, fitting soundtrack and dialogue. There are a number of Ace Attorney style investigation scenes which work okay but there's also an incredibly pointless 'Max Mode' mini-game which is a pain and tensionless and largely just requires you to randomly pick each of the four options until you guess which one of the options the devs decided what supposed to be the correct one. The protagonist can also come off as a bit obnoxious and spends a lot of time trying to bring up the penpal's friends old traumas. Endings are a bit of a mixed bag. There's 8 shared chapters + 2 unique chapters for each of the 5 endings. When reading letters from the penpal during each chapter, you remember what response you send back to said letter and your choices here determine which of the endings you will receive. I would advise picking the 1st option all the time, then 2nd option and so forth to make it easier to get achievement for selecting every letter response. Luckily there is a way to quickly skip chapters after reading the letter letting you skip the first 8 chapters quickly as they are shared. The tone of each ending fluctuates quite a bit, some are a bit outlandish and lack emotional payoff while others are more grounded. 6.5/10

Под пиво на несколько вечеров достаточно хорошо заходит, легко читается на инглише