Novena Diabolos

第一次玩，带着Nari跑了，是好结局

dlc please!

I am absolutely blown away by this game. The randomization of the monster in our midst is what makes this for me. I was concerned with how they were going to pull it off, but they exceeded all my expectations. Firstly, there is no difference in dialogue no matter which woman is human and which is demon - this is not a social deduction mystery. Instead, there are a series of randomized murder scenes, and the clues for which demoness would be likely perpetrator are also randomized. So one playthrough Demon A may only show up near a river, and in another, they prefer villages only. This means the time management and mystery aspect NEVER GOES AWAY no matter how many times you play! I had fun taking my chances on who to socialize with based on the clues I was slowly building, hoping I had enough time to identify and build a relationship with the one human among demons. Now, since the dating sim like play is identical from playthrough to playthrough, the first run will be the most entertaining no matter what, and that lasts around six hours if you aren't listening to all the voiced lines (I did love the Korean voice acting, but I like to advance text as soon as I'm done reading). Even after that, you still have lore to explore in terms of found objects, and since it's impossible to see every scene in one playthrough, replay value is high. This would be a fun game to break out with friends because you can always be surprised upon replay. After one round, you unlock the ability to 'lock-in' which character is human to make sure you can see that character's good ending, so if you get tired of the mystery aspect, that's there. Text wise, the translation seemed high quality. I don't speak the original language, but the English text flowed naturally, with very few typos, and character lines felt full of life, instead of the stilted tone you sometimes get with other translated VNs. The only complaint is sometimes it was formatted strangely within the textbox, so it may be scrunched up in the center, or sliding a bit off the frame, but this didn't detract from the story. And finally - Otome games are more my jam. The female harem isn't my thing, and I STILL had fun. Buy this game. You won't regret it.

Novena Diabolos is a visual novel with point & click adventure elements. The reader is put into the shoes of a Korean reporter who is at a crossroad in his life and wishes to set his record straight with the newscasting team he's working with, along with getting his current investigation in order. At this crucial point in time, his GPS goes haywire and he finds himself trapped inside a mysterious foggy town full of weirdos looking at him funny. It is soon revealed that such a location is breeding ground for demon worship and summoning, and it will be up to the reader to figure out who has been summoned and how, among five beautiful young women. Four of them will be demonesses, while one, and only one, will be a human being. The reader will need to figure out who is the human by the end of the adventure - which lasts 9 days - and then escape with her alive. Failing to find the correct human will result in his sacrificial death. The premise is immediately interesting and the hook is classic horror. I loved the vibes, the atmosphere conveyed by the excellent backgrounds, decent sound design and gameplay flow. The VN randomizes both the human and the clues needed by the reader every playthrough, making replayability enjoyable. The unique werewolf-like aspect of this VN is the primary factor that keeps one playing well over its run time, which is approximately 7 hours for a first playthrough - 2 hours at most for subsequent runs. This is a pretty short VN, which I believe was originally even shorter but got expanded upon. My biggest issues with the VN are the individual storylines for each girl, which remain the same no matter if they are actual demons or not, and the overarching plot which is resolved in one ending only and has no variations whatsoever throughout the ordeal, no matter which girls the reader picks, nor the amount of times the game has been played. There was so much room for experimentation and extra narrative layers, not finding any left me deeply disappointed. Many scenes were the exact same regardless of which girls the reader picks, too, and since they technically count as a separate text box, they're all unskippable. I would have much appreciated extra events tied to the girls' nature being human or demon, to give extra hints and add flavor, while also reducing the number of clues available. I have never experienced a bad ending, simply because the exact number of clues is largely the same and by the end it's next to impossible not to know who the human is. Regarding the girls themselves, I honestly thought Sumi was the original VN's goal but then the devs realized if they had kept only one girl the VN would last 30 minutes, therefore they expanded on it. The reason I say this, is that Sumi's route is clearly more thought out and extra care has been put into it. I'm glad I got hers as first ending. Everyone else is a bit shallow and uninspired, with the exception of Hana's which provides a decent pace breaker.

this is a good game and the translation is good. I only hope that they will do the dlc for this game

I've played and watched a fair few visual novel games in my day, and this is one of the better I've experienced. Now let me get this straight: the playable character is whiny and honestly the first 2 days of gameplay kind of suck. So much so that after the 2 days, I took a year long break from this game. However, curiosity got a hold of me, and I decided to continue the game. And I am so glad I did! I played it once, fully just experiencing everything and enjoying it. Somehow, this game got me to cry at one of the endings. That full playthrough was about 5-6 hours I think? Next, I immediately wanted to see a different version of the story. I reloaded it, and was actually shocked by how much had changed. Even so, I have found that the game rewards you for replaying (iykyk). Within about another hour and a bit, I had gotten to a second ending (thank you skip button). That said, I still felt like I learned so much, and still got shocked at different twists and turns. To my understanding, there is at least... 10 endings? However I have my suspicions there's more. One thing I want to highlight is the writing. Funny enough, because the main character doesn't have a ton of depth. However, all of the NPC's have convincing and entertaining stories. There were 2 characters I immediately didn't like; however, as I got to know them more, I was having fun and realizing I cared about them a little bit. There's a bit of anime tropes here but honestly none that bothered me enough to deter my enjoyment. This is translated from Japanese, and there's a couple typos or grammatical errors here and there. However, it is a huge huge game, and I'm not sure what the time frame for getting it translated was, but for how big the game is and the story that's being told, again I don't mind. If you are a big VN fan, I'd highly recommend this game. If you're just looking for something with that mystery element, maybe get it on sale. Either way, it's a fun time :)

This game is so fun! I love the creative idea and the interactive parts are very entertaining, especially with the random aspects. I really liked the story branches and enjoyed the investigations. It was awesome to explore a big variety of locations, collect documents and be able to make own conclusions based on discovered information. The writing is pretty good, I loved how entertaining it is (especially during the interactions with different characters) and also how it manages to create amazing atmosphere as well. The atmosphere is just really good altogether, the intense and creepy parts are very well done. The background art and music definitely contribute a lot to the whole addicting mysterious vibe. The autosave function quite annoyed me at times, moreover I'm somewhat disappointed that the bad endings were short (in my opinion there was big potential to include more content of the monsters) but overall I'm left highly impressed and would love to play something similar!