One Day in London

I haven't played many Visual Novels, but I've been experimenting with a few to get a feel for the medium. Of the ones I've played, [b]One Day in London[/b] is probably the best. It features an inventive setting, strong characters, and a well-constructed story, but is unfortunately hindered by a few technical issues. The Good: [list] [*] The handling of demons and demonology is very interesting. It combines common mythological tropes with some original ideas about demons and the demonic world. Setting everything in the 19th century is also a good choice [*] The major characters all feel believable, rounded, and complex. There are subtler elements too, such as how the character Vi [spoiler]frequently offers advice that [i]sounds[/i] reasonable, but leads to a bad outcome; very logical for a demon[/spoiler] [*] The art is very good, and the music also helps build the appropriate atmosphere [*] The story follows naturally out of the actions of the characters. The different story branches also make sense and work well, especially in chapter 3 [/list] The Bad [list] [*] There are some translation issues. Some dialogue sounds a bit unnatural. There are cases where, from context, I think the translation is simply wrong; the implied meaning being the opposite to the literal one (and it doesn't feel like an incidence of irony or other wordplay). [*] Also, there are cases where dialogue is simply missing, or character names are misspelled, that suggest a certain sloppiness. This does seem to be more of an issue in the later chapters, so perhaps there were money problems? [*] This might be a VN thing, but some of the actions needed to unlock certain story paths didn't make a whole lot of sense to me [/list] Overall, I enjoyed this and can recommend it.