Seven Mysteries: The Last Page

I was streaming this, hoping for something at least somewhat entertaining and decent. What I got was a long, drawn-out story that wasn't very well written, and LOTS of text over black screens. I honestly started to fall asleep on stream I was so bored. Interesting initial idea, but very poor execution.

Нежданно вау. Не хочу писать обзор, но хочу поставить лайк, стим очень медлнно развивается и пока такой возможности нет. Поэтому оставлю это здесь.

RPG Maker strikes again! Seven Mysteries: The Last Page is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. Notably the developer here couldn't work out how to use RPG Maker to make an RPG... and that's the only thing RPG Maker can do properly... except it's not even very good for making RPGs. Instead, we have a really poorly written and unimaginative horror themed CYOA/high school anime club dropout fan-fiction. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. Gamers who want a good book should read a book, you can get plenty of high quality free books from Project Gutenberg. Written by real authors! The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 6 players. That's right, only 6. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is to be expected. Gamers just didn't take this low quality game seriously, and for good reason. Seven Mysteries: The Last Page has the utterly unrealistic price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.

[h1]Overall Summary[/h1] [b]This choice based visual novel – because that’s what this game is mostly – starts a bit confusing because of the time loopings and lack of information. But then it gets interesting with a deep and well written wholesome storyline, centering about a guy (Neal) whom left his friend (Sang) alone when his friend needed him the most. Finally there are a few endings possible, each of them somewhat confusing. Overall I did like the main story, in particular the wholesome parts where Neal talks about his past friendship between him and Sang. [/b] [h1]Details; Pros and Cons[/h1] This game has good and interesting story, but I do want to point out there is not much space left for exploring. It comes closer to being a choice based visual novel, with lots of talking at some parts combined with suiting visualization. Despites this talking, it didn’t get boring. The first half hour of the game you’ll experience a lot of timeline loopings, where the same story is being told from different perspective but leaving users with no idea what is going on other than murders are being committed by potentially a ghost (or something). But after that you’ll start following Nathan’s story path, while the story itself gets a more a mysterious and creepy kinda vibe. There are certain parts that I would almost suggest is hitting ‘To The Moon’ (game) lvls of storytelling, in particular the part where Neal tells the story about him and Sang being friends. Then, occasionally, there are some parts with nurses trying to capture you, which I found too hard to be enjoyable. And finally, the endings are a bit confusing. [b]Note:[/b] When I searched for a walkthrough for the final ending that I didn’t manage to unlock, I noticed in some walkthroughs the personas have images of themselves when they are talking. I did not have that when I played this game myself, nor did I discover any public available printscreen-shots on this platform that shows such a thing. I suspect this might be due either a bug or because most walkthroughs are playing this game on an older version that isn’t being played on Steam. Either way, I combined images of the main personas here to give you guys an idea how the they look like – for those whom are interested: [url=https://imgur.com/a/91RH2ca] Image examples main persona’s [/url]

I got bored. There are only a few good jumpscares, and the rest is reading. It's okay I guess.

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Seven Mysteries: The Last Page is an absolutely bullcrap of a RPG Maker horror game, okay to be honest about the story its very confusing and really dumb so I'm just going to say this story is about the mysterious incidents that has happened at this school and how it all came to be. Now then likes, the rpg maker graphics are pretty good, nothing too complex but as you know you don't need the greatest graphics to make a great game, the levels were nice a little diverse as we explore the school. The story its well pretty damn bad, but I will say there are some parts I liked, the characters were okay nothing really to write home about, but the three main characters were good. The multiple endings you can get I found them interesting until the last two endings and the game does have some nice gore effects. The atmosphere for the game is okay pretty spooky sometimes for first time players, now is the game scary at first yes but then you get used to it and it's jump scares. Now then dislikes, and oh boy is there a lot to dislike about this stupid game. The story is pretty damn bad while there are some parts I did like, like I said there just too much bad in it, like some parts of the story doesn't make sense, some characters motivation doesn't make sense at all and there are so many lingering questions that are left unanswered. I also hated the ending to the game. To give you an example which I'll be spoiling [spoiler] basically we find out that there is this demon that tells us that none of the school, the town and it’s people are not real and only the main character and this girl are real people, we don't know why that is, the main character thinks the demon is lying and everyone is real, but trapped in a weird time Loop dimension, but it's never resolved and he's the only one who escapes. Also in chapter 6 the main character gets accused of murder but here is the thing the main character has only been at the school for 2 years and it makes it seem like these killings that the bad guy has done has been happening for a long time, so how come the police believe that the main character is the one doing the murders when he's only been in town for 2 years? Here is just a sample of a character’s motivations that doesn't make sense, the principal who is like a second antagonist who helps the bad guy with his crimes at first we learned that a character tried to warn the principle to shut down the school or else disaster will happen and the principal doesn't believe it, yet later the principal agrees that the school is cursed and decides to basically go along with killing students. And that's just one of the character motivations that doesn't make sense. The game also just ends basically I collected all these scrolls in the game to get the last trophy and get the good ending, but when I got all scrolls instead of giving me something extra for the end, it just ends, you wind up in a black room with a single door and when you exits the door it just goes to the title screen.[/spoiler] There are some bugs in the game, one bug is pretty much a game breaking one and it’s in the Asylum level, you see you're supposed to pick up a fire extinguisher and throw it out the window, but I used a keyboard to do that and whenever I tried to throw it out the window the game just wouldn't play the cutscene. The only way to make the scene play is to pick up the fire extinguisher and throw out the window by using the mouse and that happened multiple times whenever I try to use the keyboard instead of just the mouse. And speaking of the Asylum level it's really frustrating at this last segment of it where everything is dark and you have to sneak around and avoid the enemies, it can be really easy to get caught. And finally the game can be really wordy what I mean is there are these minute long cut scenes that play on and on and it really pulled me out of the experience, I mean I don't mind long cutscenes, but these were just way too long and when you do get control of a character it's sometimes only for you to click on certain segments and you get another minutes long cutscene. Okay now with that said Seven Mysteries: The Last Page is an absolutely bullcrap of a RPG Maker horror game, it does have some good parts and some good ideas, but the whole thing is just weighed down and buried with bullcrap, I honestly can't recommend this game at all even if it was free.