Sister Other Paranoia

I did like this despite my do not recommend rating. I enjoy pretentious visual novels. But I certainly wouldn't recommend this to someone who is looking for a visual novel to read. Subahibi, which many claim to be the most pretentious visual novel out there, is my holy grail. I expected to like this visual novel due to its psychological horror and pretentiousness... but I was disappointed. If you can stand having to listen to a protagonist wallow in self-pity and spit vitriol at every opportunity, I think you can find enjoyment through what I thought were the nice aspects of the game. To start off, the intended audience is incredibly niche. It seems to be speaking to the issues that writers have as they struggle with both an ego and an abundance of self-doubt... However, this is not well-addressed in most of the routes, which makes the visual novel's themes confusing and disjointed. Igusa and Hiyakawa's routes (scenario?) had the best attempts at saying something poignant. The exemplification of envy that is brought on by success, and the disgusting ego the main character displays is a decent exploration of these ugly human emotions, but the author never really *does* anything significant with the story he seems to set up. We escalate and escalate, but never reach any satisfying climax or resolution to either of these character's arcs. In the parent's and Botan's route, it seemed more like a rant about how women are always chasing male validation and that's all they live for (???). This game in general had a looot of vitriol and hatred for women that just confused me as a reader. I know we're supposed to think that Hasuya, our MC, has a wrong take on the world, but when our only two female leads play exactly into the sexist beliefs that Hasuya has... it makes it seem like the narrative supports the idea that women are attention-seeking floozies to the very end. Dokudami was my favorite scenario and character, but I also felt he was sorely out of place. While every other character has their own struggles and self-worth or self-identity issues, Dokudami is just chilling. His route is a breath of fresh air among the oppressive routes (that, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed in my own way), and he was just an overall fun guy... but compared to the deep dive into human ugliness the other routes were attempting, Dokudami just contrasts the main character's incel energy with positive chad energy, and then they kiss. I'd rate this game a 5.5/10. It isn't good, it certainly won't be memorable for me, but I did really enjoy it and I did re-read Dokudami's scenario. This visual novel hit my feelings in certain moments, but overall it was unable to deliver. Also as everyone else said, the sister basically didn't exist. She had no distinct personality separate from our protagonist Hasuya, she may as well have been removed from the game.

not what i expected from the advertising, and way shorter too. Kind of spoilers but [spoiler] there's only one route, tho there are two endings I've seen so far. There were no branching choices during the first playthrough, 2nd playthrough had one[/spoiler] . it's in no way a fault of the devs but I was mistaken on how this story was gonna go from seeing all the advertisements on twitter. I def was expecting more saya no uta vibes so if you wanted to play for something spooky like that it isn't the game for that. I feel bad giving it a thumbs down but i feel like somethings missing after finishing and I'm a bit disappointed. plot spoiler [spoiler] i thought everyone dying would be the turning point of the story but no its basically finished by then. it just felt REALLY short. There was a lot of "hey onii chan we will become one." crap being spewed but that never actually happens in the story. Botan was called a ♥♥♥♥♥ in the twitter posts by Sahana but she barely mentioned Botan let alone disliked her. Again, IK it seems kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ to complain about the game not fitting my expectations but guys I swear the advertisements and trailers were leading me on [/spoiler] TLDR the game was too short and had very few [spoiler] choices [/spoiler]

暂时觉得nyalra可以看看濑户口的文本 尤其是hirahirahihiru 怎么说呢，目前给我一种万事万物看上去很开智但是又和性缘相关 甚至有的文字看上去感觉缺乏母亲的关心长久以来得不到这方面的满足 或许不从性缘的角度思考也可以写好一部作品？ （不是说这样不对 而是角度不同能帮着完善自己的思考，文字，和文字的厚度） 而且作者很喜欢陀翁 他的文字是不错 不过人品一点也不好 过度代入可能会被对方的不好的特质传染代入到自己的作品中 得不偿失 不过不得不承认作者做的游戏火肯定还是有火的理由 完全不是玩法 而是中心思想加上一部分热度 这也说明很多人对此产生共鸣 是真心的认可作者的灵魂，而不仅仅是游戏的外在 但是但是但是 不知道是不是只有我自己的视角是这样 提到太多次陀思妥耶夫斯基会让人厌烦 就是什么东西再想表达提了太多次反而会让人想跑 能来主动挑选小众游戏玩的人都是很有自己思想的人比较多 让玩家如此高频率看到他们熟悉或者不熟悉的名字 难免会有点不适 我自身的视角是这样的 刚读完《地下室手记》的我其实对这个游戏偏喜欢 也能明白作者想通过这个游戏表达什么 但是打完之后我可能要过很长时间再想看陀翁的下一部作品《罪与罚》了 很多玩家反映的嘉豪味儿感觉作者需要注意 不如说是最需要注意的一部分 大概就是说男主太自大了 还在游玩 打完将继续补充 ( ) 说起来玩这个游戏前面和看主播女孩动画前两集一个感受 感觉在被大量的文字说教 无法代入也有点难玩进去 社会化还是很重要的 尤其是作者 与此作作者无关 有的游戏作者可能每天只是自己在家做游戏 如果不是纯粹的想记录 （在我看来做游戏就也是想给别人展示自己的一种途径吧） 还是应当适度接触不同的人 不同的思想 社会趋势 这样可以便于玩家或者说读者更好的理解 游戏与小说还有不同 这部作品如果以小说为载体或许会比游戏取得更好的评价，或许不会 总之给玩家玩肯定要想办法让玩家最大程度的在游戏里能读懂，能享受 不过nyalra老师 您现在应该开心 因为刚出一天就有这么多人写了评测 哪怕是不好的 但是他们愿意表达出了感想 有些人对这部作品期待过高 有期待也是承认以前的作品 说点我喜欢的点 这是个真实的好评 首先nyalra的品味我非常认可（）我也很喜欢寺山修司的作品 陀翁也喜欢 太宰治的《斜阳》也确实不错 虽然游戏里面提到的不是这部 然后表达的很多观点让我了解了作者是一个很有共情能力，同理心很强的人 我总是会被这样的人吸引 说起来感受能力和表达能力也是两个东西 我常常可以做到很深刻的感受可我不知如何表达 我只能记录，让以后的我通过现在的我的记录 得到现在的我的感受 然后就会像时间穿梭一样回到这个节点 我对这部作品会觉得可惜吧 我有非常喜欢的点 不过加油 希望nyalra看完评测不要脆脆的感伤 想想都有什么问题 以后如果再做游戏如何改进吧（）

名字叫妹妹他人妄想症，实际上妹妹含量极低。。冲着电波系+骨科gal噱头购入的，结果所谓电波系就是精神病男主的大篇幅腹诽内心戏，玩了四十分钟全是描写男主在心里怎么众人皆醉我独醒怎么厌恶他人，可能对上电波能看得进去，但没对上电波就是纯折磨，我只看到一个绝望的精神病。 并且这里根本没有骨科，我甚至不理解妹妹这个角色存在的意义是什么，哥妹的感情只体现在穿插得非常偶尔的寥寥几句日常对话里，哥哥说什么我们到死都在一起吧，妹妹说什么我们一起去死吧，两人嘴上是离了对方活不下去了，但这点除了日常对话就没有其它表达了，看得人很莫名其妙完全没有实感，因为剧情里完全查无妹妹此人。明明游戏标题简介都在往骨科方向引导，结果是把人骗进来杀。。 虽然作为文游但互动性也太差了，文本框还是一整个屏幕那种把所有字糊到你脸上。如果剧情优秀文字精炼，这种低互动性几乎无选择取向+全屏文本还能处在忍受范围内，关键你两不沾啊！游玩体验简直地狱。 还有一个槽点，中途试图存档，试了整个键盘的按键都没反应，游戏界面也是十分干净没有半点菜单的影子，还以为这游戏没有存档或者是自动存档，结果退出来看了评论才知道菜单隐藏在屏幕最上方要鼠标挪到上面才会显示。。一点提示都没有是何意味。。 优点是美术挺不错的，每个npc的立绘都很好看，音乐风格和内容很贴合，有主播女孩重度依赖的味道，癫癫病病的x 但优点比起缺点过于微不足道了。

It's exhausting. Obviously the main character is made to be seen as unlikable and pretentious on purpose, but the game's own moments of self-awareness of it doesn't feel genuine at all. It's hard not to feel like the author is just airing out his own gripes with an over-inflated ego over his past successful works.

ずっと他人の悪口を聞かされているみたい。

A big fan of Nyalras previous work, as Needy Streamer Overdose impacted Japan's mental health awareness, which also birthed a lot of similar style games in this "Dark Cute style". But also the main topic of someone's mental health and how social media, online perception and expectation can drive someone to the brink. We see this all the time in real life and Ame was a great representation of modern online fame. Even though it was represented in a visual point and click style game, NSO did a great job. So going into Sister Other Paranoia I was excited to see what kind of story Nyalra would tell with this new narrative, as for most people, based on someone previous work there comes high expectation especially considering how great NSO succeeded. I will try not to make it too lengthly and fairly spoilerish free, but going into the novel I felt like I definitely over expected a lot of points of the narrative, especially Sahana's purpose as a character. As she seemed like she would be a fairly important character in the story, but she came across as another side character that was not explored or given enough depth to feel any sort of attachment as the player. Im not really a professional in writing so please take my review with a grain of salt, im really just writing my thoughts. But as a user that consumes a lot of novels, I find an importance to feel attached to characters or make the reader care for them by making them more indepth, under standing their motives or importance, and how they connect to the MC and I feel like the story really tries to accomplish that, but it is done poorly. The MC himself is also very unlikeable but hes suppose to appear that way as he is a victim of his own mind, so of course he would be pessimistic around the world around him. so you have to see his point of view through his eyes and views. The concept was great in practice, but felt like it failed to accomplish what it was trying to do and fell off slowly or losing the plot.

I don't like this game. It's lazy and feels unfinished. * This game is not reader-friendly. The text covers the whole screen, and it's really annoying to read. The text is also white, which is especially annoying because it sometimes blends into the background images. It's also hard to tell who is talking when there's a conversation between two characters. At first, I thought it was a one-line turn, but that's not always the case. There's no controls guide. I had to look up how to save because the Esc key does nothing, not even opening the main menu. I also encountered a glitch that ruined the ending cutscene, and I had to reload. * This is a short game, which is fine if the writing is actually good. It's not, though, not to mention the bad translation. I hate being treated like a stupid reader, and what I hate most is the main character reminding me of the same information every five minutes. This would be fine if the game were longer, but not in a game this short. The storytelling is bad. I don't need the MC to tell me every few seconds that everyone is jealous of him and that he wrote a book. * I don't know if a lot of people would agree with this point, but I think the art style is lazy. Using real-life photos with a filter over them as backgrounds is not good. * The OSTs are fine, but the game becomes completely silent sometimes without any story-related reason. It makes the game feel even more like an unfinished product than anything else. [spoiler] I still don't understand why the little sister is the face of the game. She barely appears and does nothing. The main character is insufferable, and not in a good way. He just complains without any character development, and somehow, God saved him because of his sister's prayers. If you think that's good because it's a happy ending, then what's the point of the whole game? [/spoiler] Overall 4/10