Urban Myth Dissolution Center

各話ごとの謎の解決の裏で同時進行する謎を解き明かしていくラスト、途中まで理解した気になって進めていたのに予想もしていなかった方向に転じて想像以上に面白かった。

一个怪谈游戏小甜饼，但莫名的符合我的胃口。无论是每个故事开头吸引我的程度还是最后结局的反转都让我直呼爽快。最后一个案件把之前的伏笔和线索全部串联了起来，最后的bgm配上真相被揭发使我的汗毛直立，好玩，期待工作室的第二部。当时虽然买了首发但并没有打，现在想想真是可惜，不过还好没有被剧透。感觉这个游戏立意也蛮好的，在网络信息透明化的时代，我们要向网络霸凌说不。（还想看步主任惩治坏蛋，总之期待下一部作品

I really enjoyed playing this game If you are a fan of detective visual novels, then this game is for you. Though just a heads up that the majority of the time you wont actually be solving any puzzles, and instead will be just going back and fourth within the given area to put together missing information. It kind of gets repetitive at some point, having to keep going back and fourth clicking the same areas and talking to the same people, but it didn't bother me as much as it did in the first two chapters. I can totally turn a blind eye to that though since after all, its only the first two chapters and luckily the rest of the chapters did not have you do that as much and allowed for you to explore different places as well instead of just limiting it to one place. Me personally, I enjoyed chapter 3 and 6 the most because we weren't totally stuck in one area and just moved on to different places pretty quickly. Now lets talk about the art style. I've read some reviews over the past few days before I played, and some showed disapproval of the art style, believing that it was "messy." However, that is not how I saw it to be. The gameplay might have been a bit messy with having a pixelated characters, but that is just how the game was created to be, and the close up cutscenes with the characters make up for that "messy" gameplay. I can see how much effort was put into the art in this game, and I really appreciate that along with their color schemes to help set the scene in each chapter. Along with the gameplay, the soundtrack can also be a bit repetitive with playing the same music in the same scenes however it didn't bother me since they were bangers. Lets talk about the characters and the overall plot (spoilers ahead), we are first introduced to our main protagonist, Azami Fukurai who has the ability to see "ghosts." Hoping to be rid of this issue, she seeks out the Urban Myth Dissolution Center after seeing a poster of them. After seeking them out, she meets Ayumu Meguriya, the director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center who ends up making her in debt to him so she is forced to work for the company. This is when she meets Jasmine, who also works for the Center and her main job is to transport Azami to these job sites. In the beginning you would think that each case is not connected, but towards the end of the game, it starts to reveal just how intertwined they are because of a past event which I wont spoil on here since it got confusing for me at some point so I don't want to get anything wrong about it on here. I love the concept of this game being about solving Urban Myths spread by the rumors online which is what creates the myth in the first place. The man under the bed, Bloody Mary, Netherworld, Kotori-bako, Doppelganger, and Devastation and judgement. I love the gameplay bits where we would search the web gathering info on each site for each myth as well. But what really surprised me was how [spoiler] there was never any such thing as these urban myths in the first place, because in the end, it was all created by the influence of humans. [/spoiler] I really enjoyed that concept of the game because it caught me off guard, [spoiler] thinking I was solving these myths when they were actually just regular cases. [/spoiler] The ending completely caught me off guard as well, it was such a plot twist. Yeah, I did make some guesses that turned out to be right, but just when you think you have it all figured out, they hit you with that ending which I don't think anyone anticipated. [spoiler] The fact that Azami Fukurai never existed, and was only one of many alters created to trick the people around her, even the players themselves. She has a total of four, her main identity being Ayumi Kisaragi, the younger sister to Tsutomu Kisaragi. I never expected her to also be Ayumu Meguriya himself, as that was one of the main plot twists itself. Finally her last identity was the SAMEZIMA Admin. I'm not sure how others view this ending with the plot twist surrounding the fact that Azami has Dissociative Identity Disorder because the way they portrayed her to be able to easily switch between alters is not very realistic of the mental disorder. I don't particularly hate this ending, but I'm not sure I entirely like it either because of the fact that there are still many plot holes and with the fact that they are using this mental disorder as a plot twist in the end. It did catch me off guard because I was totally not expecting that, and I do like a good surprise so I will give them that. I also very much love the concept of how these urban myths never existed and all came about because of humans and how uncaring they are to others when it comes to spreading rumors/misinformation online. I think this part of the plot is especially strong because that is also what gave Ayumi her goal of The Great Reset where she leaked everyone's personal information to the public so they can see what its like.[/spoiler] In the end, I still very much enjoyed this game and I think it was worth my time and if you're still unsure about getting this game, just give it a chance and I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I did!