Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

This game has a promising concept but the playthrough was quite underwhelming. As a story-heavy game that heavily relies on its characters, it unfortunately fails at the task of portraying them and having the player root for some of them at least. Most of the game's content, apart from room escape mini games, are pieces of conversations about the experiment 9 years ago (of which the protagonist was never a part) and some supernatural phenomenon. As a result, I felt little connection to all characterseven after reaching the true ending. Moreover, the story leading up to the true end, which is supposed to be the climax of the story, seemed hardly engaging since I was not emotionally invested in those characters. Additionally, while the protagonist shares a close bond with his childhood freind (i.e., the female main character), the relationship seems forced upon the player because of poor writing. The fact that she did practically nothing to help with the escape didn't help either. Admittedly it can be justified as the story unravels, but the damage has already been done and the plot development couldn't really salvage the poor portrayl.