I adored this game. I have many thoughts about it tho. PLEASE PLAY THIS GAME YOU WONT REGRET IT!!!!!!! but,,
Spoilers!!!!!
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THE STORY. I am in LOVE with the story. It was creepy, VERY emotional (I had to pause and scream when I realized Maeno eating Natsu was THE REASON FOR TSUGINO'S ZENO ONSET. AMAZING.) and somewhat romantic. I believe the heavy subjects the game revolved around were handled wonderfully. The art, the ambiance, the sprites... I genuinely think this game delivers its theme across perfectly and you can definitely bond with the characters.
THE GAMEPLAY. I mean, it's an rpg maker game, I am well aware of that and actually deeply enjoy the genre. But Zeno's gameplay honestly was challenging to say the least (at least for me). When I go into rpg maker games with many endings I'd prefer discovering, well, everything including the deaths, and dialouge. This game did not have an official guide and I found this very weird considering there being 13 possible endings.. And, yes, I have checked the wiki. I could only find the information about the routes and how many endings there were in said routes, NO info about how to get said endings (this became annoying when equiping certain items to trigger certain events and endings, which the wiki does not state. Imagine overwriting a save unaware of this so now youre just wondering why and how you're not getting the good TRUE ending. ITS CHALLENGING). I found a guide of course but an official guide should definitely be considered imo.
TRANSLATION. I played the english translation... aararghhh I really dont wanna sound mean because I adore this game and can clearly see the time and devotion that went into the translation BUt it was bad, sorry man :(( replacing the word "something" with "sth" is wild. I MYSELF am not a native speaker and dont expect a perfect translation. I just want more people to play this beautiful game and dont want the bad english to confuse other players into droping the game midway
ACCESSABILITY. My only critic left is about the accessability of the game. First was the japanese website that made it hard to understand the deal of the game and then it was the problems that followed when booting up the game. My antivirus detected the game as an actual virus. These things made it kinda challenging for me to continue and almost made me give up on playing ( I am SO GLAD I DIDNT). I think a clarification on the website in other langueges could be best for stating the issues with the antivirus n all.
OVERALL THIS GAME IS VERY GOOD AND I RECCOMENDED IT TO A FEW FRIENDS. 7/10. loved it.
(ps if yall hear anything about a zeno daily life remake LET ME KNOW!!!!!!!!!!)