"Let Lie" is a romantic horror, if that makes sense. It takes the question of 'Can robot's feel love', and brings it to a thrilling and suspenseful plot. The art direction is really stark and distinct. The gray-scale with bright orange accents really evokes this almost noir style. The contrast of this cold unfeeling setting with the warm glow of the expressionistic screen is ironic in it's ultimate use in the story. The story itself is actually quite intriguing. It leaves a lot to be read in between the lines and really makes the reader work for it. Something about over-reliance on technology to substitute for living connection. That being said, it gets a bit too difficult to parse, even in the opening poem of the novel, and it seems to get a little bit too ruminating as we seem to consistently circle back to Mal thinking the same thoughts, but never quite expanding upon them. I also don't get the ending. I'm guessing that this is overall a tragedy and the robots and their corporate overlords win? Mal decides that he's lived a lie and then it just ends? I think this is just a personal values thing where I don't understand creative decisions to have a story with an ambiguous ending without resolution. It'd be like if I finished my comment going "Overall, this visual novel-