Well, I played and absolutely adored Ouija Sleepover (which, in turn, turned out to be one of my most viewed videos ever, so that's awesome), so of course I had to check this one out when I learned about it.
I do really like a lot of what I see here. The art is nice, obviously, characters are interesting, and it's a neat spin on the whole cycle thing you see in horror games. Not to mention the various puzzles are fairly simple to understand and find within context given in the game, rather than getting as obtuse as some RPGMaker puzzles do.
That said, I gotta admit I enjoyed Ouija Sleepover more, and it might have to do with me finding this game's story a tiny bit unclear. It's totally possible that I just misunderstood stuff, but I just don't see myself playing the full thing through to try every combination of interactions with Fio / opening the box to make sense of it all, and one ending I got felt oddly disconnected from the story itself - to me, at least.
Don't take this as the game not being high quality. It's good, DAMN good as can be expected from Hatoge - but I certainly did prefer the former game. Still, absolutely gonna be in line to play the next one, no question about it.
I do really like a lot of what I see here. The art is nice, obviously, characters are interesting, and it's a neat spin on the whole cycle thing you see in horror games. Not to mention the various puzzles are fairly simple to understand and find within context given in the game, rather than getting as obtuse as some RPGMaker puzzles do.
That said, I gotta admit I enjoyed Ouija Sleepover more, and it might have to do with me finding this game's story a tiny bit unclear. It's totally possible that I just misunderstood stuff, but I just don't see myself playing the full thing through to try every combination of interactions with Fio / opening the box to make sense of it all, and one ending I got felt oddly disconnected from the story itself - to me, at least.
Don't take this as the game not being high quality. It's good, DAMN good as can be expected from Hatoge - but I certainly did prefer the former game. Still, absolutely gonna be in line to play the next one, no question about it.