My Last War is both a unique and ambitious visual novel. People looking for something different from the usual will definitely find that here, and I think it deserves more attention for that fact. While I believe the VN is worth checking out, it's entirely up to the reader whether they'll find it to their tastes or not. The feeling I got is that I think it's the type of game where you either love it or hate it. So you will just need to see for yourself. As for me, I just appreciate people experimenting with the medium. And also using the medium to tell more ambitious stories, such as ones that touch on history and philosophy which My Last War touches on quite a bit.
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It's really interesting you mention that. Especially the comparison to DMT. It's the way that VNs can kind of induce a pseudo-trance state into the reader that always fascinated me about the medium, and that kept me coming back to it. Ultimately it was my interest in VNs that drew me to people like Terence Mckenna and other psychonauts that took interest in digital media. This is an aspect of VNs that I think rarely gets discussed. Which is a shame, since I think it's actually kind of a core element of the medium.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts by the way!
I really appreciate the thoughtful and specific feedback. Elsewhere some others have voiced similar points of criticism, but yours is the only one that was both helpfully constructive and that was generously courteous.
I've taken the criticism of the prose quite seriously as I've been working on my new project. Digital Seclusion was intentionally experimental in many regards, since there were things I wanted to test out first before committing them to a more serious project. Granted, the prose was not really one of the things I was experimenting with. But it's a point of weakness I'm focusing a lot more on now and hope to have improved by the time I release anything else.

