This the fifth FMV games I finished till the end and the first one not subbed, therefore I played using Ai Mouse called Miclink M95 which is really helpful in translating text and even voice.
On to the game, I don't experience any technical issue during playing the game.
There are many minus points about this game but there are more plus points that should covers the minus
Now the minus :
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[*] No English subtitle
Since English is the most learned language all over the world it's a pity that this game has no English translation that I believe prevent the this game to reach to more people out there who can't understand Mandarin.
[*] No ability to pause on certain scenes especially investigation
In this game, there are many investigations or fact finding occurred which important to understand the whole story and the reasoning behind the plot, the absence of pause button during this important scene makes you have to play over and over a scene to get the understanding about what happen.
That's why my playtime exceeding 30 hours, if you not delves depth to the story like me maybe the game play just around 6-7 hours for the main story and round 1-2 hours for the each actress story line.
[*] Inconsistent way to unlock certain branch
There are two branch that have inconsistency to unlock the first one in Chapter 6 where the protagonist should present decisive evident but that scene is difficult to unlock and rather unlocked for me after I played Chapter 7. The other scene is the chapter 7 last scene which is not unlocked even the conditions are met.
[*] Illogic scene
The protagonist is impersonating someone who was member of criminal organization to infiltrate that organization, surprisingly till the end there is no one know about it, even the person who is been impersonated never appear which is strange since organization crime should be more aware regarding this.
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Now on to the plus and why I recommend to play this game despite all the minus above
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[*] Great story
This is the best story of FMV I ever played it's very immersive, full with emotional moments everywhere, the story it's interesting and make me curious toward the end, you can find friendship, trust, betrayal, sibling relations and insecure feeling .
[*] Great acting
The actors and actress did amazing acting to bring the story in to live especially :[olist][*][b]李京沐- Lǐ jīng mù[/b] (played as [i]Song Xin Ye[/i] - the protagonist), [*][b]梅宝莱 - Méi bǎo lái[/b] (played as [i]Shang Wei[/i]) - the Officer, [*][b]陈鹏万里 - Chén péng wànlǐ[/b] (played as [i]Qian Bo En[/i] - scientist), [*][b]曹婉瑾 - Cáo wǎn jǐn[/b] ( played as [i]Zhao Qingyun [/i]- the heir of the company)[/olist] and even supporting actress and actors such as [b]白昕怡 - Bái xīn yí[/b] (played as [i]Lu Nian Qu[/i] - the flower shop owner), [b]祝昕愿 - Zhù xīn yuàn[/b] (played as [i]Ding Yi[/i] - Imagawa Head of Biology Department)and [b]吴鑫尊 - Wú xīn zūn[/b] (played as [i]Wu Shan - criminal[/i]) that gives realistic combat scene with the protagonist.
[*] Lots of Life lesson
There are many quotes and thing can be learned from this FMV such as never trust someone too much since they may disappointed you later on and never belittle someone as they might come to your rescue later as we don't know who is who
[*] Detailed production
I am amazed that even every detail is well created for example the article is not just random but it's the article that related to the story and you can find more about the story by reading the article and news cast (of course the ocr mouse come in handy for me)
Each chapter also connected very well, as what you choose it previous chapter will determine the next chapter as the clues that you haven't found in the previous chapters makes you lacks of those information in the next chapter, for example during the interrogation/questioning scenes you have opportunity to asks and what you ask will determine the next chapter about the information you gathered will be use to analyze in the next chapter which bring coherent continuation of a story.
Even the music is good and matched with the situation in the story and each girls has their distinctive music in the talking and their scene according to the mood which is great.
[*] Depth theme
The main theme of this FMV is very depth about technology development and the risk that comes with it, it really align well with current reality where technology is almost every where and offering big change in human life. Through this game we aware that these technology breakthrough comes with risks if not handled well.
[*] Depth interaction with the actress
This game has red destiny mode that allowed us to interact to the female characters found within the story to understand them well, each of them comes with different background, personality and we also have story scenes with them that allowed as to learn more about that character for example for Zhao Qingyun which is the heir of the big Company we discover her worries, weakness, and feeling that shown that being a heir of big company not always happy, she has many worries and something that she want to experience too, through this mode we also given lesson on how to approach each person with different personality
I tried translate everything the girls said with ocr mouse and it's really meaningful not just random talks, they really give related answer to the asked question.
[*] Blending the FMV with QTE that really present investigation scene and combat scenes really well
This great blending give good immersion of the story as you investigate throughout the story to collecting facts and data, analyze them and comes into conclusion, this really present well which escalate since the First Chapter till the last one[/olist]
With all above, I can give this game a score of [b]90/100 because despite it's minus it's has many plus value for anyone played the game[/b].
Now I am done with everything, it's really amazing experience. . Thank you for 想象颗粒, the developer of this game despite having many lacking still able to deliver well produced action romance FMV game.
[i]WARNING[/i] : This game is not under development anymore, so you have to accept he game 'as it is' which means with all the bugs and it's weakness
Full price is no worth ,since this game has few flaws but 20%-25% discount is acceptable due to the length of content and the effort made by the developer.
