A Clockwork Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk

you might as well buy it somewhere else because its bugged and perma crashes

Wil suck you and make you keep on reading til the end, wising for more ! Lucky its got 2 sequals ;)

This is being written after only finishing this visual novel and not its two sequels. A Clockwork Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk suffers a bit from being the first chapter in a series of visual novels. They spend a good amount of time setting up an interesting world and characters, but there is very little payoff in this title. Music is good. Story is fine but a bit basic. Nothing too surprising happens. There are 6 decent ecchi scenes present. Really there's not a lot to write home about in this title as it is just a setup for what I'm hoping is more interesting sequels. Because of all that I'd recommend picking it up on sale if possible, unless you're really interested in the premise.

写得还不错，日常挺有意思的。笑点不少，点子也很有趣。推理...就当添头吧 男主的几个反转还是有点感觉的，除此之外就没啥爆点了。坑倒是不少 粉毛的线很强行，白毛还好，ushio最后那个处理我不喜欢。为了续作搞那么生硬的处理真的没必要 [spoiler] 关于男主身份的反转，写法是有东西的。先是在游戏前期让男主一脚把礼拜堂的门踹出洞，以此来表现男主异于常人的能力，之后在被束缚的时候就能自然地引导人认为“男主真的有能力去否认掉自己的名字”，就在人觉得剧本就是这样写的的时候ushio一句“你的名字是”就起到一个出其不意的效果。这是这作唯一惊到我的地方 [/spoiler]

[Note: This is a review for the entire trilogy] A Clockwork Ley-Line is a good mystery-ish visual novel trilogy that revolves around a group of people solving odd magical incidents in a magical school. The game starts off slow and episodic during the first episode, then the story picks up later on from the second game onwards. Basically, expect some visual novel pacing in this game. The Good: [+] Most of the characters are distinct, likeable, not forgettable, and doesn't break character just to fit plot contrivances. This includes the protagonist (ain't no way). [+] Is a story that kept me on the edge of my seat and has a wholly satisfying ending with no glaring plot holes [+] I really like how none of the reveals and things happening in the story felt like they were pulled out of the author's ass -- They're surprising yet just made sense when you think about it from the things that happened in the story [+] The BGM is decent, quite atmospheric but not something too mindblowing The Bad: [-] The game employs a ladder structure for the routes, and they're basically short fanservice for you to see some (I presume non-canon) romance and h-scenes with the side characters. Well I do get they're not the main focus and the story would just break if they were full-fledged routes, but they still take me out of the story whenever I get to them you know [-] No cloud saves So yeah, game is good.

瑕不掩瑜的三部曲，很有意思的一个系列作品