Black Closet

The mechanics it sells itself on are ultimately shallow and easily predictable. The writing is mediocre at best. It's a shame, the concept was promising, but I just don't think it stuck the landing. If you want one of these that actually work, I recommend playing Gnosia instead.

lesbian among us where you need to find who's sus while solving cases, even though there are a set number of case types, you still need to read to notes otherwise you'll accidentally interrogate someone innocent and ruin your school reputation, fun and challenging

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

很有意思 角色很鲜明大部分都很强势 不过画风极具特色不喜切勿购买 但是。但是。但是真的好难啊！！非常难达成多结局因为一旦发现BOSS战打不过可以说是要从半路从头开始的程度，在某种意义上是没有办法跳过必须付出时间破解的煎熬 而且有时候还会吓我一跳不过各位学生会的大美女还是治愈了我，总而言之大家要是想做学生会长的话一定要玩玩看，游戏里学的英语在现实中给学生判刑的时候非常有用

very fun game/ different traitor every time/ got to strategize to complete the missions.

This was a good idea squandered into a mind-numbingly boring game. The basic premise is that you’re the head of the student council as an extremely prestigious high-class private school and you’ve been tasked with keeping order. You investigate rumours and manage events and in the process protect the school’s reputation. To investigate, you send out the other members of the student council to interact with students. There are also overarching plots, such as sussing out a traitor among your own. Unfortunately the game is just a long series of skill checks. You send someone to investigate, and they either fail and don’t find anything or pass and get you the info you need to progress. There’s no deduction gameplay at all. Further, I was really disappointed to find that the plotlines are all repeatable and RNG-based. So like, the traitor on the council is selected randomly, and while they each have reasons for being the traitor when they’re selected, this means there’s no actual story thruline or consequences since it’s all random. The cases you have to investigate are interesting until you realize they, too, repeat ad nauseum. The result is nothing matters. You either pass or fail skill checks which get you repeated information. At a certain point you can even just skip some of the skill checks since you know how the cases play out since there’s so few and they’re constantly repeating. Part of me wants to say it plays like a board game — roll skill checks, turn over cards to see solutions if you pass — but this doesn’t really explain the lack of deduction elements; there are a litany of board game with this kind of gameplay that also require thought from the player. The only actual gameplay involves managing the stress level of the council members, who can only be sent out so many consecutive rounds. Additionally, some of them will refuse to do certain tasks. You can raise relationship levels with them to increase their max stress level, but only for the first few weeks of the gameplay — after the first major game over check in week 5, you’re locked into a romance plotline with one of them and then all you can do is hang out with that one over and over for no extra stat boosts. I was even more disappointed to find that training council member skills doesn’t carry over between games, which is baffling. The extra skills points you get are so thin on the ground they’re almost irrelevant in the face of the insanely high mid-to-late-game checks (in retrospect what I should have done was loaded them all on one character instead of trying to balance them), but I figured it was geared toward accumulating them over many runs, so that you could gradually see and do more and more. But… no. I don’t even know why they’re there. I was insanely bored by this game about an hour into it, but figured I’d see it through one school-year playthrough just for completion’s sake. I got about 2/3 through semi-paying-attention before forgetting to wrap up a story mission and hitting a game over. And I really just don’t care enough to go back and replay.

I found the characters boring

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10/10 would bully goth girls again

It´s a fun and interesting game that I definitely recommend but know that the plot got progressively less interesting for me. The writing is really solid, surprisingly so. I´m a writer myself and have generally very annoyingly high standards and this game fully sold me on the characters and the setting. It has some of the best "awkwardly getting to know someone" dialogue I have ever seen. It has the most interesting take on a "mysterious" type girl I have seen in a long time and from what little I was able to see from the other girls, they were all super solid, fun and interesting. I really liked the character I got to play as, even if I wasn´t able to name her. She was convincingly strong and ruthless. I really enjoyed the choices you get to make in the game as well as the gameplay. I don´t regret buying this game, it was a fun experience! That being said, I´m just not finishing this game. My biggest critique is that [spoiler] after the harvest festival, the game decides that you´re done with talking to other people and makes you talk to one girl forever. It´s miserable because I really enjoyed the variety from before. The game also tries to sell you on a frankly quite poorly done mystery. I feel like the writer themself wasn´t very enthusiastic about writing this part and felt insecure about some of the plot holes. I would recommend the whole “write a story you´d want to read” thing for their next game because they´re clearly very talented but I feel like they just kind of went with the first idea and weren´t very enthusiastic about it. I feel like the game made so many interesting points about this elite school that cares about its reputation and how that cultivates isolation and incompetence in terms of teaching kids about household chores and how it can discourage fun and individuality and breeds hostility and gossiping and judgement and how extreme the staff can be to protect the school and not the students- and yet all these rich people are still human being that try to be kind! But then the plot is that one stalker in a spooky mask threatens to harm only one girl and then they don´t even kill her. I would have cared way more if a whole group showed up, all wearing masks, and if they threatened the student body in general, saying they would poison the lunches or something. There were so many more interesting choices that could have been made here. I´m annoying so here is a more interesting plot: What if the community surrounding this rich school caused them problems? Maybe there is poverty in the community and there was a protest or something and it makes the school crack down even further on students being able to leave. Maybe people start going a little stir crazy. And if you want a mystery, what if every two months a different girl became a traitor? What if the school slowly became more and more violent, seemingly for no reason? What if people kept disappearing and then reappearing with nobody acknowledging that they were ever gone, including the students themselves? Hell, what if the mask society was a group of angry, abused communist students that are threatening to put a bomb under the school? [/spoiler] It just didn´t live up to the quality of the previous writing and that´s okay, like I said, I have really high standards and I´m also not a teenager. Maybe I´m not the target audience here.