
From Dischan Media, creators of the highly acclaimed Juniper's Knot, comes Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.Dysfunctional Systems is a visual novel series featuring Winter Harrison, a student mediator from a utopian world. Learning to Manage Chaos is the first entry in the series.What is a mediator?
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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I enjoyed what I read. But let's face it, this game is dead and gone. No reason to spend money here, move on.
Unfortunately, this visual novel series had a lot of potential that was squandered when the devs decided to leave this first episode without a sequel. There's also a prequel, but the devs have moved on to other projects. It has a great soundtrack though, which is included for free as MP3 and FLAC files when you buy the game.
Unfinished and abandoned.
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Series will never be finished
I come back to this game from time to time to listen to the music. It was great and the premise was refreshing. What killed it? The developers incompetence. Various financial issues hit them. They were overpaying for artists and apparently at one point they paid an artist and coder in advance and they ghosted the developer. This could have been a very successful series if the developer had hired competent staff and made them sign binding contracts to ensure their work was finished or they would be forced to pay back the money they received. If you play this game and like it as much as I did you should always ask yourselves. How incompetent do you have to be to ruin a game with a premise, prologue, art and music this good?
Great, albeit short visual novel about being a U.N. Diplomat (nukes included)
It's the visual novel equivalent of reading CSPAN
Honestly, I thought this would be longer. With more possible choices. My first go through I only had one choice because of which one I made first. My second go through I picked the other choice and that let me make a few more but it still felt lacking. I'm not sure I'd ever buy the rest of the chapters because chapter one feels very incomplete. Really is a let down, the title is far more interesting than the game (visual novel) was.
This Visual Novel has en interesting premise, good writing, beautiful artwork and a nice soundtrack, but I feel it kind of bland and confusing in the regards to decisions. One decision defines one of the two possible endings, and the others give you the possibility of earning some achievements doing some unclear combinations. I enjoyed it a little, but since it's the first episode of an abandoned series, I simply can't recommend getting involved in the game :/
Well, it's just the first Episode but sadly the devs abandoned the game. So I guess it's not worth to buy. But I'll leave a thumbs up for the great music, art and short story. 7/10
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