
Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation is a kinetic novel and a prequel to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos. It uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story and follows Winter Harrison during her first week at mediator school.
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A good story!get ep2 out quickily plz:)(and chinese ver)
As others have pointed out, being a prequel this KN lacks the big conflict that would mark a story normally (like in ep 1). That being said, I liked it. The characters were interesting. Some of the ideas it tackles were fascinating. This is like bread before dinner: enough to sedate my appetite but not fulfill it. I am looking forward to the next VN.
Dsyfuntional Systems: A game series with a troubled past, but one that I believe still shows its potential... Once upon a time Orientation was never going to exist nor any other future episodes. Money was gained, money was mispent, refunded, and that was the end. Then seemlying out of nowhere, Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation was released. This visual novel is enjoyable, though most likely only if your interest in the series already exists. By itself, Orientation, gives a gimplse into a world and a even smaller glimpse into a possible story, but with the knowledge of the first episode (Which is very much worth playing) Orientation offers background into future characters and builds upon the series' world and thus will allow possible future episodes to purely continue with the story by not having to worry about establishing certain fundamentals to the background. All of this is of course a repeat of the description offered on the store page. That's a good thing as that means the description is truthful and explicit. So assuming you're interested in the Dysfuntional System series, what does Orientation offer as a visual novel in my opinion? PROS: - Setup (Setting up characters and the background is useful, but only alongside past and future episodes) - Music (The music is of equal quality to the soundtrack in the 1st Episode, a great quality that Dischan continually produces) - UI (Does the User Interface help make a game good? Not really, but a bad UI can ruin a game. I find this UI to be elegant) CONS: - Art (The Art in Orientation isn't bad per se, but it is rough and unfinished in certain places. Also when compared to Episode 1, the art is inferior) - Diagolue (The dialogue for the teacher characters is in some places unrealistically unprofesstional. Do some teachers swear? Sure, but using slang like "nerdgasm" just detracts from their believability. Of course, there is the possibility that was what the writers wanted.) Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation is an enjoyable game only if Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos had managed to secure your interest or you're currently interested in playing Learning to Manage Chaos at some point in the future. Otherwise Orientation only offers its readers a very small glimpse into a supposedly utopian world and not much else.
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so that's what we got huh?
TL;DR - Short, but good to be back! I ended up playing about 2.5 hours, reading aloud. Dysfunctional Systems finally returns with an episode detailing Winter's arrival at the Mediator's school. This mostly serves to detail the setting of the story, introduce a few new characters, and create conjecture about some of the larger things going on in the setting. I really enjoyed it. As short as it is, trying to both see the perspective of this setting's people and reconcile it with what is going on in the context of the world's given history is a very interesting experience. If I had any complaint about this episode, is that I somewhat miss the original style for characters and scenes. It was more subdued stylistically. I don't think this can be helped, but would appreciate a return to style for future episodes, which I very much hope will happen. I encourage people to get this one. Looking forward to more.
Worth the wait. Nothing too deep, but it's a nice little story with good music and art.
A very short, but very interesting visual novel. I really only recommend this for fans of the original; if you haven't played the original, you should play it over this one, regardless of the fact that Orientation is a prequel. If you like it, then you'll definitely like this as a bit of an add-on. Otherwise the quality is up to snuff- even if it is painfully short, the plot and written content is engaging enough to justify a purchase.
More chaos for gods of chaos \o/
A very pleasing surprise. As one of the backers on Kickstarter I am really happy that we can finally play the story of Orientation. Too bad we were not given that opportunity initially. + Expanding on the base material; + A rather thought-through narrative, mostly descriptive but does have its’ thrilling moments to the end; (Subjective) +change in art style that is surprisingly easy to grow accustomed to; + Not always stereotypical reactions of characters, some eerily reminding me of actual people I know; - LENGTH. And I cannot stress this point more. I am not sure if this was not trimmed from already prepared episode and if so, it did not turn out well in the long run. Overall, my rating is 7/10, included on VNDB. Dear Dischan and Dani, please have more faith in yourself and give us ep 2 already^^
pretty good. very interesting content, but it didn't strike me as as introspective and insightful as ep 1. either way, do recommend, as a followup to episode 1 (as in, to be read after it, even though this comes first chronologically). Do not read as a standalone work, as it is nothing but world-building
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