Misao - 2024 HD Remaster

I played this game after buying and thoroughly enjoying Mad Father, so my hopes were high. The repetitive "punishment for exploration" gameplay did get a bit stale, but with quicksave and a log for each death it wasn't AS frustrating as it could be and could actually be a bit fun collecting every single possible way you could "drop out". That is not why I am giving a negative review, however. The writing is. You can tell by how one-note these characters are that Misao was clearly meant to be more comedic than scary because you will not get attached to ANY of these characters, they are all meant to exist to play into one generic character archetype and then immediately be killed off. The issue here is that because of this, I expected the tone throughout the story to remain darkly-comedic only to be given whiplash with an extremely disgusting, poorly handled [spoiler]rape scene[/spoiler] appearing not once, but TWICE (in truth mode) with absolutely no warning beforehand. Not only that, but in the aforementioned truth mode you are meant to SYMPATHIZE with [spoiler]Mr. Kurata, who is a pedophilic rapist necrophiliac who also brutally murdered Misao. To the point where our character hugs him and claims he is a 'good person' all while he's blubbering like a little ♥♥♥♥♥, and I'm meant to feel GOOD about this?? I'm meant to be satisfied by this conclusion and pleased that we gave this character a redemption arc? Really? The character who was forcing himself on women WHILE it was explaining his generic, whiny backstory to us?[/spoiler] I am not kidding when I say it is one of the worst endings I have ever experienced in an RPG horror game. TLDR: The only fun part of this game was naming my protagonist Gas Station. Just play Mad Father.

I was looking forward to this game after playing Mad Father, which I enjoyed. Unfortunately, I didn't get the same enjoyment as I was hoping for. For starters, the constant death traps do get quite annoying. This doesn't seem too big an issue with the quick save option, but sometimes you won't realize something is trapped and not saving at the right time can get quite annoying. It made it much harder for me to enjoy the gameplay and made puzzles much more frustrating. Second, the characters just aren't that enjoyable. They all feel like generic tropes with little to no depth except maybe Kurata (who I will talk about in a moment because man I have a lot to say). The plot itself is very interesting on paper but that's it. We barely learn anything about the characters through the game except for the fact we just know they were bullying/cold to Misao. Spoilers: [spoiler]The one thing that really grinded my gears was playing the Truth mode, where we can visit each of the characters’ graves and see they are being trapped by Misao. For everyone except Kurata, it's just brief sequences that last barely a minute. For Kurata, however, we get an entire flashback to his youth explaining his oh-so-tragic life and how no one likes him. Worst of all, Aki, whether you like it or not, decides to hug Kurata (you know, the rapist pedophile??) and comfort him but doesn't do the same for ANY of the other students who were tame compared to Kurata.[/spoiler] It’s a shame. I had high expectations thinking it would offer that same charm like Mad Father did only to be disappointed in the end.

I didn't play much, granted, but it's worse than mad father and its the same team so I'm expecting at the very least the same quality as Mad Father. The scare are pretty cheap, the game feels pretty cheap, its a death gallory and when you play games like the corpse party on PSP, the writing seems very weak in comparaison. The characters, the settings, it is so on the surface, so barely introduced, so bad that it does it a deservice and makes it so not engaging :(

What a great game, the deaths are unique and one of a kind, the gameplay, graphics are so cool and the story is good. I definitely recommend! ;p

More of a rage game than I remember it being. Everything kills you, but that's part of the charm. I loved playing through it again, great remaster all things considered. Sen the GOAT <3

the plot is really shallow and the gameplay is alright. if you are tired of the "girl gets extremely bullied, assaulted, and tragically dies," trope that a lot of japanese writers seem to enjoy for some reason, steer clear of this game.. the only things that i truly enjoyed were the death gimmicks and the 'cheap' scares - someone described this game as more of like a death gallery, and it's true. death traps are everywhere, so you do die a LOT, but you are also able to insta-save basically the entire game. a good amount of them are pretty silly too; one of them is even called "bogus door" lol. just don't walk in expecting a good scare or a good plot. you're really just better off watching a playthrough video instead

[b]GREAT BUT VERY UNDERWHELMING[/b] 1. It's [b]more[/b] expensive than Mad Father 2. Story fūck!ng [b]shorter[/b] too like [b]HELLO!?[/b] [b]BUT[/b] as standalone it's great tho plot is cliched (spoiler : [spoiler]gr@p!ng[/spoiler])

I love misao. this is one of my favorite rpg horror games alongside Ib and Mad father. the original game altered my life so much and hurt me in a way no game hurt me before. i have a small gripe with the remake though. i feel like them replacing finding misaos body parts with finding her items takes away from the overall story of what happened to misao. i was glad they at least kept the hands thing, but finding misaos body around the school is what made it so much sadder when playing the original. the story is still amazing and i love the callbacks to mad father in Librarys room. i just wish that they kept the original horror aspect of misao; the horror of being a young woman who cant fight back. all in all, amazing remake, amazing art, great characters and new jumpscares and deaths. 9/10!!!!

I really enjoy playing rpg maker games and this game is one of the things I've been looking for. It was really a great experience. Recommended [spoiler]but why the f*ck we saved PDF file Mr. Kurata. [/spoiler]

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