PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

现代版圣杯战争，还有好结局，十分喜欢

虎头蛇尾

Great story!

顶级，感觉被咒珠催眠的是我，狠狠咒了一圈心满意足。 剧情无敌，看完感觉开智了。 画风也无敌。

I didn’t fall in love with the presented story as I wasn’t able to connect with its style of writing. From my perspective, it’s a) melodramatic, b) heavy with the lengthy scenes of exposition, either oriented on summarizing the legendary events from the past, or making many of the characters catch up with the storyline you’ve already got to see from different perspectives, c) sometimes fails to use its many characters, with one of the protagonists in particular usually being pushed to the sides, waiting for others to act as she continually expresses her bewilderment, and d) some of the heavy themes, like suicide and sexual abuse, are only touched on, without receiving what I would personally see as depth they deserve. Aside from my personal preferences and grievances, I feel like Paranormasight manages to very successfully play with teasing plot holes that end up making sense, earning fair justification that gets unwrapped slowly and satisfyingly. The story has layers to it, and while I’m not happy with some of them, there’s an unquestionable complexity to them, additionally enriched by the fact that the storyline is actually inspired by real folklore, and by the rather harsh reality of living in Sumida, Tokyo, giving the game a feeling of space, of being larger than it is. It’s not pleasant to imagine the toxic, dirty rivers, see the slums, or just notice how much litter there is on all the streets and alleys - but this makes the game feel real and honest, tied to reality. Also, it was fun to engage with the game’s puzzles - beneath the core of the Visual Novel, there’s definitely a real adventure game to be experienced - and to play around its meta elements. A cautious recommendation.

非常好的悬疑推理作品，意想不到的故事也好，meta元素也罢，时刻让我鸡皮疙瘩，人物立绘非常好看。风格化ui非常棒。 啊，逆崎约子你真是个好女孩儿。好游戏！