Perceptions of the Dead

I'm not much for visual novels. I will say this flat out. Most are just slap some anime boob pics together, string them together with words and bam done collect your reward. But I had an immediate interest to this game when I saw the artstyle and dialogue that felt like actual dialogue in the preview pictures. Because it's free I had no qualms to download it and have no regrets of doing so. I only played through the Jill Count scenario which is a small time streamer going to a haunted place to hopefully get more views during the spoopy season. Her dialogue and voice direction were perfect, I have to say. Her side profile did look a bit odd and make her look like a different person . There were a couple other character voices that were a bit offputting but eh it's fine. The art itself imposes a nice unique style to the game as a whole and has some amazing effects added on in later scenarios for spoops. It's a refreshing reprieve to have something visually unlike any other. I found myself scanning each new scenario over to admire the art while the story was read to me by some good VAs. As I said though I'm not much for VNs so not sure what to critique asides from dialogue, art and voice acting. Still, I would recommend this to anyone.

Right off the bat, play this, you'll hardly regret it. It's just good spooky supernatural mystery. Note that I call it a spooky mystery and not horror. It's more interesting than actually scary. The art has quite a nice style and the ghosts have nice designs in my opinion. What makes this especially shine is the voice acting, which is really good. The spoken words are coherent with the text and portrait with great emotion. However there is one point of contention, namely the depiction of the two characters of colour, which stood out to me while playing and was solidified through reading other reviews. I'm in no position to talk about this matter though, so I encourage you to read other reviews that do. So all in all if this isn't a deal breaker for you, I would still recommend this, the story is rather interesting and as mentioned the voice acting is really good.