Phantoms

Out of all the Ikuku games I've been playing, I didn't think eitherway one would be receiving a not recommendation from me, well, this one is more of a sideways thumb up. What's wrong with this one? Well, all will be explained in the spoiler section, I'm afraid. This takes place a couple of weeks after The Soul Box; this time, we play as Dottore. You may have recognised him if you have played The Soul Box and Lifesign DLC. He is also the character known as Doctor from For Ever Melancholia. One day, after a reporter shot themselves on live TV, he received a Soul Box to crack open by decrypting a journal full of poetry to release a mysterious girl whose soul is presumed to be trapped in a ring that was delivered to him later. Don't worry, the game does all the cracking for you. There's also a sideplot where the clone from the game before is haunted by his original self [spoiler]after going missing from the boat trips directed from the soul box open last game[/spoiler]. The formatting in this game is similar to The Soul Box, with some differences, whereby there is a lot of recycled imagery and some real-life photos. Additionally, there are sections of character faces in a portrait box with texts around them when they are talking or thinking to themselves or interacting with other characters, non-face-to-face. What I didn't like about this game [spoiler]was Dottore's obsession towards the girl trapped in the ring we don't know, who ended up being one that was never seen or mentioned in any of the games before. I would have much preferred it if it were an already established character to care about. I just couldn't understand the reason why she was important to him, as we had never met her before. I’m hoping we’ll learn more about her in future games, so I can revisit this game and reconsider my stance on it[/spoiler].