Schrödinger's Call

Sometimes it takes a masterpiece such as this to truly speak to a person. Fiction can truly reach what people need to hear the most, and this story does this perfectly.

瑪莉，你也要好好保重，再見了...... QQQQ

小小的感动，不过前半故事结构太单一了有点无聊，期待后续作品能够改善

他のレビューにもある通り、イヤホン・ヘッドホンがあると満足感高いです。BGM、効果音の使い方がとてもうまく、没入感の高いゲームでした。

just beautiful

the soundtrack was really beautiful, i didn't really like the first two stories but i'm glad i stuck with it until the end. philip's theme is genuinely heartbreaking

Schrödinger's Call masterfully emphasizes the "visual" part of visual novel, but is also far from lacking in its story. Mary finds herself in a strange situation. There's a phone and a talking cat, Hamlet, who tells her she is the world's last confidant. Apparently, the world will end in 21 nanoseconds—the moon crashed into it—and in this limbo between life and death, Mary must relieve people of their burdens to help them peacefully pass away. Schrödinger's Call's presentation is beautiful. There are kaleidoscopic animations, an amber, flickering filter that makes it look like an old documentary, and stunning hand-drawn-looking art. The sound design is similarly well-crafted, every sound effect perfectly fitted for what it represents, and the music is phenomenal, too. Even the placement of the choices on screen seems like it was painstakingly decided on. The story is heartrending, too. Each character featured has a sorrowful backstory that Mary helps them remember and come to terms with, but they rarely feel melodramatic. The fourth character especially had me tearing up at times. The biggest flaw with Schrödinger's Call is that it's extremely repetitious. Mary gets off of a call with a character who just said "XYZ," and then recaps, "Wow, I can't believe that character just said 'XYZ,'" and the scene from not more than 30 seconds ago replays. This happens all the time, and is very frustrating; the game treats its readers like they have the memory of a goldfish. It especially puts a damper on the final 10-15% of the game. The same information is repeated 5—maybe 6?—times over the course of (for me) about an hour. As soon as I thought it was over—"Here go two more for y'all." Overall though, I'd still recommend Schrödinger's Call to anyone looking to see what a VISUAL novel operating on full capacity looks like. Unlike some VNs, it couldn't easily be translated to a text-only experience. And although it often condescends to its readers, the story is, on the whole, great. 8/10 (My playtime didn't track correctly: it's actually about 7 hours.)