The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass

An absolutely INCREDIBLE & intricate mystery that’s REALLY well done thats all internally logically and mechanically consistent which is wild given how complex it is!

Staggeringly intricate but sometimes way too convoluted. I'd say it moreso feels like a story-shaped puzzle rather than a mystery-driven story, but it's still very much worth it and I respect a lot of it.

推理[spoiler]（时间穿越）[/spoiler]神作. 严谨严密的设定配合上高度复杂的故事线使其可以被称作[spoiler]infinity 系列[/spoiler]的 Pro Max 版本. 游戏内的超自然设定的细节完善且独特，作者活用了这些设定，并在这之上构造了一个精妙的世界. 尽管存在超自然设定，作者也并没有抛弃故事的科学性和严谨性，围绕[spoiler]时间穿越[/spoiler]作者展开了一系列的讨论，包括[spoiler]因果律[/spoiler]、[spoiler]质能守恒[/spoiler]，甚至[spoiler]封闭类时曲线计算机[/spoiler]. 缺点是流程较长、推理难度过高以及文本信息密度极高，但是游戏附带的强大的笔记、搜索以及流程图系统使得游玩时的体验很好.

egg! You like EGG? Then it do be EGG, for you.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. This is better than crack.

非常非常难啃，案件的的复杂程度远超你想象，就算你完全搞明白了核心设定并且有了时间线梳理依然要花费大量时间去搞清楚发生了什么，但是它也牛逼在这点，只要你搞清了设定并且你愿意，你就能自个儿推理出来，成就感自不必多说。剧情虽然不算出彩，但至少收了一个不错的尾，并且中间有好几个超展开，喜欢硬核推理的玩家可以试试

精妙的规则设计，极致严谨的故事演绎，错综复杂的人物行动路线，拍案叫绝的逻辑盛宴，只是推理难度确实很高，要梳理内容细节过多，一周目很难完整理顺每条人物行动路线，对于喜欢推理的朋友来说绝对是值得游玩的ADV推理神作，强推

Never has a game demanded more brainpower than the last chapter of this visual novel. 10/10 would take the exam again. On a more serious note, this is a visual novel that encourages you to re-read past chapters and take notes in order to work out what happened. Its note-taking system is top notch and its ability to let you search and organise is designed specifically for this. I only wish I was able to search through my own notes as well as I took a lot of notes throughout the whole novel. If you are the kind of person who enjoys puzzling things out, this is *the* visual novel for you. See also: 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim.

TL;DR -- don't expect the mystery to be realistically solvable (you'd need tons of time for rereading and note taking). Honestly, I have no idea why I'm reviewing this positively. I guess at the end I had some fun, and don't really care about the downsides of the game being wordy, since my time is worth nothing (and yet I was skimping on it here) and don't really see that the characters lacked character, probably because I just never pay attention to what personalities characters have. I've played a bit more than the counter shows, and I still haven't finished the bonus content, so I don't know how fast the other reviewers must have been reading, or if they weren't trying to answer the questions and just winged them (or I'm just stupid). I like the gameplay in the form of questions that test your knowledge and kinda give you answers even if you get them wrong, so you can start to have an idea of what's going on. The first question prepares you for what kind of stupid little details you have to look for to get the answer right, so I prepared to lock in and really go back through the story to that point to get the other ones right. Then I got the next 5 wrong. The anger I felt back then at the kind of bullshiterry that's going on... wow, haven't felt like that in a long time. They are probably solvable, if you take the time to cross reference everything ten times, read the author's mind (or managed to solve everything while reading through it, but I doubt that's possible without making really extensive notes and charts for everything). While this probably wasn't a game made for me, but for someone with the patience to solve the damn thing without hints, I still enjoyed it. Also I'm prolly outing myself as even more braindead, but the characters weren't that bad? The main 3, Sai and Akaro had enough personality. And as for everybody feeling like "the vehicle for the mystery", idk I'd say only Erina was like that. [spoiler] Myiia definitely had a lot of personality, that being, hating on Atsuki and Shiroya all the time xdxd I really liked that part. [/spoiler] My favourite moment was when [spoiler] Atsuki finally realised, that you can teleport to most places with P.Egg if you just ask it nicely [/spoiler]

I got frightened by some of the mystery elements and bounced off the game after a while; but the concept is incredibly cool, the game is basically a pure mystery with very little dialogue fluff and lots of searching / notetaking tools to help with research. I might return to it at some point if I can muster the courage; but no one else I've talked to seems to have been frightened, so you'll probably be fine. Would recommend checking out others' reviews to hear what they think, this is an incredibly unique game and there's tons to love about it!