I loooooove chunky drinks :)

ohhh shit happy (belated) birthday?

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I strongly encourage those that haven't played to give it a look - last I've heard it runs well on Switch (and some of the gameplay had been balanced funnily enough). Lastly - team ISOLEUCINE/Seaside Vacation represent

I remember when it first dropped our friend discord chat essentially became a redacted document with all the spoiler black bars. Such fun characters and just seeing how everything pieces together is such a treat. Gameplay is also fun and memey

The twist there is something that can only work in the novel and manga medium, but it's something that completely makes sense upon re-reading and they break that down in there

God, one thing I forgot to mention about unreliable narrator twists is that even if things seem like coming out of nowhere, at least have a more comprehensive breakdown of how everything was orchestrated - The Decagon House Murders (manga) is something I go back to a lot

All this is to say that I definitely wanted more with this game, and/or any future work from this dev. UMDC was certainly interesting, and I've grown quite fond of the crew ultimately. Also have to reiterate KIKIKAITAI is a banger

I mean, it's always cathartic to fantasize about getting back at assholes over the internet, but surely we can be offered something else beyond that no? Not saying it has to be hopeful, but something beyond yes bad guy succeeded in burning everything down kind of but not really & life goes on

I'm also generally not a fan of split personality fiction, but even putting that aside it felt a bit nihilistic that nothing Azami did mattered and the ultimate "solution" to society's ills were just to dox everyone.

I'd have to go and revisit chapters and scenes to double check, but the game also lacks a chapter/scene select. I definitely don't have the focus to go through everything again with a fine tooth comb

On first viewing I was definitely pumped. A spectacle for sure. But thinking on it some more this felt like it came out of nowhere? I mean some things in retrospect you can tie together maybe? I'd argue really that it came out of nowhere and was a twist for the sake of one.

Turns out Azami was an unreliable narrator and she was actual a split (good) personality, and the true personality was the main antagonist. All the spooky powers were her visualizing her genius hackerman mind processing information, the director was also another mind-palace split personality

But those are nitpicks in the grand scheme of things, sure. The thing that gets me is the ending/the big reveal. Major spoilers so be warned.

Wee woo wee woo once again spoilers

Sometimes I would think it autosaved after a cutscene leading into a social media search segment, but oops it didn't. I'd come back to the game and realize I'd have to see the cut scene again with no way to skip it.

There's also no real skipping either - you can fast-forward through dialogue options that you've already seen but there is never the option to completely skip a scene. Normally not an issue but the autosave can be puzzling sometimes