Review of Heaven Will Be Mine
Subject | Heaven Will Be Mine |
By | Helpfulness: 1 Vote: 7.5swordfish96 on 2020-12-09 |
Review | It’s very much like its predecessor We Know the Devil, but more. More production values, more developed side characters, a more ambitious setting, more mind screwy, more confusing and opaque, more queer flirting etc. It's alright in the sense that there were a quite a few things I liked about it but it really is written too inscrutably for me to call it good. The background setting is actually pretty interesting, taking place in a world where the physical laws of reality are in part defined by human perception and culture, with a defeated ‘alien’ ‘threat’ (for a certain value of alien and threat) in the background sparking a 3 way civil war between factions who desire humanity to come back to Earth, live in space or become something different to humanity. Of course it takes a while to realize this because the game spells out nothing about the setting and only implies things about it in bits and pieces Each scene is essentially two of the pilots fighting/flirting/arguing, frequently at the same time and written in a very trippy way and honestly I’m not sure whether I liked the writing or not. It’s pretty much all metaphor and symbolism bordering between pretentious and meaningful and it does have some neat themes such as the tendency for humanity to ‘other’ that which is different. It is a fairly poetic sort of prose and relaxing to read in itself and at the same time it’s abstract and confusing and a pain to understand. I’m sure a large part of the ambiguity and abstractedness is intentional but it does actually get in the way of reading the VN and resulted in me spending a lot of the time confused. Originally posted on Reddit WAYR |
1 point |