Review of Rei-Jin-G-Lu-P
Subject | Rei-Jin-G-Lu-P |
By | Helpfulness: 4 Vote: 4bernkasmell on 2021-03-10 |
Review | Good up until the end of "Yomi". And takes a drastic nosedive after that. The "does Kami exist or not" parts and the entire "magic system" (which is only explained in post-game content) feels a bit reminiscent of Umineko in its use of concepts as magic, as well as whether or not magic exists being up in the air. But they ruin it by, again, not having these concepts properly shown in the main story. This leads right into the next problem, which is that its an "unfair mystery." With a game like Raging Loop, where it seems as though you're being given the power to play the game with various choices to determine and find the secrets yourself, you aren't really given the actual tools to do so. For one, the nature of the supernatural elements (that it's all a conspiracy) is difficult to determine from the main story clues alone, especially when you aren't allowed any insight into the protagonist's thoughts. For another, it breaks basic mystery rules - the culprits, the leaders of the main village, are never shown or seen. Breaking basic rules is fine normally, but when it's a visual novel where you're meant to find clues and uncover the truth... nope. And this leads into the next problem, which is its protagonist - having his thoughts and true nature obscured allowed them to make for nice "twists" and "surprises" for the ending, but makes for a totally incomprehensible character that you can only understand by playing the game again. And, again, makes every single reveal in the ending come out of absolute nowhere. Ultimately, Raging Loop is a great visual novel up until the end of the third route. After that, all these problems, which didn't affect the Werewolf game story, begin to pop up. It's like partway through their re-enactment of Higurashi, Werewolf-style, they read Umineko and decided to throw in everything they could. Comparing it to Higurashi and Umineko like this is about the only way I can understand the salad-style mixing of their components into incomprehensible mush in the ending. Honestly can't recommend it as a read. I was very excited to read what came after "Yomi", only to find an abrupt, nonsensical, out-of-nowhere ending using a (really cool!) magic/logic system that should have been foreshadowed from the very beginning. |
4 points |