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Review of Rinjin -Neighbor-

SubjectRinjin -Neighbor-
Neighbor
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Ileca on 2020-09-28
ReviewRinjin, the self-proclaimed Classic (so Classic it's not on EGS).

That was better than expected, most likely because I thought it was gonna be a cheap jump scare festival, VN mode. Woohoo, spooky stuff is happening in my 9m²~~ Sorry but I can't have a blast with horror for scaredy-cats.
Phenomeno was quite good at that game but it had the Nitroplus' savoir-faire and the unsettling location when Rinjin is stuck in a run-of-the-mill urban apartment block you and me could live in, which is the point. I guess it will depend on how much of a pussycat you are.
At least, if Rinjin starts with cheap jump scares you have seen a million times in a million Japanese ghost movies, it quickly slow down to focus on the investigation.

Rinjin is nothing really outstanding. It follows an investigation, has some jump scares in the middle, they work a little, they are goofy the rest of the time. This is pretty much what you expect it to be, with no big revelation or climax at the end but no real deception either. If it is definitely not a classic, it is classic, as a textbook example of a Japanese ghost story. I honestly have not much to say about the story as it is also short (not too short, mind you, as it took me six hours and twenty-four minutes to complete).
In fact, the most positive point is the relation between Kae and Daigou but a flirt is really not what you would expect to be the selling point of a mystery slash horror VN unless if it is a character like Mitsurugi Yoishi.

The technique is surprisingly really good for a doujin. Good artworks and seiyuus, the photographic BCG are just giving it a 00' aura. The backlog is bugged and can make the game crash but it's a minor impediment.

Overall, I wouldn't tell people to stay out of it, but I wouldn't recommend it either. It was okay. For this reason I gave no cookie to the KS of Fukurou-san and it failed. Sorry. :(

I believe, and I am not the only one, that the epilogue was completely useless, but the reason is simple: it was added as a stretch goal. In fact, this new epilogue nullifies the real one and create a plot hole: it should have ended with the typical cliffhanger of every bad movie "it's a happy end, but, NO, look, Godzilla pooped an egg nobody found... TO BE CONTINUED IN THE EVEN WORSE SEQUEL", with the threat still alive, but, no, in the epilogue, it disappeared and the couple lived happily ever after. They already kind of forgot the crazy wife but now that it's not a cliffhanger at all, it looks like a plot hole.

I want to add that I completely hate the landlady. She lends the haunted apartments for a price above average (!) with a clause that locks the tenants up for one year in a fucking hell she is well aware of! If they run away, she get a 6 months cash package! What an incredible scumbag! I have no idea how the family in #203 could survive one year even if they lived in an hotel at the end.
3 points
#1 by zakashi
2022-10-12 at 20:50
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[quote]She lends the haunted apartments for a price above average (!) with a clause that locks the tenants up for one year in a fucking hell she is well aware of! If they run away, she get a 6 months cash package! What an incredible scumbag! I have no idea how the family in #203 could survive one year even if they lived in an hotel at the end. [/quote]

Lol, it's a surprise no one sued her, I mean it wouldn't be an easy case to convince the jury that your neighbour is a haunted ghost with the landlady as an accomplice, but who said that should stop anyone?
Last modified on 2022-10-12 at 20:51