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Review of Scarlett

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Vote: 7.5
anav on 2023-03-30
Reviewcaptivating, immersive, charming. The music is on point but sadly a bit lacking in variety. Pacing and presentation told through short chapters is a breath of fresh air since it makes the scenes not feel dragged out. The multiple protagonist feature and perspective choice was cool but the choice felt kind of pointless. I went back to do the other side and it basically didn't matter and I wasted like 10 minutes.

The game has a cool, muted, realism feel down to the subtlety of the romance. Not to say that it's necessarily it's realistic. Plot can is kind of outlandish and cheesy weaving in aspects of real life geopolitics, military, economics, chemistry, geographic etc... The creators are obviously nerds. There's a encyclopedia built in to the game because a lot of these terms are very technical and specific.

Everything about It feels like a different time. This sorta reminds me of 2000s action espionage/syndicate japanese media like gunslinger girl, phantom. Very nostalgic.

境界 - border line -, 本物 - real - was pretty good and serves as a introduction to the setting and getting us into the grooves of things

再来 - come again - The geopolitics stuff was mildly interesting but was frankly a slog and the battle of wits I didn't care for

縁 - blood - I really like part 3 for taking a different direction and it was done quite well.. It's like a mini utsuge inside the game telling a separate story that ties in to some important characters

日常 - Normal life - It was alright. Not much to say on this. Romance was decent, we get some more insight into politics and stuff.The choice kurou offered to akito at the end which goes back to the beginning of the game was a nice touch
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#1 by funnerific
2023-03-30 at 07:43
< report >Yeah it was pretty cool. Strongly reminded me of those old (american) spy movies I watched as a kid ~20 years ago.