i like this: the characters, the dialogue, the premise, the plot and the puzzles and that choice affects the game path.
now here is my problem with this game: you play the game through its plot, fine, but then the story just arbitrarily stops with a "to be continued" or "game over".
fine
the way you get passed these roadblocks is to play through sections again and make a different choice and you unlock, i think, "unlocks" to remove the roadblocks. irritating  but not an all together show stopping except through  implementation means you back e to wade through identical text for ages of plot youve already been through (all non interactive stuff) just to get to the new stuff.
utterly unfathomable design choice near enough busting the game imo. cheap and shite.
the game is like getting a football on the half way line, ronaldo tricking past 4 players, rainbow kick over the keeper a sweet toe catch a foot from the line then kicking yourself in the face then falling on your face knocking the ball outfor an own goal.
Visual novel. Apparently. Latest Edhe issue has Steven Poole going on about it. I got bored with his article about two paragraphs in. God knows how boring the 'game' itself must be.
So I beat this game eventually. Its a lot of reading and clicking next but the story is excellent. I particularly like how the conceit of redoing/choosing options is an integral part of the plot.
If you can bear with it there's an excellent 30hr game in here (although mostly not much actually what you would call game).
it's definitely not hooked me the same way 999 did (couldn't put 999 down, this sometimes feels like I'm playing it begrudgingly) but as a fan of visual novels I'll more than happily play it till I've got all safe unlocks and endings (currently done 5.5 hours and had 1 (bad) ending
Wondering where the best place to get the original 999 is now that I've bought this for some reason. I'd just use Play-asia but I don't want to get risk getting stung with import tax unnecessarily.
"ERE's like Mr. Muscle, he loves the things he hates"
videogamesplus sell the reprint through amazon uk for 16.50 They're Canada based, so presumably it'll come from there but all my us imports last year were through them (via their actual website) and I didn't get import fees on any of them
I thought it was alright. Not as clever or focused as 999 was, though, and the overall narrative was a bit too unbelievable (when it went all sci-fi). Wouldn't play it again though.
I bought VLR months ago because I saw it cheap but I knew it was a sequel so it has stayed cellophane wrapped til I got my hands on 999. Had an Amazon voucher kicking around so ordered it a few weeks ago, and it arrived today Can't wait to start playing through both.