PARANORMASIGHT

Remember how superstitions were said to largely be a thing of the past due to limited communication technology? Remember the Oulja board and talk of possession? This game touches on mass hysteria and the psyche of the characters involved in the Seven Mysteries of Hojo. There’s a whole lot of reading, but it’s totally worth it. The twists and betrayals were pretty surprising, but it all gets tied together and the ending makes complete sense. I just wish there were more routes where you could use the curses more.

If you enjoy visual novels, specifically games such as the Zero Escape series, Phoenix Wright, or Dagonronpa, you’ll most likely love this game To me it feels like a mix of Death Note, Zero Escape, and Fatal Frame, mixed into a Visual Novel style. The art style is beautiful, music fits the scene’s mood perfectly, and the story and mystery kept me enticed all the way through. The game also likes to change and pan the camera angle, or zoom in/out on different characters to make the image less static and more interesting to look at. This is a hidden gem for sure, and one of my favorite visual novel style games period. 100% worth buying.

Majority of Square Enix games are bangers and half of them aren’t advertised and mainly people who are closely following SE content will find out or a friend telling them. This hidden gem of a game is a great puzzle game. More fun to have people to voice act with you for the dialogue which makes this a good game to stream, the puzzles are very creative as you can tell from the prologue itself (Shogo as the main character until you unlock the path screen)