Random VN: Psycho Logic Love Comedy
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This one is a doujin VN by Initial, a doujin group that seems to have pretty varied tastes. To be honest... I wasn't expecting what I got with this VN. This is a kinetic novel, meaning that there is only one story that is progressed without any branches or choices. You progress through the story by picking your chapters, which go in in order from one to forty-six. The game itself is about eight hours in length, and it is a science-fiction/fantasy VN.
The story begins in a city walled in from the outside world, where people called 'Canaria' who can use esper-like abilities called 'Scratch' live isolated from the rest of humanity. The story takes a lot of seriously whacked-out turns (so much so that you have to ask why they put on the Love Comedy part most of the time) throughout its length, and it is pretty heavy on the kind of esoteric science fantasy logic that those who loved Ever17 tend to like. Personally, if it wasn't so short, I probably wouldn't have been able to finish it... not because it isn't good, but because I don't really have much of a taste for that kind of thing.
That said, the actual story is told in a very interesting manner, and the writing is pretty high quality.
However, it also suffers from the downsides of being a doujin VN (meaning a limited to nonexistent budget). All of the music is basically public stuff and rearrangements of public material, and as a result it doesn't have the impact a commercial Vn tends to have. In addition, it uses a pretty ugly set of background wallpapers that will have art-lovers hackles rising. On the other hand, the character designs (all four of them either heroines or the protagonist) are actually pretty good-looking for doujin work, with enough variation in expression to satisfy me for the relatively short ride this VN was.
I honestly felt this VN was worthy of praise, so I'm going to outright recommend it to non-art-bigot lovers of the type of stuff in I/O, Ever17, and Remember11. I do wish they'd put some effort/money into the backgrounds and the music, but considering how limited their budget had to be, I've decided to forgive their sins in this case.
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