The Midnight Sanctuary Reviews

I'm sure many of you have reservations about giving this game a try due to its visuals. Honestly, it looks pretty rough. Mouths move strangely. Noses are practically nonexistent. Animations are goofy. Scenes will appear too dark to discern at low brightness settings but blindingly bright above them. All of these traits add up to one thing. This game is absolutely beautiful. In a sea of identical VNs, The Midnight Sanctuary stands out as something both off-putting and intensely familiar. In screenshots, it is intriguing. In motion, it is stunning. That is to say nothing of the VN itself. The Midnight Sanctuary tells a fantastic, fully voice-acted story better read than read about. If you have played the developer's previous titles, you should have a good idea of what to expect. I would love to say more, but unfortunately, to do so would cheapen the experience. This brings me to the one point I am mixed about. The Midnight Sanctuary is a cheap game ($10 at the time of writing), and the amount of content received is representative of its price. This is an incredibly short VN with a single path, clocking in at about 3 hours. Every hour is well spent, and I don't believe the story needed more, but even among similarly priced VNs, more is typically expected. I would not blame anyone for deciding this was not worth the cost. For those willing to accept this, however, you will find a marvelous, strange experience in The Midnight Sanctuary.