Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly Reviews

Bought this game for romance, got stuck in a haunted house escape room with amnesia instead. Story was okay. Grief aspect of the game is great, thought the romances were meh. Karasuba needs to be drop-kicked.

Going to try to keep this review spoiler free. This game is on the longer side and tbh that's great, the story is very entertaining and interesting, it keeps you intrigued and wanting to know more, so I pretty much devoured it. The biggest issue I have with it is that it's a wonky port of a Vita game and the keyboard shortcuts are not intuitive at all. The save game/story progression system is very different to what I'm used to in VNs, it features a flowchart that lets you see what you're missing and you can jump between chapters and pick the options you didn't the first time to get another branch. It features side chapters/mini-stories you unlock with points you get from a really crappy shooting minigame that I'd rather not exist at all in game because it doesn't add anything to it Save games don't mean much besides reminding you were you left off before closing the game for the day. The music is repetitive but there's enough variation to not get sick of it. The protagonist is most of the time dumb as hell but that comes with the genre, and the others toe on the line of being unlikeable or changing personalities completely at random. I fucking hate HATE Karasuba, worst character in the game and it pains me that it's voiced by a VA I really like (Tetsuya Kakihara) Avoid spoilers at all cost if you wanna play it!