Good game, bad bugs.
The game has a pretty nice (though rather gruesome!) story and nice visuals when the characters are talking or in cutscene, and the audio is downright amazing, even if I couldnt tell what the voice actors were saying. (The text is in English but all the voices are in Japanese.) The gameplay outside of the frequent cutscenes and events can fall short of where your expectations for a $20+ game would lead you, though. Several glitches that seem like they should have been ironed out plague this game, and while none prevented me from finishing the game, Im not able to be my typical completionist self. Opening Extra Chapter Five leads to a crash every time I try, preventing me from getting three out of the four last achievements I need; the fourth one I cant get because name tags are bugged. I got every name tag that was represented with ??? in the name tag menu, but it shows only blank spaces for the Maryanne school children that I knew Id picked up tags from, and others such as the Distant Futures elementary school dont even have a place in the list of schools despite me definitely picking up name tags from those kids.
On that note, thr name tags dont always seem to match up with the body that theyre found on. In one egregious case the picture for one name tag I picked up had the image of an elementary schooler in a bright red clothing unlike most others in the game... while the deceased I picked it from was nothing like that, and the kid had a different card entirely (not that I could tell beyond memory after picking the tag up because that was one of the distant futures kids who dont have their tag put in the log.)
When the game sells for this much, this stuff should really not be an issue anymore. That said, it was a good, thrilling game that I appreciated, but I want to complete it all and I cant because of these lousy bugs.
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