As soon as the crazy ass intro video ends, I was assaulted by the shitty audio and shitty graphics. But then, I noticed the weird green line at the top of the screen.
Before I get into the shitty graphics, WTF is up with dat green line??? |
That was just the tip of the iceberg as the Titanic lunged forward at full speed. Not surprisingly, this game is a bit lacking in the features department. BGM and dialogue audio balance options? Dialogue backlog? Option to skip read lines? AHAHAHAHA. No, pansy, you don't even get a freaking option to SAVE! It auto-saves at certain points with absolutely no indication so if you want to stop playing, just hope you're near an auto-save point and prepare to replay from there. Fuck that, time to burn this disc and load it in an emulator.
No save feature? Man, so spoiled. GIT GUD. |
Not the best screenshot of Ogata. Sorry, Megumi-chan! |
Well, maybe, just MAYBE the story is good? It starts with you waking up to an all too realistically annoying alarm clock. As you get ready for school, you talk to your ring and out of the blue, it starts talking back. WTF?!
Man, this game would be so cool if the main character was clinically insane |
To give you some more hints of the wonderful plot, I was able to get 4 different endings. The first route I ended up was the one where you find the dog when you arrive at school. The remaining routes depends on whether your ogle your English teacher's legs/butt or her hair. This is truly Shakespearean stuff at work here...
Your fate hangs in the balance, fool!!! |
Um... wha? WTF? Did they hire a real artist late in the game??? |
Score: 1.5 Graphics, story, music, features, and audio were absolute shit but you should totally play it! out of 5.
Overall, yes, I agree that this game does deserve the title of legendary shit game. It was so bad that it was almost... well it's still pretty goddamn bad. But hey, I got a few good laughs and I did make it through 4 endings (albeit with save states). I don't know if there are any more routes because nobody cared enough to write up a full guide online, which is surprising because even Prismaticallization has a full website dedicated to it. Frankly, I have to wonder if I'm not just wasting away my precious limited time on this mortal coil by playing this shit but if I don't do it, what Jhipster will?
To give the game credit, it does have some good art and even some rare snippets of good music phrases hidden in all the diarrhea. They did manage to poop out 3 more games of the planned 5-part NIGHTRUTH series (oh god) but who knows if I'll ever decide to buy a copy of the sequels. Honestly, the first one was more than enough for a looooooong time and I've already purged it from my shrinking closet of shame™.
Come to think of it, I almost want to get the next entry Maria, just for the making of disc to see what shitty tools they used.
Additional screenshots for the legendary shit archives.
In 96', you could play Biohazard but fuck that shit. NIGHTRUTH! |
My favorite character. She looks cute. Good enough for me! |
LOL Sonnet, way to go with product placement |
If only I could tell you how Shiori shows up. It's hilarious! (Sorry non-Jhipsters) |
Another WTF moment, busts out shades to cry (ie glasses are hard to draw) |
One of the infamous(?) lines from this Shakespearean masterpiece |
I'm not a Japanese expert but even I could spot this obvious typo. |
Scale
0 - Awful
1 - Bad and not worth your time
2 - Has some flaws but still enjoyable
3 - An average enjoyable experience
4 - A great game
5 - Masterpiece of a caliber only found very rarely
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