AI: The Somnium Files - A Jap novel/adventure game

[Shackleton]

It's coming on Gamepass as well if that's an option. (Original and sequel on there on release)

Oops, I may have been wrong about the sequel coming straight on there day 1. Was sure I read it somewhere but I read so much shit it's possible I imagined it or the info was wrong.

It'll be on there at some point but it's not down for day 1.

 

[Perkel]

For some weird reason i didn't know it exist despite coming from my favority guys who made 999, VLR. Fuck i am in.
Hope it gets close to my favorite VLR.

 

[Perkel]

I am playing this.

God damn. The start of the game is soo fucking annoying. It is so handholdy that is infuriating to play. Hey here resolve those mental locks. Here is long explanation of some feature !!!.. ok. Do literally one thing. Here is second explanation even longer.

Moreover it has the issue of poorly cut scenes. Almost every scene ends with long wait before fade to black so most of the time you wait for stuff to happen.

Then there is subject of game. Yeah you are playing detective. Hey here is your AI companion who makes shitty jokes and speaks like idiot NON FUCKING STOP. I look for clue and non stop you hear this AI speaking about some bullshit.

IDK if i will continue it. 999 had similar issue but at least there characters could reasonably talk with some meaning. Here is just gags and shit which only wastes time.

Even worse is constant sexual inuendo. I mean like literally 5 minutes can't go without some character doing it.

Fucking catgrils also.

Also characters can't speak normally. They just have to fucking use idiotic terms like "aphonia". So you combine idiot AI and idiotic language and you have stuff like this:

You : "Ask Mizuki about X"
AI idiot: " DATE SHE HAS APHONIA !!!!!"

It's like game made by some shitty otaku 4channer for american burger who don't know 2+2.

edit:

I have bad feeling about this game. IF this will not improve in 2 hours i am dropping it.

 

[d1r]

I am playing this.

God damn. The start of the game is soo fucking annoying. It is so handholdy that is infuriating to play. Hey here resolve those mental locks. Here is long explanation of some feature !!!.. ok. Do literally one thing. Here is second explanation even longer.

Moreover it has the issue of poorly cut scenes. Almost every scene ends with long wait before fade to black so most of the time you wait for stuff to happen.

Then there is subject of game. Yeah you are playing detective. Hey here is your AI companion who makes shitty jokes and speaks like idiot NON FUCKING STOP. I look for clue and non stop you hear this AI speaking about some bullshit.

IDK if i will continue it. 999 had similar issue but at least there characters could reasonably talk with some meaning. Here is just gags and shit which only wastes time.

This game is weeb garbage par excellence, and it's only getting worse with each new cutscene, and each new character being introduced. And oh boy, just you wait until you see the "fighting" cutscenes.

 

[Perkel]

uhh dropping it. Easily one of the biggest disappointments ever.

Even Dengatroppa which was shit is better than this.

 

[Arthandas]

This game is weeb garbage par excellence

uhh dropping it. Easily one of the biggest disappointments ever.

Zero Escape trilogy is one of my favorite VNs, after playing AI I couldn't believe it was made by the same person.
Almost every scene or dialog option turns into some kind of forced gag, the characters are retarded, puzzles make no sense - you just randomly click on everything until something pushes the story forward.
Everything is fucking surreal, you dodge bullets by searching for porn mags, the 12 year old girl you're taking care of bench presses 100kg, jumps 10 meters up in the air and can fuck up a bunch of armed bodyguards. Your AI is an omnipotent loli that secretly wants to fuck you... I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out everything is just a dream or some kind of somnium simulation but I couldn't force myself to play any longer and I dropped it after finishing just a single route. Sadly past the refund point...

 

[Perkel]

yeah what i loved about zero escape series is that they were down to the ground deep withing despite some bombastic premise and weeb art. Yes there was some wacky stuff there but it was the background to story and character drama, you generally cared for characters and those characters usually were not one dimensional. Puzzles also were much more engaging than your TLJ rubber duck + rope = switching on power generator or something typical of western games. Here is is boiler you have to manage pressure, here is complicated device etc.

VLR was trully special game. 999 i liked but it was too scare room game type for me while zero time dilema was pretty good follow up to VLR but overall clear downgrade.

I hoped dude who can do something like VLR could come with something good. I guess i was wrong.

 

[Arthandas]

What's even more bizarre is how this shit got 92% positive rating on Steam.

 

[d1r]

What's even more bizarre is how this shit got 92% positive rating on Steam.

Weebs.

 

[Zombra]

Ugh. Even at the sale price I got it at, I'm sad I didn't try it before the 2 week Steam refund window closed. I just spent 45 minutes trying to get through the intro. It starts off with you as a detective at a crime scene, but this detective doesn't normally go to crime scenes, except he knows the victim so the boss thought it would be a good idea. He finds someone else there holding the murder weapon, then the scene ends without explaining anything. The suspect is taken to the hospital, where the detective decides to nap and goes to a freaky dream world where nothing makes sense like dreams and clicking on things literally at random will eventually end the dream. Hey, it's wacky! You like wacky, don't you? 95% of my clicks were to get through tedious explanatory dialogue. I probably took sensible actions less than 5 times in those 45 minutes. FINALLY the scene ended, and I appeared in another unrelated place where nothing was explained. Luckily I was finally able to save the game and stop playing, before realizing there was no reason to wait that long to quit because I have no intention of continuing. Jesus christ.