I've finally got around to starting this, and wasn't really sure what to expect. I just had to post about this somewhere - the prologue and the opening of Chapter 1 is probably the quickest a game[1] has ever grabbed me. It is extremely well-done, got me intrigued as to where the story is going, and not only destroyed the fourth wall but pretty much rebuilt it behind me. Any game that can position me (the player) as being inside the monitor instead of the characters, get me to grin at one of the lines, and immediately follow that up with "Ah, he just grinned!" is doing something right IMO.
Only about an hour in, so not sure where it'll go from here, but if you are at all on the fence it's probably worth checking out.
[1] Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know if there is a catch-all term for these sort of not-quite-game-games? I know this specifically is a visual novel, but more broadly speaking I tend to put stuff like The Walking Dead and Gone Home in the same/similar category.
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