Trials of Harmony ~ A Found Phone Mystery Visual Novel

If you'd like to experience this game's puzzles with far less time commitment and without an overarching uncompelling narrative, might I recommend TED-Ed? Chapter 3's Puzzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnSw8g3DPHw Chapter 4's Puzzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKh6z0X6KRw Chapter 5's Puzzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yDmGnA8Hw0 Chapter 6's Puzzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vd1dTBVbFg I'm fairly certain I've also seen chapter two's puzzle on a TED-Ed at some point, but I can't find the video any more. Regardless, these puzzles are easily available in plenty of other locations for free. As for the story itself, chapter 6 onwards was quite enjoyable, but certainly not enough that I could recommend trudging through the first five chapters to get to it. But the novel's biggest issue is that there's no way to manually progress the text. I cranked the message speed up to the maximum which still left me constantly waiting for the next message having already read what's on screen. There's also a skip function, but as one might expect that progresses the text far too fast. Pick your poison; spending as much time waiting for the next message as you spend actual…

Ugh, I'm sorry, I gave this around an hour - which I admit is not very long for this sort of game, and I just can't take anymore. It's so extraordinarily tedious to play through, despite the intrigue I have about the story Okay so the gimmick of this visual novel is that it's presented via a phone, conversations take place in text messages and a group chat. For starters, [url=https://i.imgur.com/8eXs8md.png]why does previous text end up fading when a character starts typing a message?[/url] If you fall behind or want to reread some text, it's very distracting. Secondly, being on a phone doesn't really add anything, besides making the player wait a few seconds while [url=https://i.imgur.com/aBa4cVH.png]characters type to see the next line of dialogue[/url]. I understand this is to mimmick real life conversations but it makes everything feel SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sluggish. Also sometimes a character would say something and there would be no progress until 5-10 seconds later when a character would start typing. Again, I get it, the characters would need time to process reading a shocking message - but it's realism at the expense of a fluid experience. The game starts off with a group chat wi…

Really good game, I may be stupid but some of the puzzles I feel like you could've only gotten by looking it up or brute forcing it which kind of sucked when it's important for story context. But, the overall story is really cool and the way you do the puzzles was interesting.

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I don't think the story is that interesting. The minigames could be cool but the flashing and static makes it difficult to tell whats going on and is annoying. Big issue is the auto feature. Whenever you have to type a message you have to click on the screen (even if you;re not choosing from multiple options). I've never seen another game do that and for good reason. Having the entire game be told by text messages sounds interesting but it's not done well. Just seems worse than if you used VN Maker. I don't think this game is worth buying. I see potential if the developer is planning on making a new game

Not bad, but a thumbs down as it wasn't really interesting. Its Danganronpa-esque pull can only do so much, and the in-between puzzles aren't really clever.