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[h2]From cyber security to criminal fugitive.[/h2] I always find it difficult to recommend a game from an unknown developer. This being DragonFire Studios first game, it does very well, much better than expected. Even though the graphics are perfect and the story is very intriguing, you can see how amateurish the game is at times. I don't mean that in a negative way, I'm just saying that the game has that feeling that it was made by someone who was trying to do something good, but at certain moments did the opposite. Fortunately not to the point of making the game unplayable, but just with that strange feeling... [quote] This review was submitted for [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44762845/][i]Arcane Burajiru™[/i][/url] [/quote] [b][u]Story[/u][/b] We are abruptly introduced to Ian Newfield, a cybersecurity engineer working for Daikon Industries. After some explanations, we discover that someone has leaked important company data onto the Dark Web. The data is so important that many powerful companies and entities are interested. We're back to a week ago, when the leak happened. Your boss tells you to find out who inside the company leaked the data. Ian must then…

A forgotten VN from a dead studio. Well maybe they're not dead, but it sure seems that way to me. This VN is a fun one. It's a thriller, with a decent amount of action. Honestly, I was sure the sickly sister was going to be kidnapped and/or killed at some point, but this didn't happen. In the route I played (agree on first choice, refuse on second choice) she's doing fine. I feel the ending happened really fast. In the last chapter, MC and the programmer guy were like "Yeah let's finish this up", made the bad guy really mad, and then disposed of the bad guy, in quick succession. The Hope character felt incredibly underutilized. Maybe she has more content in other routes, but in mine, she basically begged to be a main character in every scene she was in. And MC wasn't having it. Oh well. The game is set in the summer of 2016. That time happened before a number of very important things in our timeline. There's one scene where an AI bro talks about how great LLMs could be in the future, and I found his points kinda laughable to me. We already have drone warfare, and AI fooling humans that they're real on AI girlfriend sites (and reddit), and AI pushing humans out of the job marke…

Really nice artwork for an indie visual novel and the plot is pretty good with plenty of twists and tense moments. There are four endings to get, and the choices are pretty obvious. A few things are left unexplained at the end and it sort of feels like it's setting up for a sequel or something, but for the most part it's a satisfactory conclusion. On the negative side, some characters aren't really explored much and there is no CG gallery unlocked at the end, even though some of the CGs are really gorgeous. Overall, I definitely recommend it if you're in the mood for a short thriller VN about hacking and crime, all the while protecting your sickly sister from harm.