The Caligula Effect 2

The game seems fine but I just want to post this before I forget: There is an achievement you get immediately upon starting a new game, and 90% of players have that achievement. Following this, you watch a 20-minute series of cutscenes with no actual gameplay, and at the end you get a second achievement for "completing" the prologue. 84% of players have this achievement. So I'd like to use this platform to recognize the 6% of players who started the game, made it about 10 minutes into the blandest Store Brand Persona nonsense imaginable, and decided to move on with their lives. Whatever merits this game has as a GAME rather than in the story wrapped around it - and this is par for the course with Furyu - I believe you made the right decision. EDIT: Well, now I am three hours in and am still in the first dungeon, a subway that seems to want me to think I'm in a mad dash to escape while I trudge through the over-long, samey environments and enemies, with a grating single-verse J-rock track on loop for an hour that my Spirit Waifu assures me is narratively significant so I can look forward to a lot more of that. So, look. I'm sure this game has a lot of merit. I'm sure it does cle…

The most significant improvement over the first game is that Caligula Effect 2 has a much better understanding of its characters. They're no longer a collection of exaggerated personalities that, at their worst, come across as simply edgy. Instead, they're people with believable struggles that explain why they ended up in Redo in the first place. This applies to both the Go-Home Club and the antagonists. The party, in particular, works much better because there's a genuine sense of camaraderie, and it's easy to believe these characters will remain connected even after the events of Redo. I also found myself smiling more than once at their banter, helped in no small part by the excellent localization. Some characters—especially 𝜒—are allowed to go completely off the rails, and I ended up liking them a lot. Even characters like Kobato, whose behavior initially seems questionable, receive enough context to make them understandable. Unfortunately, some story arcs are resolved a little too simplistically given the complexity of their underlying themes (Gin and Marie, in particular). The music once again plays a major role in this. The songs of the Obbligato Musicians aren't just back…

Music:1000000000000/10 Story: 100000/10 Graphics: meh A must play without a doubt.

Possibly my biggest disappointment this year. How does this have 91% positive reviews?!? It keeps being referred to as "low budget Persona" but frankly it's just low budget. There is nothing that even remotely resembles Persona. The story would be ok if the characters weren't so childish that it's impossible to take any of them seriously. The combat is boring and gets repetitive 10 times faster than in Persona, dungeon design is likewise boring and repetitive. There is just nothing here that I'd rate "good" or worth the price tag (thankfully I got it on a sale).

Persona from Temu

Amazing game still my one of my most adored gaming experience.