CELL 0: Cyber Entertainment Leisure Lounge

I was excited to buy this when it came out but I don't know what to feel about it after playing it. The story seems a bit unfinished and could have had more content in my opinion, it did say "short" but its insanely short less than 5 hours to complete. The AI agent seems cute, but the main character is really not my favorite, but I do understand where he is coming from. I do like the easter eggs and hints that reveals the mystery of what happened before, but it's really not that enough to crack the whole mystery open especially for some people who do not understand the tech lingo still. The art is really amazing and so is the techno music! I also do admire the devs writing this because it is not an easy feat, the concept itself is ingenious mimicking the TV show a bit vaguely called Silo. The other female characters present are an interesting feat but there is not much screen-time with them, there were some locked rooms as well which could have been explored and more information about the previous generation characters were really needed. I was very very enthusiastic to meet the other AI agent: SIS but that never happened. For this price point, I can't really recommend thi…

I really really like this game. Something about it just grips me really hard. I really hope CELL 1 is in the making, because if so I’ll be buying it! The art for this game is gorgeous, I booted it up just to stare at the backgrounds and characters to be honest. My favorite one to interact with is Acine! I’ve always liked characters that’re robots or AI, they’re always so cool. This game does a really good job of getting you into the main character’s head and making you feel the way he does. Without getting into too much detail, it really is kind of miserable to live the kind of life the MC is living in this game. Won’t you help him? Or... Will you do something else? As for spoiler stuff: [spoiler]Ending 01 really felt incredible to me. I always go into VNs with full intention to play as I would play out the situation. I’ve always been fascinated with AI and the possibility of AI’s gaining sentience and their own consciousnesses. So, naturally, I deluded myself repeatedly despite Acine’s constant warning me away from it. To see her become so cold and blunt with the player character (and myself by extension) was honestly really cool and felt very warranted. It’s the culmination of …

The game is basically a prologue for a supposedly Cell 1, so yeah, it kinda feel... short and unfinished ? Author said they were planning a sequel if this one sold well, I have no idea if it will though, probably not since the game released in 2024 and it doesn't have that much reviews. As a cheap stand alone it's not bad... but yeah it's missing something, you feel like the game is ending when it should start. So it's kinda meh~ because you don't know if it'll ever have a sequel. Also damn, the bad ending is super depressing. The lore in some dialogues seems to hint to some [spoiler]mecha Darling in the Franxx style with 1 boy and 1 girl pilots[/spoiler] ? We'll probably never go that far though... So yeah, mixed review. It's not bad, but you're not really satisfied either.

Lav has brain damage the overuse of the word "like" almost made me stop playing this vn. All I read was "like like like like" followed by double negations - "aint no". this character almost made me downvote the game. I dont know what the devs were thinking. Shes cute but dumb... I enjoyed the few songs that were playing throughout my play-throughs. Quite a few typos found their way into the final product but these arent horrible enough to break immersion or the fun of reading. Its nitpicky at best. I prefer typos over bad translations. Sometimes the rewind or skip function stopped working, other times nothing works until u restart the game. Not fun but manageable. Enaid is the only one in this game i could feel a connection with if she were real. The sections with her have been the most enjoyable for me. The deep and complex conversations with her felt refreshing and challenging. What a lovely, beautiful, fictional human being she is <3. Even with its few flaws I still recommend this game! I do not regret playing it at all.

[quote=author]This room does not exist. This room does not exist. This room does not exist. ...It does.[/quote] [h1]CELL 0: Cyber Entertainment Leisure Lounge[/h1] [b]Sweets always makes it better.[/b] Around two hours of actual playtime, [b]CELL 0[/b] is a fun little visual novel... with a few issues. Grammatically odd in places even post-update, it didn't detract from the experience as much as it would have if it didn't have generally spectacular presentation. Then comes the story, a prologue following the least mentally unwell protagonist, the horror elements mostly comes from the implications of a transhumanist post-apocalypse where the last few humans are grown in vitro and aren't put through some show put on by the most hateful AI that isn't called Him by virtue of human ingenuity and twenty-five meter fleshmecha. [h1][/h1] In other words, the story takes a backburner but the world of CELL 0 is fantastic and thankfully they make sure to show you some lore as is relevant by putting it into the escape menu. Which is odd but I didn't have much trouble getting most of the lore. Aside from the worldbuilding, the story of CELL 0 is deeply compassionate by showing a total lack of …

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