Mind Rite

Highlights: - The original music swells beautifully during romantic scenes, and the art is cohesive. CGs match sprite style, which is always appreciated. - I completely misguessed the murderer, which I consider a win for the story. - Leo was a standout. Passionate, self-conscious, intelligent. exactly the kind of emotionally aware, competent partner I love to see in a mystery-romance. I believed in him, and I bought the relationship, which is hard to pull off in such a short runtime. - And major props: the Leo good ending lets Aina keep her dream job as a detective. Let women be driven and fulfilled! let’s talk romance ethics. Bernhardt: I will never be okay with dating your boss in fiction. I get that it’s a common trope, but the inherent power imbalance is just uncomfortable. To the game’s credit, it does acknowledge this. Then barrels through it anyway and has Aina quit her career for him in the “happy” ending. Why? Why must the woman's ambition be the casualty of romance? Reimo’s route is less problematic on paper (they’re coworkers), but the suspension of disbelief is another issue. You worked together for years and never once had feelings until now, mid-murder-case? That’s…

Playing through this cute visual novel took me no more than 4 hours. Getting the bad endings is very easy, so I recommend checking out guides if you just want to enjoy a pleasant story in the evening. The most complete story is the cat's. It has the most details and development of the main plotline. I was really touched by it. I recommend starting with either the detective or the pathologist. Otherwise, playing through the novel can be quite boring. The detective's story is very comfortable, with a touch of romance, but I feel like it was botched. I don't want to spoil it, but it seems like he was given few lines/screen time and wasn't well developed. The pathologist's story is more interesting to me, but it's still just a shortened version of the cat's story. Do I recommend it? Yes, at least one story captivated me, and I had an exciting 3 hours with it. Прохождение этой милой новеллы заняло у меня от силы 4 часа. Собрать плохие концовки в ней - легче легкого, поэтому рекомендую обратиться к гайдам, если вы просто хотите насладиться приятной историей вечерком. Самая полноценная история - история котика. У него больше всего деталей и раскрытия самой сюжетной лини…

Pretty short but good story. The endings don't make me question or disappointed. I really like the game but if you could change the default language to English, it would be better.

Overall very fun to go through and see everything! I went into this expecting to only like Leo, but I actually ended up liking all three of them. :] Leo's still my fav though I don't know if the rest of this really counts as spoilers but I'll spoiler tag it anyway: [spoiler] When you're looking to get all the endings, the actual mystery solving does get kind of pushed aside in favor of the boys. There's many more choices regarding the guys than the case itself. This didn't bother me personally since I was, admittedly, primarily here FOR the guys, but I feel like this might disappoint someone expecting the reverse. [/spoiler]

I was very pleasantly surprised by this game. The art is very lovely, the writing (though in need of some minor corrections here and there) is great, the characters feel alive and engaging. It's a little short, but it's also fairly low-priced. Generally, I thoroughly enjoyed this game and would definitely recommend anyone that loves mystery themed otoge to give it a try!

Play time: I would say 5-7 hours Art: Pretty good, it never looked rough or ugly Music: generic from what I remember Plot: Decent! Too bad it is a copy and paste story through each route until the very end Price: Buy it on sale, y'all. Overall thoughts: Worth the time if you can get it on sale. Got a few chuckles from me and little bit of a who-dunit feel. A good way to spend a free afternoon. :)