Myosotis: My Life Is Not Yours to Take

Every once in a while, a game comes along that functions as a Voigt-Kampff test on you. (Yes, I've been reading Philip K. ♥♥♥♥ novels.) I don't know that I agree with every writing choice, and I still only just cleared the first part at the time of this writing, but already this VN has demonstrated what this format can do that is more difficult for other genres to deliver. I'd have to dock a few points for the character art and the soundtrack, but this is a VN I won't approach flippantly. Whatever place the author went to for inspiration, have a cookie. Have a cup of really good tea, have all the nice things, so you don't go back there any time soon. Thank you for the ride. I fully expect to curl up under the table for a bit after the ending.

A short, free visual novel with a nice audiovisual style, haunting feel, and some really enjoyable pop-up note/tooltips that add character and flavour while keeping the main story focused.

Myosotis is a very dark and well implemented visual novel about [spoiler]identity theft and murder[/spoiler]. The story and artwork are excellent and complementary; inevitably, given the subject matter, the text and graphics can be very disturbing at times but not gratuitous. There are two endings (and corresponding achievements), though one of them can be reached in slightly different ways. Much of my playtime was spent on finding how to reach the other ending and on getting the third achievement which requires the revealing of all 57 sub-text messages. Myosotis is a free game but, to its developers' credit, it needs no gameplay or quality allowances to be made for that.

It's a good visual novel. The two endings are each satisfying in their own way. Definitely worth reading through.

Beautiful visual novel, had a great time playing it. The story is great and the characters design is gorgeous!

THIS "VISUAL NOVEL" IS ALMOST ENTIRELY WRITTEN BY AI!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND IT WAS NOT DISCLOSED IN THE STEAM PAGE!!!!!!! I really wanted to like this game as the character art is clearly beautiful and hand-made, but the background art is, at the VERY LEAST, edited using an AI program. I wouldn't be surprised if the meaningless, monotonous music used generative AI as well, but I can't say that for sure. The writing, however, is OBVIOUSLY "written" by a generative AI program. It uses all the classic markers of a poorly written dark romance young adult novel that is characteristic of AI-written fiction nowadays. It overuses the 'rule-of-three' in its verbose descriptions of simple feelings, i.e. "Not ___, not ___, just ___." A cityscape is described to be a "suburb, a few miles from the east coast," a phrase that makes no sense. There are so many obvious tells that if I were to describe them all, I'd have just rewritten the entire story myself. The reason why it's a roughly 200,000 word "visual novel" is because it's written by AI! The pacing is horrific, and the few choices the game lets you make as the player hardly make sense. I'm sure there was an original thought somewhere in the ini…