Never 7 - The End of Infinity

I really enjoy this series, but I can't get past the ugly AI upscaled art that is just not mentioned anywhere before you buy it. I was willing to look past the opening because it's such a small part of the game but its literally all the sprites and CGs too and it just looks so bad. It feels insidious to bring back such a well loved series for the first time officially translated, and this is the project we're receiving. I'm genuinely so disappointed. I've never requested a refund for a game faster than this.

You should trust the reviews saying that this isn't worth your time. At first it seemed fun but then it gets really really tedious, and it's just very hard to ever care much about what's happening since none of it ever really feels real or impactful.

I mean it's alright, don't mind the low playtime, I've played through the entire game on the PSP fan translation before and only really bought it here cause i said i would if it ever got properly released outside of japan as i used to be a massive Kotaro Ushikoshi slob, with 999 and VLR being 2 of my favourite games of all time and I just have a very soft spot for the first 2 AI the somnium files games. As for Never 7 The characters are nice, well developed, the music is pretty damn good, The story is alright until the ending, where It feels like they were building up to something pretty neat but instead just decided to dip out and make a massive deus ex machina for why things were happening the way they were despite the game giving clues and foreshadowing for something else. A Massive miss for me though was the almost complete lack of QOL improvements that the PSP remaster brought over, For being visual novels the Infinity Games starting with Remember 11 used to have an insane amount of neat additonal content, a gallery, music player, Ending Tracker, the TIPS section would give information about world building, inside jokes and what not, pausing the game told you information abo…

the beginning of era here with funky scifi solid vn that would be the prototype of many hit titles like zero escape and ai somuin file but man this one really is a drag (even for me who enjoys slow paced) and some things didnt really age well 20+ years later but some routes are nice its meh

Absolute Cinema ...Okay, this one is on a more underwhelming side of things and feels more like a "first serious training project" kind of game. Not a terrible waste of time by any means, but falls behind Ever17 (and any other project Uchikoshi made afterwards) and has some unforgivable gaps for modern sci-fi VN standards.

Would love to see the other Infinity series games ported to newer consoles!!