Piano at 5 a.m.

Better than Modern Warfare III

このゲームは本当に凄かった。エンディング３で泣いてしまいました。 I don't usually leave reviews on games but, if you know Japanese or even if you are still studying it like me, I can't recommend this game enough. I've don't think I've ever cried so much reading the ending story of a game before.

Nice and thoughtful game. It's unique that three endings are continuous in narration but each telling different philosophical ideas.

Art top-tier, but the story is way too disjointed, even by stream-of-consciousness standards. You're just handed a super vague plot and two halfbaked characters, making it really hard to get invested before it abruptly ends, it feels more like an experimental project. Also, Endings 2 and 3 make zero sense, major [i]deus ex machina[/i] vibes. [spoiler][b]Expectation:[/b] [i]Alice in Wonderland[/i] but in the fog, featuring a protag who just really loves the foggy aesthetic. [b]Reality:[/b] A V-liver simp fantasizing over a picture book about the VTuber's IRL persona, and surprise... the girl is actually into [i]ossan[/i]. The script explicitly drops the word "romance," but there's absolutely zero emotional buildup. The only way I can justify this is by assuming it's a deliberate stylistic choice, like their universe, values, and even the literal meaning of words are just completely alien to ours.[/spoiler] [b]Ending Guide:[/b] [list] [*][b]Ending 1:[/b] Picture Book [*][b]Ending 2:[/b] Picture Book + Library Card [*][b]Ending 3:[/b] Only Library Card or neither [/list] [b]Tip:[/b] If you accidentally pick up an extra key item and screw up your ending route, just hit "Continue" and u…

"午前五時にピアノを弾く" is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This is a simple Choose Your Own Adventure e-book with a couple of meaningless "stats" that don't really have much influence on how the book plays out. Nobody ever read a Choose Your Own Adventure and then said "wow, what a fun game I just played". The plot, of course, is all about the authors imaginary girlfriend/waifu who goes wandering around in a foggy forest under some kind of silly motivation. Isn't it strange how many of these e-books are all about the authors imaginary girlfriend? This is no different. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A …

guess what, i love fog