The Bright Star Of Seraph-Katis-

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Launch error keeps popping up. Cant recommend a game that wont play. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3505969803

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Short existential VN. I did like the psychological content but I did not like the worldbuilding. It was a bit too fantasy like for my taste. Music and ambiance were OK. I had to play it on steam deck as it was impossible to launch it on PC. Probably not updated for the latest OS.

"The Bright Star Of Seraph-Katis-" 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 your usual high school anime club dropout fan-fiction about the authors imaginary girlfriend, but phrased as more of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" than a linear e-book... not that it matters. Nobody ever read a Choose Your Own Adventure and then said "What a great game I just played!". Books aren't games. I feel like I will need to say that a million times or more. This is a godawfully cringey e-book where the author writes about losing his money and having problems remembering his imaginary anime girlfriend/waifu. This was slapped together with the godawful Kirikiri visual novel construction kit... enabling terr…

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