The VII Enigma

'The VII Enigma' is a sci-fi visual novel that through its sci-fi plot tackles important issues such as personal connections, society and power struggle, as well as difficult personal choices and sacrifices that we must make in tough times. Without spoiling the plot, the core sci-fi idea at the heart of this visual novel is a device that allows people to send information to the past, and thereby enable those who receive this information to make different choices, which alters the timeline to a new reality. There is a lot of explanation about this and also the game's world in the early parts of the story. This might sadly put some people off, as there's a fair bit of science that gets thrown at us right away regarding time travel and also the workings of human brain. To me personally, as a person of science, it was no problem and even very interesting to follow, but to someone who isn't a fan of science, it might be harder to follow. Still though, I urge you not to give up on the story early on and just stick with it, because the only concept you need to understand here is the idea that information can be sent back to the past and allow people to make new choices that alter t…

I played through this after having finished Advent Dawn. My overall enjoyment I felt was surprisingly a little better than that title. Even though it shares some criticism, such as being hit or miss on the art. I enjoyed the story more, probably because you weren't necessarily restrained to one location. Of course, with the kind of story it presented, it could always be so much more, but then you would never know when to end it, and becomes even more convoluted than the concept is. Some characters were more likable from the start than others, and it took pretty much the whole game for the main character to get through imposter syndrome which kind of dragged the experience a little, though you get why. Though the choices may as well not have existed, as I wasn't really compelled to ever choose the obvious ones that would lead to a bad ending. Of course it could have been much more complicated with actual choices affecting future choices, but then it would probably be even more nonsensical having to think about it as it was. Otherwise just tiny nitpicks. 8.5/10

A verbose but tightly written story, effective and well put together which is a rather hard thing to do these days! Time travel and mysteries mix well but are hard to get right, I think this story pulls it off well by constraining its time travel with proper rules. Forgive my review being a little short, check the others if you're interested but this game does deserve attention, give it a try!

It has all the makings of a decent mystery story, at the very least

A promising but underwhelming first visual novel for this developer. I'd recommend you check out their newer and better game, SYNESTHESIA, first, and come back to this if you like that one. 6/10

The game's alright. I think the art is ugly, but YMMV. The guy who wrote the Tempus System (the time travel stuff in this VN) tried to explain it with some high science, though there were some mistakes. This VN treats entanglement like magic, and thinks that there are four quantum fields (There are much more than that. Fermion flavors alone contain more than 4 fields). Were it up to me, I would explain the Tempus System like this: The Tempus force only acts on Tempus leptons, mediated by the Tempus bosons (massless, spin of -1, 0, or 1). A Tempus lepton of sufficient energy can emit a Tempus boson, potentially changing its spin. Tempus leptons are created through the Weak force from standard electrons. However, the Tempus lepton has access to many generations of matter. The flavors these leptons decay into are deterministic, so it is possible to set the specific bosons that will be emitted when the Tempus lepton is first created through the Weak force. Tempus decay emits Tempus bosons until it reaches its lightest flavor, at which point the Weak force will convert it back to an electron and emit some neutrinos. Furthermore, Tempus bosons can be directed since humans have an unpre…