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Tried to finish up Shinsou Noise, which I put on-hold after chapter 4. But chapter 5 is just boring and 6 was terrible. It's unfortunate, as the game had a relatively nice cast, solid production values and so on. But it just goes so down-hill.


The problem is mostly the awful structure. You get into the game with a fairly interesting main mystery. But that's hardly dealt with. Instead you get random cases, which aren't exactly short either. After a bunch of them, that "main mystery" gets randomly solved. It feels so very unimpressive. Though I guess at that point, you don't really care much anymore anyway. You may wanna know whodunnit, but just to be FINALLY done with the freakin' thing.
There are also issues with a main villain or whatever only really getting introduced in the second last chapter (last with an actual "case" even), which feels very dumb as well. Then again, the whole chapter 4 reveal was dumb already. That should've been an "end of prologue" thing I feel.

Speaking of which, the game would've been better without the silly main-mystery, and simply could've introduced all the staff from chapter 4 at the beginning of the game and just have a minor overarching plot regarding the main villain, while having random cases. Or, you know, actually having a game about the mystery they established at the beginning. They tried both at the same time of sorts, and as such kinda failed at both. So in the end, this is just another case of "great girl trapped in bad game" game. Saya was really a great genre-savvy girl.

I like to think Saya played persona3 and uses this nickname because of that. It'd fit. Kinda at least.

That said, Saya is way too much best girl. It's not good if that happens. In theory it has a fine cast altogether, but with Saya existing they just start to feel bad in comparison.