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author=ezmf
no it called "Seven Mysteries Eng (1.05).rar"

author=jasonluthor
So.

As a game that generates great mood and a sense of continuous, environmental success, I must say the game does quite well. Even with a limited setup created by virtue of using a SNES style RPG palette, the timing, moments, music crescendos, quick cuts to ghostly characters, etc., all well done, and the creepy encounter moments with otherworldly beings. The story itself is intriguing and the game plays with your head.

But I'm reluctant to call it a game. It most definitely does not having much in terms of gaming elements, save for Chapter 3. I got the impression the game was going for story and mood though, so I was willing to tolerate that and play along, and for the most part was rewarded. However, the game provides little in terms of cluing a player into what they're supposed to do to achieve multiple endings, and once the two bad endings concerning the First Aid Kit were achieved, I just lost motivation to do anything else in the game to try and find a better ending.

This stemmed mostly from there being no clear indicator of where in the game the story branches toward a good or bad ending. Was it Chapter One? Three? Five? Six? It seemed to rely on that sort of quirky 'did you do this' random setup JRPG's abused toward the end of their golden era, with little in the way of feeling you were making intelligent choices contributing toward your ending. In that sense I would say the game lets the player down.

So definitely high praise for the scares and interesting story, but sharp critique for the lack of clear markers in the story branch, lack of intelligent contributions toward the multi-ending system, and lack of gaming elements (a fault that would have been tolerable had the previous two issues been resolved).