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[neg] watches 15 minutes of gnosia then un-wishlists it
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uh oh
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the concept of the game is that it's a visual novel that's single player mafia
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and I'm like, that sounds cool! you throw around arguments and defenses and try to play it cool if you're the gnosia and you learn more about the characters
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the first two things that strike me are
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1. you are a silent protagonist
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as a member of a social deduction game, you do not have any lines
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other than responding to direct questions
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2. the main gameplay thing you can do other than just watching people talk is like
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you can go to a menu and pick "Cover" or "Defend"
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then it'll insert one line going "You point out some of Setsu's suspicious activity" or "You try poking some holes in Raqio's theory"
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what suspicious activity? what holes? doesn't matter
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you won't find out
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there are no clues
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you just take generic actions according to your stats
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seems miserable!
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wow
Snugglewolf
That idea could go so hard, but that just sounds like a chore
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I understand that it's Going for Something Else other than what it looks like
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but it sure is not the game I thought it was when I wishlisted it
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Oh, that's disappointing. I've had that game wishlisted for a while.
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my understanding is that it's not a mafia game so much as it is a time loop mystery game that uses mafia as its setting
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I'm getting basically the opposite impression? like not that there isn't a time loop mystery but a lot of the issues you have with it are basically because it is, contrary to what I at least expected, more mafia simulator than VN
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the game mechanics make for confusing writing from the perspective of this being a scripted story but I'm more forgiving about that when I think of it as Epic Mafia Bot Match
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that specific thing is not my personal observation, it's how the game was described to me elsewhere by people who have beaten it
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right. I feel like a lot of the Steam reviews describe the game pretty badly
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people here being, trusted friends on discord as a direct response to my initial impressions
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my current first-order thought from watching it is that like
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every time we're speculating on what would or wouldn't be suspicious or who's acting odd
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I think the same thing
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"is the game actually programmed that smart"
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"or are we just projecting onto a bunch of bots taking random actions"
ProfessorGustav
you might be interested in raging loop, or at least to hear abt the chaos that is raging loop
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I saw a video about raging loop
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I do not think I would have liked it
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anyway I came around on gnosia it seems good, if very different from what I thought it was