Ill Will

To people who didn't play this game yet, I would say: First, this game was made for NaNoReNo game jam in a month. I didn't realize that when I played it, so I thought it would be longer and more polished. The story summary on this page sounds like the initial vision or pitch and is much more dramatic than the actual VN, it could span the plot of multiple novels or games. The actual VN is maybe briefer than what you expect from reading the epic-length summary, but definitely longer than a "short game". Basically like a 9 episode anime instead of a 6 episode one.

Second, I personally feel the general marketing of this game is kind of inaccurate, like the title picture, summary, and the newer trailer. Because they imply the game focuses more on psychological horror than it actually does. I just kind of equate black and white with psychological and horror, maybe that style was not supposed to imply anything that specific. I feel like either 1. that the game is supposed to be more psychological, the advertising is accurate, but the final story isn't fleshed out enough to get that across. Or 2. the story doesn't conform to every specific genre expectations of horror, mystery, horror-mystery, but it is still in those categories. So the game page, trailer, etc. reflects the genres. But then I still feel like it kind of shows interesting aspects of the game but these aspects are not that relevant in the fina lgame.

Technical stuff: First, there is a minor bug, after choosing the wrong direction to run, you die but you never go back to the title. And the game jumps to if you chose the other direction to run. The voice audio keeps playing. It can be easily resolved by going to the main menu and back.

Second, the voice lines are sometimes too quiet, so I ended up going through the game with occasional too quiet or inaudible voice lines. (I tried turning the music down at first, but then I thought that made the music too quiet.)

love the music in this. I wonder who made that soundtrack

sosig my beloved