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A few bugs, dodge doesn't seem to work, no matter which fight or what limb I had attached I always rolled a one for the dodge roll, every time, and poison damage only seems to apply when you next hit the enemy after you poison them. The 2 cost limbs don't seem worth it to use if they're twice the cost they should be at least twice as effective.

That works however the Businessman doesn't stay dead after being killed, he just gets up and continues walking. I  also wrote this in the feedback section.

It doesn't seem to be working. Clicking the action button does nothing and the UI is in odd locations and sizes.

I enjoyed this, it gave me a similar feeling to a few older Japanese games for the PSP. It has a combination of simple but interesting gameplay and a unique aesthetic. It's a bit unpolished in places and risks becoming repetitive even with the small amount offered, but overall pretty fun.

I wouldn't go as far as to say I didn't enjoy it, I don't think I would have stuck with it so long If I didn't at least think it had potential and there are aspects I enjoyed of course. The overall mystery was engaging, it just took too long to have any real payoffs or build up the individual murders, and while I'm usually not a fan of romance I actually found that aspect quite cute.

As for characters acting like different people, off the top of my head, There was Mikhail who spent Ch 2 acting completely different than Ch 1 he was much more confident and at times seemed aggressive and taunting while in the 1st he was much more meek. Kostya, of course, spent the second half of ch 2 trying to delude himself into thinking nothing was wrong or suspicious, despite being fairly intelligent and more level-headed when it comes to trust previously. K becoming more whiny and less competent and some others I'm forgetting but the one that convinced me that this had to be intentional was actually when you talked to Yana after you started investigating, the entire game she has been nothing but rude and dismissive of others and of murder, but when you talk to her she talks about how she understands this is difficult and that she would do her best to find the killer, it felt contrary to her portrayal until then. But these examples are just off the top of my head and I would need to re-read it to be more specific.

On their own those things would be understandable, Kostya having a mental breakdown, or Mikial becoming more comfortable, but altogether it had me convinced that Mikial had somehow used some kind of mind-altering substance on everyone or at least Kostya, which made everyone ignore his blatantly suspicious behavior or making them more dumb and docile, like right before the murder where Kostya somehow thinks he had to go to the audience hall, then follow Mikhail.

As for the morality issue, it's less of an issue than I made it sound, like I said these things are difficult to elaborate in text but I felt the perspectives were too limited, ranging from "killing murderers is a good thing" to "I agree but I don't want to watch". I could have missed something of course but that's just how It looked to me.

I apologize if my previous comments came off as rambly or insulting, I was very tired at the time and wanted to get my thoughts down fast, but wanted to keep it vague to avoid spoilers in my comment.

As I said there are aspects I liked and I still look forward to seeing what you make. I'm willing to try it again when it's Its fully complete, but currently, it just takes too long to do too little to keep me engaged.

I just finished chapter 2 and honestly, I no longer have the desire to continue reading this story. It was a combination of a lot of smaller things.

The unnecessarily long pacing and build-up to the murders take hours of characters basically going back and forth about nothing, I've been reading through this for most of 2 days and have only just got through chapter 2 with 1 conference per chapter, that's much to long.

The constant taunting and ridicule of the MC for completely reasonable things combined with characters randomly acting like completely different people at one point made me think there was some kind of mass chemical mental manipulation going on, induced by one character who causes the MC to go into a rage whenever he's around, half the time screaming nonsense and the other half is the only time he actually stops ignoring obvious issues and starts making sense. Now I think I was just reading into it too much and the story is just inconsistent.

The issue that ended it however is the incredibly strange morality and sense of "justice" of the characters. They seem to almost revel in the pain they cause the murderers after their revealed as such, everyone immediately says that the death of the murderer is deserved and a good thing. When the character known for being kind essentially told the woman who committed the murder, as she was breaking down about to be executed, that she was glad that she was being killed and that everyone hates her, I found it genuinely offputing. That wouldn't be an issue of course if the intent was to show these characters as crazy sadists, who think justice is about death and torture, but I got the impression that the game expected me to agree with them. It might seem like I'm being prudish or overblowing something but these things are difficult to express in text.

I've tried both multiple times.

The current pc version, I just redownloaded it to be sure and it's still an issue. I don't know about extracting with admin, I just use 7-zip, I've tried running it as admin but still no dice.

I can't get the game to run for some reason. I run the exe, it opens for a second then the window closes, no errors or anything.

Was able to remove the broken mirror by clicking on it.