Zero Escape director Kotaro Uchikoshi and the Spike Chunsoft gang returned at the moment with one other spooky-ooky journey filled with horrible killings, AI: The Somnium Files. It’s the branching story of a detective with an AI dwelling in his bionic eye who’s out investigating a string of eye-gouging murders by gathering proof then diving into witnesses’ desires. Video games, you fantastic little weirdos, you’ve accomplished it once more.
I did just like the sound of Zero Escape, of what folks inform me concerning the pleasures of exploring the branching paths of more and more daffy murderplots. But I can solely hold monitor of so many timelines on this dunce’s head of mine so I’ve by no means fairly bought round to it. I’m subsequently fairly thinking about a Kotaro Uchikoshi game making a contemporary begin with no full sequence of continuity.
Our Matthew stated he’s performed a couple of minutes up to now and “spent most of it trolling a policeman asking him his name over and over until he got sad,” which to me is glowing reward.
AI: The Somnium Files is out now on Steam for £45/€54/$54. A soundtrack is thrown in as a bonus freebie for the primary week.
If you desire a longer opinion, Malindy Hetfeld (who you may need learn on RPS before) reviewed it for our Eurogamer corporate siblings. She appeared to essentially get pleasure from exploring the branching storyline, and known as it “broadly recommendable – to those still new to visual novels, to fans of Uchikoshi and this brand of games in general, and to those simply on the hunt for an engrossing interactive story.”
Or right here’s one of many game’s characters, who’s herself a YouTuber in-game, beginning her personal let’s play. Oh, video games!
