Inverness Nights

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Name: Inverness Nights
Status: Complete 
Site: https://kitsubasa.itch.io/inverness-nights
Rating: PG-13 (Descriptions of gore, executions. Graphically pretty benign)
Pairing: M/M
Description: Flawed immortals won't stop chatting.


 

I want to like this game more than I do. There's a solid concept here and I would probably recommend it to anyone who is interested an emotional VN that focuses on prose, but the later part of the game has some pacing issues, and I ended up getting bored and walking away before deciding to just beast through a near-full ending completion, mostly for the sake of a acceptably balanced review.

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I think games like this, where there is a lot of emotion put into the work, and the characters are complex and their interactions are not so clearly driven by who you want the main character to end up with in the end, should be rewarded. But I just bounced off the prose too hard, and found myself to unmoved by Shell's dilemma.

So even though I ended up not really liking the game, I still recommend it. This is a VN that tries to go a little further, and I think it does manage to get there, mostly. It also looks at themes that usually are not dealt with well in games like this, namely issues of alienation, isolation, fear, and intra-community stress, which the devs have said was intentionally making reference to certain struggles that people in the LGBT community deal with. So as a commentary it says some interesting things, even if as a game it drags.