Broken Minds

[got_quiet]

Name: Broken Minds
Status: Complete
Site: https://lockedon.itch.io/broken-minds
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Gen
Description: A logic themed mystery that doesn't feel logical.



Broken Minds is a mystery VN where in at least one version you are the culprit trying to get away with murder. This is a very strange little game. Everyone is a bad person. It's one of those games where it's assholes all the way down, and casual nastiness is pervasive. The very first scene you're introduced to the MC's parents who are both just straight up verbally abusive, tell the MC they spent all her college money and then tell her they owe them millions of yen for raising her. That sort of stuff. The story is basically about solving, or preventing the solving, of your parents' murder. In order to do this you need to mislead or help the detective agency that you have hired to solve the crime. Why have you hired a detective agency to solve a crime you committed? Because you're a psycho who wants friends, and you think compelling people to solve a murder with  you is like making friends. Unfortunately for you the agency you picked isn't as stupid as you thought, so it's possible to fail to convince them.

 

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While there are many routes a number of them are only slightly different from each other, and while there are "true endings" I didn't feel compelled to seek them. The wiki for this game has spoilers and is pretty comprehensive, and after reading it I felt like that was enough to get the gist. Had the puzzles been better I would have liked this game a lot, but ultimately it just irritated me.