Ghonf's Mediablog

After having waited far too long since my initial playthrough of Atelier Ryza back in 2023 to dive into its sequel, I finally found myself going back at it and playing through the entire game. More than anticipated I realized I was falling more and more in love with it and truly enjoyed the experience a ton. Obviously its whole unique alchemy system on which the game is fundamentally based around, gathering, synthesizing items and finding out about all the wonders of alchemy continues to be a bunch of fun given to all the possibilities that open themselves up combined with how strong you can make yourself, which is something I always appreciate in RPGs like this since there's always something immensley satisfying about becoming pretty much overpowered through the right strategy and having this variety of options in the first place. All the more though I found myself captivated by the lighthearted tone with all the great character moments of which this game is filled with to the bri...

Now, this is a fascinating game and one that stands strong continuing to this time. Being a fan of Japanese adventure games with all their different facets, it feels almost inevitable to eventually get around to some of the early Chunsoft titles given how significant they are to the genre and its further development into other subgenres as to how more command based text adventure games started to diverge into novel games that are primarily focused on text and their narrative coupled with tons of choices as compared to more heavily interacting with the world itself and items within it.  Therein Kamaitachi no Yoru as the second entry in Chunsoft's Sound Novel series remains an intriguing title that does a lot with its structure and within its set boundaries forms an experience that shines heavily with its murder mystery and the unique possibilities that open up in this medium of video games of which this game certainly takes advantage due to combining all of its elements neatly in on...