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TL;DR: Save your $20 and read this hilarious blast of a playthrough . I'd pay $20 to read that, and not this mess of a "game".Previous Versions:I don't recommend this game, it is a complete waste of time that only serves to promote the developer.In M\M's inspiration, Persona 4, you had plenty of choices within the game world, some of which are beneficial in their own right and tie into core aspects of the game. Here? You're shunted into a linear story path with little variation, or even alternative stories to try out for increased content. The extent of your interactivity is advancing in RPG Maker dialogue boxes, for the entire game. So not interactive that there's a pamphlet sized guide on all the choices within. Obviously, this gets very boring after a while, something especially funny considering that the player character is explicitly handed a reality warping power from the outset. It's both lazy to give an ultimate Deus ex Machina power to the main character, and ironic when framed in a visual novel that's isn't very interactive even for them. It baffles me that the developer uses RPG Maker and has no ambition to use much of it besides the dialogue. When others say "the game has potential", I agree, but the developer's clearly not using that potential.The plot? It can be described as Persona 4 with the interesting bits replaced with fur, so you are left with a skeleton version of the "Midnight Murders" plot in urban Japan, from the perspective of a foreigner who got all their knowledge of Japan from other anime and visual novels, and nether bothering to research beyond that. As such, it feels like a theme park mish-mash of Japany things, with furs for basically no reason other than community appeal. It's clearly trying to mime Persona 4 with the basic setting, a magical another world, and a mysterious cataclysm that only you can stop, but completely misses out on the elements that makes that game good.The art? Well... on further reflection, it's actually quite good. The game still doesn't use multiple expressions despite being promised since the start and being "worked on", and the clothing design choices on the female characters are rather questionable, but overall the art is very well executed. It shouldn't suprise you to hear that this was not done by the dev, but by independent artist PawziClawzi. This will be the only positive thing I say about the game.The characters? A good majority of them are self inserts. Like the developer Klace, an -in-universe pop star who somehow gets away with wearing this fetishistic mishmash of an outfit in public . Yes, this is how he looks like in the actual game. He dies early on, but is still a posthumous focus. In fact, nearly everyone else is a self-insert, to the point where you could throw a stone in the world and hit someone's OC. Everyone's played flat, and you'd be hard pressed to really care about others in the world.In essence, this is an uninspired visual novel that isn't good at what visual novels should be good at. It could have been released for free and be ultimately inoffensive, but for $10, are you freaking kidding me? Not even worth it as a joke gift, and once you get over the furry parts, it's not even that good even as a joke. Let's not forget that the developer chose to flag this review and another highly helpful negative review for superficial reasons in an attempt to get Valve to remove them, and tried to cultivate an echo chamber where he could pass off negative reviews as being made by internet trolls and have people believe him. And even after he apologized , the developer chose to passive aggressively insult me behind my back on his Facebook after I made a truce with him. All that and more are recorded in this document (EDIT: After the review was written, the price jumped up to $20. Jesus.)This game looks good if you are casually observing it, but look any deeper and the cracks show. At least the next game which the developer is publishing looks like an actual game, but since this has been a major stain on his reputation... will it really fare that well?ADDENDUM 1 (04/10):On further inspection of the characters in the game, it turns out that every single male character in this game and the heavily featured yellow/purple female wolf, Daz, is someone else's fursona. Yes, seriously. Of the 24 characters planned for or appearing in the game, only 4 - Eclair, Trish, Max, and Jade - are actually original to the game. This may explain their bizarre lack of design unity, seemingly ill-fitting traits (such as Kila's blue fur or Rook's inexplicable green augmentations/patterns), or how some seem to have characteristics unfitting of their backstories or role in game. They made sense for the fursona, but the developer couldn't figure out how to have them make sense in the game world.Seriously, if you search for a randomly selected character's name on FurAffinity, you will find at least something either related or unrelated to the game that depicts the character and links to the person that owns said character. The few that I couldn't find there have their own accounts on Facebook depicting their characters in some manner. The only purpose of this game, from what I have seen, is to be a vehicle for these self-inserts and the developer's wallet.Despite this, I do not condone harassment of those whose characters are involved in the game. I will not publicly link the accounts of those involved.ADDENDUM 2 (04/10):I found the game's writing to be very bad and very boring, but this takes the cake:There is a particular scene in Chapter 4 where one of the main characters, Singe, is holding a press conference to reassure safety after Klace's own mysterious death, stipulating that nobody should leave, and promising that he's using hired guards alongside equipment from the Armstrong security corporation to ensure safety. This provokes the hired guard in question, Acheron, to chew Singe out for lining the building with explosives from said security corporation in order to defend the building. Yes, a character who is not supposed to be a villain, deliberately lined the building, filled with many innocent people, with extremely destructive explosives. That is just shameful writing.When I think of Major\Minor, I now think of defensive explosions.ADDENDUM 3 UPDATE (5/22)Thanks for making this review a pre-release one by messing around with the release date. And further thanks for rubbing salt into that by telling affected people to delete and remake their review entierly It wasn't a glitch, it was your change to begin with. Stupid.