Kotodama The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa Switch NSP + Update Free Download Romslab

Kotodama The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa Switch free download You are a new transfer student to Fujisawa Academy, an unseen blank avatar with no particular name or gender beyond the one you choose for yourself at the start of the game. Like a bad teen fan fiction, your entire personality can easily be summed up as “sarcastic and horny”, while your sole skill of note is the ability to force people to tell the truth via magical powers of poorly explained origin, egged on by an invisible fox demon.

Naturally, things are not entirely what they seem at your new school, and it takes all of five minutes before you’re dragged into investigating the titular seven mysteries – are these enigmas genuine occult phenomena, school rumours run wild, or an intriguing mix of both? Welcome to Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa. ROMSLAB.COM Best Switch Games

Kotodama The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa Switch NSP + Update Free Download Romslab

Unfortunately, what could have been another excellent Death Mark-like supernatural adventure ends up more akin to a particularly bad run of old Scooby Doo episodes, although rather than pulling off Old Man McCready’s rubber mask to reveal the truth, you instead force your way into a schoolgirl/boy’s mind and undress them against their will via the medium of a poor man’s Bejeweled-style minigame.

Plot

The visual novel portions of the game are where you’ll be spending most of your time and have all of the basic features you’d expect of the genre. There’s the ability to create a quick save/load point at any time, text history logs, an auto setting that saves you from having to jab a button (or the screen – Kotodama can be controlled entirely by touch) to move text boxes along, and a not-fast-enough fast forward option to skim over any previously encountered text.

All spoken dialogue is in Japanese, although in a few places no written English translation is provided – most of the time this means missing out on a little flavour chit-chat, but at other points you are left staring at a blank text box. An overview “map” of any plot branches you’ve witnessed so far is conspicuous by its absence and grows to be a real hindrance on further play-throughs. Cthulhu Saves Christmas Switch 

Kotodama The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa Switch NSP + Update Free Download Romslab

Although certain decisions are critical to not only your progress but your very survival, the game often only gives you one “choice”, making it almost feel like it’s just checking you’re still there and haven’t already fallen asleep with your Switch in hand. This is especially insulting during your mystery investigations as working out the truth involves nothing more than clicking on every location to exhaust all options before having the only possible answer (which was already offensively obvious as anyone who’s not a major character is drawn in a noticeably less detailed way) handed to you on a plate by your marketably cute fox-spirit companion, Mon-chan. Phoenix Wright this ain’t.

Puzzles

Speaking of not being sexy, The way Kotodama has you find the truth is by playing a match-the-colours puzzle minigame, “peeling layers, like the lies falling away”. And by layers, they of course mean clothes. All of them. Now, puzzles have been mixed with boobies since at least Taito’s Gals Panic hit arcades way back in 1990 – that’s nothing new or exciting – but it is a problem for Kotodama when a twenty-nine-year-old game did it so much better. Crash Bandicoot 4 It’s About Time Switch NSP

Kotodama The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa Switch NSP + Update Free Download Romslab

The puzzling is a simple case of matching three or more of the same colour orb either vertically or horizontally, aiming to increase your target’s [ahem] “happiness” to its maximum before you run out of moves. Your grid of orbs are split into columns and prodding one of them sends that orb straight to the top of the pile, hopefully causing the rest to fall into a combo-creating place.

As there’s no timer here, it’s impossible to overfill the play area, and only very, very, rarely does any mild interference from the character you’re disrobing occur; the only pressure comes from the moves limit which you can top-up with a “challenge” – poking the person you’re stripping (of course you can prod their boobs) – in the hopes of getting a good reaction and an extra few turns.

Quality

Let’s pretend – and we will have to pretend – that there is no issue with the quality of Kotodama’s puzzle game design. Let’s also say we absolutely believe all of these schoolkids are legally adults. Let’s even go as far as somehow setting aside that rather thorny issue of consent to the whole ordeal of being forced into a “mind rift” and then mentally stripped naked. The bottom line is that Kotodama tries to be sexy, and it’s actually anything but. CLANNAD Side Stories Switch NSP 

Kotodama The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa Switch NSP + Update Free Download Romslab

For a game that’s trying to sell itself on the promise of undressing attractive girls there’s remarkably little attention to detail here – the reactions and wiggle animations they display as you “increase their happiness” suffer from being painfully generic and personality-free, almost as if the girls are just interchangeable blush-crying meatbags meant as nothing more than a boob delivery service. Not that you’re in any danger of seeing anyone’s bare chest in any case; your “reward” for tolerating this sorry excuse for a minigame is the sort of image that reveals nothing more than some bare shoulders and exposed clavicle, like a Victorian gentleman’s sauciest illustrated postcard. Celeste Switch NSP Free 

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