World of horror (Junji Ito better be getting some money out of this)

Oh, woman with teeth instead of a face. Haven't seen that one before...

Imagine if you literally stole Junji Ito's work, the stories, the art, everything, and then added some shitty "combat" mechanics which is basically click on "kick" until the enemy dies, then seeing as the "game" needs more content you blatantly steal from H.P. lovecraft "old gods" and jam in some crappy Japanese creppy-pasta, put on a fifteen dollar tag and call it a day.

 That's right, you'd be getting WORLD OF HORROR (full caps), where a "TALL woman with SCISSORS" is called an eldritch abomination, an unspeakable horror that needs to be put down.

 "THERE HAS BEEN STRANGE SIGHTING IN THE TOWN, SUCH AS TALL WOMEN WITH SCISSORS WITHIN SCHOOL PREMISES", bruh if that's the town's newspaper headlines it's time to go digital, which is another nonsense of the plot, they literally say "In this era, the digital has grant us relief, but also awaken new problems, like hooded men performing rituals to summon ancient gods that threaten to shatter reality". WHAT. What's one thing have to do with the other!?

 Honestly, they should've gone for the visual novel style rather than the RPG because the random events and the combat are so frustrating. Let me explain:

 You don't have HP, you have STAMINA and REASON. Random events (as far as I got) have an unavoidable 80% chance of draining one or two of either, and you get about four of those; there's no "choice" that doesn't drain you, and there's no positive outcomes that I could see, other than some small XP boost.

 Then you get about three enemy encounters that between kicking and punching drain about two or three of both reason and stamina, giving you in return again a small XP boost, you can also get injuries in these random events I got like three of them in just one "mystery" (the mystery of the ramen that has gone bad, booo), so you solve the damn mystery, so to speak, go back to your house and take a bath, recovering one reason or one stamina. You've lost eight to twelve points and regained just one, plus now you've got all these injuries that'll make other encounters more difficult.

 Who thought this was a finished, polished product!? 


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