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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 49.4 hrs on record (49.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 21 Jun, 2016 @ 2:37pm

The House in Fata Morgana is a glorious Japanese Visual Novel set in a western setting that takes about 30 to 40ish hours to complete. The game features a few choices, most of them in the later part of the game; it’s a pretty linear narrative with different dead ends. The gothic mystery induced narrative revolves around a cursed mansion set in different time periods, as it explores themes of, for instance, human nature, insanity, love and hatred. It manages skillfully, overall, to go between bright, life-giving sequences on the one hand and dark desolate ones on the other.

The soundscape supports the narrative in a most beautiful way and some of the tracks have vocals in different languages like Portuguese and Latin, that provide a most wondrous ambience to different scenes.

The Writing/translation seems to be good overall, though it’ll use “hehe” to express laughter, while rarely it’ll describe it instead as is leaps and bounds more appropriate, just to mock me no doubt. For the love of humanity who do I have to tickle to death? Seriously. Stop making my eyes bleed.

Once you finished the game properly you’ll get access to a quite humorous and fourth wall breaking tour in the extra menu.
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2 Comments
Daybreak 4 Jul, 2016 @ 10:28pm 
Thanks. I don't have the OST. Think it is in fairly low quality sound files IIRC - sadly. So maybe.
Ralgaoud 4 Jul, 2016 @ 5:06pm 
Nice review, thanks.

Since you mentioned that the music is great, do you think getting the OST version is worth it?