World End Syndrome
- August 30, 2018
- Toybox Inc.
“World End Syndrome” takes the standard visual novel game and adds graphically stunning illustrations to heighten the creepy factor as you unravel the mysteries behind Mihate Town.
Set in the sea town of Mihate when the protagonist moves there and begins to attend a new school. He hears of a local legend in which the dead come back to life every 100 years and are known as "Yomibito." A missing high school girl could signal the return of the Yomibito.
Nintendo Switch
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Reviews
- story8 mentions
- 38 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 13 % negative mentions
- graphics1 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- emotional1 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
World End Syndrome Review
World End Syndrome has the branching story paths you would expect of a visual novel, but it manages to keep tons of fresh content in store for several times through, and makes the process of replaying fast and exciting. The core story is also built to offer more and more insight as you run different paths, making for a sense of a coherent game and not just a handful of alternative outcomes, each asking that you pretend the others never happened. It will inevitably have you barrel-scraping for story scraps if you have the 100 percent itch, but can stave off that kind of rote work for an impressively long run.
80%World End Syndrome Review
There is almost nothing to dislike about World End Syndrome. It looks and plays beautifully with a variety of shocking plot twists added among some well-known anime tropes which are comforting to read in a visual novel whose plot is definitely not cute and fluffy. It doesn't matter that, like all visual novels, scenes are reused over and over. The plot is so engaging that the repetitive nature isn't an issue, nor is having to load an earlier save when a wrong choice is made and the main character is brutally murdered. For those more easily scared it is advisable not to play this game in the dark, as ordinary night noise morphs into a death seeking being whose badness is not as clear cut as it seems. To get one hundred percent completion, several playthroughs will be necessary, yet each character is likeable enough that replaying it isn't a chore, not when more truths will be revealed by doing so.
80%Worldend Syndrome (Switch) Review
A mystery is unfolding, you just can’t see it most of the time.
65%
