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I think it was about 7-8 years ago when I first heard about this game from a beauty influencer I followed that remarked that the story was emotionally impactful, that she liked Connor and hated Markus. I had this in mind when I booted the game up for the first time because I figured it must be a pretty good game if someone's giving it such a glowing review. Hell, even the graphics hold up pretty well despite this being a game that came out in 2018.

Heh.............

( basic spoilers around the premise but nothing you're not going to encounter if you play the beginning of each character's story )

I might write a more spoilery entry about this mainly because some of the shit that happens in the game is truly bonkers. I'm also doing another playthrough because I heard the Pacifist route was different, though I'm not sure i am going to suffer through a 3rd playthrough because Markus' route is such a slog to get through.

Probably the last thing I'll say about this is that I'm reluctant to play any of Quantic Dream's other games after this. Idk. TBD. I have access to both Beyond and Heavy Rain because of Family Sharing (which is how I was able to play this Masterpiece) so I might revisit the idea given I'm not losing out on much besides spending my own time. But honestly I may end up replaying Nier Automata or Replicant because I think that had a lot more to say about the whole Androids vs Humanity thing than Markus quoting Martin Luther King jr. and Emiliano Zapata.

I remember Sarah Sunstone on Youtube talking about this game about a year or two ago now (she's great for cozy game news and to my knowledge was one of the few cozy game YTers that didn't fuck with Hogwarts Legacy, bless). Initially I was pretty excited about playing it until I heard it had gatcha. At the time, I wasn't really aware of the freebie elements to the game, and as time wore on when I started hearing Controversy around the game (i.e. making it more grindy and removing the daily free pulls or something) I thought to myself that I was smart to take a pass on the game.

Moment of silence for my weak willed hypocrisy..............................

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I'm probably going to talk about this game more further down the line. Infold today came out with a statement regarding some leaks that happened recently and said they were "Poison to all creation". I just shitposted about this on tumblr because I was completely unaware there were any leaks. But recently The Escapist wrote about how players were clowning on them for it.

Worth highlighting this part of the article:

Infinity Nikki launched at the tail end of 2024 and was well-received during the initial updates. At some point, a few versions into the game, they changed how the gacha system works for outfits, a core part of the game. Rather than just give the outfit as an item, the team split it into 11 pieces that would require a lot of goes on gacha to get all of them. That’s a lot of cash if you don’t have that buffer in place.

Yeah, what fuckin' genius came up with that idea post-launch of a fucking gatcha game?