While Death Becomes You’s overarching paints an intriguing murder mystery, the visual novel fails to impress as a whole. The main offender here is the underwhelming audiovisual presentation, although the lack of depth when it comes to worldbuilding doesn’t help either. The cast feels needlessly limited, with the academy feeling empty as a result, and the magical elements are severely underused. Add to this that the romance elements feel unnatural and tacked on and you end up with a story idea that is interesting in theory but undermines itself in practice.
Death Becomes You - Mystery Visual Novel
Quill Game Studios · Nov 9, 2021
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Death Becomes You is a murder mystery visual novel set in a magical university. Who murdered your best friend?
You find 4 suspicious students at the scene. As all of them turn on you and accuse you of the murder, how can you find the truth and prove your innocence?
Untangle the reasons behind Lyra's death by building friendships with 4 of your fellow magic students. What dark motives and complicated relationships will you discover?
Features:
* Multiple routes and 10+ endings (1 true end)
* Complex characters to discover
* 77,000 word story
* Chamber ensemble original soundtrack composed by Jeffrey Clements
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- 8.0Overall, Death Becomes You is a great visual novel that improves and becomes extra twisted with every playthrough. And that’s crucial for a game offering so many possible endings for you to reach. As a murder mystery, it’ll keep you guessing throughout and the excellent character building is a real reason for this. It’s so disappointing then, that the protagonist is bereft of almost any redeeming qualities. She’ll annoy the hell out of you for the most part.
- Como jugadores, debemos tomar decisiones para que la historia de Death Becomes You ponga las cartas sobre la mesa, arriesgándonos a señalar con el dedo a alguien a pesar de las consecuencias que podamos enfrentar a posteriori, o que ese alguien sufra un horrendo final. El destino de cada uno de estos está en nuestras manos en una propuesta que provoca una emoción tan intensa que estimula todos los sentidos a gran escala. En pocas palabras, tiene un modo de narrar irrepetible en una atmósfera sofocante.
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