![]() ![]() The Persona references come across with the art style and high school setting, but the games also share connective tissue in Satomi Tadashi, who wrote both The Caligula Effect games and was a scenario writer on the first three Persona titles (the music was done by Tsukasa Masuko, a former Megami Tensei composer which is the series that Persona was spun off from). That might sound kind of confusing, so just think of it as if The Matrix was run by Hatsune Miku and she played a lot of the Persona game series and you’re pretty much on track. ![]() It’s a virtual world run by a virtuadoll and her musicians. To try and break down the story a little, the world of The Caligula Effect 2 is not real. The game throws a lot of terms at you and then briefly explains them, which is still kinda confusing for people new to the series, and I’d expect quite annoying for those that finished the first game. Additionally, the expository info dump is quite… confusing. Again, JRPG’s are notorious for this, but generally you’ll be given a basic task or quest or even be able to walk from one cutscene to the next. The latter moment occurring about 35 minutes into the aforementioned 40 minutes. Dotted between these cutscenes are two moments: one where you can control your character, however, you’re in an empty hall and just need to walk to the end, and a second moment where you have a few sort of mock battles, that teach you the combat system. The Caligula Effect 2 opens with approximately 40 minutes of linked cutscenes before you can either save or explore. It is a negative shared by quite a lot of JRPG’s, and that is pacing issues. This isn’t really a problem per se, but I imagine a lot of the people that played the first would be sort of bored by the repeated elements and just be rushing to get to unfamiliar twists.Īnd this brings me to my first major negative, unfortunately. Now again, I did not play the original, but the characters refer to it enough and point out the matching plot points to the level that the protagonist’s group becomes known as the Go-Home Club second year (As opposed to the original game’s group being called the Go-Home Club). ![]()
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