I think I inhaled Paranormasight in like 24 hours

On the topic of obsessing over horror stories that are actually mysteries: I played Paranormasight! By which I mean hyperfocused on it and finished it in basically a day, because obsessing. It's a horror/mystery set in a specific neighbourhood of 1980s Tokyo, where you're trying to investigate the Seven urban legends Mysteries of Honjo to see if there really is a Rite of Resurrection that raises the dead.

And your clue that there's going to be gameplay-based fuckery is when it interrupts the initial credit roll to ask you what your name is. Put in a name, the guy does the standard "Just to check, your name is __________" — and he gets it wrong. For me I put in Susan, he came back with my switch username, which I thought was maybe just a weird bug or something? But when I said "No, that's not right," he immediately corrected back to Susan.

"Oh it's like THAT," I said. And I was right!

The non-spoilery stuff I can say is that the whole game is really meta and has a lot of fun with its nature as a game and a horror story! And the art is mostly really nice; everyone has the same duckface pout, which is so weird, but I like the way the colours and lines seem to smudge together. The colour palette is so muted though, and I didn't notice until I actually started writing this. Storywise, there's some stuff that I'm kinda "Huh" about, but for the most part I really enjoyed it.

... Anyway, onto the spoilers!

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My pitch to LexGarrett was "Y'know how Fate/Stay Night is about hypothetically seven people who are trapped in a death match ritual involving magical spirits based on legend and folklore? Paranormasight is exactly that." Will this convince him it's relevant to his interests? We shall see.