Just ended up playing this game. Or, better say, the graphic novel or game movie.
And I would like to address this review to the developers, the once greatest Konami studio. And it is a message to all the SH fans, who made this way from the original trilogy up to the present-day flop.
To be more precise and logical, I would like to start with an impression from gameplay, which is absolutely absent. After approximately an hour of runs and wanderings in the same building there is only one puzzle figuring out the code in the school hallways. Staring a graphic shader and presents greatly contributes to a VR-art object that hide an absolute abyss. No sensible message, the lack of details or any sort of connection with the previous parts.
A completely disjointed plot has nothing to do with the CONCEPT of SH. The teenagers' conflicts, involving typical puberty dilemmas and all the consequences of hormonal transitioning, are passed off as THE PROBLEM OF THE SAME LEVEL OF SERIOUNESS AS THE TRAGEDY OF A GIRL BURNED ALIVE, A MAN WHOSE WIFE IS DEAD FROM HIS OWN HANDS AND A DOZEN OF CHARACTERS SUFFERING SEVERE PSCHOLOGICAL DILEMMAS.
It is not an “undeveloped moment” – it is a LIE. Konami’s LIE and manipulation of their loyal fanbase. I need you all to UNDERSTAND this CLEARLY, my dear friends, following the downfall of such an amazing, ernest, starting with the Ascension and the mobile game and ending up like this.
This PRODUCT – and nothing more than it - serves the sneaky, greedy, commercial strategy of the new heads of Konami to draw the attention of young woke solvent auditory to their soulless product. The NEW Konami, that fired Hideo Kojima. The NEW Konami, that treats the new players as walking wallets, easily charmed by their nostalgia.