I don't really remember when I got this... I knew it was on sale and by the same company that made the visual novel Nightshade that I was planning on getting a physical copy of to play. I had seen enough of the visual novel on youtube that I quit reading it that way and bookmarked to get it eventually (it's actually arriving within the next week ^w^). I also am getting Bakumatsu Renka Shinsengumi by them within in the next week as well but that is beside the point.
I've not played many hidden object games outside random free ones online in the past, so I wasn't really sure what to expect from this game, but it does have a storyline. I guess we are a doctor or used to be anyways and have some kind of mental illness. It seems finding the hidden items might help with the mental problems somehow according to their narration anyways. Everything is told in text and unfortunately there isn't a way to read the in-scene text without the timer ticking down, but it seems there is no punishment for messing up. You can retry as much as you want without penalty it seems.
Each scene has multiple layers of searching to it with some changes in the scene as you go. The scenes each have their own story bit to them and as such are labeled as separate stories as you unlock them. Once you select a story you can then select the stage of the story which determines the items to find along with each stage sharing more of the overall story before and after finding the items. The more stages finished the more of the story is shared which is a puzzle of its own since the narrator themselves seems to have no memory of what is going on or really why other than to work on figuring it out to prevent from being considered insane.
The different story selections seem to all be different medical cases of some sort. They are all things that are illogically impossible for the most part it seems too. Solving each one has the narrator claim he (I believe it's he anyways) is feeling better or getting better somehow another. I personally find each puzzle disturbing and am not sure he's better for solving it but might just be pretending to be in hopes to be a doctor again...
Finding the items is becoming a little harder in each scene and story as I progress which I appreciate from a gameplay standpoint. I still feel like I have no clue what is going on with the story and I'm already on the 4th story in which is almost halfway as there are 8 total according to what I've found in a small amount of research into the game's length. I didn't look too much so as to avoid spoilers in the game's story that hopefully will explain itself as it goes.
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