Surprisingly Great – World's End Club Review

This was made by Kazutaka Kodaka, Kotaro Uchikoshi and Takumi Nakazawa, three kind of obscure legends for their contributions to visual novels. (Danganronpa, Zero escape and Infinity respectively among others) It is only the first half of the game and yet so much interesting stuff happens. They show no remorse in whipping out plot twists you would expect to see at the end of a long story here. In addition, each twist is done with a beautiful simplicity, it rarely gets that complicated in its concepts or ideas yet surprises me anyways. In short, the story is GREAT. The characters are all pretty loveable and feel like actual kids. Surprisingly, the visuals weren’t totally awful, for me anyways. I was surprised by how well this ran given the full version also coming out on switch. I didn’t mind any instances of poor visuals that much because the artstyle and character designs were just sooooo good. The kids are so cute and emotive, and there’s a pretty hefty number of cgs/drawn scenes. The gameplay isn’t what you play this for, but it’s serviceable. The platforming/controls are far from perfect, but they do a good job breaking up story sections. I recommend it to any visual novel fans, at least to support these legends, and any folks who like playing games in their story. There’s not much to lose by giving it a shot and it’s less than 10 hours total. (9/10)
Review by any13th on World's End Club.