[Review] Chuusotsu! 1st Graduation: Time After Time
I’d like to preface this review by saying that I’m not a professional, or even an unprofessional, reviewer; I’m doing this largely for fun and practice, and not really to influence anybody’s decisions when it comes to buying the game. Additionally, expect mild spoilers . Chuusotsu! 1 st Graduation is a game that sells itself on the premise of ‘wacky philosophy’; the mission statement, as given by the game, is that a bunch of oddballs are assembled, given a philosophy question to complete, and will be kicked out of their shared accommodation if they can’t answer it within a time limit . While this is true, I would probably say that anybody going into the story expecting heavy philosophical musing is going to be disappointed. Largely, the game seems content just to pose the question of ‘what is philosophising? What is philosophy in modern, day-to-day life?’, which, while not a bad question, it never quite seems to reach a resounding answer to. This is, however, a game tha...