Certainly different from anything I have seen before, it definitely has a foot in either camp. On the one hand it is definitely a novel and on the other a game, it makes it a very different and interesting experience.  Visually it looks very Manga-esque in its graphic style and some of the expressions on the characters faces.  I did find that once I started to read/play, it quickly drew me into its world. You are carried along by your curiosity to see what impact your choices are going to have on the characters and storyline.

The game is graphically very comic book in style with manga style characters, and screens of dialogue.  You set the pace of this ’novel’ yourself.  I did find that it seemed to stop and start, but then it would by the very nature of this type of ’novel/game’.  The small miniature quests that you have within the story line do make it interesting, but again I found that if I read this as a novel for its own sake, rather than as a game I got two different outcomes. If I took a strategic view to it, it influenced my decisions more rather than if I was just reading a book and made for a very different outcome also.

As a concept I found this interactive novel a very interesting idea.  It is certainly different, that is for sure.  I was perhaps slightly disappointed with the way it looked.  It had a very old fashioned look and feel to it and I felt that perhaps in this age of fairly advanced processors and graphics that it wasn’t quite as slick and adventurous as it could have been.