About This Game The year is 2030. Business is as usual in the isolated research city of Rokumei–that is until several explosions suddenly go off in the nuclear research facility known as “LABO.” The city sends in “Sirius,” an elite rescue squad, to deal with the situation. But the situation only gets worse when LABO’s nuclear reactor melts down, sending the facility into lockdown–with members of Sirius and survivors still trapped inside. With lethal radiation leaking everywhere and not enough anti-radiation medication to last until lockdown lifts, the survivors make more and more grim discoveries. In their struggle for survival, in a deathtrap full of fire and radiation, they learn that doubt is their greatest enemy, and trust their greatest asset. The story of Root Double features two different protagonists: Watase Kasasagi, a rescue squad captain who has lost his memories in the hours after the incident, and Natsuhiko Tenkawa, a student piecing together the clues in the six days before. The only key to survival lies in the player’s hands with the Senses Sympathy System (SSS). Unlike traditional visual novels, Root Double does not have clear cut “choices,” but rather, the game uses SSS to allow the player to manipulate the story based purely upon emotion. Your emotions projected upon the characters, particularly your trust in them, shape the progression of the story. Only with effective use of this system and completion of both protagonists’ stories can the player piece together the truth and hope to discover a way out of the facility. 7aa9394dea Title: Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend EditionGenre: AdventureDeveloper:Yeti, RegistaPublisher:Sekai ProjectRelease Date: 27 Apr, 2016 Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition Crack Serial Key root double before crime after days xtend edition review. root double before crime after days xtend edition. root double before crime after days xtend edition walkthrough I'm a fan of the Infinity series. I've played them all, Never7, Ever17, Remember11, and also some other titles from the director of this novel that I wont mention because I dont know which is the copyright status of their translations at the moment (unofficial so probably not approved). Prior to this review, I have finished the game (all endings) and unlocked most of the epilogues. Needless to say, I'm also a big fan of Mr. Uchikoshi - and therefore his best friend maker of this game Mr. Nakazawa. So what to say....Spoiler warningBlick Winkel changed his pantaloons and was given a smaller role in this novel, but it's still there. Mr. Nakazawa loves to play with the 4th wall. Wether is Self, Mr. Spirit, Blick Winkel, or Santa Claus, it is always the same thing. So... if you have played another novel made by KID or Regista, you will know what to expect. This is a good point for those that didnt play any other novel from the same author, but for "us" avid readers it feels old quite fast.The twists were all expected, so much so that I often had to shake my head in response to the hints in routes B and D while muttering "Really? Is this it?". Everything feels so simple, so... easy to figure out. It is clearly a more bland, easy going experience if compared to Remember11 or Ever17, it is closer to an anime than a proper visual novel of this genre. I was always expecting a new twist or a final revelation that never came. It feels a bit dull in the end.Some moments were a little cheesy, others were totally out of place. Route A is the best because its something that fans of the genre and the author know and expect\respect, and its great for setting the mood. B feels a bit boring, has its unnecessary moments, classic anime reactions and characters with one note only, to be fair my least favorite despite the good twist, again easy to figure out. D was a bit of a mess, and characters once important were then forgotten in the background with 2-3 lines every hour or even less. The True Ending didnt satisfy me in the least. The Good Endings were fine, but still not really worth the effort because the outcome could be spotted from a mile away.Overall, I consider this one of the lesser titles that Mr. Nakazawa has created, if we speak about the storyline and characters. The bad endings werent so appealing too, R11 bad endings were terrifying and shocking in comparison, something that Root Double lacks. The "main vilain" is a joke, but it serves its purpose. I just wished that the info dumping part would end in route B instead of being dragged on till the very end of D, where any normal person would have noted what was important and could have figured out on his own the remaining answers. Even after the complaints, i recommend this title because its visually stunning, has great voice acting, good sound design, and it embodies a genre that absolutely needs to be ported on to Steam en masse. If you dont mind a very light hearted journey through the lives of nine people trapped in a laboratory dealing with all sorts of dangers and philosophical speeches, and you can get over some really stupid lines, you may enjoy this product. I hope many people get to love this genre so we'll all play new extreme escape adventures of great quality.. Finished Root A and in the middle of Root B right now and I'm loving it so far.I definitely prefered Root A (intense suspenseful mystery game) to Root B (Slice of life with segments of suspense) from what I've seen so far but together they make for a good game.Would recommend for fans of the Zero Escape series or Ever17 :). Really good and interesting story. Can recommend it for sure. Get ready to spend there more than 40 hours, just to reach real ending. Very well made visual novel with captivating story full of surprises, great character development as well as nice visuals and audio. Definitely recommended to all VN readers.Didn't really like the decision to transfer the RAM system to Xtend episodes.. Root Double: Before Crime * After Days -Xtend Edition (ROOT√DOUBLE) is a mystery/sci-fi visual novel video game developed by Regista and Yeti collaboration. It was first released on 2012. An updated version called Xtend Edition was later released in 2013 and finally 2016 for PC.ROOT√DOUBLE is a beautiful game. 60-70 hours long of story. Nice visualization and bgm. Fully japanese voiced dialogues with mostly famous voice actors. All-round interesting/likeable casts. Several mysteries and plot twists will thirst a player with curiosity as they want to find out more and more. The great thing about this game is that every single phenomenon that represented here are explained by sciences which are all existed in real life topics. And most of time, plot twists and explanations are worth the wait. It's well-educated writing that even rare to find in most sci-fi of a same genre or what not. As a name of genre stands, much of gameplay will involve the player reading the story's narrative through text and image. Required little to no interaction from the player. The player then will be presented with decision options that affect the course of the game. The decisions made result in one of branching storylines in game, which player will end up with different ending. An essential system to that is called "Senses Sympathy System" ("SSS"). Instead of giving out a flat-out choices like most other VN does, the player is represented with the way to manipulate player own impression or feeling toward characters via SSS throughout the game. Player's "feeling" will affect character they currently take control and thus influencing them to take different action, eventually affect the progress of the story. The SSS is based on the Enneagram of Personality, with each of the main characters representing one of the nine different types. When player reach certain point of story where it supposedly calls "branches" player will be presented with SSS Enneagram where the player is allowed to give their input or adjust feeling. However, only characters that are relevant to the scene can have their Senses be adjusted. There're several branches in the game and player will be given opportunity to adjust SSS more than they can count, thus there're several ending in the game. To add more convenience, it comes with save/load states where player can choose to save or load to any point of game. It also comes with auto play text and voice without having to constantly click a screen to process, and fast forward button for skipping the entire set of dialogues to the next important choices that can be resulted in different route immediately. They also include the skip an already readed-text button in case you want to revisit some part of story in between. The best feature is that you can jump backwards to any scene you want by accessing backlog, there's no limit in jumping backward so can keep doing that until you back to square one ROOT√DOUBLE takes place in fictional location in Japan called Rokumei City far distant into future (AD 2030). Inside the giant nuclear research facility, an incident occurs. And thus, nine characters are trapped inside such facility's basement. Running the risk of exposing in nuclear radiation, the nine characters must do every mean necessary to survive. As they move on, they uncover several mysteries that occurred right in that closed space. Overwhelmed by stress and fear, paranoid and malice, the player's determination will be put into test, should their most honest "feeling" able to save all nine souls and uncover all the mysteries that surrounding them?Story has two main scenarios and two characters for each, and some more unlockable scenarios. Two main characters are Watase Kasasagi of √A and Natsuhiko Tenkawa of √B. Entire story is as long as 60-70 hours fills with pure story. Upon complete the game, an additional Xtend episode is unlocked, where player can learn a bit more about character.Watase is the captain of the rescue squad for Rokumei City sent to nuclear facility and conduct resuce operation. However due to unknown reason, he suffers from amnesia and does not remember who he is. Though he's still weighed with responsibility as the rescues squad and have to save everyone no matter the condition he is in.Natsuhiko is the high school student, who find himself searching inside the facility for some reason and get caused up in the nuclear meltdown.Due to how stories are told, playing √A first is recommended, as the √B contents several spoiler for √A and is mostly fill up with lore and explanation which may or may not dragging player around. If player manage to complete both √A and √B, a more scenario will be unlocked.On top of interesting storyline are a refined arts and well composed soundtracks. they sometime give you a sense of stress, fear and even sorrow and happiness, they're all delivered through them. Player will find there's something worth remembering in every scnces. Once a supposedly flat-normal conversation of some scenes can suddenly turn depth once you reach certain plot in story later on. There're several unlockable CGs as well.In conclusion. I seriously recommend to anyone who're interesting in a serious/mystery with dose of sciences. It's honestly an hidden gem, and unfortunately is an underrated game. It stands on high quality VN. It's obvious that the writer had put so much thought on it, and studied a lot just for this game to exist.Note: There's no 18+ version of a game.. This is actually my first-ever Steam review, but I felt that this VN tended to go under people's radars, and I'd like to do my part to introduce Root Double to anyone interested in this sort of thing.A lot of people have compared Root Double to Ever17, and I agree completely. The story is fascinating in its lore and setting, and plays around a LOT with the idea of mistaken identity, in all possible senses of the term. There are some truly spirited plot twists here, many times nested within eachother, and yet it's all so well-plotted as to never become confusing or needlessly convoluted. Every character is fleshed-out and sympathetic, and the postgame content only solidifies this fact.The music is quite well-composed, fitting well to the surrounding context and displaying a wide variety in terms of mood and instrumentation. I still get a number of pieces from this game stuck in my head, and I couldn't be happier.In some ways, the far-out plotting and at-times intensely dark storytelling make me think of the Zero Escape series, another of which I am an enthusiast; however, this obviously does not extend to the gameplay of Root Double, which is entirely text\/image-based.All in all, fans of well-plotted, well-designed visual novels really should give this one an honest try. I disagree with those who argue the game is overlong or has long dry spells: a lot of the less-eventful spans, I would argue, are absolutely necessary for establishing sympathy (no pun intended) with the characters, without which the myriad plot twists (especially en route to the True Ending) would no have anywhere near as much impact.It's honestly hard to do true justice to this highly-overlooked VN, but I should point out one more thing: the reader gets a LOT of content for their money, thereby explaining the admittedly-high cost of admission.TL;DR: A must-buy for fans of the storytelling style of Ever17 and Zero Escape. An excellent VN, overall.. Finished Root A, and now I feel okay with giving this a thumbs up.So far, this VN to me is mainly a very thrilling story about survival in a mysterious place with a bunch of people that you're not always sure if you should trust or not (including yourself). I've spent a lot of time getting a bunch of bad endings - there are many of those in Root Double. You might find gathering them to be enjoyable, just like in Fate/stay night.Now, something that could be seen as a negative or even a positive depending on what you're looking for: It's kind of... "straightforward". The dialogue and narrative. It doesn't seem like the kind of story where you end up thinking hard about something deep that a character just said/implied. And yea that'll be a negative for some (like me). But that may or may not change with the later routes. Technically I've only seen one part of the VN. Already proven false and I'm still far from done with the VN. So yea this is very promising.The biggest surprise for me though is how intensely mysterious AND creepy it gets at times. Really did not expect that. Scene transitions, music (some of the unnerving tracks are extremely effective), text effects, graphical effects, etc. All used very well, better than most translated VNs. I mean, to me at least, Root Double might as well have 'Horror' added as a minor tag to it. I'm impressed. Presentation-wise, the mysteries in this are really, really good. There's a sense of dread this VN gives you with its mysteries and I just love that stuff.As it is, I'd highly recommend Root Double to people who enjoy mystery stories, such as the Infinity series and Zero Escape. I don't know how the story will pan out in the rest of the routes, but at the very least Root A is great.I'll probably make an update later after I'm done with the whole thing. One of the best Visual Novels that you can play on Steam at the moment. One that excels at characterization, at the end of the journey you'll feel empathy for almost all the characters of the game, many tragic moments that have a powerful effect on you, because of the affection you've gained for them during the journey. They have all a deep background story and motivations for all the actions they'll take during the VN.It's not a VN about the plot twists and the end result, it's about the journey you have with the characters and the world.Don't get me wrong, it has some really good plot twists and intriguing mysteries, but it's not the main focus and strongest point of the VN.I liked all of Nakazawas Visual Novels, but they are really different and not comparable, they have elements in common but that's it, I/O for example did not have as much focus on the characters as in Root Double, but the worldbuilding was even more believable, and the overall plot really complex and it didn't gave you the answers at the end whereas Root Double answers all your questions!Compared to Remember11 it's even more different, Route A with more focus on tension and pacing of the story is the most similar section you'll find in Root Double.But the rest of the vn, especially the seCond half is entirely different than Anything he's Done before!. If you're familiar with the Takumi Nakazawa's work (specifically the Infinity series), you will get a feeling of familiarity as this visual novel follows similar themes in his previous works. Even so, this is definitely a thrilling experience for fans that are already accustomed to the genre. If you haven't read his other sci-fi visual novels, do it if you like this one.This game starts with two routes: A and B. A is faster paced than B, but it leaves far more questions than answers. If you start A first, you will be thrown into a confused chaos, all cleverly planned of course. B is a slow slice of life that has intermittent action sequences. It is enjoyable and you will get more answers, but it is really slow. It made me feel like reading less per day as a result. I was willing to ignore the flaws of the slow route because the final routes that were unlocked were worth the wait.Overall, I'd highly recommend this game to anyone who likes sci-fi's with decent twists to them. As a fair warning, this visual novel is absolutely massive. Make sure you have the time to dedicate reading something this gigantic. I unlocked everything in the game (TIPS, endings, CG, etc.) in 128 hours, but the normal reading time is probably between 40-60 hours. I bought it on sale for 50% off, but it is worth the full price if a sale price isn't available. Anything less than 50% off is a steal.. I'm only done with the first chapter of Root A, but I can safely say the amount of detail put into this story is astounding. Root Double may be a sci-fi story, but they did so much research to write this visual novel that it actually feels realistic and compelling. They really did their homework.While there's no 1080p, what they've accomplished with 720p is a thing of beauty. Out of all visual novels I've ever read, when it comes to special effects and overall production, Root Double wins easily hands down.I've found all characters are believable thus far and I like it how they stand out in their own ways. As for the music, I think most tracks fit the moment and the atmosphere perfectly.All in all, this has been a great experience for a mystery/sci-fi lover like me!
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