Taking place an hour after the events of the first game, MOaBoMOaBoM continues the story of a young girl with serious mental illnesses. It's never directly stated, however, and is instead expressed through horrific imagery and certain animated sequences, everything shown as if filtered through her own mind.

Most of the fun of this game comes from trying to uncover secrets from her past. Unfortunately, while I enjoy a good mystery, the game never seems to give you incentive to figure it out. It's more of a "do it if you want to or stop playing" sort of vibe which, although it didn't deter me, also just made some moments a bit boring to get through (especially a couple of the endings). In addition, while it is a visual novel in which you get to make choices, either option usually forces you to be mean toward the main protagonist, which does leave you feeling a bit icky. I get that that's likely the intent, to get you in at least a fraction of the mindset the protagonist may be in, but still, it doesn't feel the best. My last critique is that there is no "skip viewed dialogue" button or any sort of fast-forwarding that I could find, so achievement hunting (a task that requires you to replay like 75% of the game over each time to get different endings) is mostly made up of spam-clicking your mouse to get past the repeated dialogue.

All that being said, this is absolutely me nitpicking and I did enjoy the game as a whole! The art style is very pretty and its horror moments do get under your skin. It also had beautiful fully animated sequences, both at the start, and the end of the game which I adored. Once you have uncovered the story and have pieced together what's going on, not only does everything become more tragic, but the series as a whole starts to feel more grounded in reality. It's really moving and I'm glad I got to experience it.

Definitely not for the faint of heart, as there are loads of mature themes, and probably not for anybody who loses their patience too easily, but overall this is still a game I would recommend playing (as long as you've played the first game as well!)

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