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1 person found this review helpful
6.8 hrs on record (1.1 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
Very promising for an early access game, even better as co-op.
Posted 28 November, 2022.
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2 people found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
382.3 hrs on record (349.9 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
They killed the game by adding EAC.

Edit:
One year later it's actually not that bad, they added a lot of mod-only features into the base game.
Posted 26 July, 2022. Last edited 27 November, 2023.
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3 people found this review helpful
2.4 hrs on record (1.5 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
This is an early access review so things might be a little or quite different if you play this in the future.

I'll start off by saying the game so far has nothing to do with the first Mirror other than the name and that the waifus are from alternate universes - the story, characters, setting and overall atmosphere are very different from Mirror, but this game also improves upon the concepts introduced in the original and polishes everything further.

Storyline:
The story feels more fluid, complex and generally higher quality. There's only one issue I can currently complain about - the length. There are choices which lead to different endings, so each heroine is replayable more than once with a very different outcome, but I still feel like the length is a bit lacking and could've been longer; I reached the first ending of Leah's story within 30 minutes including passing all the puzzles, the stories feel and go much faster than the length in Mirror, which is probably due to the fact that all the stories are mostly cutscenes with minimal text as opposed to Mirror being in a more classic vn-like format. If you enjoy watching over reading this will be a great improvement to you, but if you're an avid vn reader who prefers the classic format this will likely be a less appealing change.

Graphics:
I think it's one of the greatest improvements so far. The graphics are now 3DCGI and feel like watching an actual anime during the cutscenes. The character designs introduced so far are better than Mirror's in my personal opinion and the 3D models are high quality and polished. At the time of writing this review I was having slight texture glitches (textures fading in too slowly) during the cutscenes but this will likely get resolved in the near future. One thing that bothered me is that in the settings I couldn't find my monitor's resolution; I'm using an ultrawide monitor and had to play in a windowed mode to avoid having black bars on the sides - so if your resolution is unusual you'd have to stick with black bars or windowed mode - there are currently only 4 resolution settings.

Characters:
Only two characters were available as of writing this review - Leah and Rita; and only Leah had a story. I think so far the characters are well written, Leah's design, personality and overall appeal is quite nice, I prefer her over most of Mirror's original heroines so far. It's basically a waifu game over a proper "playable" game, so characters are probably the most important aspect of it, and I think they're going in a good direction with them so far.

Sound:
The soundtrack is pretty chill, doesn't get tiring too fast, and as opposed to the original Mirror - more modern-sounding as they're going with a sci-fi theme instead of the genre mess the first Mirror had. So it's pretty solid and keeps the same theme over the game instead of radically changing genres and style. I think they nailed the voice acting pretty great, the game currently has Japanese voice acting only as of writing this review.

Gameplay:
Honestly, not much changed in this regard; this is fairly similar to the original Mirror. There are four gem types, you just match them to trigger skills/combos and occasionally activate the skills you chose before starting the round. The new 3D graphics give it a more polished and modern feel, the difficulty is more or less the same as the original. The heroine's skill attacks against you are cute and well animated; some of the heroine attacks are very adorable, such as Leah drawing on your monitor from inside of it. Rita has an entire short cutscene dedicated to one of her skills so I think this was a nice touch. There is a flowchart that lets you view the endings you unlocked and which paths you've yet to unlock, this makes reaching endings more comfy and lets you replay certain cutscenes. There is some sort of a rhythm game style "touching minigame" which felt out of place but Leah's reactions during it were cute so I think it's it's okay that it exists; just feels like they could've used it for a different purpose - also yes, it's not lewd at all, you just touch randomly appearing hearts on the screen as the heroine covers one of her eyes or floats on a hoverboard, so you're basically just clicking the wall behind her...

To sum it up, Mirror 2: Project X feels like a more polished version of the original Mirror, - has a better structured storyline, better characters (so far at least), much improved graphics and interesting new mechanics (a rhythm game, the flowchart etc) but currently suffers from early access issues such as textures glitching during cutscenes, massive lack of content (only one heroine), very short storylines and it didn't feel as immersive as the first one did; the cutscenes also felt rushed instead of having a properly written story in a vn format. This is basically an interactive 3DCGI anime, so if that's your kind of thing and you enjoy match-3 gameplay, this is an amazing deal for it's price.
Posted 21 January, 2022. Last edited 21 January, 2022.
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78.8 hrs on record (48.5 hrs at review time)
Pretty fun, good selection of legends with unique skills. One of the better battle royale games that exist so far.
Posted 26 November, 2020.
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1 person found this review helpful
19.3 hrs on record (4.2 hrs at review time)
This game was one of my reasons to get a VR headset.
Lots of fun, has good music and makes you move to the beat; it's pretty physically demanding and once you get into the rhythm it gets you dancing to the beat.
Posted 29 November, 2019.
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3 people found this review helpful
8.2 hrs on record
At first it's Doki Doki because you start liking the characters, later it's Doki Doki because your heart is racing from the development, and the third time it's Doki Doki because this is what keeps you up at night.

The less you know about it the more you'll enjoy it.
Or you don't need to enjoy anything. Or anyone. You shouldn't be able to enjoy anything or anyone; nothing is supposed to exist because...

Just Monika.
Posted 10 November, 2017.
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