Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation

Hoh boy this one hurts. 3 years after the kickstarter, 2 years after it turned up dry and had to issue refunds, we have the prequel episode stretch goal at least, dropping out of seemingly nowhere like a Mediator phasing into our reality from another plane. And what has all this hullaballoo resulted in? A... An okay, but purposeless prequel. Oops. The emphasis is really on purposeless here. The game follows Winter's...

130 found this helpful, 2017-07-25

The art is a complete and utter failure. It's too painful to even look at. LtMC was really beautiful, but Orientation is sub-average and doesn't match the established asthetic. Winter looks like a complete moron, grimacing and blushing like an vacuous moeblob reject, the new characters are very poorly designed and don't fit in at all with the themes established in LtMC. I was really pleased to see Dischan return,...

44 found this helpful, 2017-10-31

A very short kinetic visual novel (took me 1 hour to finish) and a prequel to Learning to Manage Chaos. To be honest, I think you really need to get the first game to fully understand (maybe even like?) this prequel. I think that it can be somewhat boring and confusing to new readers so make sure to play the first game. Dysfunctional Systems was already a “dead project” when I first got into it. The first chapter...

36 found this helpful, 2017-09-23