A big fan of Nyalras previous work, as Needy Streamer Overdose impacted Japan's mental health awareness, which also birthed a lot of similar style games in this "Dark Cute style". But also the main topic of someone's mental health and how social media, online perception and expectation can drive someone to the brink. We see this all the time in real life and Ame was a great representation of modern online fame. Even though it was represented in a visual point and click style game, NSO did a great job.
So going into Sister Other Paranoia I was excited to see what kind of story Nyalra would tell with this new narrative, as for most people, based on someone previous work there comes high expectation especially considering how great NSO succeeded.
I will try not to make it too lengthly and fairly spoilerish free, but going into the novel I felt like I definitely over expected a lot of points of the narrative, especially Sahana's purpose as a character. As she seemed like she would be a fairly important character in the story, but she came across as another side character that was not explored or given enough depth to feel any sort of attachment as the player. Im not really a professional in writing so please take my review with a grain of salt, im really just writing my thoughts. But as a user that consumes a lot of novels, I find an importance to feel attached to characters or make the reader care for them by making them more indepth, under standing their motives or importance, and how they connect to the MC and I feel like the story really tries to accomplish that, but it is done poorly. The MC himself is also very unlikeable but hes suppose to appear that way as he is a victim of his own mind, so of course he would be pessimistic around the world around him. so you have to see his point of view through his eyes and views. The concept was great in practice, but felt like it failed to accomplish what it was trying to do and fell off slowly or losing the plot.
