Moonless Moon Switch Review

I’ll just be straight up: Moonless Moon was not made for me, it was made for teenage girls. It is a visual novel about a teenage girl, meaning she’s angsty and self-absorbed. After dark, she gets transported to different worlds, all of which somehow mirror her angsty natures. There is a threadbare plot here, situated around the relationship because the main character, Yomichi, and another girl who visits the worlds named Madobe(by the window in Japanese, I wonder if there’s something there…). Its firmly in the YA genre, which I cannot stand, but again, this is not for me, its for teenage girls. What is noteworthy are the animated Jpop music videos. I captured part of one to show you:

There is some game play in Moonless Moon in the form of riddles, where you search text for keywords to fill in blanks in a sentence. They’re easy and skippable. I’m not sure why they’re even there. But they are. Otherwise, the game is mostly text over static images, though not in the usual visual novel style, which is nice.

In the end, Moonless Moon, again, was not made for me. I’m not even sure why I bought it. I don’t know what I was thinking. But I did. So I will give it a verdict and a score. Get ready for a Your Mileage May Vary verdict with an eight back-end score. The “text-based adventure game” firmly hits its target demographic, which isn’t me, so it gets what it gets. At the very least, its not Stilstand!

Overall: Moonless Moon is a visual novel that was not made for me, it was made for teenage girls. I think they will enjoy the story far more than I did.

Verdict: YMMV

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