Never 7 - The End of Infinity

You should trust the reviews saying that this isn't worth your time. At first it seemed fun but then it gets really really tedious, and it's just very hard to ever care much about what's happening since none of it ever really feels real or impactful.

the beginning of era here with funky scifi
solid vn that would be the prototype of many hit titles like zero escape and ai somuin file
but man this one really is a drag (even for me who enjoys slow paced) and some things didnt really age well 20+ years later but some routes are nice
its meh

when you have such dogwater game with women the universe has to rewind time

Absolute Cinema

...Okay, this one is on a more underwhelming side of things and feels more like a "first serious training project" kind of game. Not a terrible waste of time by any means, but falls behind Ever17 (and any other project Uchikoshi made afterwards) and has some unforgivable gaps for modern sci-fi VN standards.

I mean it's alright, don't mind the low playtime, I've played through the entire game on the PSP fan translation before and only really bought it here cause i said i would if it ever got properly released outside of japan as i used to be a massive Kotaro Ushikoshi slob, with 999 and VLR being 2 of my favourite games of all time and I just have a very soft spot for the first 2 AI the somnium files games.

As for Never 7 The characters are nice, well developed, the music is pretty damn good, The story is alright until the ending, where It feels like they were building up to something pretty neat but instead just decided to dip out and make a massive deus ex machina for why things were happening the way they were despite the game giving clues and foreshadowing for something else.

A Massive miss for me though was the almost complete lack of QOL improvements that the PSP remaster brought over, For being visual novels the Infinity Games starting with Remember 11 used to have an insane amount of neat additonal content, a gallery, music player, Ending Tracker, the TIPS section would give information about world building, inside jokes and what not, pausing the game told you information about your current scene, how far you are into it. It sounds really stupid but these little additions did really add alot for me and seeing almost all of them gone sucks

I don't know if i'd recommend this game to someone who isn't either a visual novel connoseur or a pre existing uchikoshi fan, If your either of those things though it's not a bad time