Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa is a 2019 visual novel video game developed by Art and PQube for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows.
Gameplay In Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa, the player chats with other characters to uncover clues. Each chapter's antagonist is defeated by stripping them naked, using the "happy meter" and a match three puzzle minigame.
Plot and characters The story sees a student, controlled by the player, making a pact with a demon fox named Mon-chan, wielding the power of Kotodama, to uncover facts and clues about sinister events at the school, Fujisawa Academy.
Characters are: Nanami Kagura, an energetic and optimistic girl, the first friend at the academy that the player meets Honoka Ichinose, a shy and quiet girl who loves animals Shuji Toyama, the most popular guy at the academy Yukino Tsubaki, the academy's spoilt and rich kid and who bears a grudge against Nanami Wakaba Asagiri, a girl who serves as President of the Occult Research Club Kujo Satsuki, the smartest student at the academy and who knows many secrets about the academy Chinatsu Hachisuka, a bossy girl Mikoto Sasaki, an incredible student and athlete at the academy before killing herself, haunting the academy since
Development Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa was developed as the first original IP of PQube, who had only been a publisher up until that point.
Reception
The game has received "mixed or average" reviews according to Metacritic with a score of 62. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received weak approval, being recommended by 43% of critics.
Pocket Gamer scored it 3 out of 5, saying that it is "going to appeal to a very niche audience", although noted that the storylines are "messed-up" and criticised the lack of autosave. Matt S of Digitally Downloaded thought that the game is "so, so good", praising the fanservice, humor, character design and puzzles themselves.
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