VN - Others - Completed - Critical Point [Final] [Sweet Basil]

I've spent almost eight days on this game, reviewing its every ending. The two textual guides on GamesFAQ were absolutely useless, because they were full of errors. The one chart-like visual guide there was spot on.

The main problem of the game is poor taste. The abundance of blood, gore, and pained expression nullifies any erotic value.

One innovative aspect of this game is that the various plot branches don't just change the ending; they change the plot. Hence your knowledge of one ending cannot help you with another.
All variations, however, have something in common: They are over the top. In addition, the best ending is the one the player is most likely to just stumble into, so there is no logical relationship between challenge and reward. Some game-over events (endings) need not have been there, because they require the player take an immensely foolish choice. Others can be triggered simple by forcing the players to make a binary decision for which they never have enough info.

There is an official ending, though. (Ending 99, Elise's true ending.) It is disgusting and the most illogical.

On the whole, the game has tried to be a combination of eroge, tragedy, and horror. The result is being not good at any of them.

I started out absolutely fascinated by the game, but as I played more of it I realized the game isn't really one coherent story, but instead a bunch of stories laid on top of each other. There is no one solution to the mystery, instead there are a bunch of solutions that do not work together. At all.

It's a murder mystery CYOA, but the culprit is different depending on what choices you make.

These mysteries work well, as long as you only read one, but once you read more they lose all their magic.

Edit:
After consulting a guide, and reading all endings, I have to change my rating. The game, in essence, really is one very well written mystery story.
The different solutions I wrote about are actually very few in number, and read more as nukige fetish fodder in one case, and as an abandoned/underdeveloped plot point in another.

The game still has major flaws, way too many choices are terrible death traps with little reason to them, making the 20 endings filled with a lot of variations of "you die", and there really are only three routes that lead into non-bad endings, with some variations to each of them, and the two I mentioned before.
There is also the possibility that I missed something big here, if anyone knows if the Number 12 has a deeper meaning, i would love to have that explained.

All in all the game is good, a very compelling mystery, especially for its age, with flaws that keep it from being great.

Ah, and the porn is fine. There's a little BDSM, and some violent content, otherwise pretty standard. Definitley good, not worth playing for the porn alone though.