The “common route”, which goes from the beginning of the game to right before Aoba sets route to Platinum Jail, roughly takes half of your average playthrough(~5h?), while the love interest’s route takes the other half or a bit less. A good example of this is how in each route, Aoba must come in terms with how his power, associated with destruction, can be used to “destroy” the chains the bind his love interest to his past and traumas so he can move on and complete his quest.ĭMMd’s story structure doesn’t change much, if at all throughout its 5 routes. You get the idea: behind its crisp and colorful visual with catchy electronic music that inspired many memes, DRAMAtical Murder is a story about how love, self-acceptance and ultimately accepting and making peace with your past is stronger than any obstacle that comes your way. It’s also in the robots, virtual fights and fancy technology, but those are just fluff.
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It’s in Aoba’s indignation when he sees Toue on a TV spreading kind words of compassion with a benevolent smile while he and his company perform literal crimes against humanity. It’s in the troubled and painful past of its cast, filled with betrayal, abandonment, scientific malpractices and loss of loved ones, who need to learn or relearn the concept of being loved and finding that life may be worth living. It’s in the lovingly detailed backgrounds of the Old District, ravaged by a megacorporation but populated with all kinds of people who look out for each other and just want to live their life, in sharp contrast with the cold, sterile luxury of Platinum Jail that’s filled with rich people who believes themselves to be the “chosen ones”. Actually, I think the term was only brought up recently by its English publisher JAST Blue, possibly to hop on on the controversies brought up by the release of Cyberpunk 2077 and how this game doesn’t live up to its own name.Īnd yet in DMMd, cyberpunk is everywhere. You just can’t compare yourself to them.ĭRAMAtical Murder doesn’t brag about its cyberpunk-ness. With that said, if you are a game developer yourself, don’t feel too bad: at the time of DMMd’s release, Nitro+ already had 10 years of experience and dozens of games under its belt, as well as a large team of professionals, art assistants and an art director.
Better luck with Unity or Unreal engine, for C++ and C# (used if I recall correctly for the in-house Nitro engine) languages are faster than Python. While playing it again after several years, I often found myself wondering “would I be able to reproduce that in the Ren’py engine?” the answer was often “yes, but it will be a slow, stuttering mess”. This, I guess, makes DMMd a good starter visual novel for people who are new to the genre and won’t feel too lost at the lack of choice or whatever people consider “not a video game”. Liner Notes of Akkyun, staging director of DMMd, translated by JAST USA
Since DMMd is a first-person game, we wanted you to feel what Aoba is feeling, the growing terror of having something inside your head. These effects hold up well in 2021 and remain unmatched in the BL category.įor example, there are parts where you’ll hear a vibration that slowly gets louder. This is by design: special effects, use of 3D for décor, video overlays for some animated sequences and and other technical prowesses are part of Nitroplus’ trademark. Playing DMMd, you would be forgiven if you had the feeling you weren’t playing a visual novel but good old J-RPG. Toue sees life as a game that he is currently winning and he would like to see how far he can go before fate stops him. The Big Bad, the man who own the gigantic amusement facility called Platinum Jail, which overtakes most of the Midorijima island.
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