7 Days is a Visual Novel interactive text adventure game and its story can get you hooked, but there are some things that might push you away.
In this article we will talk about both good and bad sides of Loop so you can decide if this is the right game for you.
PROS
1. Your decisions matter.
Every time something happens in the game you can have 2 options that you can pick from. And those decisions can either directly influence the gameplay and plot or can change other characters attitude towards you, which will have a long-term consequences.
2. High replayability
You can have different start options and several endings. Moreover there is a pretty big timeline with story options diagram. So you can either start a fresh run and try to play it differently to see different events or select a day and dialogue to start with and continue from there.
3. One run takes about 1-2 hours.
That means that you can go through one run from start to finish in one go and feel all the emotions that comes with it. No time to get bored and you wont forget what happened few days ago. Its just perfect.
CONS
1. Dialogue speed
There are 2 things about it. 1st is it goes by automatically until you get to the decision point. You cant stop it and it can ruin immersion if you didnt managed to read something in time or got distracted.
2d is the fact that skipping dialogue isnt fast enough. In case if you are replaying a chapter and want to go to the specific points you want to skip dialogue as fast as possible, but it isnt an option.
2. Overall game length.
Even though getting through the game in 1 hour is good and you can replay it about 3-4 times, after that it becomes not as fun, since you will start getting same sequences, that you cant skip fast enough. So either having more story branches, endings or something like that might help with the game life length.
Verdict. Is 7 Days Good?
Yes!
Its a great visual novel with a mystic coating to it. Stories are interesting and it left me curious to explore other options to open up all endings. Even for someone who doesnt play visual novels too often 7 Days managed to hook me for a while and its a good sign.