NO MORE WORK FOR ITO

The story is all over the place. I kept stopping every once in a while and coming back, but couldn't get through it after all.

Short psychological horror VN exploring the dangers of toxic work culture. The writing is overall good and the small cast feels fleshed out and developed relative to the runtime (be sure to check out the newspaper and chatlogs on the computer). The visuals are really well done! The atmosphere is excellent and mysterious ... unfortunately the ending has no real climax. Would be a big problem if the story was 20+ hours, but for 4-5 hours it's forgivable and I still recommend it for the overall experience. There are choices, but I didn't explore what, if anything, would change since I couldn't find a skip read text option.

a very niche and passionate indie project that never got the chance to fully bloom, developed under highly unfortunate real-world conditions and facing ultimatums that essentially forced a complete reconstruction in under 4 months. yet despite all of this, NMWFI is still a beautiful and complete experience that manages to tell a unique story that uses creative design choices in order to touch on many disconnected themes that finally intertwine towards the end. As someone that doesn't even like VN's, my only complaint is that this game didn't get to blossom into the original vision that the writer clearly had. It seems that they really wanted this to be a lot bigger and I can still see some remnants from a game that never got fully finished. So whilst I'm very satisfied with the final product, I can't help but wonder what this could've been if they had enough resources to fully spread their wings.