In a world devoid of human life, you awaken as Mary, the last ear to listen, the last voice to speak.
Forsaken souls seek your help over numerous calls, in a desperate attempt to regain the feelings they’ve lost.
You are Mary, the last voice they hear, unraveling lost souls with just a telephone.
Souls bound with strong regrets suffer somewhere between the lands of the living and the dead, desperately waiting for someone willing to listen. Will you be that ear and voice?
Gupscore: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Category: Visual Novel, Emotional
Basically, Schrodinger’s Call is a game where you’re taking in phone calls from departed souls stuck in purgatory where they are simultaneously dead or alive, as is the concept of Schrodinger’s cat in quantum physics. The telephone represents the ‘box’ from where you as an observer, can’t really tell if the person you’re talking to is alive or dead from the other side, but the more you communicate, the more stories you gather, the more these entities have a way of creeping out the box and into your consciousness. You’re childen of science. You get it.
Make sure to play Schrodinger’s Call with headphones on blast because the music is this game’s main selling point. The eerie yet strongly emotional sound trip, coupled with the whispers of the afterlife, can make your spine tingle. You’ll find yourself shedding a tear and you haven’t read the full story yet.
The simple hand drawn graphics amplified by the psychedelic kicks and accompanying sound effects totally drew me in. I’m no expert on meditative or hypnotic music but every click kind of makes you feel like Chris in the movie Get Out whenever the tea cup clicked. You just lay back and sink in further and further.
Although this game has such a strong appeal to it, I feel like the protagonist’s backstory needed to catch up. I’m not sure how to feel about cloaking the protagonist’s persona with a scifi explanation for amnesia and like somehow she’s “special”. I’m personally not a fan of the clueless high school girl trope but the girl is giving off that exact vibe. Who knows, maybe her character development is in the full game, but so far I’m personally not attached.
There were also moments where I felt that the dialog was dragged to make it longer than it’s supposed to. I just hope the full game packs in more stories, but I’m assuming we’d only get six characters judging by the trailer.
Anyway, I’m actually excited to see the full game. I’m especially interested in games that tackle death and the afterlife.
Final verdict: I’d remember to play this when I’m on my period and needed that emotional push.
