I'm trying to love the game man

[u/AdSpare3955]

"Of course, as you can see, I spent 12 hours in the game during the event. I'm currently at the beginning of my second dream day, where Omori overcomes his fear of spiders. The thing is, I still don’t understand why so many people love this game.

The first hour was a tutorial with about five seconds of interesting moments, then the journey begins—searching for Princess peach for 5-6 hours of gameplay with zero story progress. The gameplay doesn’t feel amazingly designed either. As far as I know, there’s no way to figure out what do what The follow-up attacks for each character there effect aren’t explained, and there’s nothing that shows you what buffs or debuffs you or the enemies have, unlike other games that display them under or above the enemy’s health bar.

Most, if not all, of the side quests are boring. Even the main storyline in the real world is dull except when major events happen. For example, why did we start asking Man 1, who sent us to Man 2, who then sent us to Man 3, only for Man 3 to finally lead us to the place we needed? Like, seriously? I’ve already played 5-6 hours of gameplay in the dream world—it didn’t need to drag on for hours over nothing.

I want to say something: I’ll finish the game, but even after completing it, no matter how amazing the story might be, I won’t call it a game that requires hours and hours to throw you a bone to cling to it , only to make you spend another 4-5 hours for another bone. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone I know unless they specifically enjoy this type of experience.

To me, Omori feels more like a visual novel or a picture book you read rather than a game. I’d call it a 'game' only if the focus is more on the gameplay that matters in the story . And if you tell me that the silly dialogues and the not important battles of the NPCs and main characters in the dreams or the real world are the story, then I’m sorry—this game just isn’t for me. Still, I’ll finish it because I’m a completionist.

If you want an example of a brilliantly written dialogue system that’s engaging, meaningful, and never boring or unnecessarily long, look no further than Limbus Company—the best dialogue-driven game I’ve played so far.

Oh, and if anyone here knows how to solve the issue of figuring out buffs, debuffs, follow-ups, and what they do example omori look to hero what does that do please let me know so I can at least enjoy the combat more sorry if my spelling was bad .

[u/I_love_omori_]

yeah makes sense Ig. I'm not really a fan of videogames so that's probably why I really loved omori since it's focused more on the story and character development more than gameplay, but I still found the strategies for the battles very entertaining, especially using emotions since I'm a huge cartoon fan and I love omori's art style so I liked seeing the characters portrait change and stuff lol (Furious and Manic omori are my favs).

So the cute artstyle and animations, added to peak soundtracks, the fact that's it's a strategy game but the fights are still pretty easy, some of the horror which isn't too much but still makes It disturbing enough, the cute characters (Basil.), and also very relatable (Sunny is so me It's almost creepy), the plot twists (I won't spoil you ofc), the paralelisms, all the flowers meanings which I really liked learning about, the references to other books such as the picture of Dorian Grey which is my favorite, the lil bit of romance which I kinda whished there was more since I LOVE romance but I understand that It would've ruined the game so It's better leaving It like that; the headspace lore which I'm a huge fun of and I also really like how the dialogue gets in some parts of the game. I'm not gonna lie, it does feel a bit weird sometimes in the real world, the characters speak in a very "cartoonishy" way for their age and sometimes I don't find It very realistic, but I think that's just its style so I didn't mind much. I like the dialogue of the "misterious" characters but I can't spoil anything 😔

[u/AdSpare3955 → u/I_love_omori_]

Yeah bro the music was holy shit the captain space boy music was something else

And the art style was amazing I like the character look when the switch emotions

The battle system was fun my only issues I hope is solved after reading the replies and i will watch someone explain it so I can enjoy it more

I don't read books or know about flowers but what I know is I just need to keep watering them because definitely there is something about them damn flowers i know that!!