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Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita • 2017

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Quick resume

The dark is no place to be alone. After a beautiful show of summer fireworks, two young girls begin to make their way home. However, a mysterious attacker separates them, and both must brave the haunting night filled with unspeakable terrors and survive the darkness.

Global score

93/100

Genres

Adventure, Strategy, Puzzle

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    Pros

    • Strong emotional and atmospheric story
    • Beautiful hand-drawn art style
    • Engaging exploration and collectibles
    • Effective sound design and tension
    • Improved gameplay over predecessor

    Cons

    • Some cheap deaths and frustrating trial-and-error
    • Linear progression limits autonomy
    • Lack of combat or varied mechanics
    • Save points sometimes poorly placed
    • Game length considered short by some

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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