With all that said how well does this mix of yuri and horror stand up against the more varied modern medium? Let’s follow the treads of fate and discover what this relic has to offer.
Even its strange collection of design choices are not enough to sour the overall package. Its strong core identity has only grown in potency as its peers have fallen into obscurity and a lack of the cliches of the current age makes for a novel experience. Akai Ito is very much a visual novel from a bygone era and this makes it a strange oddity in the modern day especially with how few games in the medium get HD remasters. Fate takes on a shade of grey with the feeling of love being tinged by the march of supernatural forces who care nothing for this newly formed bond.
However, nothing could be further from the truth as the game takes this romantic convention and repurposes it to further a disempowerment horror story. Genre - Horror, Yuri Play Time - 25 hours Developer - Success Steam VNDBīeing bound by the red string of fate is a common trope in Japanese romance stories and at first glance you might assume that Akai Ito would follow these conventions given its emphasis on yuri. This is a condensed version of the full review which can be found on my Main Blog Here.
