Seriously, the perpetrator must have lost his god-damn mind and gone to a new low when it comes to heavy obsession with a particular fictional character and review-bombing as multiple accounts? WHAT WERE HIS REGARDS when it comes to AI: The Somnium Files by Spike Chunsoft, a visual novel game? Not to mention that Spike Chunsoft specializes in adventure and visual novel game genres but back in the past, there were Chunsoft sound novel games and some games already had a television drama adaption. Many of those games by Spike Chunsoft are themed on murder mystery and you have to find clues and whatnot and then figure out the culprit behind the whole chain reaction of the incident in general. But be warned, there will be spoilers. Depending on the game, the story concept may or may not be quite dark when it comes to murder mystery theme. There was one sound novel game from Spike Chunsoft that was played by Chief Arino of Game Center CX and needless to say, he found the culprit, and thus, clearing the challenge and getting a good ending. Funny thing was, there was a localized release of that game although I don't know if the story will be same or not after you've seen the episode which obviously has tons of spoilers coming from the game he played. In regards to the review-bombing saga of AI: The Somnium Files, this is completely pathetic as if you care more for one particular stuff or one particular character depicted than the main stuff.
Apparently, the perpetrator had heavy obsession with a particular character which is a female high-school student doing live-streaming stuff although things won't go that smoothly because of the dark story depicted in the game. I won't explain what goes on as there will be tons of spoilers just like what other Spike Chunsoft visual novel games have. He doesn't like what goes on in the story but things about her are not the main important points of the game. The main important things are that, there's a murder incident going on in that game and it's your task to investigate it. The protagonist of the game is the male detective with the female internet personality I just mentioned being other one of the main characters. Of course, I don't condone that behavior the perpetrator had and I already blocked him on my Twitter and YouTube accounts for that.
Another thing he had done was that he review-bombed the game as multiple accounts under one or more different IPs to attract negative attention over whatever happened to that female character he liked. Followed by him coming up with various fake investigations of his only to be exposed some Twitter user like it's a murder mystery solving game already with that perpetrator being the culprit behind the whole mess. Eventually, he was banned from ResetEra but at least those involved in the development of the game were glad to have a happy ending and the game receives a higher user score than ever on Metacritic website.
Oh, as if that incident wasn't enough, the review-bombing CAME BACK AGAIN! Nobody knows if this is done by the same guy or not but it seems that the flaws are still there at Metacritic as if there's still no security feature against review-bombing. On Steam, there's already a feature like that and the user reviews stay mostly positive. Maybe the autistic anger is still there that the review-bombing came back again for the second time. Don't you hate such filthy nerds like that review-bomber for that indecent and immature behavior?
Some comment on Yongyea's video of this mentioned a case of a YouTuber being cyber-attacked by such similar individuals through false reports or something because that individual didn't like what that YouTuber said about the particular fictional character that individual had heavy obsession with but I don't know if that comment is true or not. If it's true, other YouTubers might end up making their own videos about that cyber-incident.
In the end, AI: The Somnium Files is one of the excellent games you should buy if you're interested in it and especially for other games done by the same director or even Spike Chunsoft themselves since that company specializes in various game genres like visual novels, adventure, sound novels, etc. Professional critics like it and give it a higher score with the average review score of being around 80%+.
