I remember when I first saw the trailer for this game get shown in the February Nintendo Direct. I also remember the feeling I felt once I saw that familiar title and going absolutely balistic that one of my favourite detective mystery visual novels was getting an extended sequel. And, upon buying this game to try it out for myself, I have been left not only in complete awe, but also a bundle of every other emotion I didn't know was possible to feel out of a decently lengthed VN experience. And just like my last experience, PARANORMASIGHT did it right, all the way through to the end again.

This game is just phenomenal. As some reviewers have already mentioned in their reviews for this game, the PARANORMASIGHT games are perfect for people who like solving unknown mysteries as they get unravelled just like the Zero Escape games and AI Somnium FIles. But if I had to mention the best quality of Mermaid's Curse compared to Seven Mysteries of Honjo, it would have to be how many plot twists I did not see coming but how equally thrilled I was to have discovered something so plot changing. Those aspects didn't make or break my view of the game at all. I'd never been so terrified during so many unexpected sequences, so emotional during some scenes, so confident throughout some decisions yet be immediately shut down, gutted and flipped upside down to have something even wilder given to me instead. Some mystery games fail to achieve this, and it ends up lacklustre, driven by a plot that could be seen coming ten cutscenes earlier in the game written in bold. In PARANORMASIGHT, you get information. But you are the detective. You just didn't know you were. And that means getting your expectation subverted, tested, challenged along every step of the way and you wouldn't even know it. That's what is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good about this game and compared to SMOH, Mermaid's Curse made it 1000 times better.

As I try to describe my whole experience without spoiling anything, anyone who plays this is in for a treat. But this is incredibly better than the first one. That, however, is already hard to beat when the first one, was just as amazing of an experience that left me excited for Mermaid's Curse and returning satisfied.

Can't wait for the third one to come in the future :)

I beg Square Enix to make another sequel. Please.

i pretty much agree with other paranormasight fans that this game is solid but doesn't measure up to the first. also i just... couldn't really get behind the m/f romance TBH sorryyyy it's just so forced

but yeah enjoyable overall and i very much hope they make more games for the series.

also! this game has a trans woman, but in not really in the... traditional sense? (squint at a certain file and you'll get it). never expected it at all but hell yes