>>7163I was working on DingNing's OUROBOROS, but I abandoned it. I'll write some of my thoughts about it here:
You play as a girl Shi/Xi/夕 who goes to visit a hospitalized schoolmate in the place of your friend who turns out to be strangely similar to you. Shortly afterward, monsters begin appearing and attacking people.
The modern urban setting + monsters appearing everywhere + military lock-downs give it hard MegTen vibes.
The girl Xi/汐 who emerges from the sea appears to be a recurring element in DingNing's games, and is obviously taken up in Xiyan. Other themes are confused identity, yuri, and falling into the ocean.
There's also long infodumps about traditional Chinese folk religion which kind of remind me of the "evolution of animals" or "famine" sections in Xiyan.
Later on the story appears to focus on a millennial sacrifice which shifts the center of the world from the West back to the East, but I didn't get that far.
Gameplay is very traditional RPG. There's generally a story segment, a dungeon full of random encounters, and then a boss.
I found it pretty boring, but I'm not really into RPGs atm.
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