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Narumi Nitpicks: SeaBed

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SeaBed  The moment where I firmly realized how much this VN has an impact with me only came a few weeks later as I was playing a Raising Sim made in RPGMaker. Seabed uses royalty free stock music for its BGM. When I heard one of the tracks play in that Raising Sim, I just sat there stunned, unable to do anything else. The track doesn’t even play in any of the pivotal moments, it played mostly during the first half of the game. And even then memories of the VN just flooded me and I was unable to continue. That was how much Seabed meant to me. Seabed is a mystery/drama/travel diary centered around the stories of two women and how their relationship fell apart. Presentation wise it is extremely dry. The VN is written as if it were an actual paperback novel, i.e. it’s mostly descriptive (very dryly written at that) and dull without taking much advantage of the medium it’s in. So not much dialogue or voice acting or the like. It’s in the NVL format too which I do so despise. The s