It’s hard to really connect with most of the cast because of how they act during the main story, especially when genuine mental health problems are just used as running jokes for most of the game. One moment characters could be having a serious discussion about how physical appearances don’t change what you’re like on the inside, to suddenly making fun of a character for what they looked like in the real world. But the way the game handles many of these serious problems can often come off as heavy-handed and the writing is often very inconsistent. Each character entered Mobius of their own free will, and have to come to terms with the real life issues they were dealing with. In theory, the setting for The Caligula Effect: Overdose should allow for some interesting storylines. The protagonist ends up teaming up with the Go-Home Club, a group of students who have also found out the truth, and tries to escape from this virtual world. This fake world was created by the virtual doll – think Vocaloids like Hatsune Miku – Mu in an attempt to free humans from their problems in the real world and uses her songs as a form of brainwashing to stop the students from trying to return. However, this school is actually just part of the virtual world Mobius, where people are stuck repeating the same few years of school with their original memories erased. The Caligula Effect: Overdose’s story starts of the same as before, with the main character attending their school’s graduation ceremony. Unfortunately, this is still an incredibly flawed game and the changes made in this updated release may have done more harm than good. Overdose was a chance to not only fix the original game’s many issues, but also expose it to a far wider audience. The Caligula Effect was one of these games, though its problems extended far beyond just being on the Vita. The Vita has always had a vast library of niche and unique games that suffered due to the system’s lack of popularity.
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