Now that Cat in the Box has gained popularity, I've seen quite a few people asking for STYGIAN in english since the games share some narrative ties. It was a janky translation as one might expect, but I got the gist of the story, even though I didn't completely understand every detail. I did eventually discover Translator++ which mass-translates all the text in rpg maker games into english using google translate, and the first game I immediately tried playing was STYGIAN. I got stuck pretty early on, but I assure you I couldn't have. Out of all of those 60 pages, one of the games I've always been most interested in was STYGIAN, to the point that I was so curious as to what it was like that I tried playing it in japanese at first to see if I could make out the story from the visual storytelling. Years later I discovered what freem was, and I got so excited about seeing so much rpg maker horror I'd never heard of that I think I went through all 60 or so pages the site had of horror games at the time. I was much younger at the time, and not very experienced with horror, so that was something that actually happened a lot more often, but it was still enough to 'leave' a mark on me (hehehe).

I look back at Leave very fondly as one of the first rpg maker games I've ever played, and probably the first to actually scare me to the point of me not being able to finish it.

However, it's also worth noting that my score of a game does not necessarily reflect how I remember it. For a long time the only game of theirs that I knew was Leave, which I also have a review for (but I warn you that it is not a very well written one), and despite the fact that the 2.5 point score I gave it could be interpreted as low by some, I just consider that to be average.

Not only is it a well designed game, it is also a return to horror from the developer Gustav, and that enough makes me happy. STYGIAN by Gustav / Astral (Translated by ForgoneMoose) Length: ~40 minutes I am very happy that Cat in the Box got the attention that it deserved.

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