Worth full price.
Jump into the shoes of a young woman who's going to be a passive operator (a 'proxy', someone who rigidly sticks to the words churned out by a computer) for a novel AI-driven counseling system for mental well-being.
Meet the patients, with their varied and nuanced and well-acted sets of psychological problems, and feel the impotence in helping them as all you can do is reading what the AI tells you to.
Then see the whole story grow to different proportions as you learn of the protagonist's past, meet with other characters and be overwhelmed with doubts,
Psychotherapy, artificial intelligences, the ethical trappings of working in a high-tech, corporate environment, the issue of our privacy exchanged for services, the philosophy that drives it all...
This visual novel touches so many issues, both in subtle and deep ways, that it's difficult that you won't be engaged by the ideas it exposes and by how they are exposed.
Recommended.
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