(Trying to get over being shy, so I'm posting my review as a proper comment! ... and putting my video out there while I'm at it?)
This one was so eerie and gross. I loved it!
There was such a feeling of wrongness as soon as the player character hit the cafe, and each weird encounter along the walk made the skin-crawling sensation that I felt get stronger and stronger. Which I'm honestly a big fan of.
Lots of horror stuff (even psychological horror) gives me overt anxiety where I can see what might happen coming from a mile a way, but I love when a story is able to give me a more underlying sensation of unease.
And the feeling stuck around for a decent while after I finished Fatal Focus, too.
I might be the odd one out on this, but I feel like the pacing was actually really good. It was already foreshadowed in the cafe that strange things were going to sate the player characters appetite during the game.
Although I was wondering if that and the cannibalism at the end was an innate part of them, or if Adonis had somehow manipulated them? Or if Adonis had merely seen the potential for such behavior and did things to push that urge out into the open... But part of that mystery is what actually made the story a whole lot more unnerving.
Everything about Adonis, too, was so damn good. Their sense of style (which, yes, I'm probably a little biased since I love and own clothes like that) to their weird personality made the experience all that more fun.
They gave me both ghost or demon vibes, but also... stalker vibes? I assume they're not a stalker (nor a ghost, though they really didn't come off as fully human) but they had that air about them with how they took pictures of the player character, and some of the weird things they said.
Either way, I really liked them as a character. They were creepy (and, I mean, also a murderer...) and also kind of sweet in their own way.
There really have only been a handful of horror stories that made me feel a similar unease to this one. I'm honestly really happy to have found another story that made my skin crawl in that way.
Thank you, Kat, for making this awesome VN!