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It seems like you may not be familiar, but the writer for Mystery and SF is actually the big #2 guy behind the project and in charge of all the alt routes. Uchikoshi. I mention this because, if you’ve played one of his other games it would unfortunately be very apparent once you do SF that he just copied the character dynamic straight from his other game and applied it to Takumi and Hiruko. If you don’t plan on playing the Zero Escape games the comparisons are in VLR the protagonist goes through a story with branches and there’s a lot of story locks that require information from other routes. However it then becomes apparent the MC is actually remembering doing other timelines just as the player has progressed through them. However, there’s also a bitchy heroine that also seems to know things she shouldn’t. Well surprise surprise they’re both time traveling hopping between routes, and the end of the game is them both time hopping together trying to set everything right. Also they banter and argue with each other the whole game but at least the MC in VLR gets to win the argument sometimes. But in VLR’s case he’s a tall Chad who recently got dumped by his gf and she’s a short flat harpy. Anyways he pretty much turned HL into that made them argue but had Takumi lose all the time conversation wise probably cause he’s short and she’s tall. The argue banter has been in VLR and Ai the Somnium Files.