The WhatsNext verdict
If you want a psychologically extreme visual novel built around shifting perspectives, philosophical themes, and disturbing recontextualization, Wonderful Everyday delivers that experience with unusual force. Avoid it if graphic sexual violence or prolonged bleakness will overwhelm the writing and structural ambition.
What it does best
A fractured story that keeps changing what earlier scenes mean
A sustained descent into psychologically oppressive and cruel horror
Philosophy and literary ideas woven into an unusually ambitious script
What might put you off
Extreme sexual violence, gore, and disturbing imagery
Dense, opaque philosophical exposition and uneven pacing
The setup
What you are walking into
What will you do when the last sky comes? The story follows a group of Tokyo high school students through a mystery revolving around a prophecy about the end of the world and they try to find their own "Wonderful Everyday". Wonderful Everyday: Down the Rabbit-Hole is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".
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