October Spookfest: Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa

It’s that wonderful time of year where I get to focus on visual novels centered on the creepy, the terrifying, and the downright spooky.  Ghosts, demons, mysterious happenings and the like all take center stage this month; sadly, however, our first VN was less horrific because it presented a dark story well, and more because it represents a colossal and exhausting waste of hours that I’m never getting back. Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa is a middling mystery utterly dragged down by the tools you must use to solve it. The premise of Kotodama is pretty standard anime fare: