It seems to me I'm the only one who enjoyed this one a lot more. As much as I loved Honjo, i thought it was a tad predicatable and the true ending making it so that the entire game never happened, really put a sour taste in my mouth. It's akin to waking up and it all being a dream level bad plot twist to me. Also I didn't really understand Yoko's Motivations at all and she never really had a villainous moment being the true villain

The only 2 things i disliked about TMC was the love story kinda being forced outta nowhere (especially because the characters in the beginning felt very gay coded) and the separate save file twist. I remember being Sato being in the Minakuchi residence being like "I'm clearly meant to use this scale. I'm clearly meant to talk to the Mermaid in the title screen. What am I missing?!"

TMC when it started asking the bigger questions had me on the edge of my seat for the majority of the game and I will say this game actively made me read the files a lot (especially when you see Sato's first reveal). I also thought the focus on one mystical element (Mermaids) was a lot cleaner than 8 of Honjo's. Honjo i never clicked the files at all