Hakuoki: Stories of the Shinsengumi Limited Edition -- A look at

So this technically ISN'T an unboxing, since i've already started playing the game and all (Did Heisuke, on Okita) But I thought it'd be fun to share pictures of the LE for those interested. Click on each picture to make them bigger, since I don't want ya scrolling more than you should to see stuff not interesting

First up we have a front view of the limited edition, the front and back of the slip cover is the same as the games cover and back so I don't really think I'll show solo views for the games cover and back

Here we have a side view

Aaaand here's the aforementioned back. Hopefully I got a good view of the back so that anyone can read or see the illustrations well enough.

When you pull out from the slip you get this nice traditional looking box. It's not a wooden box though, sadly. Carved wooden boxes would have been badass,

And when you flip THAT over you'll see this :)

Here are it's contents. I'm not gonna lie, I'm only gonna actually carry/use the charm. Maybe. And play the game of course.

Here's the charm's front view with the same Kanji as on the box and ofc with the companies name on it. It'd look a lot better without that copymark tbh.

A back view of it, which what it says is basically ensuring it's holder a good love life. (Not true for me! lol.) Also be sure NOT to open it. Omamori's whole thing is to not open it or the gods will look down on you and basically you'll probably get a reverse effect. Yknow what they say, curiosity killed the cat. I saw some dude on youtube opening this out of curiosity and all thats in it is a square piece of paper with nothing on it so yeah don't even bother getting spiritual bad luck for that lol.

A view of the whole things length just cause I can.

A comb. Eh. I don't care much about combs but it feels kinda nice I guess? Doesn't feel like plastic to me? But I'm also dumb so. Also the flowers  and name and everything is carved in, not printed. Nice.

And finally the hairpin. Once again, an Item I don't care much about. It doesn't even look all that cute honestly? If I saw someone wearing this I'd think their cheap. The cherry blossom and everything is rubbery. If it was wooden like the stake then maybe It'd look less bad? I dunno. I dunno.

In general? In MY opinion the LE isn't all that great. Eh the box design looks nice but me personally I'm not floored over by the contents. I don't really use combs since, like most guys, I only brush it once in a full moon. And once again. A guy. I don't wear hair pins. My hairs not even that long even if I wanted to. The omomoris pretty nice though, I've always wanted to buy a charm so that was nice.

Though I think the price online at least right now is pretty nice! I got mine for 26 on Amazon and for a LE? Not half bad. BTW that was for NEW. Yep. I honestly sort of wish it had a code for getting the LE for one of the many DLCs for the game on the PSN, like what other LES like Killer is Dead and Persona 4: Dancing All Night did.

Whether you want to or not, it's your decision. I just thought getting a LE for 26 bucks was a steal so I did.

Review Plans for December - January

I decided to plan a bit ahead since of the two games, Ones a behemoth, and the others a Voltage game so yeah. The holiday seasons coming up so you'd think I'd have more time but time means nothing when you're a piece of trash NEET like me. Anyways the review schedule is:

Hakuoki: Stories of the Shinsengumi
A Knights Devotion

I hope I can finish Hakuoki this month but it's got so much content I'm not too sure hence saying this is for December-January. Both will have reccomendations for DLC/routes like with the 10dwmd review.

I'm also importing Bad Apple Wars around January for my birthday but I probably won't review it since my Japanese is too crap and I'd feel too self conscious. I might show an unboxing in my crap room or something, I feel I should at least ACKNOWLEDGE it here lol. If I don't make another post before December consider this my Happy Holidays message!! I don't think anyone really reads my blog but if you do, my birthdays on January 6th!

[Otome Game Review] Amnesia: Memories

Heroine gets unwanted advances: the game

This review is most likely gonna be long so strap yourselves in.

Skip to Final thoughts if you wish to avoid spoilers.

So I had originally discovered the Amnesia series through the anime adaption like pretty much everyone in the EN community that was raging to get their hands on this game. (；´∀｀)I watched it while it was airing and for whatever reason I actually liked Toma a lot? Upon finishing the game I actually went back to rewatch the anime while streaming with some buds on Twitter and we all were like"lol" at Tomas episodes (I even tried watching the dub but by episode 2 I was searching for the sub version once more). The only good thing the anime did was have the heroine jump across worlds and remember stuff and the OP was done by my waifu yanaginagi otherwise it's not worth your time. Don't hire Greg Ayres' bro to do voice work again please ;w;

Thank Nhil

Prologue

You wake up in some sorta dreamy like place and a bug looking elf boy starts talking to you. Apparently he accidentally collided with your spirit (how tho) and because of this he forced out your memories. He can't leave until you regain your memories and explains that you'll need to regain them through contact with others. Going to the hospital and saying 'there's a spirit boy living in my head' will not only not help you, but send you to the loopy bin. On top of that if you don't regain your memories it's possible you'll start to forget things like how to eat or even breathe which is あぶないいいいいい. So you remember your name and get to choosing whatever world you think you belong in. The heroine has no canon name at all. Like. At all. In the anime she's called just kimi (which is just "you" honestly) and the anthology avoids giving her a name as well, so you'll have to name it after yourself or something!

I don't really dig naming protags after myself and go with the default, so I just sorta thought up a fitting name for her. I originally planned Rose because she really digs roses for some reason but all that made me think of was this character so I went with Rosa. And even though a Pokemon characters english name is Rosa, I liked how cute it sounded that it didn't bother me. My friend went on to shame me because I went with a name that wasn't Japanese but yknow what I think it's a perfect name!!( ´_ゝ`)

Don't trust this man

Diamond World (Toma's Route)

So I went with Toma's route first because for whatever reason I remember fondly liking him in the anime. Upon playing I had started to wonder what type of edgy teenage boy I was to like this indecisive rapist but yknow I used to have a crush on BlackRose from .hack// and I hate her now so we all move on and get better taste.

Toma is your oniichan in like every single route whether you want to or not. So, unlike all the other guys he's not your boyfriend in this route because he's a massive indecisive shit. When you lose your memories he takes you to the hospital and Orions like OHHHHH SHIT ALREADY IN THE PLACE WE SHOULDN'T BE WE'RE DEAD. He manages to get her to beg that she's alright to Toma and eventually after some days he lets her out of the hospital with him.

My eyes sort of glazed over until the bullying started. At one point you ask Toma if he's your boyfriend and he lies out of his ass and says that he is when really you're not dating anyone. How trustworthy! Her and Toma are out at one point and some bitch tries to drop a potted plant on her head and fails so Toma runs off to try and punch a hoes lights out. At that point Toma says it's dangerous to be alone so take him. Also apparently people are putting nasty shit in her mailbox and a crazy guy that looks like N from Pokemon (Maybe I made the right choice naming her Rosa after BW2's female protag) tells her shes gonna die and Toma sees this and the madness begins.

get out of my personal space

Toma says it'd be better if Rosa stays over at his house while the bullying starts to die down and forbids her from going outside. They go out shopping for some clothes because grabbing shit from her house is too  あぶない and he gets to see you in your underwear when some lady thinks he's your boyfriend and  makes you try some on lol. They get home and do zip next to nothing.  I'm sure Toma was doing assignments or something at first but then sneaks in some sabotage online because unbeknownst to Rosa, some bitch brigade is posting her pics on some sorta Craigslist compensated dating shit site.

 Eventually Orion's like "Hey, you should go to your house." While he's out and she sees all the bullcrap going on and reads messages telling her to die in a fire and PMs from sleazebags that want to take her to a love hotel and that( ´_ゝ`) Rosa of course thinks she's dating Toma, so the messages telling her to break up makes her think he's seeing some other hoes when he goes out of the house when really he's going to her house every day to clean out her mailbox and delete all the messages she's getting.

Toma actually arrives to her place for the daily coverup and is not pleased to see her.  Orion realized that the next day Toma's gonna see that you read your emails and so you try and do shit afterwards that keeps him home to avoid him noticing. Eventually he starts to think no matter what he says to Rosa, she's just going to run away again and if it's to make  you safe he'll be problematic even if you'll hate him for it and boy does he. 

Do you see that drug he's slipping her? WHAT A ROMANTIC SCENE

He starts the deep descent by giving her coffee he had laced with a sleeping pill, so pretty much immediately after drinking the coffee Rosa passes out. She wakes up just in time for dinner that Toma has *~lovingly*~ prepared for her that also has that good ol sleeping pill in it. This continues for a bit until Orion yells at her to wake her up and tells her he saw Toma putting sleeping shit into her food and demands her to not eat or drink anything he makes. Shortly afterwards SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER Shin is visiting. Shin is another of Rosa and Toma's childhood friends and Toma lowkey hates him for being able to so naturally show that he has feelings for Rosa.

Anyways, Shin barges in and sees Rosa in his bed and is like what the fuck is going on man? And Toma goes on to say he can't trust in anyone to protect her, not even Shin and Shin almost punches his lights out but gets stopped. Toma goes on to say he'll explain what the dealio is as long as he goes outside with him or he won't say shit and kick him out lol. IDK why but at this point I thought when they went out Toma shanked Shin because I couldn't think up how Toma would be able to explain his wacky adventures to Shin but apparently he didn't kill him. 

Apparently Rosa was being rebellious and he knew she wasn't eating her food that big brother so lovingly prepared so he kisses her while forcing her to swallow another sleeping pill. When she wakes up she finds him staring at her and comes to realize SHE'S BEEN MOVED TO A ZOO. Toma took his insanity up another notch and snuck in a cage while you were conked out and put you in it so now you're his personal gorilla-chan ( ´_ゝ`)

He even looks turned on by this

Rosa's pretty much prisoner now so she has to comply and wear his clothes and take showers in handcuffs while he watches her (He says he's not but I KNOW YOU HAD TO YOU LIAR) If you're doin' good after a shower she touches his face and he's like the hell are you flirting with me? And goes on to say he could never have you cause he's a shit. Well you're not wrong about that Toma wwww.

So while playing zoo, Rosa starts to remember that she had feelings for this wacko and was trying to get him to like her but as always he's a shit in denial about his feelings and she thought he only saw her as his sister. She apparently got this manwhore named Ikki to help her out by giving her tips and beauty advice or something and apparently he has a huge bitch brigade fanclub who thought she was asking him out or some shit hence the bullying lol. But what does Rosa do with this new info? NOTHING.  WTF? She continues this until one day Orion and her discover a defect in his cage while shes leaning on it and Orion gets her to break out of gay baby jail and to run for help. She tries to go to Meido no Shitsuji where  she works at but some bitch on a motorcycle tries to run over her and now shes too injured or some shit so she starts to go back home into her cage.

THAT'S  THE STUPIDEST THING I'VE SEEN. You think he's not gonna notice you're hurt? How the FUCK are you going to explain how you got THAT hurt while being in a cage? If I were Rosa I would get the FUCK out of dodge!! But apparently she has Stockholm Syndrome.

Toma comes home and, pretty much almost rapes Rosa until she reads her diary that magically fell in his line of vision. He finds out she's a fruit loop too cause she likes a crazy guy like him, they confront the bitch brigade, and Orion makes like a rat and scampers away after saying you have terrible taste in men. PREACH! Orion even says so at certain parts of the game and he'd originally trusted Toma but when he started with the sleeping pill shit Orion changed his mind and knew Toma was a fruit loop.

WHY WAS HE ONE OF MY FAVORITES WHEN I WAS YOUNGER? I'LL NEVER KNOW. TOMA A SHIT.

Our resident Kuudere

Heart World (Shin Route)

Shin is what I'd call a good starting route for first time players.

You begin his route waking up in a hospital which once again sends Orion in a panic. Apparently you were there before losing your memories though, by the bandages and pain in your neck. Orion and you manage to pass off the amnesia for the most part as a side effect of the accident to mostly everyone. Shin reveals himself to be your boyfriend, and is actually telling the truth. 

Shin quickly finds out you have Amnesia due to how different you're acting and helps you out like a proper boyfriend would. His first course is to help you get accustomed to work and you go back to work as a way to make it faster to remember things. You start off by practicing your lines with him and he starts to blush when you call him master (i would too tbh)

Sooo at this point Rosa doesn't even know  what happened to her regarding her accident. All she knows is she had one and it was pretty serious. She manages to wrangle out that she had fallen off a cliff while on a trip to Shinano. She was with Shin at the time and no one else late at night, Shin came running in about how she had fallen and gathered a search party to find her. He tells her while they's lighting sparklers at a coworker event that his father killed a man while he was drunk and no one ever thought well of Shin as a result. It was an accident, but his father was branded a murderer since it WAS still manslaughter and the son of a murder has to naturally also be a murder, right?

Shin goes on to try and clear his name as the one that pushed Rosa off the cliff by setting up a Phoenix Wright scene at Shinano where she had fallen and invited all the people that were there. He also lures Rosa into the forest and assaults her, telling her this is what happened that night and Rosa almost runs off again off the cliff from embarrassment. Rosa gets a memory of Shin being there for her when she fell of the cliff and then leaving but everyone else including Shin say he wasn't there underneath the cliff which makes her think that he might have done it on purpose.

Kissing is okay but hand holding? UNACCEPTABLE.

Rosa finds out though that it was Toma the yanyan that knocked her out and moved her body. Unfortunately Toma as a yanyan is not delicious like the biscuit stick.  When she'd fallen off the cliff he was there to help but she mistook him for Shin and called for him. Toma, of course having a crazy crush on her, gets insanely jealous and knocks her out. Toma continues to play dumb about it though until Shin sets him up by making Rosa stall him and get his shoes or some shit.

Remembering this separated her from Orion which wasn't as sad as I thought it'd be, it was pretty anti-climactic. She finally admits she remembers him there and Toma crumbles and says he'll turn himself in but that it was a dick move because Shin pretty much forced Toma to admit he loved her. He'd rather they just never acknowledge it just like in his route because he's a baby that can't ever admit that he likes her ( ´_ゝ`)
After Toma gives it up and reports himself in  while Shin and Rosa go off for a romantic walk or w/e. Rosa actually starts to talk more and she wants Shin to be more affectionate and say he loves her but Shins like "I already do that shit bro" and Rosas like "You say it along with an insult like 'you're annoying but i love you' and never just say it" and also that he never held her hand. Shin says hand holding is UNACCEPTABLE and goes all kuudere like bro you went to first base already, hand holding should be BEFORE kissy times and wanting to have sexy times in a forest.

He reluctantly holds her hand and says he loves her and they go off off and awaaay.

Bitch Brigade the thrilling saga

Spade World (Ikki Route)

Spade world is more like watch your back before you get stabbed by a hoe route. The thing with the route is that in the end I liked Ikki but the fact that Rosa has amnesia and Ikki's behavior confused her for more than half the damn game made it take long to sympathize. I understand why of course, because Rosa can't exactly tell anyone she has amnesia until she trusts them enough but it felt like I was finally getting into the route right at the end.

Rosa looks like she just wants to die in this cg to me

In Spade world, Rosa and Ikki became boyfriend and girlfriend two months ago and Ikki keeps saying that they only have one month left together for him to make her fall for him. The thing is that Ikki asked Rosa out or something but she hates his guts and doesn't put out and have sex with him like all his other fangirlz. It's a shock because his eyes are magical seducing eyes that attract every girl to him the moment they lock eyes with him. It's sort of implied that he got his eyes by wishing and a god granted it, but never explicitly said, you just kinda put two and two together.

As Rosas running around watching a movie with the guy who keeps wanting to ravish her in the dark like a total creep, she's supposed to be reporting on something to someone, but the thing is... she doesn't know who she's supposed to report to. It's not her work place so she puts it off until someone texts her about it and that sets off the BITCH BOMB. A bunch of hoes gather around Ikki every time Rosa goes to see him and they have to meet and private and other bullcrap because of this. On top of that whenever Rosa sees him in public, Ikkyu acts like a dick in front of her to please the fans. He's doing this so they won't bully her but it's still such shit to be treated like that wwww. So really the only time Ikki isn't a dick to you is in private like when you two go view stars together or when Ikki gets so shit faced you go to his house with him and he nearly assaults you but Rosa doesn't want that so Ikki lets it go lmao. You also meet his nerd friend Kent and the two of them have math battles where Kent makes up a problem sheet for Ikki to complete. The little etc CGs you get for this was pretty funny XD

Ikki often talks to you about how you were the only one that wasn't affected by his eyesight and how the one person he wishes it would work on, doesn't, This brings some turmoil because she starts to believe the only reason he's going after Rosa is because his medusa eyes don't work on her but surprise!! They did!! It's just Rosas dad is a huge manwhore himself so through the power of rage she was able to break out of the manwhore spell and actually think for herself!! You go girl! Honestly when you get insight into Rosa's personality in this route I really came to like her in this world because she wasn't a Mary Sue like with Toma or a Dead Fish like she was for Shin's route. It was refreshing to see her so strong willed in her memories to say the least.

That guy in the corners got something to do when he gets home

The month get's shorter and shorter and Rosa's manwhore of a daddy shows up at her work unannounced and starts heckling her about how she'd be unable to afford living in the area and how they said that he was going to stop paying for her rent and going to have to move in with him and his fourth wife at the start of September. Rosa of course has a spirit bug in her head so Ikki steps in and says that you're going to live with him! Sugar Daddy gets pissed because how dare his daughter that is old enough to live on her own room with a man! He can't even be financially covered!! But Ikkis probably swimming in money from his fangirls and shit so he says he's perfectly fine financially and throws a threat about his standing at Rosas dad lol.

It's then Rosa realizes the jigg is up and she needs to tell starry eyes that she can't remember shit. Ikki gets a little emo about how she didn't tell him and Rosa then gets some trigger about how she was in the fanclub and tells Ikki about how the tits mcgee leader threatens to kill her and other stuff that can lead you to a bad end along his route. You also remember the three month thing was the bitch brigades fault and had a set of rules to where you're in some crazy ass ranking system and the higher you are the more eligible to confess to Ikkyu-sama but you can only do it for three months while reporting daily to them all the juicy details or else you're gonna get bullied or even shanked son! Rosas reluctant to tell Ikki but he finds out and tells them to eat shit and he drags heroine out to a train station to kiss her in front of everyone?? Ew, PDA. And then they get a place and all is good unless you do the bad or normal endings (the normal was honestly pretty bittersweet imo? lol) 

I wish the bitch brigade wasn't so prominent throughout his route to the end because seeing them as a labulabu couple would be wonderful?! Like I said I only started to really like his route near the end where he breaks up the brigade and you find out he's a victim in all this and not a crazy manwhore. 

Kent the belt loving fuck

Clover World (Kent Route)

Kent was honestly one of the more fulfilling routes in this game. You really FEEL that you're playing an otome game. If all the routes too serious business or bitches got you down no worries! Kent is pretty much bitch free! Also if you hate bad ends where your guy goes OOC and goes (The one Ikki bad end comes to mind) also don't worry! Kent is too pure for this world. It's kind of funny for me to talk about him honestly because he's reached meme status among my friends and I. So many belts....! He's got more belts than the typical Final Fantasy character! Right off the bat before I do his route overview im gonna say: I fully recommend playing his route!

Kent crush little girl head

Anyways, Rosa and Kent first met when Kent was teaching her class math. Everyone was like wow what a hot sensei! It's then everyone learned Kents their age. Honestly the event was supposed to be for Ikki to teach them so they could fangirl over him but he asked Kent. Everyone was just expecting cool times with pimp so I guess they were a bit disappointed when Kent came in for serious math times.

I honestly really don't want to even spoil his route for the most part-- It's just so sweet! Like, Kents the ONLY guy in the game that actually introduces you to his parents, and the'yre as much of a calculating logic based nerd as he is. Or, what he was before he met Rosa. When he'd met her at the lesson he sort of instantly fell for her and kinda lowkey stalked her to the point of seeing that she walked her dog Kuro on the same graveyard path as he did so he makes it a point to  meet up with her on her daily walks~ At one point he expresses that his biochemical makeup deems her as an attractive mate and that he wishes to have babies with her, to which freaks her out and she starts asking if he loves her. He says no. That pisses Rosa off.

Their exchanges go on for awhile and he doesn't realize he fell in love with her until one day her dog just keeps being a cockblock that he starts to internally wish the guy would die. BOM. Wish granted. The dog gets run over and turns Rosa into a crying mess. Now Kents still kind of insensitive so he says that it's Rosa's fault for not being a better owner and to learn her mistakes for next time. Rosa's obviously upset because dude her dog JUST died and is in the animal hospital. He feels so bad about this that when she loses her memory he keeps saying how he wishes she'll never remember that day. Oh yeah, and since Kent is just such a pure boy, you're pretty fast to tell him you have Amnesia and he takes it like a bro! He doesn't even believe in Orion but carries out a convo with him via notes you write which I thought was really cute.

"I was the one that ate your pudding cup"

Kent has a huge presentation near the end of the month and you almost immediately find out about that at the start of his route and often times Rosa's visiting him at his college clubs room while he works on charts or whatever. When it's time for his presentation Rosa finds out he forgot something at home and both you and Orion think it's a GREAT idea to pick it up for him. You wind up getting almost run over. ( ´_ゝ`)

This part honestly made me feel like crying because it says someone pushes you so that you don't get run over and you quickly find out its Ukyo. Yknow, the guy thats constantly threatening or warning you about death and bad ends! So yeah I honestly cried twice when I initially thought it was Ukyo and then when they confirmed Ukyo died. Depending on your affection Kent will either run to the hospital RIGHT AWAY or after his presentation. Honestly his normal end was pretty sweet but his good end was just so!!! Heart pounding!! You go to LONDON with him! And he's not wearing that lame belt get-up!! It's like an angel was watching over us at that part... Kent honestly your regular clothes aren't very fashionable and I can see why girls aren't really into you in the game world www.

Like I've said, their exchanges are just really cute and I feel I'd ruin it If I went on about it, but take it from me. Kent was like a breath of fresh air. There's only one bad end where you die, and they had to make Ukyo do it since Kent would never hurt you and theres no bitch brigade on your ass. There's a slight misunderstanding with Mine, but you two quickly make up since it was a dumb misunderstanding on her part XD

Ukyos route is basically Kagerou Days the otome

Joker World (Ukyo Route)

Okay so first off all I'm gonna say this: Ukyo's route is only unlocked after you get all of the guys' good endings. IT doesn't matter if you haven't gotten any bad ends or not but you DEFINITELY need to have gotten everyone's good end. So obviously spoilers ahead for well, a lot of stuff.

As previously stated, Ukyo is the last route in the game to play and there's a good reason why. The reason the heroine has amnesia in the first place is because of Ukyo. Basically in his world (Joker) you and Ukyo were dating. But not for long. On August 1st, you die in an explosion at your college and stay in the hospital until the 25th, where you die. Ukyo was so saddened by this, he made a wish to the gods to see you one more time. Queue some Madoka-shit and we've got a route! If you paid attention in some of the routes Orion might have mentioned his creator, a god named Nhil. He went missing prior to your meeting with Orion and here's why. He's inside Ukyo making sure to grant his wish. And if he can't grant humans wishes his power will dull until he... dies? I guess? Anyways, it's a big deal to make sure Ukyo's wish is granted.

Sleeping hobo

But poor Ukyo can't catch a break. Nhil can't exactly rewind time so he actually sends Ukyo to different worlds. And THAT's why Ukyo knows so much about whats going on. He's been to a world where you get with Shin, Ikki, etc before. Unfortunately in each world the two of you have this sort of 'Fate of Death' thing going on where in each world only one of you is alive, and if either tries to live in the world  they're fated to be dead in, the world goes bonkers trying to kill you with anything possible. So Ukyo keeps dying, and Nhil keeps sending him to alternate worlds to fulfill his wish. Eventually something in Ukyo snaps and he forms a split personality (Ura Ukyo) who wants self preservation more than seeing Rosa alive and makes it his duty to kill Rosa.

So to recap, in every route you play? Ukyo dies. That revelation made Kent's route even more of a tearjerker at Ukyo's death. Ukyo continues to travel worlds until Nhil realizes that, shit, he's running out of magic. So he decides to actually REWIND time at last in his original world and pray the two of you get out of it in one piece. So Ukyo finally becomes Homura except a lot better. His route had SEVEN bad ends, all easily avoidable if you just listen to him. Beautiful. Most of his route is trying to not be killed and also to find out what happened with the two of you before the time loop because, yknow. Amnesia. But not only are you avoiding explosions, falling pipes from the sky, or dying of hypothermia. Ukyo himself is obviously a danger to you. At one point he handcuffs himself after you ask him to stay over so that he wont switch to Ura and kill you.

As the day of your actual death (August 25th) Comes closer, Ukyo seems to come more and more aware that he's probably going to have to die and starts telling you not to see him again. On the 24th you search him out because it sounds like he's about to kill himself in his latest text but the bitch brigade were tricking you so they could put you in a shrine and shoot fire works about it. Talk about unholy. You almost die in a fire (Fuck you firemen!) But escape. You still have problems with your lungs though. Eventually you find Ukyo and come face to face with the terror known as your school. The two of you tried to find shelter because uh, a typhoon started to strike. But everywhere you could find water was piling up and you two would have died from the cold if you weren't inside somewhere.

Too sweet to make a joke 

UNFORTUNATELY your house isn't close so you two take refuse in the college that you died in an explosion at! Great idea! ( ´_ゝ`) Ukyo snaps into Ura and tries to kill you by lighting the building on fire and chasing after you with a knife. Though rrrrrreally slowly.  He manages to catch you and start choking you, but the good part in him holds his hands back and gives you a chance to escape. You do, but eventually he's there with his knife again. Right before the clock strikes midnight you think he's gonna kill you but nope! Good Ukyo stabs himself and starts to cry over how now he can finally see you live on happy since in all the other worlds he died before this point. You don't accept this and keep telling him that he will not die! The clock strikes midnight and Rosa has a moment of silence...

AMNESIA LATER BETTER BE COMING SOMEDAY

Honestly I burst out in tears even though I knew it was coming ;v; BUT he's not dead. He starts to move even after midnight and you all are like YEAH. Nhil reveals himself to you and starts telling you all the shit I already said about Orion and Ukyo. It's then the two of you go back to being a lovely couple and get ready for shopping to buy a new mirror since Ukyo broke yours the day before you died in the original timeline. Hey does that mean the reason Rosa died was because Ukyo got seven years of bad luck...?


Bonus bonus bonus! As the two of you are out you drop something and a boy calls out to you that you dropped something! When Rosa turns around it's human versions of Orion and Nhil!!!! Oh my godddd. I cried. Their farewell in Ukyos route was honestly heartbreaking and heartwarming in comparison to the others where it was mostly just "lol k bye" so to see him again was ^p^

Honestly I LOVE LOVE LOVE Ukyo. He's always been my favorite even in the anime. I was so glad that my feelings for him didn't change to the point I sort of went out and bought some Ukyo merch in celebration. He's just had such a tough life as a result of Rosa's death and I... JUST WANT THEM TO BE HAPPY DAMNIT. I wish we could have seen them living in normal labulabu more honestly... I love them as a pair to the point I might even go to say they're an OTP of mine...?  I hope we get Later x Crowd translated so we can see some more happy Ukyo!!!!!

Final Thoughts

What a game. I've always honestly had a fondness for Amnesia after watching the anime and always hoped for the game to be translated. I couldn't be more happier. There are some faults with Amnesia. Those that don't like more serious plots, or seeing your character die, I wouldn't really recommend it. Some routes can creep out people. I've seen people say Shins too forceful along with Ikki but Ikki in a more sexual way. And then Tomas route is just filled with problematic scenes. This otome's not really for those light of heart. But if you can stomach it, it's one of the best otome games out on the market. I'd go so far as to say Amnesia IS the face of otome games.

The storyline is truly intriguing, especially if you unlock the last route, and the likeliness you'll cry at at least SOMETHING is pretty high I'd say. Mai Hanamuras art is also stunning. I mean. Just... look at it? Hanamura is definitely one of the best otome artists that's for damn sure. I'd recommend the vita release over the Steam release for those with a vita for a variety of reasons. The vita version is supporting IF a bit more and on top of that, the Steam versions mini game of Air Hockey is just plain BROKEN. It kept lagging and it was almost impossible to beat everyone under those circumstances. I even emailed IF about it and they tried to help me but with no luck I'm afraid. For those that are completionists or just want the CG for beating three of the guys in both mini-games that bit of info can be crucial. I honestly have no idea how I managed to beat all of them in the steam release.

If you can look past the more disturbing part of the game (And if you're unsure but don't want to be spoiled too much I can even give you TW's in the comments) I'd say you DEFINITELY need to buy Amnesia: Memories if you are an otome fan.

[Otome Game Review] Cute Demon Crashers [R-18]

Ever wanted to be sex'd by a demon? Now's your chance

Just in time for Halloween, A review about fucking a bunch of demons! Well, Incubi and a Succubi, but those are categorized as demons anyways.

Cute Demon Crashers is an R18 FREE Otome game by the group Sugar Script. Since the game is R18, viewer discretion is advised. Don't come crying to me if you scroll down to a pic of Mirari's boobs and a coworker or your parents see this! You've been warned bro!

Review Plans for September - October

Let's not have a four month pause period ever again, shall we?

Current plans for game reviews are:
Amnesia: Memories
Cute Demon Crashers

I'd also like to buy the 3DS version of Hakuoki at some point this month, but it'll probably be put on the backburner until I'm done with Amnesia. If I don't finish Amnesias Review by the end of the Month, expect a Cute Demon Crashers review.

Trying to get back in the swing of playing otome games, even though Dangan Ronpa and Freedom Wars took me prisoner for awhile.

1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum Review

This is going to be a hard game to review, I'll tell you that.

First off I'm going to say. Wow, Did getting to review this game take me awhile. For one, I was planning to review it in the month of May. It is currently September writing this. A four month gap. I wasn't exactly dedicated to playing the game through, but I honestly didn't expect it to take that LONG. The 100+ hours of content touted on the games website is definitely no lie. I, at the end of my run, had almost 700 save files. Seven HUNDRED. And I had only done one characters route! If there's one thing this game has, it's content. However, there are a ton of flaws with the game that makes it impossible for me to recommend buying this game, especially with it costing so much in sight of these errors. But I'll save that for the end of this review.

You play as Scheherazade Keating, a young wealthy daughter of two famous archaeologists. Apparently, her parents have been missing for years, and Sadie as she's called, spent most of her childhood raised by her aunt Evelyn instead. One of the Main story goals is to guide Sadie in her journey around the world as an archaeology major in college, and find out how her parents disappeared. The writing here is a bit of a mixed cake. At the start of the game I was simply confused about what in the bloody hell was going on until about halfway through the trip to Egypt. It may have just  been I wasn't paying attention, but it was weird.

The game employs a stat raising system where, usually, you are given three times a day to do activities. This is very reminiscent of the school life sequences of the later Persona games, where you can choose to either raise an attributes stat, or do social links with characters. Most main characters have an affection gauge, and doing events with them will heighten their affection for Sadie. You have affection for all five persuable guys, and then one for her aunt and best friend Anna. I never was sure what Evelyn and Anna's affection actually did, so I'm assuming it's for the default Dream of Family storyline. The game has six endings, five for each guy you can romance, and a default Dream of Family, where Sadie pursues finding her parents over love. So yes, if you choose to date a character, you give up Sadies pursuit of her parents in favor for some sweet lovin'. I've only done one route in this game, which was Felix's. And I don't think I will come back to play any other route purely because a huge problem I have with the game.

Back to stats, every event with a character will have sequences that require you to have a certain amount of one trait, if you don't, not only will you not get a stat increase or relationship increase, but you will increase Sadies stress meter. The stress meter makes it even harder to do good in these sequences so it's best to come in prepared. You may think that might take some trait grinding just to do one event, but the game also has these cards called Influences. They can give you huge boosts to a stat, and I actually recommend to collect Influences of whatever stat you need, as it will take up less time to get them than stat raising.

One thing I will say about this game is, The writer of the game is really good. Rightfully so, if a 100+ hour visual novel doesn't have an excellent writer, then no matter how you'll look at it, it's crap. The writer did such a good job, that if I found out they'd written their own novels, I would go out and buy them posthaste. I have a slight nitpick about the text though, in that it will use script format for actions during talking.

An example of what I mean is something like this. "I agree. This gem is very valuable" (moves to the box)
I think it'd be better to either eliminate those types of action descriptions, or to put it in it's own text box without having it next to a spoken line, but that's just a personal nitpick of mine, and not so terrible it ruins the game for me or anything.

The art is... Well, It's not the worst and it's not the best. It did it's job. Also, mad props to the artist, as there are a TON of characters to draw sprites for, and Sadie on top of that has a ton of outfits to wear during the course of the game, usually for disguises. A big complaint I have in the visual department is the backgrounds.

An example: No matter where you are in the storyline, whether it's in Sadies house, at her college, or in some ruin of New York, if you are in New York, you will only have a BG of some buildings. It's just plain weird to read them moving places, but the background is the same all the time. There are only one background for every place in the world. It would be much better for atmosphere if they'd at least do a few separate backgrounds for key places.

Now, in general, I had a very fun time playing this game. It is one of the better written visual novels out on the market. And it is so long! Twenty Five dollars for the amount of content you get doesn't seem so bad! But, there's something so terrible about this game that makes it IMPOSSIBLE for me to recommend this game to anyone in it's current state. And that's it's coding.

For one, I can't tell you how many times I'd gotten an error while loading something, resulting in the game crashing. That's not a huge issue to me, so I thought it fine to overlook that error, as it's a huge game done in Ren'py, and as someone that's messed with Ren'py I know how hard it is to make sure everythings running fine. However, for a commercial game thats now out on Steam as well, I find the next error unacceptable.

I had done Felix's route, meaning I'd given up Dream of Family for Dream of Felix. Everything had been going fine right until the end. Sadie was going to confess her feelings for Felix and everything was going to be okay. And yet... for some reason. I had gotten the ending with her Professor. When she had left to see Felix, it skipped to her talking to her teacher, and getting a CG of them together.  Why? That is such a huge coding flaw, to the point it makes me not want to play the other routes, or this game ever again for that matter.

Let me put it in retrospect here. Say you had gotten Chrom to S Rank in Fire Emblem Awakening, and are watching his S Rank conversation. You're fully expecting to marry Chrom, when all of a sudden, when Chroms confession scene is about to play, you instead get Henrys confession theme. It's confusing, it's ridiculous, and now you're married to Henry instead. If you want to marry Chrom, now you have to do something different with your game, and usually that requires you starting over from the beginning.

This is such a huge and frustrating flaw for such a well written, long otome game. I wanted so badly to write this review as I was playing in a positive light and recommend it, but that error completely ruined it.

I cannot, in it's current state, recommend this game to anyone at all. It's a shame, as I've said playing the game was  a blast, as it was well written and to the brim with things to do. I really wanted to give this a positive review, but I just cant. I cannot recommend anyone to pay $25 dollars with a huge error in it's script like this. If the game gets an update that fixes it's script errors, then I would recommend it most definitely, but do not buy this game in it's current state.

Running slow on the next review

So I said I'd be reviewing 1931 Scheherazade in April but the game turned out to take me much longer than a month to finish. It may even take me until June to review it because Devil Survivor 2: Break Record comes out on the 5th and DeSu is pretty much my favorite game series. I went on a trip to Nihon Machi for their Cherry Blossom festival so I may post some pictures here just for the sake of fun. I was pleased they had a few otome stuff (And a lot of Shin Megami Tensei Stuff) I went there cosplaying as Shintaro with my friend as Ene and saw a Seto when my friend wanted to look around a lolita store. The guy was about in his element in a lolita store as me LOL. There was also a Toma cosplayer from Amnesia there but he looked really hard ti approach so I didn't ask for a picture. Maybe if he was cosplaying Ukyo i'd have asked but meh.

Pyrite Heart Review

Sometimes in life, you've just gotta get out that desire to be a Tsundere Princess I guess.

Funny story here. This is long and only subtly about the game, not even related to Steam release so skip this paragraph if you only wanna know about how sizzling hot these pixel men really are. I actually had played the free voiced version. To the point I had been around when the original free version-- which i assume to be the same as the Steam version I just played-- came out and I waited for the voiced version to come out. I love English dubs of otome games and want more of that stuff. And Amanda Lee was Ahri. I played the voiced version completely through Ryuu's route (Including the maid ending which gets you a  uh. normal ending i guess), and halfway through Kenta's route. Halfway through Kenta's route MY LAPTOP DIED. And by the point I had gotten a new one, the Steam release came and the free version was deleted. You can't find the voiced version anymore, and it's really honestly rude if you get it now and i would consider that pirating. Though I wish the voiced version was still available, faults and all, I understand the legal bindings behind that shit. Winged Cloud wanted to make money off their game and those people were doing it for free. Completely understandable and now Winged Cloud stands atop their mountain of Sakura Spirit money. (You'd think since I'm a guy I'd have played that and not Pyrite Heart. I... don't like fanservice games much) I actually had commented on their Facebook a long LONG time ago commenting about the voiced version and the otome game they were developing at the time (Are they even still doing that? Blog had an update but uh..) the voiced version only had main characters voiced so that'd be a whopping 3 VOICES and sometimes they said something different from text or didn't even record a line of dialog. I still hold that version to my heart and cry internally over my laptops death. Hey, I got it when it was released so I'm no pirate i'm not gonna look for a download and even bought the game TWICE on Steam (One for me, one for a friend since I saw it was on her wishlist) So I think I've done my deed to Winged Cloud. And subsequently didn't spend a single dime on Sakura Spirit TAKE THAT fanservice otaku pandering games.

Anyway on to the inferior version of the games review. If you came here from the Steam Review link I am so sorry for talking about the far superior free version that no longer exists. At least we have trading cards and stuff. I'll never get any boosters tho sob.

I'm going to become overlord of the masses! Kill any that oppose!

Ahri Remono is the prior alluded to Tsundere Princess of a kingdom that looks like modern Japan but the monastery all look European? She thinks she's the best piece of slice ever, everyone's inferior, plebes. etc. A rich girl raised with a golden, diamond-crusted spoon pretty much. She makes a bet with her brother at the start of the game that she can survive a week of normal peasant school. While there, she becomes rivals with the School's Student Council President, Ryuu, and challenges him to a cook off at the end of the week because she..pffft. She thought he sucked at cooking. Later on you'll find out who the terrible cook is (Hint: It's not Ryuu) Oh also her man servant goes to school there too apparently. What's so interesting about this game, despite it's length, is that Ahri isn't a cardboard cutout character. She's just as important as everyone else, not a self insert. Her high headed holier than thou attitude might annoy some, but I find her Tsundere-ness adorable.

Ryuu's route:

It's like Black Butler all over again.

Ryuu is the jerkhead Student Council President, at least according to Ahri's monologue; He's actually a really nice guy. Other than Kenta, he's pretty much the only guy at school that stays friendly with you. Understandably why she's so disliked though, for calling everyone idiotic plebs and the like. He's her rival in being the smartest and most skilled in school. One interesting choice branch has to do with either if you pass a test or not. You can either get a Maid Ahri CG or a Butler Ryuu CG depending on if you win the test or not. Both were pretty entertaining and reccomend doing both winning and losing to see it's differences.

I like Ryuu a lot. His route is very nice, and the relationship they have in the game is really cute. Ahri's tsundereness and Ryuu's blunt honesty can get some entertaining dialog between them. He also decides to help Ahri with baking a cake for their showoff, instead of leaving her alone to utterly fail. And possibly die from an explosion. She really does not know how to cook AT ALL.

They're the canon pairing in this game and you can really really tell. It just feels right for them to get together. Even Kenta says they have lots of similarity between each other. He helps her evolve and she helps him smile. What more could you want in a relationship really?

Their ending concludes nicely if you get the best ending and it was an enjoyable fun read through for a first playthrough of the game.

Kenta's route:

"Uuuuu am I kawaii, senpai?"

Playing through I kinda figured Kenta was gonna be the guy I liked. Though Ryuu's route turned out to be so good and Kenta's left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe it's because it took me a long long time to get my hands on the steam release and complete his route or not but I have a more fonder opinion of Ryuu's route.

Kenta is Ahri's servant. He goes to school at a regular school and just so coincidentally had to be the one Ahri went to during her bet. Not so coincidentally seeing as he got ordered to watch Ahri. He's really good at Basketball and uh... He's loved Ahri prior to this game. He has a huge issue because he loves Ahri, but she's a princess, and being around her anymore will hurt him, and later when it's shown they feel the same way--THEM, because she'll be married off to some prince someday soon. So it's an angst fest in some ways.

That said though, Kenta is a huge dumbo sweetheart. Falling asleep while studying cakes to use in the bakeoff, getting in a food fight, they can be pretty adorable together.

I found the way he handled his issue for most of the route to be frustrating though. You don't just run away from your feelings. Probably no surprise here, but Ahri's the one that takes their relationship to the next level. Step it up senpai.

Pyrite Heart is a nice starter otome. I'd rank it up along games like RE:Alistair or Pacthesis games. It looks nice and professional at first glance. I mean just LOOK at that art. The artist put a lot of work into them. Sprites and all. CG's aren't just the same pose or emotion for the whole scene, it changes during the dialog. But I don't think it's worth it to buy it on Steam. I may have talked about it positively for a good part of this review. And I honestly LIKE the game. 

But as someone that's been around since the start I can see how much care they put into the product. The game has been released 3 times to my knowing.First as a free version without any voices, then a free voiced version, then a commercial version without the voices, virtually the same as the free version.

Could you honestly be interested in purchasing a game knowing that? And it's not just that. It's been released 3 times and there's STILL spelling errors and that in the Steam release. They haven't changed a damn thing with it. If you release a game three times, listen to the people that play your game. When you release something commercially don't just do the required Trading Card shit and a virtual picture of a Dakimakura. ADD something to the actual game. A bonus route maybe? Hatoful Boyfriend did that. And PROOFREAD YOUR STUFF BEFORE SUBMITTING IT FULLY.

I won't really recommend this game to anyone being commercial and in a state like this. All this and how short the game is, even a freeware game similar to it being longer. If the developers actually go through, proofreading the whole script, I may just change my mind. Adding a bonus route or something would also heighten it's playability. But as it is, the only version available is inferior and not worth the money.

April current review plans

Managed to get Pyrite Heart a bit earlier, thanks steam sale and my friend for letting me use their card, so the current Review line up looks like for April not only Pyrite Heart, but also 1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum.
I'd been planning to get 1931 for awhile and the recent Steam version release makes it even better to take up on playing.
Depending on anything that get's released between those times that I'm playing and writing their review, like an NanoReno game that interests me, I may review the Dot Kareshi series. That's more dependent if I have any money after getting a Vita also though lol.
I'm also pretty hype for the new translation of Re: Birthday Song. I would marry the artist of R/U:BS, DiaLovers, and Ozmafia!

Preview at my review: This scene spoke to me. Maid uniforms are justice.

10 Days With My Devil-- Full Review and Recommendations

First off I'd like to formally introduce myself as this will be my first post. If you wish to get straight to the review skip this paragraph! My name is Haru and I started this blog because.. Well. I like otome games and thought it'd be fun to review them. I think my review style will be different from a lot of other otome reviews because of how different I am in comparison to a lot of other reviewers both pronoun and age wise. For some games I'll have a straight review of the game and others depending on the content will include a recommendation list. This is typically used for a pay as you play games such as Voltage Mobages. I decided to make my home on blogger for this, rather than Tumblr due to how I don't see Tumblr as much of a blog site anymore, and blogger seems the perfect place for this type of stuff in comparison. Though I do have a tumblr.  Anyways, I hope you like my reviews and if you have any questions or just like to talk leave a comment!

And for the actual review section.

So many Devils to date so little days

10 Days with My Devil is a pay as you play Mobage (Mobile Game) for the iPhone and Android made by Voltage inc. The storyline is about how the player, a young nameable female, one day finds herself surrounded by handsome men and good luck. Near the end of her day her house get's blown up, and the men reveal themselves to be Devils that were after her soul that failed retrieving it due to an accident. You beg for 10 Days to finish what you have left to do on earth and the Devils accept as long as you give your soul to them on the 10th day... Not to mention live with them the whole time left.

For those wondering "pay as you play?" it is a game where instead of paying to play for the game in its entirety from it's purchase you download it for free and pay for any content past the prologue. No worries though, It's not one of those micro-transaction type of deals or one of those games with a limited number of story progression every day unless you spend money. No. You buy the route in it's entirety and can read it straight through. For some it may seem as an inconvenience and for some it's a way to save money. For instance let's say if this game were available for a 50 in it's entirety but you only want to really play one characters route? That character would be about 1/4 of the price.

That said As of March 15th, 2015 this reviewer has played all routes and side stories.

I will leave a recommendation for each route and side story at the end for those interested in only purchasing the stories they are interested in without any of the trial and error of witnessing routes and sidestories you might dislike. And with that I will be reviewing the main stories for each character. I will only talk about the Main Story for the most part and occasionally bring up it's sequel if I see fit to mention it other than the Recommendation section. Be aware the review part is spoilers, while the recommendation is purely recommendations for those interested in playing the game.

First up we have Kakeru Kamui. He's the "canon" sort of guy and the first route I played. 

My girlfriend looks like a pink Santa Claus. Does that make me Satan Claus?

Kakeru is the leader of the division that was tasked with retrieving your soul. You'll also shortly find out he is not only the leader of the division, but Crown Prince of the Demon World. He has a younger brother named Meguru but due to certain reasons (one's you'll find out more in Meguru's route in detail) Kakeru is the only one to succeed the thrown. To which his brother is actually perfectly fine with.

Out of all the Devils, Kakeru is the one most against your proposal and would much rather have just taken your soul at a seconds notice. He's focused on his duty not only as leader, but as future king. Keeping you alive is against the rules of the Demon World. And if found out would have major consequences for Kakeru as Prince.

That said I think his route is one of the BEST out of the devils.

The reason for wanting 10 days left actually changes depending on the route you play. In this route, the MC wishes to witness her sister give birth to her child before she is to pass on.

Kakeru is initially not very well taken with the MC and stays with her due to obligation. He also is the head of her work division and as such they already knew each other to a certain division even before the games events started. They have a history, even if just as coworkers. He can have some Tsundere moments in the route which is great with his characteristic. Theres something about the serious type that get easily jealous that just goes well together. Kakeru is extremely well written down to his background and personality.

Near the end of the route Kakeru and the MC go to the hospital for her sisters delivery. It's quickly realized though that her sister will not complete the delivery and will die. The MC grieves over it and Kakeru does something that would be seen blasphemous for his position. He uses his powers on her sister to prolong her life and help with the delivery. Kakerus ability is to control life forces, and can pour his own life force into other people. So not only did he prolong MC's death by 10 days, but also saved his sister and brought a child into the world.

And he saved her because after spending so long with MC he came to love her, and sacrifices his own well being to save her and those close to her. He then goes on to strike her name from the Fate Database, where those that are to be "reaped" are entered into, and then goes to the Demon World to face consequence with his father.

The route was really great if you couldn't tell by my tone, a great start into the game and a great character. Kakeru is actually my third favorite character in the game, though out of all the characters I find his routes to be the most satisfying. I also find it funny that in this route two of the other characters are shown to have a thing for the MC, one more than any of the other routes. Ones a reoccurring regular and the other is... Kakeru's brother. Who tries to sneak you away from getting "reaped" through the route. Which made me REALLY excited for his route... But that's to be saved for his route.

Next is Satoru Kamagari. The teasing somewhat sadistic playboy character.

HEY LIL MAMA LEMME WHISPER IN YO EAR

Satoru is the second in command of the group tasked with retrieving your soul. His special ability is the ability to see the future of those he touches. As a result he has used that as an advantage in both climbing the ladder of success in the Demon World to manipulating woman to play around with. He dislikes getting close to anyone and looks out only for himself. He sees you as just another woman. However unlike others, he finds you to have nothing of interest to him and simply flirts with. 

The MC plays the pursuer for most of the route when it comes to actual romantic interest, getting down to his core on just why he acts like this. Though Satoru puts the moves on her he does so in more of a skinship and nothing else way. If you don't like the type of characters that push you around and verbally abuse you, I'd recommend against playing his route. He is really hot and cold with the MC and says a LOT of mean things to her due to his own trust issues. Though after the Main Story I found Satorus advances to be pretty endearing. He's one of the characters that just SHINE in their Sequels. He has great redeeming quality's and if you are able to gut his verbal abuse in Main Story, the wait is worth it.

In this route, the MC asked for 10 days in order to see her parents that are coming to visit from overseas. Her parents are shown in pretty much every route to be away from where the MC lives and only gets to see them on occasion when they're free. As such seeing them is very important to the MC. 

As the plot progresses you come to learn Satoru was alone as a child for most of his part and would have to do everything on his own. His parents died when he was young and his relatives didn't like him very much. When he was old enough in fact they threw him out. As such he developed this "looking out for my self" self image. 

He viewed everyone as simply wanting something from him and when he gets nothing in return he simply cuts them off. He's a bit of a player in that regard, at the beginning seeing many woman and using their assets as people of power or money to his own advantage. 

The MC however kept worming her way into her heart, showing him doing such things is wrong. On top of that that relying on yourself and accepting no one into your life is no way to live. Gradually developing his love for you.

In the end it's revealed you were his first real crush, and he's even had a crush on you since seemingly the first day. Though that was mostly just a desire to sleep with you, his desire gradually turned into that of possessiveness. Which you'll see of in his Sequels a lot!

Satoru is an interesting character and he even has some funny oddity's about him. For one, he's horrible with technology and can barely work a phone when the MC steps him through it. He's very old fashioned. He's  the most romantic out of the guys and is constantly physical with the MC, which is especially enjoyable in the later stories when he's very possessive.

Now were onto Haruhito Amano. The angelic, playful, and childish Devil.

Mmm gurl is that some new shampoo? Sunrippened Strawberries?

First off lemme say. This is probably the worst review of Haru's route you'll find. Why? Because It was hard for me to play his route without thinking of myself. He's too similar to myself and it felt like I was pursuing myself. Which led me to not enjoying his routes very well. It didn't help that his nickname is Haru... So this is going to be very biased I think in comparison to the other routes.

I don't dislike him. It's just hard for me to form an opinion of him without comparing him to myself every second.

Anyways, Haruhito is the troublemaker of the group. He slacks off to go play whatever random thing pops into his head and is the least dedicated to his job. He's more focused on having fun and out of all the guys except maybe Meguru, he's the most excited to have you around. He initially likes you very much and drags you into things just cause. He is a very random character. His ability is the ability to communicate with animals, and his dog, Cerby is with him all the time. Partly it's his fault they didn't retrieve your soul, actually. 

The MC's reason to ask for 10 days in his route is due to her sister getting married. Which came to a shock for me since Kakeru was my first route and was already having a child with her husband but okay, whatever Voltage. Were getting some Shin Megami Tensei timeline crazy up in here. By that I mean, anything that can happen will happen and will create an alternate universe and.. What am I talking about, this is just an otome game. I doubt it'll get a spiritual sequel based purely off of all of Haruhitos storylines. But yeah that bothered me ahaha.

Anyways, even though he's really close to you from the get go he's one of the ones that take longer to actually want to save you from becoming toast. This is due to his thinking that everything that happens will happen due to it being Fate and you can't fight Fate. So even if he likes you, there's nothing he can do about it. In that regard he's very defeatist in comparison to characters like Shiki or Meguru.

The reason for this as you'll find out through sort of the semi-antagonist, the angel Rein Isaka, who through the other routes is seen as someone you can't get close to or you'll be found out. You come to find out that Haru was actually an ANGEL. Yes, you can just become a demon through magyks. And you can similarly become a human through magyks. Yet humans can't become a demon or angel through magyks? Okay, Voltage.

The reason for suck magyks is because as an angel, Haruhito became close to a human, and with his job as an angel to take to heaven to be reincarnated, failed. He was too friendly with the human and didn't take them away. Because of this Heaven banished him to the demon world and if he toasted ten thousand toastees he will be accepted back into heaven and become an angel again, working with his partner Rein. Yes. Haruhito and Rein were partners. Very close in fact. Rein and Haruhito go together like peanut butter and jelly in their routes.

And as luck will have it, MC is the ten thousandth toastee. So if you become toast? Haruhito will become an angel again, and be all buddybuddy with Rein again. Which causes most of the melodrama in this. Because MC wants Haruhito to be happy, she thinks less about her own happiness. But at the same time, she shows him that fate is not set in stone.

All in all his route was very.. frustrating. The Angel Demon thing was just so.. weird. And in the end Haru decides to forsake his angel-ship and saves you, which makes him actually become a human in punishment. Again bringing the crazy magyks into the formula. Yeah if you couldn't tell, Haruhitos wasn't very enjoyable to me. Though I think Haruhito himself is pretty cool once you get to know him.

Onto Shiki Kurobane... The Cold Megane dude.

This is an awkward position to do makeouts in

This is another character that suffers from "I feel like i'm dating myself" for me. But unlike Haruhito who also shares a nickname as me making it awkward; wanna know what makes it even more awkward for me with Shiki? He looks like me. So not only do I feel like I'm dating myself in a character sense. I'm seeing a character that looks like me all the freakin' time. Shiki's pretty popular in the fandom so I wonder if anyone's coming here purely to read my review of him... Calm yourself ladies~ I'm too in love with my bed and my cat~ Which also annoys me. Why's this loser so popular? I know why but.. I don't like him. I rate all his storys low. I don't like you Shiki. Stop stealing my dreads and my glasses and my love for sleep you little chicken nugger.

Anyways. Shiki is one of the more useful members when it comes to abilities. He's like how important Takuto is in Love Letter from Theif X. He's the computer guy which immediately makes him the most useful, but on top of that his actual demon ability is mind control. Yes ah mind control. He's central even in routes he's not in for this reason. On top of that in EVERY FRICKEN ROUTE he has a crush on you. Get away from me man. What's funny is the reason MC chose the 10 day thing for his route. It's like NTR at it's finest.

SHE HAS A CRUSH ON THIS GUY AT HER WORK AND WANTS TO CONFESS TO HIM. BURN.... BURNNNN! He has a crush on her in every route... and then finally... FINALLY when he gets a route of his own.... SHE ALREADY LIKES SOMEONE. I was laughing on my bed as I played his route for the most part. You just don't get a break do ya man?

He's very cold and aloof to the MC though not so abusive in comparison to Satoru. He just wants to be left alone and he doesn't understand why you chose him as your bodyguard when there are people like Kakeru and Satoru to choose from. Also it's annoying for him to have to monitor you. So then, why the fuck does he always fall for the MC? He's a tsundere that's why. A raging tsundere. It's like the more you get attracted to someone else, the more he realizes how in love he is with you. 

Especially in his own route. You two play a game for the most part where the MC acts out confessing to the guy she likes with Shiki. With varying amounts of success since Shiki is NOTHING like the guy she likes. The guy she likes is some loon thats obsessed with pots or something and wants to get MC into his weirdo pot pyramid scheme every time he's involved in something, and uses her affection for him to is advantage. He's gonna get her if Shiki doesn't MAN UP AND MAKE HER REALIZE THIS GUY IS SHITTY. Which he does eventually. Once his jealousy meter rises up he takes her for himself and she sees the guy for the loonie toon he truly is. Though is Shiki any better really? Okay yeah he is, but I don't like Shiki. I will NTR him to oblivion.

Anyways, once he realizes his tsundere feelings for you and gets your affections away from the guy, the dude hacks into the fate database and takes you off the list. The higher ups find out and punish him for it, but don't toast you because you got taken off it. CAN'T YOU JUST PROGRAM HER IN AGAIN WHATS STOPPING YOU? Romance that's what.

I actually know why so many people like him because his storyline is good but ROFLMAO LET ME VENT ABOUT THE GUY.

Now for... my favorite guy! Meguru Kamui! The sweet younger devil dude!

Why yes, Meguru. I will marry you.

So much bias here, girls. I love Meguru Kamui. Ever since the first route I played I'd been eagerly anticipating playing his route. How he behaved in Kakeru's route was great. And I already like characters like him and he's the most visually appealing in my opinion. I love the younger reliable types that shower you in love and affection in a sweet way, not an over the top way like Haruhito. He can cook and clean too. He's like a perfect wife. I think Meguru is perfect as he is. At least until one of the Sequels endings but eh. I know out of any of the guys in here, he's the one I'D want to date. No homo bro. All the homo actually. ALL OF IT. It was torturous waiting for his route to be released. While everyone was crying tears of joy over Shiki's route finally coming out I was crying tears of sorrow because "MEGURU'S NOT OUT YET." 

Meguru is the younger brother of Kakeru Kamui, the prince of the demon realm and leader of the squad. He's still a trainee and was put into Kakerus squad because... LOOK. THEY'RE BROTHERS OKAY. But unlike Kakeru he's not in any way going to inherit the throne and he frankly doesn't even want to. Why? They have different mothers. OH SHIT THE KING'S BEEN CHEATING. Kakeru's mom is the queen and Megurus mom is some harlot or something lmao. His mother is obsessed with getting the throne and thinks Megurus birth is like a freaking BLESSING. He is but not in ways she thinks he is. He may not inherit it with Kakeru as the heir but is still very so a rightful heir. She doesn't think of him as anything else but a tool and tells him to get Kakeru in trouble and shit so he can lose his spot as king and SHE can come to live in the castle. Meguru is who, now? IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.

But Meguru is such an angelic devil that loves his brother and his dad that he won't do that at all. AND SO HIS MOM PRETTY MUCH HATES HIM. Come here baby you're too precious. When MC starts living with them they get along fast. They have lots of similar hobbies and often cook together and just Megurus so kind and easy to get along with. They compliment each other greatly and their relationship is really believable. It's also hella adorable how excited he was for the MC to choose him to be her guardian and puts his all into protecting her. 

Anyways, the reason MC wanted 10 days this time is to celebrate her mothers birthday. Which brings some bad feelings to Meguru in his head because oh joy his mother is fucking FANTASTIC. His power is also the most powerful... and the hardest to control. His left hand can destroy anything it touches. As such he keeps a glove on it and won't touch you with that hand. There was a bit of a panic moment in the route actually when he got drunk and nearly grabbed and destroyed you with his hand. Part of the route is to help Meguru control his own power. They fall in love almost nearly halfway through and focus more on handling the obstacles in their way, such as MC's toasting. To which Meguru almost goes yandere over.

Megurus route is great but my complaint over his route stems from his Sequel. His Main Story is great 10/10 play it but his Sequel... I hated how it ended. Spoilers: He got a growth spurt after awakening as a demon and his personality just became hella mature in comparison. He says a lot that "I'm still me." But no he did change and I just found it uncomfortable and unnerving. Give me younger Meguru back... ;_;

Onto the Angels! Yes they have routes too! Rein Isaka the funny accent man!

YOU'RE THE ONE THAT ATE MY PIZZA SLICE? I WAS SAVING THAT!! 

Remember how I said these two are like peanut butter and jelly? I wasn't kidding. It's Haruhito and Rein: The game the route the story. I thought I wasn't going to enjoy Reins route because I found his accent annoying and just IDK he seemed annoying and boring and I don't like angels. But his route pulled a surprising twist to it that almost made me CRY. CRY. 

For most of the route it's kind of just bumping into Rein. You're still living with the devils, I actually thought before playing that he'd find you out fairly quickly and whisk you away to some Angel House or something but no. Part of the tragedy of the story is the MC and Rein fall for each other while thinking of each other simply as humans and not "That toastee" or "An Angel". Yes tragedy. You two get along fairly fast and when you tell Kakeru about it he gets uncomfortable for some reason and forbids you from getting close to him (Because remember: if the angels find out about keeping you alive? Kakeru's screwed.) And even tells you later when it looks like Reins dick too bomb to leave that he's an angel. But like I said: Reins dick too bomb. Excuse the profanity I like using that joke too much, blame my friends. 

But yeah your romance is like something you'd see in a happily ever after drama series or a shoujo manga. You keep bumping into each other, going on dates, and Rein realizes pretty quickly that he loves you too. But somethings gotta come to break that up. Rein finds out near the end that MC is a toastee and gets really upset with her and has an inner sad until the day of her toasting. He can't get close to her cause she gun die son! But he loves her! The tear jerker here is: MC get's toasted and Rein comes right when her soul is going up and away, but he uses his powers to bring her back to life. Which then gets a punishment of BEING HUMAN. Oh no now he can age with her and not worry about angel stuff the horror.

I joke a lot but Reins route is REALLY GOOD. It was a different flow than the others and if you played the other routes you could see the tragedy coming a mile away which made is so much better. It's like watching someone play Persona 3 when you know how it's gonna end and they think it's gonna end happy and nothing bad happens because it's an RPG and you save the world. NOPE. The different style they took to this was just... tearjerky. I think I cried. Pretty sure. Cry with me.

The angel you'd have no idea about if you didn't play Satorus routes or Reins route. Tsubasa Shirai!

Tsubasa: Making girls drown in style

Tsubasa is... a secret character I guess? He doesn't pop up into other characters routes unless you're playing Rein's main or the Sequels so if you didn't play those seeing him as route would be just full of "?????????" However it took awhile for his route to be released and by the time it did I had played Satorus route and fell in love with him. 

Do you ever get that feeling? You fall in love with a character when it's not their route? I mean the same thing happened with me and Meguru but unlike Meguru you know the thing that sucks? Tsubasas route doesn't do him justice. I'm mostly referring to his Epilogue and Sequel because they just felt so... ugh. Yknow? His main route is fine. It's satisfactory. But anything past that is boring. And Tsubasa is a great character otherwise? I don't understand.

Anyways, Tsubasas route plays a lot like Rein's route with a similar sadbomb because they don't know what the other is. MC wished for 10 days due to getting assigned an important job for her company that involved working with a modeling agency. As luck would have it Tsubasa's a model. And MC is a fan of his. So she's really excited to work with him!

They start off pretty nice and friendly like Meguru and Haruhitos route but the thing with Tsubasa is: he's a two faced jerk. And he was all smiley and friendly with you because it's his job and unless it's his job he wants nothing to do with you, similarly to Satorus route. But MC genuinely likes him and thinks he likes her enough and sticks to him to the point she finds out about his two faced jerkery. To which they then become partners in crime of sorts.

The two of them stick together more often and gradually MC learns why Tsubasa's like that. Albeit without any of the angelic crap thrown in later. He tells MC that he admired a girl, to the point he broke a rule for her just for her to get on his good side because he really liked her. The wound up blowing in his face though and made her hate him. Due to this he decides to never get involved with anyone, especially women, ever again. Somewhat similarly to Satoru.

What he didn't tell you at first was that the woman was an angel in love with a human, and he used his powers to extend his lifeline to to being a toastee so they could be together. But he fell in love with another human afterwards so booo freaking hooo for the angel lady.

Later on the sadbomb hits and he has to break the rules once again to save someone he loves, you. Though now he had a Haruhito moment of realizing not everyones the same.

Honestly his route felt lazy and shoehorned like "Oh wow we have to write a Tsubasa story because a lot of people like him?" instead of intricately writing his story. There were some plot holes and as I said his sequel isn't any better. It's disappointing really.

Also wheres Seiji's route bruh. BRU H. I probably won't like him but I'll give you 4 dollars anyway, Voltage!

Recommendations

As this is a pay for your route kind of deal I am going to list every route and side story and rate it on how good I think it is for you to actually spend money on. A lot of side stories can be boring but some are genuinely great and give some backstory. (Pleasantly surprised at Haruhitos route in the Devil Winter Wonderland story talking about his sister for example)

MAIN STORY:

Kakeru Kamui - 8 points. Highly recommended buying, especially for your first time playing.

Satoru Kamagari - 7 points. Buy only if you like these character archetypes. He shines more in sequels but you'll need to play Main to understand his deal.

Haruhito Amano - 5 points. Don't recommend buying. It has too many upsetting plot points.

Shiki Kurobane - 7 points. Recommend buying if you like him enough. His romance is interesting but can get annoying sometimes.

Meguru Kamui - 9 points. Highly recommended. Great all around realistic pacing and falling in love.

Rein Isaka - 7 points. I only recommend if you've played one of the other main routes. Playing it by itself doesn't do it justice.

Tsubasa Shirai - 5 points. Refer to Rein. Has plot holes like Haruhito and the Sequels don't compliment it.

EPILOGUE:

Just saying right now. Buy Epilogues if you really like the guy, otherwise don't bother. It's short and only gives you a glance at them dating after the events of the main event.

DATING A DEMON: 

Takes place during the Epilogue time, which really makes Epilogues unnecessary. I'd recommend any if you liked the characters main story, especially Satoru, except Tsubasas and feel no need to get on the nitty gritty on it.

SEQUELS:

Play any of these AFTER playing the characters main story.

Kakeru Kamui - 7 points. Nice follow up that wraps up some demonic conflict but doesn't bring much new to the table.

Satoru Kamagari - 9. Shines Satorus character up and makes him really endearing.

Haruhito Amano - 6 points. A Bit better storytelling but what is bothering in his main story about the angel issue is still prevailent. Ends on a nice note.

Shiki Kurobane - 7 points. Gives a lot more focus on Shiki instead of the NTR and gives a better view on his OWN issues.

Meguru Kamui - 6 points. Started off really good but ended so badly.

Rein Isaka - 8 points. Really cute story with a nice plotline. More insight to Rein instead of the melodrama incoming sadbombs.

Tsubasa Shirai - 2 points. Highly unnecessary. Nice CG's I guess.

WEDDING SEQUELS:

(If Sequels are to Main storys like XIII-2 is to Final Fantasy XIII this is the Lightning Returns of the stories)

Kakeru Kamui - 8. Obvious on the conflict but done very nicely.

Satoru Kamagari - 9. One of the best wedding sequels.  The plot was excellent and you continue to see Satoru as the great guy he is.

Haruhito Amano - 7. Great plotline but Haru continues to be pretty static.

Shiki Kurobane - 6. His stuff was mostly settled in the sequel and they needed to give him a wedding.

Meguru Kamui - 5. The bad adult characterization continues in full force.

Rein Isaka - 7. Really cute but really obvious and ordinary.

SIDE STORIES

DEMON HOUSE PARTY: takes place in the middle of the main story and just is them having a party. Not recommended.

SHIKI SPECIAL: Really funny and sweet. Get only if you really like Shiki though cause it's not very long ;)

~SEQUEL EPILOGUE SET~: On one hand: you can purchase those unnecessary epilogues all in one pack. On the other. Epilogues aren't that interesting.

THE DEVILS' WORK: Really great sidestory. Funny and nice to see some of them work jobs' they are HORRIBLE at.

THE BEST ANTI-CHRISTMAS: Nice to see the devils not know what the frick Christmas is about but I think the other Christmas side stories are better. Though theyre connected to this one... sigh.

WHEN THE CAT'S AT PLAY: Eh it was okay but... Skip on this one pls. Not worth it.

BLACK VALENTINE'S DAY: Valentines side storys always gotta be good. Def get it.

SATORU'S  BIRTHDAY <3: Whats interesting is it can branch into 3 endings but I only recommend getting it if you loveeee Satoru.

KAKERU'S BIRTHDAY <3 : Refer to the above.

THE DEMON'S SECRET GARDEN:  Very nice and you get to see a side of Satoru and Haruhito you don't usually. Megurus was very sweet too. Okay all of them were pretty good.

MY DEVILISH BODYGUARD: This is a crossover between My Sweet Bodyguard or whatever so if you don't play that you'll be confused (like me)

MY PICTURE PERFECT WEDDING: Uh it's like a psuedo Wedding sequel thing I dont really care for it.

KAKERU KAMUI SPECIAL STORY: This is connected to My Picture Perfect Wedding so only get it if you played that and liked Kakery's route. Kakerus was the best from that side story so I guess they decided to cash in on that lmao.

5 DAYS A HUMAN: KAKERU X REIN: Really bad unnecessary money grubbing sidestory. Doesn't even have CG's DON'T GET IT.

HOT & STEAMY SUMMER: Really nice! Megurus especially was funny oh man. One of the best sub stories.

5 DAYS A HUMAN: HARUHITO X SATORU: Even worse since they had to set Haruhito back to Main Story which ruins some of his development oh man.

SHIKI <3 BIRTHDAY: Same as the other birthdays. (What's up with the <3 movement?)

5 DAYS A HUMAN: SHIKI X TSUBASA: you know da drill

A DEVIL HALLOWEEN PARTY: You'd have to be pretty bad tomess up a Halloween Sub story. This is not one of those thankfully. Some of those outfit choices THO. Meguru why.

IF HE WAS YOUR... PART 1: This is done like the 5 days a human so I want to SAY not to buy it but you're getting two AUS which is really interesting. I'd say if you're interested in the AU included to get it.

IF HE WAS YOUR... PART 2: BRO.

IF HE WAS YOUR... PART 3: DUDE.

JOY TO THE ANGEL REALM: PLS GET THIS. Haru's was ESPECIALLY good ooooh man.

A DEVIL WINTER WONDERLAND: I found it kinda funny these were a year apart but were released at the same time lmao. Kakeru's and Shiki's were especially good and Rein's actually in this one whoa!

10 DAYS OF HIS KISSES ~SHIKI~: I... thought the plotline description to be interesting but it was initiated poorly. No CGs either. Don't let the 10 chapter listing fool you. Each chapter is hella short.

10 DAYS OF HIS KISSES ~ SATORU~: Same as Shiki's THOUGH I find his to be more interesting to read and a great view into their love life despite there being no CG's I actually recommend it!!

I'm not updating with any of the future releases because I'm deleting this app to make room for other apps, though I'm sure that won't happen anyway with how Voltage has scrapped this series.