The "Real World Ending"

(Spoilers!)






So............. I think that I actually just completed Kagiha's "route", because of that one wrong choice I made earlier. I'm pretty sure that each character doesn't have a full on route, but just a separate ending. There'll be more on that later.

I completed the "Real World Ending", and it was really dramatic and a good conclusion to the story. It's actually quite romantic, and even though you don't properly get with anybody in it, Beniyuri's technically in love with Kagiha at this point.

It turns out that everybody's in a coma, not just Monshiro. And Kagiha's stuck in the bottom of a lake somewhere. He must've been still conscious for most of this, because if he was really dead he wouldn't be stuck in the mansion. So he's just been floating underwater for ten years, still not properly dead yet. I don't understand how everybody else is in a coma, because it showed a flashback to Kagiha Natsu's funeral where they're all there, and I'm pretty sure they all went comatose during the accident, so how are they able to visit the funeral if they're in a hospital?? I dunno. I probably missed something.

So they all kill Hikage, who I was actually starting to like until we found out who he really was. Then they all go back to the real world, except Natsu, who's dead for real now. However, the game says that his body did float back up to the surface. I expect that it would've been very rotten and very disgusting looking if it came back ten years later. Plus, it would also still be a child's body whereas everybody else has grown up. How does a body even survive ten years in a lake? It would've gotten eaten like a week after it turned up. But the place is supposed to be haunted, so maybe that had something to do with it?

After I completed the first proper ending, I wasn't really sure how to get onto anybody else's route, so I consulted a guide! I tried to get Kagiha's route, but I went out to a public place and none of the guides would actually work because of the filtering systems so I had to use my own brain. I ended up on Yamato's route, probably because I never read all of the Kagiha related side episodes.

I was excited to start a proper route, until it abruptly ended. It turns out that each character has their own ending, not a route. A few things happened that were related to Yamato, then it just ended on a pretty CG. They literally just hug each other, then it ends. And it's not a bad ending either, because I got a trophy for completing a character ending. Because of that, I realised that my ending with Kagiha wasn't a bad ending, it was his actual route. Or at least a substitute for a route. I now understand why people say this game is different to your typical otome title.  People also say that there isn't that much romance, but there are so many cute character interactions that make up for it, at least for me, because in my head even just platonic stuff is great to self-insert yourself into! I expected routes for each character though, unless there is and I just did something wrong! I'll do more research into it later.

If each character does have a really short ending though, it means that it won't take me very long to finish the game. Oh well. But I hope I don't finish it before my birthday because I have nothing else to play after this except Welcome Park (which is just a tech demo really), until I eventually get the C:R fan-disc.

It's been a really good ride so far with my Vita. I'm excited to try out even more games on it, and maybe even non-otome titles if I really want!

See you all later!