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I got Kent's good ending without a walkthrough!! I thought I was doomed because I guessed on some of his maths questions and got a lot of them wrong, but apparently none of that mattered at all!


OK, so down below I'm just gonna spill a lot of unorganised thoughts that I had whilst playing his route. Beware of spoilers!!!!

I've realised in this post that I've referred to the game's heroine in the first person (because I self-insert) and just as "the MC" instead of just sticking to one. Sorry, but I can't be bothered to change it.

• I really didn't like Mine at the beginning of the route, until the part when she realised that I wasn't dating the Manager. She was acting really mean, like I know she was in love, but I'm supposed to be her friend! Sometimes I just wanted to punch her. But the bits where she wasn't trying to steal my man, especially the bit where I went on the sleepover with her and Sawa, I enjoyed those bits. Maybe because I haven't had a girly sleepover in many years and I kind of  miss doing that with my friends... Oh dear, now I'm getting year 5 flashbacks...

• The CGs definitely looked the best out of the three routes I've played so far. Especially the final ending one in London and the festival one. The artist really put a lot of effort in.

• The romance here was the most normal. All of the issues that were present in the romantic relationship with Kent were like what most couples have to go through. Normally in otome games the romance is perfect and you never fight, but this actually had a bit of realism to it. I didn't have to deal with any crazy yanderes or suspicious attempted murdery stuff. Kent kind of grew throughout the route and learned how to become a better boyfriend, and him and the MC became better at communicating with each other.

• It was so cool that Orion actually got to communicate with Kent. I'm not sure if he actually believed that there was actually a spirit, but it was still really awesome. This actually made him have more of an impact on the plot other than just helping out with the MC's amnesia.

• Ukyo was being weird in this route again... I still believe my theory that it's the Ukyo from the parallel dimension where he's in love with me, and that the plot of his route requires him to travel to the other dimensions to save me or something... Sounds like a very tragic, but very romantic tale.

• Near the end, I was wondering if Kent was actually going to go to London, and I felt bad when he missed his presentation because I was stupid enough to get hit by a car, which is one of my greatest fears. But it was great when at the end he actually did go, and I/the MC got to go with him. It's funny because England's my home country and it was weird self-inserting into a character who had moved there and who wasn't that used to speaking English yet. I suppose it's no different from self-inserting as any of the other hundreds of Japanese otome MCs. Kent's voice actor spoke English at the end too, which was very cute! And the end CG with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in the background was so pretty! It feels nice seeing my home country in a foreign piece of media. I know that Code: Realize was also set in the UK, but it didn't really feel like it since the translators made them all speak like Americans.

So, in conclusion, this might be my favourite route yet. Shin's route was also really good, but since this one is fresher in my mind my brain thinks it's my favourite. (I don't know if that sentence made any sense.) Tomorrow morning, I'm going to start Ikki's route! I am excited for this one, even though I'm a bit scared of his fan club. Then it's on to Ukyo's, which I am also very hyped for.

I'll see you all later then!

Bye-bye!