I finished Ayato's route finally, except the extra Heaven scenarios, but those don't count. This entire route was just what I wanted really, and even though I didn't understand like 70% of it until I read the English summaries, I still really enjoyed it.
I would've finished it quicker if my PSP didn't die on me a few times. The battery seems way worse than when it was when I played Hakuoki. It barely lasts a day now, when the battery's only a few months old! Last year it would last more than two days. That's what you get when you purchase third party batteries... Oh well, at least if the battery goes, I think the PSP can still run on AC power, so that's alright.
Anyways, let's talk about the game, shall we? Beware of spoilers down below!
Like I said before, there's hardly any plot in this route. It's like one big drama CD, but with choices. But to be honest, I'm not bothered by it at all. I didn't buy it for the plot, I bought it for the sexy vampire boys. Ayato's route really just focuses on his relationship with Yui. At first he's really mean to her, then he starts to warm up to her a lot, but he's still a douchebag at the end, just a bit less of a douche.
Sometimes when things were going nicely and Ayato was acting nice, something would change his mind and he would do something mean again. Yui's like his blood bank, he drinks from her so much that she goes anemic and has bites all over her. Well, they say she has bites all over her, but in the CGs she looks fine, probably because she's covered up.
At the beginning Ayato calls Yui "chichinashi", meaning "flat breasts", but it doesn't take him long to start calling her by her actual name. I dunno if the voice actors actually say her name if you leave it as default, but in my game because I changed it, when ever my name popped up Ayato would just say "oi" or "omae" instead.
Ayato and Yui do have sex, but it always fades to black before anything really steamy happens. The game's rating does state that it's for the age of fifteen and up, so I suppose they can't do as much as they can if it was rated eighteen or something. But it's not like you don't get any spicy scenes at all, Ayato does bit Yui quite a lot, and it sounds super sexy through the headphones. Once though there was this kissing sound and it sounded like a fart so I very immaturely laughed out loud at it.
Ayato's super possessive of Yui, it's quite cute. There's this scene in the dining room where Laito tries flirting with her but Ayato gets super pissed. Multiple times he tells Yui stuff like "You're mine" and treats her like his possession at times, his very own personal blood bank.
I suppose the only plot related thing that happens near the end is this bloke called Richter, he's Ayato's uncle or something. Anyways, he's after Yui because she has Ayato's mum's heart in her, I dunno why but Richter put it in her one day for some reason. He keeps coming up to her and trying to take her but Ayato usually comes to sort things out. This happens in the ending I got, Richter comes but Ayato shouts at him and then he just goes away. My PSP died in the middle of it, just as it was getting exciting. I thought that there was going to be a grand fight scene but there wasn't really.
There are three endings, and I got the best one because I used the walkthrough and made only masochistic choices. If you make the other choices I think you get the "manservant end". That sounds pleasant. I think in those endings the love interest becomes Yui's slave or something, I dunno but I think I might try for them one day because they have CGs I think! The other ending might be just a normal ending caused making both good and bad choices probably.
The final ending scene has a really pretty CG. Yui and Ayato get married, except they don't actually go to their ceremony, they just elope and leave everybody waiting in the church. I feel sorry for the wedding guests just sitting there. But they have a really cute conversation and Ayato says that he's the most powerful vampire or something now because of Yui's blood. She share's Cordelia's blood which was super powerful because I think she's a demon lady. Then Ayoto bites Yui's finger instead of giving her a wedding ring, because they're "bonded by blood". Maybe he was just too cheap to buy her an actual ring.
Then it ends. The credits song was super pretty, but it seemed to last forever. I dunno who was singing it but it sounded like Shu's voice actor, who has a really pretty singing voice. (EDIT: I was wrong, it's actually Hikaru Midorikawa singing, Ayato's voice actor. I'm seriously bad at recognising voices!) In the credits though they had a bit in the corner which showed different CGs in it, I had to cover them up because they were all from the other routes and I didn't want any spoilers!
Speaking of CGs, the art in this game is super pretty. However, most of the CGs I've gotten so far kind of look the same. They're mostly of Ayato sucking Yui's blood. The final one was probably my favourite so far though. The sprites look really cool too, and not awkward or anything. Yui has her own sprite in the corner but of course I turned it off for self-insertion purposes. I like Yui's design though, especially her outfits.
Ad you can probably, I very much enjoyed this route. It's nice to take a break from heavy plot related stuff and just go back to what I play otome games for, romance that I can easily self-insert myself into. I don't really take it that seriously either. I know this game has some of the most abusive relationships I've ever seen in a piece of media, but it's not real so I don't mind.
Whose route should I do after this, I wonder? I was thinking of doing either Subaru because he's my favourite, or Shu. At first I didn't really care for Shu but now he's interesting me. I'm probably gonna end up leaving Kanato for last though. Even though I like his voice actor, I just find him super strange. The only thing I have in common with him is that we both like dolls. At first I thought that he was the youngest brother but somehow Subaru is? I was shocked when I found that out because Subaru seems way more mature than the others, except maybe Reiji.
Maybe I'll randomly pick my next route choice, like I did when I played Amnesia. Then I don't have to waste my energy choosing!
But before any of that happens, I have to complete Ayato's Heaven after story....
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