Well, hello again. I didn't really post on here over the weekend because there wasn't really anything to write about because I hardly went on my Vita at all. I decided to wait until I had finished Shiraishi's route until uploading anything else. And today I ended up completing said route, so I'm going to release my final thoughts on it to the world. Beware of spoilers!
There was so much going on in this route that I'll probably never be able to remember it all. Basically what happened was that Ichika and Shiraishi managed to solve one of the X-Day cases involving these twins who were out murdering for revenge or something, then Shiraishi began pushing Ichika away or something, they became friends again and decided to host a Christmas party, but then Adonis called and told Ichika that she had a few days until they were gonna take her away, Shiraishi just goes out and murders Rei Mikuni (who I believe is related to Adonis anyway so who cares), becoming a criminal but Ichika doesn't really care, she goes with her brother to live in the office with Yanagi and Enomoto (this actually happens before the murder incident, oops!) but she gets taken away by Adonis and saved by Shiraishi, then they see that Zero person so Ichika shoots him but then the collar releases a lot of poison into her and she's paralysed. I thought this bit was a bad ending, but apparently it isn't...
Shiraishi's actually not called Shiraishi, his real name is No. 14, and he was raised from birth to work for Adonis. I had been quite suspicious since early on in the route of him, I either thought he was related to them or from some other group. He'd been forced to get close to Ichika by Zero, but ended up falling in love with her anyway. Not much about his backstory other than that is really given away. There is a very small chance that there might be some more of it in the short story thing you can read at the end, but I doubt it. I really should read that short story though, I'd forgotten all about it.
Anyway, after Ichika got poisoned by the collar, the credits rolled. At that point I knew that it wasn't a bad ending because normally by then I would've gotten a "GAME OVER" screen. I said to myself "Oh no, is the "good" ending actually going to be really sad?" and I turned out to be partly right. Ichika wakes up in some shady hospital with absolutely no memories. The only person with her is Shiraishi, who pretends to be her doctor. He nurses her back to health, but she still doesn't really get any memories back. Everything in Shinjuku's back to normal now, so that's all good. Exactly a year after Ichika's poisoning, Shiraishi takes her to the office for a Christmas party, where she meets Yanagi and the others (except Okazaki) all over again. Everything seems familiar to her. Then Shiraishi and her go to the rooftop and Ichika remembers that she had forgotten in the past to confess her love to him, so she does and they kiss. That scene is cute and all, but they don't really get their happily ever after yet, because Shiraishi still has to go to jail because he outright murdered someone. Apparently he did it to protect Ichika, but it's still a crime. All of the other endings were super happy compared to this one, but I suppose it's quite hard to make everything work out when your love interest outright murdered someone.
I did enjoy this route quite a bit, and I actually really loved the ending, probably because I really like it when a character gets amnesia, even though that plot point is used quite a bit. There was a lot of plot stuff here so it makes sense that it was locked until you completed another route first. Shiraishi's probably my fourth favourite character out of all of the love interests. His route's probably maybe my third favourite out of the four I've done so far.
Immediately after finishing his route, I forgot about the extra short story and voice recorder and just went straight into Yanagi's route. His route gives you an extra few scenes in the common route which answer a question I had for a while: How did all of the main love interests meet? You get to go back in time and see how Yanagi met Sasasuka and started working with him and Shiraishi, but Okazaki's not there yet. There's also a few flashbacks that suggest that Yanagi has quite a dark past... I haven't read very far into it yet, but it seems like he's met Ichika before. He even asks if she remembers him, but when she doesn't he just brushes it off and pretends that it was nothing, he was just using a cheesy pick-up line. Also, Yanagi really doesn't like Okazaki, especially when he tries to get friendly with Ichika. I didn't really notice that in the other routes, it just seemed like Yanagi just tolerated him, but here he gets super annoyed by his presence. I haven't really gotten much past that, but I'm excited to see what happens next. I've always liked Yanagi, he seemed like the nicest and most normal one of the lot. Most of the time the "main guy" in these otome games acts a lot like Yanagi, being the LI with the best personality and looks, and cares about the MC no matter what route she's in, but I still like Yanagi anyway. He's not my favourite but these types of men never are. His route's probably going to contain a lot of plot in it, probably more than romance. After this I'll be finished with Collar X Malice, which is sad, but I've really been excited to finally play Diabolik Lovers for the first time after this. Maybe one day I'll buy the fan-disc for Collar X Malice, but it's probably going to be quite expensive since I don't think it came out too long ago.
I don't really know what title to give this post. I'd better think of one quick because I'm going to publish this in a minute. That also means that I'm going to have to leave you all now. See you later!
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