Collar X Malice's Bad Endings

Please Note: This post isn't going to be as detailed as my Period Cube bad ending posts. I originally wasn't going to make a post on this, but I'm bored so I just want to type down some quick general thoughts. Also, there's going to be no screenshots here, sorry.

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About two months after completing Collar X Malice, I decided to go back to collect some bad endings, and of course, the trophies that you get awarded upon finding them. Even though to get a platinum trophy you have to first collect every single ending the game has to offer, I couldn't be bothered to do that, so I only went for the endings that have CGs, the Tragic Love endings. That meant that afterwards, I got some cute completion CGs! I had seen these floating around the Web before, but I thought that they were from the fan-disc. In the past, I had gotten some bad endings, but none of them had CGs, except one that I exited out of to correct my mistakes before I could get to the image.

(BEWARE OF SPOILERS DOWN BELOW!)

A Journey Through Period Cube's Bad Endings: Part Three

This will be my final post on Period Cube, unless a fan-disc ever comes out and I review that. Like the title says, I'll be going through the last two bad endings I have and basically just writing my thoughts on them.

Let's get started, shall we?


(Oh yeah, beware of spoilers down below!)

My Last Period Cube Review

Previously on Misty's Blog: I completed all of the Period Cube routes required and wrote long reviews on them. Eventually, I managed to unlock the final one, Poyo-Poyo's. Will this one be better, worse, or as good as the other ones? Read the review below to find out, and like always, beware of spoilers!

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A Rubbish Review of Hiroya's Route

Previously on Misty's Blog: I went through two more Period Cube bad endings, and they weren't as interesting for me as the ones I had done first! At that point, I had only two more routes to go, Poyo-Poyo and Hiroya's. I was actually quite excited to play both of them, and not because it meant that the game would be over.

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I finished Hiroya's route, but I fear that my memory of the plot is going to be as bad as it was in the last review I wrote. Ouch, my cat just bit my arm whilst I wrote that. So, let's get into the review before I forget everything, shall we?

(Don't forget to watch out for spoilers!)

A Journey Through Period Cube's Bad Endings: Part Two

I'm back on my journey through Period Cube's interesting bad endings! This time I'll be reviewing Libera and Zain's endings only!

I don't really know what else to say before I start, except to beware of spoilers!

Zain's Route: A Crappy Summary/Review

Previously on Misty's Blog: I played about four Period Cube routes. That was all I did. Oh yeah, I also did some bad endings too. Now, as you all expected me to, I started my fifth route.

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Hello, everybody! I've just come back from finishing Zain's route. It was... interesting, I suppose. I started it on Friday and then took a break from it for most of the weekend, so the first few chapters aren't that fresh in my mind anymore! The route summary I wrote down turned out to be a bit jumbled up and out of order because of this. Also, if there's a bit of a disconnect with the screenshots and what's written, it's because I'm writing the post first because I can't plug my PS Vita into my PC at the moment, and then adding the images later. Sorry about that.

Don't forget to beware of spoilers!

This Could've Been Better, I Suppose...

Previously on Misty's Blog: I completed my third Period Cube route, Libera's, having very strong opinions about it. Next, I decided to make our MC fall in love with a very trashy angel boy with absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. It sounded like fun, because I usually quite enjoy characters like that...

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Yes, I decided to do Demento's route.  I had heard some very bad things about him in the past, so naturally, that made me very excited. But it was so short, it only took me around an hour to finish it! It feels like he was never meant to be a proper LI in the first place and was just added in as a hidden extra route just because. Oh yeah, I also somehow got the bad ending even though I tried really hard to get affection points for him. There was one time where I didn't get any and I thought that it wouldn't matter, so I didn't bother correcting them or nothing. I'm going to be writing about both endings in this post instead of saving the other one for my bad ending reviews. It's just so that I don't forget what happens by the time I go to write it.

So, are you ready for the insanity that is this route?

(Oh yeah, there's spoilers down below so don't look if you care about that stuff!)

Libera's Route: A Very Long Review

Previously on Misty's Blog: I made my way through two of Period Cube's bad endings and discovered that they were actually quite a bit more interesting than the happy ones. Then I began the common route again and landed on Libera's route. I had absolutely no excitement for it whatsoever, but could it turn out to be actually interesting?

Read below to find out, and beware of spoilers!

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A Journey Through Period Cube's Bad Endings: Part One

Yes, I know I literally wrote my last post an hour ago, but there was something really cool I wanted to write about!

This is technically a companion piece to my other three Period Cube posts, so if you haven't read them or played the game yet, I would highly recommend that you do!

I decided to go through the "Merry Bad Endings" for the two routes that I've already completed, because they come with CGs and trophies! They were both a lot longer than I thought, and a lot more complex than the simple "you made one wrong choice so now you're dead" endings. I wrote "Part 1" in the title for this post, because I'm planning to go through all the other endings like these later on. I used this walkthrough for these, in case you were wondering. Each one requires low affection to land on and they branch off from the normal story at Quest 7.

So, what did I think about them? Scroll down below to find out, and beware of spoilers!!

This Review is Very Long....

Previously on Misty's Blog: I pulled out my PlayStation Vita again and started to play a very interesting otome game called Period Cube. After breezing through the common route, I some how managed to land on a route by only making three choices! After completing the first route (review can be found here), I went back to the common route. Guided by the "skip to next choice" feature, I made some random dialogue choices until landing on the route of another attractive love interest...

Now, after spending a few days completing it, it's time for the final review. Beware of spoilers!

A Reflection on This Blog

This is not a proper post or anything. I feel like reading some of my older posts even though whenever I read them I have to correct a lot of accidental errors (I don't edit because it's embarrassing reading my stuff), but it's really fun to see what my opinions were on certain games and that at the beginning and how they changed.

It's funny, I started this blog just to randomly ramble on about stuff, but then I started playing Hakuoki and Mystic Messenger and writing about it. At first, if you look at my original posts on Hakuoki, I'd just lightly touch on the plot but not really talk about things at all (I think I was scared of getting details wrong) and I'm pretty sure I spelt Shinsengumi wrong each time! Then I got my Vita and started playing Code: Realize and I still didn't really talk much about the plot, but then when I started Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly (still probably my favourite game) I went a bit deeper in, and then eventually a few games later, I was almost into proper review territory. Now I try to make at least one post fully discussing a route, one on my initial opinions on a game and then sometimes I final opinion post. It's nice looking at how my writing and my plot analysis skills have gotten better over these past few months.

I think I might write proper posts on Hakuoki if I get the new remastered Vita games. I am playing the fan-disc next but it's all in Japanese so I dunno how much I'll be able to say about it since I'm having trouble finding a complete English summary (nobody translated the fan-disc because it got incorporated into localised versions of the original game anyway).

I keep thinking that the current theme of this blog might look like an absolute eyesore to outside viewers with the white text, bright colours and moving background, but I like it so I just keep it anyway. Just so you all know, I understand if this blog is unreadable because of the theme. I'm still not gonna change it yet though, sorry. (I now realise that this has become more of a blog for myself rather than anybody else, sometimes I've even considered making it private)

Even though nobody reads this blog, I've got to say that I've had a blast writing about my otome journey these past few months. It's probably helped my writing skills quite a bit, and it's just nice to have something like a diary to pour my thoughts into. It's funny, when I started this blog in 2017, I used this tag on my posts that said "this blog is probably gonna die anyway" and look where we are now, in 2019! I don't think this blog is dying anytime soon, unless Blogger gets killed by Google (which I am scared of because they just culled Google +), but then I'll just move to Wordpress so everything will be fine again.

If you're reading this, thank you. :) Even if you dislike my blog and want it deleted forever, it's nice to know that someone, somewhere, read this post.

Goodnight and goodbye!

EDIT: I'm just reading this post and it's hilarious. It's like looking at a younger version of myself even though the post was only made last year. Just the title of the post alone is funny really.

Hmmm.....

Well, I just finished my first Period Cube route. It was good, but I feel like it was too short. I'm not really sure if that's criticism or a compliment. I did read before going into this game that it each route doesn't take long to complete, so maybe I wouldn't be feeling this way if I hadn't have heard that first.

(Spoilers down below!)

What If Sword Art Online Was an Otome Game?

I know I promised in the last post to write my final thoughts on Diabolik Lovers once I had completed it, but I really can't be bothered. I really enjoyed the game, but it feels like I've been playing it for years so I'd really like to move on now.

Today I started Period Cube. It's basically almost exactly the same as Sword Art Online, but instead of having big breasted anime girls as characters, there's just a lot of bishounen instead. Even though it sometimes seems a little bit too similar to SAO, I'm actually really enjoying it.

I'm actually halfway through a route even though I only started to play it today. It's probably because I was playing it without the sound in public most of the time and because the common route is super short, probably the shortest I've ever seen. I'm a bit sad that I've missed out on some of the voice acting (I hardly actually know what my chosen love interest's voice sounds like!) but it's like that with other games, I can't listen to the voice acting 100% of the time, because I don't like carrying headphones around. If the game's completely in Japanese though, I'll bring my Earpods and listen to the voices because it helps me understand it better.

Period Cube just happens to be based off of a drama CD series that I haven't listened to. I think that I might be tempted to try them out, maybe on YouTube or I could just buy them. I dunno if there's a fan-translation for it though, so I might not be willing to spend money on them until my Japanese improves.

Anyways, since I've played enough of this game now to form a basic opinion on it, what do I think so far?

Keep in mind that as usual, this post is just going to be a random dump of thoughts.

(Beware of spoilers!)

:)

I haven't posted in a while, have I? It's because I've been busy completing Diabolik Lovers and I thought I'd finish the last two routes until I wrote another blog post. But I haven't finished yet, I'm almost there though.


Prepare for a massive dump of thoughts on Kanato's route, plus Laito's, even though I haven't really finished it yet.

(I dunno how much I'm gonna be able to write because I haven't played it since this morning, it's not that fresh in my mind now...)

Spoilers down below!