I have a lot I want to talk, I mean, write, about here, so I'd better type it all fast before I forget everything!
Finally, I managed to get to the hot villain's route. I was very, very terrified (that's a bit of an exaggeration) that this one would go through the same old copypasta PsychicEmotion6 Formula that all the others used. But, I was pleasantly surprised. Very pleasantly surprised indeed...
The plot of this route is super interesting, so interesting that I'm actually willing to summarise it all for you! (Just remember that I may have got some details wrong because, like I mention in every post, my Japanese is bad, or just beginner's level.)
So... Hikari finds out that Tsukasa's a bad guy almost immediately. Kirara gets this weird phone call (I still don't know who it was on the other end!) saying that Tsukasa's from this pirate gang and that he's very bad news. So I'm pretty sure he confronts him about it, and they have a little fight. Then he goes to tell Hikari, and I think Tsukasa threatens to kill her and literally everybody else if she ever blurts his little secret out. Scary stuff.
He puts on this facade in front of everybody, pretending to be super nice and acts like he's super interested in Hikari. I think he told her that he wanted her to fall in love with him for the
Death Ceremony. Behind closed doors, he was actually quite mean to Hikari. I've put up with a lot worse in otoge, but this sort of rubbed me the wrong way. I'm not really sure why, it might have been because people act like this in real life a lot, and it's just scary. For a bit, it felt like poor Hikari was hanging out with a school bully, which he technically is. He also sort of harasses her a bit and acts really forceful, there's even a CG where he's on top of her against her will.
Hikari should've kicked him in the balls during this bit.
Kirara and Hikari don't even hang out for a while, because I think Tsukasa scared them apart or something. At one point, Hidaka (I think that's his name?), Kirara's brother, he goes up to our heroine and tells her to stay away from Tsukasa. There was a choice to listen to him, I think, but I selected it and Hikari just went to defending him. I have no idea why she did this, because Tsukasa was absolutely horrible to her during these early parts of the route. If I were her, I probably would've run far away the minute he started behaving like that.
At this point, I was starting to lose faith in Tsukasa. In the other routes he was quite awesome, but now he was just really mean and I didn't like it. I know it's weird, I could tolerate literally any other douchebag love interest, but not him. Sometimes Tsukasa would actually be sort of sweet, but then he'd just turn back into a loser again and I would dislike him.
Fortunately, things started to change eventually. One evening, Hikari, Tsukasa and Kazuteru are hanging out together in the dining room. (I forgot to say this earlier, but earlier Tsukasa revealed to Hikari that Kazuteru was his twin, proving my prediction correct.) Kazuteru's going on about his family, and then notices that Tsukasa reminds him very much of his lost twin.
Kazuteru then asks Tsukasa about his own family, and Hikari's thinking "Oh dear...." This question causes Tsukasa to flip out. He goes absolutely ballistic and starts shouting at Kazuteru, who then realises that Tsukasa doesn't just resemble his twin, he is his twin. There was a lot of shouting and crying and screaming in this scene.
Kazuteru has no idea why Tsukasa (whose real name is Sora, by the way) is so angry, and not relieved that they've finally reunited again. According to Tsukasa, nobody on Mars cared about him or wouldn't rescue him or something, I don't know. He just grabs Hikari and runs off because he doesn't want to deal with any of that.
He calls up his pirate gang and they come to pick him up with their spaceship. Not long after they take off, the ship gets a call. I thought it was going to be from some big bad guy boss, but it's just Kazuteru. He wants to talk with Tsukasa, who refuses until Hikari begs him to.
So they have a chat, and Kazuteru tells Tsukasa that he's wrong and that everybody loves him or something. Tsukasa then has this flashback from the past and realises that everything he'd believed until now was wrong, so he runs off to his bedroom to ponder over it all.
Kazuteru tries to follow him, but Hikari begs him to go back to Earth because she'll handle it all. So she goes off to find Tsukasa, who is in a very bad state. I began to feel a bit sorry for him at this point and basically started to really appreciate him. I do like it when a route changes my opinion of a character like this. A lot of the time I either just start out liking or hating a love interest and my feelings rarely change like this.
Tsukasa does a lot of crying and even apologises to Hikari for treating her like poo until now. It actually sounded like he meant it too. Not long afterwards, they both admit their love for each other and Tsukasa starts acting really cute and nice towards her. When she confesses to him he tells her that he's the happiest he's ever been in his entire life and it's just so sweet and romantic and exactly the kind of thing that I play these games for.
One thing I must mention before we move on is how different Tsukasa acts when he's in his normal clothes compared to his villain outfit. I don't know if it's just me, but sometimes it feels like they're different people, even after Tsukasa starts acting nicer. I think it's just my brain playing tricks and making it feel like they have different voices and that they aren't the same person.
After their cute love confession scene, Hikari and Tsukasa travel back to Earth and meet up with the others. Some of them were a bit sceptical of trusting him at first, but Hikari begs them to, so of course they listen.
Things are back to normal, but then they talk about the Engage Ceremony and I think they actually perform it but without the marriage part. I didn't really understand much of this, sorry. I think Tsukasa uses his power and almost dies until Kazuteru helps him out, then everything's back to normal.
All I can really say about this scene is that the CG that it came with was cool.
After that, Kazuteru asks Tsukasa to go back to Mars with him, but this makes Hikari sad because she thinks he'll just ditch her or something. But of course, he doesn't, so they all go to Mars and they get married and there's a pretty CG and they all live happily ever after, the end.
I like how Hikari's went out and wore a nice wedding dress, but Tsukasa's just wearing the same bad guy outfit that he wore for almost the entire route.
What a joy this route was to play! It's the best one in the entire game, I think. I didn't have to read about the silly prince cafe or Christmas play in this one either, so that automatically means that it's better than all the others! Even though I started off liking Tsukasa then I sort of hated him, in the end he became my favourite boy in the entire game! In fact, I think he's pretty good husbando material. Maybe he'll join my list of general otome best boys... In fact, maybe I can forgive the repetitiveness of the other routes now, because the writers made something really good here. Let's just hope that Hidaka's route is also of this quality!
I can't remember what else I wanted to say. Even though I was so excited that I wrote this post at an absolute godspeed, I still ended up forgetting some of my thoughts. Oh well, this post was still quite long anyway.
Thank you very much for reading this post. I'm going to leave now. Tune in next week to catch my final PsychicEmotion6 review on Hidaka's route. Goodbye!
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