I Finished It!

(Spoilers for Sweet Fuse down below!!!)

I finally finished Sweet Fuse. But I'm still missing loads of CGs for some reason... Let's just hope they're just depressing bad ending CGs only.

Interesting...

(MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SWEET FUSE DOWN BELOW! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!!!)

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I've Almost Finished the Game....

Wow, this happens to be post number one-hundred and twenty! I've never gotten that far on any blog or diary before.

(Spoilers down below!) You know, I should really start specifying what game the spoilers are for because most people will have no idea what I'm talking about. The game talked about in this post is Sweet Fuse, by the way.







So, I'm on my second-to-last route now. I finished Mitarashi's, it was good, but since I completed it yesterday it's not as fresh and I've forgotten all that I've wanted to write about. But now I'm on Shidou's route. I have no idea why I'm leaving Urabe for last. Originally I was going to play his route third or fourth.

I think that Shidou's the "Main Guy" of this game, meaning that he's the canon love interest and that his route will conclude all of the major plot points in the game. In the other routes Saki usually ends up not playing another game and instead goes off with her love interest to do something else, whilst you see the others being forced to play. This time Saki doesn't go off on a separate task, her and Shidou continue playing the games with all the others. In the other routes you saw and heard what the rest of the games were, but now you're actually playing them with everybody.

I think that Count Hogstein's identity's going to be revealed in this route. They never cleared everything up in the other routes, so they're going to have to do it here. After playing the secret route you see Hogstein (I'm sure he's called something else in the Japanese voicing but I'm not sure what!) in a different light. When I had the sound off I imagined his voice as older and deeper than it is in the voice acting, but now I just imagine it as a younger voice like it actually is. I never would've expected that underneath that horrible pig costume is just a young male with serious problems.

The romance between Saki and Shidou can get slightly awkward at times, but it's cute. However, sometimes Shidou just acts really weird. Like once he just said to her "You're face, it's really round, can I touch it?" and I was just like "?????". Who says that to someone? And sometimes he just randomly touches her hair and stuff. I'm not sure if he doesn't know how to speak to women or if he's just a bit odd. Again, I looked up the voice actor for this character and he also plays Hikaru from Ouran High School Host Club, someone who is the complete opposite of what he plays in this game.  I also looked up on the Wiki for Shidou's age and it was 22, not much older than Saki. I actually thought he was a bit older since I think Hogstein once mentioned that he was going bald or something. He's actually younger than Urabe, which is also a surprise. At least he's not double her age, like a certain someone in this game...

I just finished reading the scene in his route where they all have to dress up in animal costumes. It's quite funny how embarrassed Shidou acts. None of the others really seemed to care about wearing them.

One thing I've noticed in at least two routes now is Wakasa getting jealous of Saki partnering up with one of the other characters. Maybe he's one of those characters who loves you in every route? Maybe he knows that he's in a game and he's sad that you've picked another route? I doubt that any of those things are true. He probably just likes Saki because she's the closest to his age, she's a girl and it's better than being stuck with some other older guy. He's still my favourite love interest from this game though.

This game has taken me longer to play than some of the others, like Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly. It has a few more routes than other games so that's why. I've said this before, but it's such a shame how underrated this game is. If it was more successful, it might've spawned fan-disks or ports or even drama CDs! I might've even been the first person to purchase this game from the PS Store in months! At least people can still buy it new digitally so that Otomate/Aksys can notice people purchasing it, knowing that at least a few people appreciate it. It probably sold a lot more than I'm thinking though, because otherwise there would've been no English translation.

What a great game though. Every single game I've been slightly unsure about has always surpassed my expectations. I suppose keeping your expectations low makes it easier for you to be impressed. If you set your standards super high then it's easier to get disappointed.

It's finally the weekend. You know what's strange? I play my Vita more in the week when I have less free time than I do on Saturday and Sunday when I have nothing planned. Also, in the short time I've had my Vita, I might've even played it more than my Xbox One, which I've had for over a year. I suppose the portability's done that. Portable games are the best.

I suppose I'll see you all later. It's the weekend so I want to have fun and take a break from blogging. Goodbye!!

Every Plot Point is Clicking Together.......

(Spoilers down below!)








Today I finished two routes. Well, I started the other one yesterday so I was already almost done when I started playing, but oh well....

Shirabe's route was good and all that, it's not very fresh in my mind now so it's harder to talk about. But the route I finished in only a day (actually only a bit over an hour of play time) was Makoto's. Apparently it's best to play that one last, but it doesn't really matter for me.

His route was actually a lot sadder than I thought it would be, but I was still quite happy because a few of my theories turned out to be correct! I predicted that Makoto might've been either the player Saki replaced or Count Hogstein, and both of them turned out to be true! And those random dreams that occured near the end of each chapter, they weren't Saki's like I had thought, they were actually his! I think I misinterpreted them a bit because sometimes I had to play without the sound.

Makoto's actually really sweet but also just quite messed up. Saki had to somehow fix him with the power of love. I thought a couple of times that the route was going to end with suicide like a certain other game that I was gonna mention, but shouldn't in case the reader hasn't played it, but luckily he survived to give Saki two kisses. The ending wasn't exactly the happiest because he still had to go to prison, but they made it seem not that bad because of their love or something. This route must be a bit shorter than the others, which I expected after playing the original Hakuoki's "secret" route which was literally just an alternate ending. (I'm still disappointed with that, by the way.)

I think that a lot of the character backstories from the other routes were spoiled here, so I can understand why this was locked. When I restarted the common route for the third time, there was also a character who wasn't there before, but he didn't pop up again. Earlier I said that I was missing things from Wakasa's route, and I think I've found one of them. When you play the common route before unlocking Makoto, there's a part in the story where you explore the park for the first time and you get to choose what character you do it with.  But once you unlock the extra route, you can't get it again unless you choose this one choice at the beginning that shoos Makoto away. When I did the common route to get Wakasa, I was unaware of this and ended up missing a CG of him. But today I managed to get it so everything's fine, I suppose.

But now I have to skip through the common route again to pursue Mitarashi. I've never found an otome that's easier to get the route you want, and all of the good endings, than this game. I have been using walkthroughs occasionally just to check my answers, like when I wanted Makoto's route I wanted to look up to see how to get his route without getting loads of affection points for the others. A lot of times I've gotten bad endings because I failed the mini game, or just made one wrong choice, but it wasn't like the other games where it's because I made hundreds of mistakes in the past and it's impossible to go back and see where I messed up.

To be honest, I was a bit skeptical of Sweet Fuse in the past because none of the love interests really appealed to me. I know people should be judged by personalities but I'm pretty shallow and just go by looks. Even after I had bought it I was a bit skeptical still, but I'm glad I played it now. It's like that with a lot of things I'm not sure about, I experience them and then end up loving them. This otome is as good as all of the other wildly popular titles, so it should be talked about more! Well, I suppose me covering it on this blog might give it a tiny bit more publicity... It would be cool if it had a fan-disc or something but I'm not really sure where they could take the characters once this is over... Maybe they could just do after-stories or something?

I wonder how people feel about the kinds of posts I write on my blog. People usually write reviews for video games, not personal diaries on them! I could do reviews but by the time I've finished a game a lot of the minor details will have slipped my mind, and I'm not going to write notes whilst I play because that'll ruin it. I suppose these posts could count as notes, but they don't really dive that deep into the plot so they're not. Writing these posts makes my blog slightly different, but I honestly think that this place is turning more into my own diary than an actual public website.

Anyway, that's enough of my ramblings. I still haven't learned how to conclude posts in all my years of blogging, so I'm just gonna say goodbye. Goodbye!

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(Spoilers down below!)




Towa Wakasa is now my favourite character in this entire game, because he's so adorable. His ending was lovely, and it even came with a cute CG to add to the collection! When I went back into the "Diary" feature to see if I had gotten the good ending or not, a few of his chapters were missing for some reason. I don't know if it's a glitch or if I somehow missed out a huge chunk of his route. It seemed like I'd read the whole thing before. Meoshi's route was also missing a chapter. How strange.

I literally just found out from the Wiki that in the Japanese version of the game, Towa's meant to be 15, but in the English localisation he was made to be 17. I wonder why?

I just ignored it and went onto Shirabe's route to get it out of the way. Even though I started it today, I've almost finished it. The plot in this route is great, but the romance... I can't remember how old Saki's meant to be but if she's still in school, she can't be any older than eighteen. And how old is Shirabe supposed to be? It says online he's 32, which isn't as much as what I thought he was. In the game they act like he's in his fifties or something, but being in your thirties isn't that old! Maybe if Saki was a bit older, I could understand her falling in love with him, but the kissy scenes grossed me out because I think he's two old. They were even worse for me because I thought he was a lot older than he actually was!

But this route was worth it because it gives you some answers about the overarching plot! In most otome games I've played, each route connects to something bigger. I usually forget that when I begin a new game, and I did here. Everybody was invited to the park because they're all connected to a bus crash! It was mentioned in Wakasa's route (but he was unaware it was a bus accident) and in Meoshi's too. It's basically the tragic event that forms all of the character's motivations. I even think Saki was involved in it too, because of those dreams she has that seem to involve something like a car crash. Even though she volunteered to join Hogstein's game, I still think that she has something to do with it. And the person who was originally meant to be in the game but wasn't because of Saki offering to do it, I theorise that Minami was that person, because I dunno why his route would be "secret" or he would be a possible love interest if he didn't have some connection to the plot. At first I thought that he might've been Count Hogstein but I'm not sure now.

I love writing down predictions so that I can go back and see if I was right. People who've already played this game must be looking at them and laughing because they're probably all wrong. I don't know. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if I was correct!

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(Spoilers down below for Sweet Fuse!)



Today I decided to start Wakasa's route. When I reloaded the common route, things turned out a bit differently. There was a new character, I forgot his name but he's the "secret" route. He hides in the shadows and none of the others really know about him except Saki, probably so they don't have to rewrite much of the common route. He's actually quite sweet towards the MC, but also slightly annoying. He just pops up in the middle of a game and stops Saki to chat when she's in the middle of stuff! I had no idea how the others didn't notice her talking to him.

I kept making choices that raised his affection, so I had be very careful and make sure that his affection didn't get higher than Wakasa's. Once I actually got onto the route, he just disappeared and I haven't seen him again since.

I thought that Saki was going to be protecting Wakasa and telling him that everything was going to be alright when he got scared, but things reversed. He got some inspiration from Mitarashi and changed quite a bit from when I first saw him in the game. Fun fact: His voice actor plays Kanato in the Diabolik Lovers series, is in the Hakuoki remake and plays somebody in Collar X Malice. It's strange, I'm starting to take more notice of the voice actors in these games.

I'm enjoying this route more than Meoshi's. The very first bit was quite similar, in the alien spaceship game they had to play, then it branched off and did its own thing. Wakasa is very sweet. I absolutely love him, he's probably going to be my favourite in the whole game. When they were in the hospital, he was absolutely horrified and trembling, but he still stood there and comforted Saki and told her it would be alright. That scene was absolutely adorable. When I first saw him and heard that he was a boy band singer, I thought that he was going to be a little princess, but I was very much wrong.

The route's also a bit like Meoshi's in that Saki and Wakasa are separated from the rest of the main cast for most of the story. I expect that's going to happen for all of them so that the couple can have a bit of romantic development. I'm at the bit now where Wakasa and Saki bravely went to rescue the hostages, and now they've just found out that Count Hogstein is actually more than one person! I'm glad that I'm finally about to find out about the villain and his motives. In Meoshi's ending (I think it was the good ending!) they didn't really find out about who he really was, in fact nobody managed to catch him at all!

I am very much enjoying this game, but I kind of also want to finish it quickly because I have Code: Realize: Future Blessings waiting for me. Usually even if I enjoy something I still want it to be finished quickly because I like the feeling of completing something. Sweet Fuse feels kind of underrated. I suppose it came out quite late in the PSP's life cycle, so most of the people on that console would've moved on, but then again it is playable on the Vita, but not many people play that anyway so it wouldn't've helped sales that much. I wonder how popular it was in Japan? It must've been if they localised it, or maybe it was just brought over because Aksys chose it? I heard that Aksys like to choose the least romantic games with the less doormatty protagonists. Online I read this interview by the person who wrote the English version of the PSP Hakuoki game rewrote some of Chizuru's lines to make her seem less passive and more suited to a Western audience.

I think I began to ramble on a bit there. It's probably time for me to stop writing now. See you all later!

I Ordered A Lot of Otome Stuff!

Hello everybody! I haven't been playing my Vita at all this weekend, because I don't normally play it then, but I did get given a really big Amazon voucher. I haven't spent it all yet, but I've still bought four otome related items for pretty good prices.

I ordered Collar X Malice, DiaLovers Haunted Dark Bridal for PSP and two DiaLovers drama CDs. I know most of the stuff I got is in Japanese, but I'm going to be using my slowly improving language skills and online fan translations. It's going to be very exciting once I get them. I also got C:R, Future Blessings from my local gaming shop, so once I've finished Sweet Fuse I'll be playing it.

I'm very happy at what I've bought, it's certainly going to make for lots of blog posts. Once I've finished with the DiaLovers game I'm gonna make a guide on how other Japanese beginners like me can play it easily.

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Well, I've almost finished my first Sweet Fuse route. I'm pretty much at the end, with probably only like a few sentences and a final kiss CG to go.

(Spoilers below!)



I'm super glad that I chose Meoshi's route first. I thought that he was gonna be one of those quiet boys who doesn't actually speak to you properly until near the end, but he warmed up to Saki quite quickly. In the common route he was still a bit shy but the change started not far from the beginning of his route. He's not just a lazy hikikomori like you think he's gonna be, he's actually quite sweet and intelligent. There's actually a reason behind why he spends most of his days playing video games. I can actually kind of relate to his awkwardness sometimes, so it helped me to better feel a connection with this character whilst doing my self-inserting. He kind of feels like a cross between Hanzo Urushihara (my very first true husbando from Hataraku Maou-Sama, this light novel series I used to read) and Saito. It's funny, I looked up the voice actor for him, Masakazu Morita, and he's the official Japanese dubber for Zac Efron, meaning that he's done films like High School Musical and all that. The other otome games he's been in are Collar X Malice and Tokimeki Memorial Girls' Side.

Although there was quite a lot of plot here, there was still plenty of romance to keep people like me entertained. I got plenty of bad endings by failing the mini-game thing (I still can't remember what it's called!) but near the end I failed it and it still let me through alright. It was super easy for me to make the right choices, literally every single one I picked gave me affection points. I don't know for sure yet but I think I'm getting a good ending. This is the second game I've played which notifies you whenever you do something the character likes, the first one was Hakuoki and it was super hard to figure out which answer the chosen love interest would like, whereas here it's super easy.

The story is so interesting! The stakes are super high, literally every single bad ending involves the main cast dying in some way. It's like one massive escape room story in a big theme park that's video game themed. I love theme parks so much and this place feels like one I'd like to go to, except I wouldn't really because it just ends up turning into some death game. The villain, Count Hogstein, is super quirky and interesting. I don't really know his motivations yet but I'm sure I'll find out soon. His voice actually sounds like someone young trying to mask their voice, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's some teenager or something underneath. Near the end of Meoshi's route the story turned into some kind of zombie survival story, I normally don't care for horror but it was really fun, and it allowed for some great romantic moments.

Saki is such a wonderful MC. Whenever the screen turns red and she gets angry, you get to make her scream at people. I do it almost every time and it always works out well. Even Count Hogstein is scared of her anger. It's such a change of pace from the passive doormats we get normally, even though I usually don't mind those girls. Normally in most otome routes it's always the LI who does the first kiss, but this time it was Saki who kissed Meoshi first. She was comforting him because he was crying that he was useless and she just decided to kiss him. It was really cute.

I pretty much like all of the main characters even though I'm not really sure about some of them as love interests. Saki's meant to be still in secondary school yet she can still date Shirabe, a grown man with a child who's like twenty years older than her! I don't think I'll be able to self insert during his route, I'll probably just call the MC some name other than my own and enjoy it like a romance novel. Normally I self-insert with everyone but he's just way too old, I'm sorry, it's just gonna feel weird for me since I'm still really young like Saki... Next I'm gonna do Wakasa's route because I really like him. It'll literally be dating a J-Pop star, which should be interesting, plus I just think he's gonna be a good love interest. Since he's a bit of a scaredy-cat, I expect Saki to be the one doing all of the protecting and stuff whilst they're solving the puzzles and that. I suppose I'll be starting that on Monday since I'm taking a break from games for the weekend. I'm so glad I don't have to sit skipping through the common route for hours, this one's super short. Not Amnesia short where there's literally no common route, but probably one of the shortest I've played so far.

Wow, I did have a lot to write about today. I haven't seen many people discuss this game. It's a shame because it's so good! Anyway, that's all for today. See you all later!

A Very Short Common Route!

I am now able to say that I have finished reading Sweet Fuse's common route. It was surprisingly very short compared to what I'm used to, it was only around three or four chapters long! Luckily I got Meoshi's route, the one I wanted. I'm only at the beginning of it though. In this game it's actually quite easy to get affection points for the love interest you want, so you don't really need a walkthrough unless you're really stuck.

Earlier I complained about how blurry the game looked on my Vita's screen, but I'm used to it now. I don't think I'll go back to my PSP unless I have to. On Amazon I found someone selling the PSP version of DiaLovers Haunted Dark Bridal for really cheap so I may be buying that sometime soon, but that may be one of the only times I'll be using my PSP again. I would've played Sweet Fuse on the PSP if I had a physical copy, but unfortunately those seem to be really expensive.

I'm so happy because finally the two week Riverdale hiatus is over. I know the show's really cheesy but it became a weekly event where I'd watch it whilst eating dinner, so it felt weird when it wasn't on. They really like putting it on hiatus randomly for no reason whatsoever.

Anyway, that's all I have to say for today. See you later!

Sweet Fuse

Well, today I started playing Sweet Fuse with the sound on after playing a tiny bit of it yesterday whilst I was out in public. At first I wasn't too sure about this game, but now I can say that I like it quite a lot!

I'm only on the 2nd Stage of the game so far, so I haven't actually entered anyone's route yet. I dunno when the common route actually branches either. There are five love interests and one secret one. I don't know who the secret character is though and how you unlock him. So far I like all of the love interests, but I think that one of them is a bit too old for Saki (The MC) since he looks like he's fifty or something and she's still in secondary school. Personality-wise, they're all quite diverse. I can't remember most of their names yet, but you've got the nerdy-gaming-shut-in one, the boy band singer, the tough guy, the older man, the mysterious crystal ball person and the cop. It's super easy to get affection points for them. I decided that first I was gonna go for Meoshi, the gamer one, because I was interested in him before I even got the game and I normally just play my favourite one first.

Normally I don't really care much about whether the MC's a blank slate or not, because I self insert, but I really do like Saki. She has the best personality out of every otome MC I've played as so far. She's not shy and she doesn't let anybody push her around. There's this feature that pops up throughout the story (I forgot what it's called, sorry) where you have to make her think and find details that can help her solve puzzles. The first time I did one I got it right, but the second time I got it wrong twice and it led me to a bad ending where they all die, meaning that you have to be good at this mini game to actually make it through the story without using a walkthrough. I do enjoy otome games that are actually slightly challenging.

The art and the music are both really nice. The drawings are slightly different and more cartoony to your typical otome, but I think it fits the story really well. Not everybody's drawn to be perfect and really attractive like most other games too, which is interesting. The backing music is really video-gamey and sometimes you can actually hear people singing random stuff in English instead just instrumental pieces all the time.

The game is really great so far. I'm glad I bought it instead of Hatoful Boyfriend. Tomorrow I might have even played far enough to get onto a route! See you all later!

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(Spoilers down below!)







Ukyo's route ended so tragically! Not much happened in the rest of the route, but that was because I had actually made a lot of bad choices, so many that I ended up in one of those inescapable bad ends. The bad end was that I got murdered by Ukyo in my own apartment!

So it took me almost an hour to start the route from the beginning on fast forward, and I realised that I had missed a whole lot of juicy romance scenes because of my choices. I chose to stay inside a lot so I missed out on some moments with Ukyo and some very pretty CGs.

The final ending was so beautifully tragic. My theory that Ukyo had been travelling to different worlds to see the MC had been proven correct. It was super sad when the MC got locked in a temple/shrine/I can't remember by those fan club girls then set on fire. Why can't those losers just give her a break? It's funny, they've been featured in the game so much but the artist didn't even bother to give them eyes.

Then Ukyo came and rescued her and they ran into the university and he stabbed himself to save the MC and the CG looked so sad... I thought they were gonna kill him off for good, but him and the MC still got their happily ever after, just because that god guy was willing to change the laws of fate or something to let them both live. The worst part is was that I was out of the house so I couldn't put the sound on to hear the dramatic voice acting.

When I first started playing Amnesia, I saw Ukyo and I immediately thought of V from Mystic Messenger. I guessed that he would be a photographer, and I was right! I like him more than V though, because he's not annoying or whiny.

Anyways, I've now gotten every single good ending on Amnesia, which means I'm done for now. I might go back later and get all of the CGs, because for some reason I have quite a few missing. I hope that at least some of them are bad ending exclusives! Even though most games don't give you trophies for getting every single ending, this one does. I currently have around 20% of the total achievements. Looking at that makes it seem like I haven't played much, but it doesn't really matter. I might get some of the normal endings, but I prefer to only aim for the good endings + the most interesting bad endings.

I decided to start Sweet Fuse today. I really should've waited until I got home so that I could turn the sound on and see the opening movie. Because it's a PSP game, it looks quite blurry on my Vita, but I'm just gonna have to get used to it or buy a USB cable to transfer it onto my PSP instead. Even though the blurriness is annoying, I get to configure the game to work with my Vita's touch screen, meaning that I can click the touch screen to advance the story instead of pressing the X button all the time! I literally am only a few sentences into the story, I haven't even met any of the love interests yet. The first thing I did when I opened the game was change the MC's name. I know she's her own character and all that, but I play video games so that I can pretend to be someone else, not so I can control someone else's life. I am excited for this game. This was actually the last PSP game to be released in North America, I think. It's strange because there are a lot of games that were released when the Vita was already a thing. I suppose there was still enough people playing the PSP for them to release it, even though it was almost ten years after it had come out at that time. I suppose it's good for the people who still use older consoles if new games are still being made for them.

Tomorrow I will continue playing Sweet Fuse. I'm not gonna use a walkthrough unless I get a bad ending. I'm just gonna see who I get based on the choices I make, except I'm not gonna try and aim for everybody at once because last time that happened, everybody died and I ended up still single. The love interests her look different to your typical otome bishounen, they're not all really young adults/teenagers with perfect faces and no facial hair. This should be quite fun to play.

But that's all I have to say for today. See you all later!

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(Spoilers down below!)




I played more of Ukyo's route until my Vita's battery went in the red zone. It's pretty good so far. I'm at least halfway through now, but there hasn't been any kissing or anything, the only thing that's happened is that Ukyo's confessed his love.

I'm just gonna spill my thoughts on it randomly here.

One thing I've noticed is that Mine's name sometimes gets spelt as "MIne". This has happened multiple times. It even happened with Rika's name being spelt as "RIka". Maybe the writer kept clicking on his caps lock button too late? Aksys Games always have these weird typos in their products. You would've thought that they'd get someone to proofread their work. EDIT MADE MANY, MANY MONTHS LATER: I found out long after writing this that Aksys didn't actually localise this, it was Idea Factory themselves. Oops, ignore that information error.

Speaking of Rika, it's strange seeing her actually act nice towards the MC here. I am so annoyed with Ikki's stupid fan club. They seem to be problematic in almost every route. It's weird because now I know of two otome game antagonists called Rika. I think this one isn't as bad as Mystic Messenger's one though.

This is the only route where the MC doesn't start off with a boyfriend at the beginning of August. It's gonna be hard for the MC to get into a romantic relationship with Ukyo because he's one of those love interests where they love the MC but push her away at the same time.


I actually think Ukyo is a spirit or has a spirit in him or something. Maybe he'll find out about Orion later?? He doesn't know anything about the amnesia yet, but I predict that he actually secretly knows about it. It reminds me, I'm pretty sure that in Ikki's route, he never actually found out about MC's amnesia. Or maybe he did, I can't remember!

Uh, what other opinions did I have on this route?? I can't remember. I haven't even completed it yet.


I dunno if I'm gonna go back and get the bad endings afterwards. You get an achievement for it, so maybe I will at a later date after I've done Sweet Fuse, and C:R: Future Blessings, which I will be getting very soon! I have already gotten some of the bad endings. To be honest, I'm not really interested in them unless they're really long or if they have CGs. Apparently Toma has a CG with one of his bad endings, so I might get that.

Also, after I've done all of these games in my backlog, I'm thinking about buying the first PSP Diabolik Lovers game (my Japanese isn't that good but I have fan translations!) and Collar X Malice. I really wanna play Collar X Malice because the artwork looks so nice! I heard it's by the same person who did Amnesia. Also, I'm super interested in the love interests. Whenever I'm purchasing/downloading otome games, I always look at the LIs first because they're the reason I play these games. I know people play it for the plot but I play it for the romance and character interactions.

If I get a PSP game it'll feel weird going back to that. I still love my PSP but I haven't touched it much since my Vita joined the gang. It's a lot smaller and it's harder playing it in public because of the loud disc drive, but I might as well use it since I only just bought a battery for it last year, plus there are no region locks, like the Vita, so I can play all of the older Japan-exclusive otome titles that'll be way cheaper than the Vita ones!

I hope at least a few more otome games get released for the Vita, even though the Switch is the new home for them. We did get London Detective Mysteria very recently, so maybe there's still hope? I don't really mind if they're digital since I have my memory card now. It's a shame that they've stopped producing both the cartridges and consoles now. I wonder if Sony will ever enter the handheld market again? I hope they do. Handhelds are my favourite types of consoles, since they're more personal and private and you can take them anywhere. My first handheld was actually the DSi XL and the battery is still really good on it almost nine years later.


That's enough rambling for me today. Hopefully I'll finish Ukyo's route tomorrow. I've charged my Vita up ready. Then I'll be able to start on Sweet Fuse. I am excited for that, but it's a shame that I won't be able to use the touch screen with it. Goodbye!