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(Spoilers down below.)










That was the most tragic, dramatic, and heartbreaking otome route I've ever played. It would've made a great conclusion, I should've left it to last.

Hikage's backstory was so sad and even though he became a crazy murderer, I still felt pity for him because of what he went through. Then poor Usagi died, and it was also really depressing. Whilst I was playing it I laughed and acted normal and happy to everybody around me, but inside I was a bit sad. The voice acting was really good in this part, you could really feel the emotion whilst the characters were talking.

I still expected a happy ending, but no, Hikage shot himself. I was in shock. I didn't cry, because I don't cry for fictional characters, but during the credits I had my head in my hands. I felt a bit like how I did when I got the normal ending the first time I played Hakuoki, when all the Shinsengumi all died. You just feel shocked and a little bit awkward.

Then there was something after the credits. The last CG had an image of a boy and a girl who looked kind of like Usagi and Hikage, so maybe they're not really dead? There's no sequel or fan-disc, so we may never know the answer.

We never learn their real names, either. Unless Hikage is really called Hikage. But I wonder what Usagi's real name is?

What a tragic love story. It still wasn't as dramatic and crazy as the new Riverdale episode I watched earlier. That series is just so weird now.

Hikage might even be my new favourite character, or my favourite route. It's weird, I went from liking him to kind of hating him to loving him again. He's the main love interest of the game, so it is very strange that Otomate decided to kill him off.

I've officially decided that this is now my favourite otome game. That means it's even better than Code: Realize and Hakuoki. Everything's just so amazing. It's funny because I was a bit skeptical of the game at first.

I'm still a bit shaken up over Hikage's death. I suppose he did need some punishment for doing what he did, but I wished that we'd at least get another kiss CG out of him before the end. Now I have all of his and Usagi's CGs, but not of the others yet. Tomorrow I'll get to completing it all!

See you tomorrow!

I Have No Idea What to Name This Post!

I just realised earlier that if a newcomer came to this blog, read one of my first posts rambling on about Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly, they'd have no idea what on Earth I'm talking about, because I hardly ever specify what the subject matter of each post is, I just go straight into details. Oh well. This blog is becoming more of a personal diary than something public, I'm starting to think.

Anyway, I have so much to write about this game, so lets get to it!!

(Spoilers down below!!)

So, I completed Yamato's good ending then both of Monshiro's endings, now I'm on Hikage's route. It feels like I've been kissing a lot of boys today!

Yamato's route was so wonderful. When he first came on my Vita's screen I thought that he wasn't going to be my type, but I quickly became interested in him, so much that when I was initially presented with the choice of who I wanted to play the first mini game with, I chose him. 

I completed his route a few hours ago so it's not as fresh in my mind, but it was much longer than I expected. Him and Beniyuri both wake up from their comas but I don't think Kazuya or Aki do, or maybe they do and I forgot. (I consume so much media that I forget details easy, even if I'm really enjoying something!)

Then they get back into their normal lives, walk to the park together, and Yamato Takuya confesses that he loves her, then they go to the hospital and he confesses to his brother that he was always jealous of him, and I think he actually has woken up, and they make up and everything turns out to be just fine. Then they walk outside together and they kiss twice, and it's all really cute and romantic. I absolutely loved this route. Shame I couldn't turn the sound on very often whilst playing it.

After that, I excitedly went onto Monshiro's route, because he is my absolute favourite character. He's a bit touchy-feely with Beniyuri, always going up really close to her and hugging her. It makes her uncomfortable, which I can understand because I knew somebody who was kind of like that and it was a bit embarrassing. Although if I was Beniyuri (I technically was when I self-inserted but I'm not really her) I wouldn't be that embarrassed because I like Monshiro. He reminds me of Ray, what with the white hair and all, but Ray didn't actually get physically close with you in his route until the end. 

So, Monshiro (Or Kazuya, whatever you want to call him really,) runs off and sacrifices himself into this abyss thing, which I thought would mean that he would die if he went there, but he didn't. Beniyuri jumps in too, because she doesn't want to leave him alone. Then she finds him in there and the story eventually splits in two.

There's the depressing ending, where Beniyuri wakes up but nobody else does, and you find Kazuya in hospital and hope that him and the others eventually awake, or there's the fluffy ending, where they both wake up together, and find out that Takuya and Aki are still asleep, and Kazuya says that he'll properly love you once they both wake up, or at least something along the lines of that, and it's all cute and happy, then the credits roll.

I thought that the CGs in this route were so cute that I sacrificed some of my Vita's precious 1GB of memory to screenshot them. I'm gonna post them here because they're so lovely. I think you're allowed to share otome CGs online, because everybody else does.

I'm surprised that there's no copyright in the corner, because with some of my Code: Realize screenshots, the game put this massive copyright in the corner saying something like "COPYRIGHT 2015 IDEA FACTORY". I wonder if these would look nice as a desktop wallpaper?

Anyways, after this route, I used the guide (Yes, I cheated by using it for most of this game!) and got onto Hikage's route. I haven't finished it yet though because I need to charge my Vita and I felt the urge to write on this blog. It's a lot longer than the others, probably because he's meant to be the "main guy". He's the only person on the cover aside from Beniyuri, so I think that means he's meant to be the canon love interest.

I liked Hikage when I first started the game, until I found out the truth, that he wasn't really who he said he was. But after reading a bit of his route, I like him again, but I dunno how Beniyuri's gonna react when she finds out her lover's been lying to her this entire time.

There was this really hot scene where he pins her down and kisses her. I would've loved that if that was me he was kissing, but Beniyuri just slapped him and then he called her "cruel" or something and they stopped speaking. A bit earlier before that, I'm pretty sure Hikage also suggested having sex with her or something. They gave him a lot of steamy lines, probably because he's the main guy so the writers probably ship him with Beniyuri really hard.

I'm so excited to see what comes next. I just ended on the bit where Usagi (Who I know is related to Hikage because of a CG in the "best ending") explains that the master of the manor is her brother and all that. I love back story scenes, but I really want more steamy romance after this. I also heard that the next love interest I'm going to be hooking Beniyuri up with, Karasuba, is a yandere, which is going to be exciting!

This game is a lot more romantic than I expected. I thought it was gonna be some escape room story or something, but it was much more than that. I didn't expect it to have themes of death and guilt. I thought they were just going to be trapped in a house and they were going to escape into some dark gloomy forest or something and it was going to be like a game show run by some creepy guy. This might even be one of my favourite video games of all time, but I think it's more of an interactive book than a game. I wish there was a fan-disc or an anime or something, but even if there was, they probably wouldn't localise it to the Vita because the Vita's dead. It's never really a good idea to invest in a console that's about to die when everything's moving to the Nintendo Switch, but I don't mind because at least the games might be cheaper now. Plus the Vita is a really nice console. I might end up getting a Switch when it gets old, like I did with the PSP. I do have kind of a connection with the Switch, because it was actually launched on my birthday, so sometimes I feel like I'm destined to have it. But I love my Vita more than any other console, and I'm not going to get anything else for a very long time.

I'm rambling on a bit now, aren't I? I should go because I'm getting hungry. If you're reading this, you're awesome. Have a nice day!

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(Spoilers down below, like usual.)

So, the "Real World Ending" literally explained everything. Now I know why the choice you make that branches off onto it is "How did I get here?" because it tells you why! I thought it was just all a dream, but it isn't, it's a flashback!!

You know how earlier I was like "How did Beniyuri and Aki and Takuya get into a coma if they didn't in the accident?"? Well, they all have a big fight about how they haven't moved on from the past, and then they try and travel to the lake on a bus, and it starts raining. I knew something was gonna happen because of the rain, and it did. Beniyuri falls asleep then the bus crashes into the lake. That's how the story starts! I thought this was gonna be a happy ending, but it's a prologue. It explains everything!

The reason why I couldn't get Yamato's good ending yesterday was because I hadn't cleared this yet! I thought that the long ending I did earlier was the "real world ending", but it isn't. I dunno why they call this one an ending, because it's literally just a prologue.

This game is so awesome! The prologue was great, and it had tons of romantic moments in it! This might turn out to be one of my favourite otome games ever!!

Very Confusing...

(SPOILERS!)

So, apparently I didn't even get the real world ending before, I got the "best ending" instead. The "real world" ending branches off in the third chapter instead! And I found out that some of the characters only have one ending, whereas others have two. Kagiha only has one ending, and that was the one I got earlier. I suppose he can't really have a happy ending with Beniyuri since he's already dead.


I haven't finished the "real world ending" yet, but all that's happened so far is that Beniyuri's woken up and she's found that everything is all a dream! (I actually quite enjoy this trope!) Then she's late for school and she meets up with Karasuba and he flirts with her and stuff. Then they find this shop which is selling a butterfly hair clip, then they leave and, well, I haven't really gotten very far past that yet. I'm not really sure if it's the canon ending, but I suppose it's the most realistic ending.

This game is quite confusing, and not many people talk about it online so it's hard to find good enough guides. But I'm still quite enjoying it!!

Oh.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..................



So, um, you know how I was saying earlier about how short those endings were? Well, apparently there's also another ending for each character, and I just got the shittiest outcomes each time because I did something wrong or didn't watch enough extra episodes or something. I found it kind of disappointing but it was because I was a fool and thought they were the real endings. They aren't. Suppose I'll use the guide later to try and get them then. This time I have a much better guide so everything should work out just fine...................................




I went on YouTube and listened to the character songs from the game and they are all absolute bangers. I do like character CDs. I would buy these ones but they all have those audio drama things on them which I'll never be able to understand because they're in Japanese.

The "Real World Ending"

(Spoilers!)






So............. I think that I actually just completed Kagiha's "route", because of that one wrong choice I made earlier. I'm pretty sure that each character doesn't have a full on route, but just a separate ending. There'll be more on that later.

I completed the "Real World Ending", and it was really dramatic and a good conclusion to the story. It's actually quite romantic, and even though you don't properly get with anybody in it, Beniyuri's technically in love with Kagiha at this point.

It turns out that everybody's in a coma, not just Monshiro. And Kagiha's stuck in the bottom of a lake somewhere. He must've been still conscious for most of this, because if he was really dead he wouldn't be stuck in the mansion. So he's just been floating underwater for ten years, still not properly dead yet. I don't understand how everybody else is in a coma, because it showed a flashback to Kagiha Natsu's funeral where they're all there, and I'm pretty sure they all went comatose during the accident, so how are they able to visit the funeral if they're in a hospital?? I dunno. I probably missed something.

So they all kill Hikage, who I was actually starting to like until we found out who he really was. Then they all go back to the real world, except Natsu, who's dead for real now. However, the game says that his body did float back up to the surface. I expect that it would've been very rotten and very disgusting looking if it came back ten years later. Plus, it would also still be a child's body whereas everybody else has grown up. How does a body even survive ten years in a lake? It would've gotten eaten like a week after it turned up. But the place is supposed to be haunted, so maybe that had something to do with it?

After I completed the first proper ending, I wasn't really sure how to get onto anybody else's route, so I consulted a guide! I tried to get Kagiha's route, but I went out to a public place and none of the guides would actually work because of the filtering systems so I had to use my own brain. I ended up on Yamato's route, probably because I never read all of the Kagiha related side episodes.

I was excited to start a proper route, until it abruptly ended. It turns out that each character has their own ending, not a route. A few things happened that were related to Yamato, then it just ended on a pretty CG. They literally just hug each other, then it ends. And it's not a bad ending either, because I got a trophy for completing a character ending. Because of that, I realised that my ending with Kagiha wasn't a bad ending, it was his actual route. Or at least a substitute for a route. I now understand why people say this game is different to your typical otome title.  People also say that there isn't that much romance, but there are so many cute character interactions that make up for it, at least for me, because in my head even just platonic stuff is great to self-insert yourself into! I expected routes for each character though, unless there is and I just did something wrong! I'll do more research into it later.

If each character does have a really short ending though, it means that it won't take me very long to finish the game. Oh well. But I hope I don't finish it before my birthday because I have nothing else to play after this except Welcome Park (which is just a tech demo really), until I eventually get the C:R fan-disc.

It's been a really good ride so far with my Vita. I'm excited to try out even more games on it, and maybe even non-otome titles if I really want!

See you all later!

Oh.

So that weird ending I got yesterday was a bad ending or something. I got the proper ending, but I can’t discuss it now because I’m on my phone typing this. Then I used a guide to try and get Kagiha’s route but I went out on public WiFi that’s blocking the guide, so I ended up getting Yamato’s route instead even though I picked what I thought were the right answers!