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Maboroshi no Dystopia part 2: Kaede's path and one pissed off Clephas


Clephas

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Ok... if just one path got gypped by the writers, I would have overlooked it as a minor flaw. It would have been worthy of irritation, but I wouldn't have bothered remaining angry forever. It isn't uncommon for a single heroine to pull the short straw when it comes to route quality... but after reading Kaede's route I have something I need to say.

This game is incomplete!!!!

Here are my reasons for saying that:

1. Ruriko's route goes from dark revelations to sudden lovers to the ending in a ridiculously short period of time.

2. Kaede's route is horribly truncated. The drama I was looking forward to at the end simply didn't happen, and the actual path ended on a 'what the hell?! Is that it?!' note.

This is an obvious attempt to imitate the tendency of Akagoei's author to deliberately leave issues unresolved, but generally speaking, Akagoei's writer merely deliberately left a few loose ends in order to allow people to speculate about the future. This literally resolves NONE of the issues in this VN. Nothing is resolved, nothing is solved, and nothing gets done except short romance and a really quick love-life. This feels like a frigging trial edition rather than a complete game.

Edit: To clarify, I have nothing against leaving some issues unresolved. However, this VN obviously has a ton of scenes that were either cut or just never completed. This includes ones along the way for events that simply never occur... an obvious example is the way the protagonist negotiates over a replacement for his bike in Ruriko's path. Unfortunately, for some reason, this never comes up again, even though it looked like a major story event might be coming together. Another example is the bike show (sort of like a gun show here in the US) that the protagonist hears about and thinks about going to in Kaede's path. For some reason, it never really comes up again, except as a convenient extra near the end.

There are dozens of other bits and pieces throughout this VN that could have easily become the small parts of a greater story... and just never go anywhere. I have to wonder if the writers in this VN actually had any idea of what they were doing in the first place...

Edit2: I should say that this game starts out really great... the way the protagonist and his butler switch gears depending on the situation, and the gratifyingly evil way things begin gave me a lot of hope for the VN. However, as I discovered afterward, all the good stuff happens in the Trial Version... if you played the trial, you've basically played all that was good in the game, sadly.

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