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A Not Complete, Spoilery Review of No One But You... So Far


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WARNING - This post WILL have spoilers for a new Visual Novel. If you don't like spoilers, go read something else I wrote. Like ask onii-chan a question, hmmmmm?

Okay, Unwonted Studios recently released "No One But You" - a visual novel about a young man who returns to his hometown and runs into girls, picks up a weird friend and does stuff. That's the layman's gist of it.

Okay, so Hidaeki moves back home. Meets cute girls. Can pursue cute girls. Cute girls are emotional wrecks - it's like Katawa Shoujo, but without all the physical cripples. Oh, and while the artwork is really nice, why does Hidaeki look so much like his best buddy Ryo? Are they really long-lost twins? Is this a route I can unlock later?

Anyway, I've only finished two routes so far - the long lost girl who's now a tsundere Yui and the overly clingy big boobed Megumi. I enjoyed Yui's route well enough. No real complaints, other than I'm getting a bit sick of reading heroines pushing away the protagonist they love because they don't want to hurt them again or anymore or in the future. EMBRACE YOUR CLUELESS PROTAGONIST! THERE'S A REAL LIFE HUMAN BEHIND HIM AT THE KEYBOARD WHO JUST WANTS TO WAIFU YOU FOREVER!!! I WILL WAIFU YOU, YUI, FOR YOUR AUBURN HAIR!!!

The Megumi route... was awful. I'm sorry, I wanted to like it. There's a story in there that could have been good. But it was just done awfully. Terribly. The logical plotholes in the route are large enough to designate a new Zip Code to. You see, Megumi had a big sister, but not so big that they couldn't be in high school together and be on the student council together. Which means they're only a year or two apart in age. Remember this, because in the story, Megumi is STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL. Why is this important? Because a charming teacher that all the idiot girls in the high school get moist in the britches over is really just a rapist, and he's going to rape Hitomi (that's Megumi's sister, but you probably guessed that) but Megumi catches him, proceeds to angrily taunt him by calling him a pedophile, all while he's got his hands around Hitomi (and his dick near her ass), and he loses it and smashes Hitomi's head into the desk, killing her. But he gets caught! He's got her hairs in his hands, her blood on his shoes, his fingerprints on her - it's an open and shut case.

Fast forward a year or two. Megumi lives alone, because her parents don't give a flying fuck about her now that Hitomi is dead. Right, because parents wouldn't naturally cling to their only remaining child in the tragic loss of the other. Oh no - push that dumb bitch aside, stupid younger sibling - WHY DIDN'T THE TEACHER RAPE AND MURDER YOU INSTEAD?!?! Sorry, lost track there... okay, remember the TIME FRAME. TIME FRAME IS IMPORTANT. It can only be a year or so later, and RAPIST PEDOPHILE MURDERER DOODEYHEAD TEACHER IS BACK TEACHING AT THE SAME SCHOOL. Oh, AND ASSIGNED TO MEGUMI'S CLASS.

If your head hasn't exploded from the gaping lack of legal logic there, congratulations. I'll repeat it for you: okay, remember the TIME FRAME. TIME FRAME IS IMPORTANT. It can only be a year or so later, and RAPIST PEDOPHILE MURDERER DOODEYHEAD TEACHER IS BACK TEACHING AT THE SAME SCHOOL. Oh, AND ASSIGNED TO MEGUMI'S CLASS.

Okay, let's assume his off-handed remark of "paying people off" to stay out of jail holds true. Guess it can happen. Millionaires do it all the time, so why not a low-wage high school worker in Japan, right? Maybe he has family money and instead of lounging away at a private beach in Hakkaido, he turned to teaching... SO HE COULD RAPE GIRLS. Could happen. Fine.

However, there's no way in the fucking world the Japanese school system would have let him keep his license or issued him a new one. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. The evidence against him was already stated to be right there. But let's say they slip up and somehow he gets his license back. THE SAME SCHOOL WHERE HE MURDERED A STUDENT HIRES HIM AND ASSIGNS HIM TO THE CLASS OF THE WITNESS WHO IS ALSO THE SISTER OF THE DECEASED WHO COULD ONLY BE DEAD A YEAR OR SO FROM THIS INCIDENT? Bullshit. Absolute bullshit. Complete nonsense. That fucker would be on the "No Fly Zone" list at that school. He comes within 50 feet and alarms go off and cops beat him bloody. I assign this plot hole a Zip Code of 0821-NO. (FUWA points to the person who Googles this zip code with actual last digit.)

Okay, this was really a blog post of me railing against the Megumi story... I still have other routes to finish, but that route really, REALLY annoyed me to the fullest.

I'd still waifu Yui. Sexy tsundere. Growl.

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That's fine. You can like it, but it still makes no logical sense. I like the character Megumi just fine. With changes the plot would even be fine. As it is, it's just completely faulty and flies in the face of logic.

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Wow I'm glad i skipped Megumi's route. The lack of effort and care put into it just infuriates me, especially because it isn't necessarily a bad premise. 

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