Dracu-Riot Saga Part 2: Mera Azusa
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[WARNING]
[This entry will have massive amounts of bias in it. If you don't want to hear me gushing about Dracu-riot, I'd suggest you turn around right now. Also spoilerz.
You have been warned]
Mera Azusa is your average responsible petite girl, whose also a huge closet-pervert. She is the dorm leader and also the only human living in the dorm. Azusa starts out as this reliable senior to Yuuto at the start in her route, but their hierarchy evens out as the route progresses.
In the end of the Common route she does get a rather amusing ending to start her route, and it does a play a small part in her route, this being Yuuto's so-called "pedophilia", and as the result Azusa becomes Yuuto's partner, as a senior. Although this builds the groundwork for their relationship, this issue isn't touched any more than the start of her route.
Along the starting parts of the route you get some tension from the presence of hunters and some extremely funny moments from Azusa's extreme blushing and over-reactions. Yet still the starting part is pretty much just pure comedy and slight progression not in the relationships but in the story. The threat of the terrorists from the mainland is steadily rising, but kind of blends midst all the SoL.
As the route progresses, the two of them start to notice their feelings for each other. The way they notice each other really reminds me of Rio's route, albeit a little toned down. The steadily rising confronting feelings between the Hunters and the vampires is starting to reach boiling point when the Hunters start to arrest vampires without and with IDs. The SoL is really hefty and it drags on before the final event before dating starts. Enter Giordano. Honestly, the final confrontation with Giordano in the school is a really good one. And they show how vampires are valuable as well, as opposed to the Hunters' look on things. At the final moments before Yuuto gets heavily injured, Giordano says some cryptic things and RIOT. The confession in this was actually pretty good, at least better than in the majority of the routes in Dracu-Riot!
The start of the dating was really weird and confusing. I got some mixed signals from it. And they jammed so many H-scenes in a short amount of time. The ichaicha was good but not the best by a long shot. Overall, the dating part was sub-par, below average.
Following is about the final part of the route. Spoilers.
The climax was good, as every route's is in this game. The conflict between the three parties was well executed, and it shows the bonds between Azusa and Yuuto, and how Yuuto's respect to Azusa and her prowess as a non-vampire in the field overruled by vampires. The whole route gives some much needed personality to Anna and elaborates more on Ougi's past, how the two bonded, met and stood together to fight against humans for vampires, eventually bringing Anna to her deathbed, giving a nice final twist to the route by making her Azusa's grandmother.
The ending ties some ends, but leaves something to be desired, especially about Ougi's future.
Overall, the route isn't bad in moege standards, but definitely was the worst main heroine route in the game.
Still, it brought a nice story, so it wasn't bad in my book.
And of course, Azusa's as cute as ever.
Next up, Nicola
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