"Even if you have chuunibyou, I will still love you" - Random Review - Chuunibyou na Kanojo no Love Equation (Trial Edition)
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PeasSoft. The first time I heard about them, was when they introduced their new title at that time - Koisuru Shimai no Sextet. And no, I was only interested in the catchy OP song, not the VN itself. For me, it was nothing but a nukige, although it's actually not. Definitely not the best first impression. So, why did I decide to try out their lastest title - Chuunibyou na Kanojo no Love Equation (release on May 29th)? Half of it, again, was from the catchy OP that I was humming all the time recently. The other half, well...I just couldn't take my eyes off Spica-chan. A-Anyway, let's get to it, shall we?
SYNOPSIS
The game will start when our protagonist transfers schools and comes to stay at a dorm which had just turned from a woman’s dormitory into a joint dormitory. But it’s only his first day in and he already runs into several unlucky encounters, meaning that he walks in on several girls as they are changing clothes. Does this mean that he’ll now be expelled from the dorm? Will that be the only thing he ever accomplished?
CHARACTER
1. Kanbara Ryuichi
Protagonist. Because of his parents's work (haaa........), he has to change school and move to Fushiki dorm in Kazami city. A lucky sukebe that dreamed about a harem life and all kind of lewd situation in his new place. He was given the name God Dragon by Aoi (Ryu = Dragon. The word "Kan" in his name can also be pronounced as "Kami" = God).
2. Kohinata Aoi
"Is she still alive...the Witch that threatened the peace of this world...!"
"The Dark Avenger". An incurable chuunibyou girl that is in the same class/dorm with Ryuichi. With the common sense level on par with Takanashi Rikka, she pro-claimed that she came here to defeat "the Witch of the Dorm". For whatever reason, she is really weak against dog. Kinda an airhead. Despite being the Dark Avenger, she is really afraid of ghost.
3. Kuromine Mion
"You really think that death has any meaning to me, the ruler of everything in the universe...? Kufufufu..."
"The Witch of the Dorm". A third-year senpai with low level chuunibyou. Basically, she is still capable of talking like a normal human being (LOL), just suddenly go full chuuni from time to time. Like her appearance suggests, she is a S that love to tease Ryuichi. Don't seem to have much sense of embarrassment.
4.Hanagasaki Momo
"The shining moonlight, the thorny rose wines...Respond to my desire!!"
"The Dark Priestess". One year younger than Ryuichi, it's still unknown whether or not she really has chuunibyou. I feel like she just got dragged into the "battlefield" at some point by Rikka Aoi without being able to refuse. Outside of "war zone", she is a pretty shy girl that love cute stuff and manga/anime. Second best cook in the dorm.
5. Hoshino Spica
"...Look, Astral...the Arcturus is twinkling..."
"The Alien Observer". She came to the Earth, along with her alien bunny(?) friend Astral, to observe the life on this planet and report back to her home planet (for unknown purpose). With the emotionless face, the only thing that she's interested in are the stars and pudding. She hates green pepper with passion. If anyone try to disobey her, she will threaten them about destroying the Earth. Because she is a genderless alien in the body of a human girl, she has no problem with Ryuichi seeing her naked. Due to the timeline difference between Earth and her home planet (morning on Earth is much earlier), she is really bad with morning, and always require other people to wake her up with a bit of "violence". Don't try to scare her with ghostly stuff, because those "non-scientific" things have zero effect on her.
Yes, she is a severe chuunibyou case.
6. Ayase Chisato
"Don't tell me, you are the rape demon that just attacked Momo...!? I-I have to call the police!!"
The only normal person in the group. Same year/class as Ryuichi, she is the best cook in the dorm. Serious, strict and good at cooking/shopping/housework, other people tend to see her as the mother in the dorm, and she is not really happy about that. Currently working part-time as waitress in a café.
STORY
After the fierce battle of Dark Avenger + Dark Priestess versus The Dorm Witch at the beginning, the time will be rolled back to 7 days before that, when Ryuichi just came to Kazami city. On the way to Fushiki dorm, he just couldn't stop himself from imagining his dream life in the new place - which was just recently converted from a girl-only dorm to normal dorm, and he would be the first boy to arrive. However, what greeted him at the dorm was absolute silent. Having no choice, he went in and looked for his room by himself. Opening the door, he was speechless when he saw a girl (Aoi) with weird clothes inside his dark room, chanting magic.
"I have never seen you before...Don't tell me, you are the Dark Messenger!?"
Panickingly run out of the room, he met Satomi - the manger of the dorm. She told him about the terrifying state of his room - water leaked everywhere, making the room unusable - aside from being the altar for Aoi, so he had to live in the living room until the room was repaired. Aoi ran down, and they exchanged a short introduction.
Having nothing to do, Ryuichi walked around the city. Back home, he suddenly had the urge of picking flower (LOL) so he headed straight to the bathroom. In there, he had the "fateful" meeting with Momo - just done with the bath and totally naked. Rushing out after Momo's death scream, he bumped right into Chisato (and shortly after, Aoi), who came to check on Momo. Of course, he got rekt after that.
"This is why I opposed the idea of having boys in here...There are only girls living here, so various problems will arise..."
In the middle of their conversation, Mion came down from her room. After a short exchange, she suggested that there should be an one-week-trial for Ryuichi, and everyone would decide his fate after that. Everyone agreed to that suggestion. However, for the "safeness" of the girls, he would have to keep all of his belonging and sleep inside a cage (literary).
Night time, waited until everyone (supposedly) went to sleep, he went to take a bath. And in there, another fateful meeting awaited him - the final resident of Fushiki dorm - Spica. Going in naturally in the middle of his bath, she asked him to wash her hair and back. Then, after everything was done, like nothing happened, she came out of the bath room, leaving Ryuichi all erected confused.
Lucky(?) for him, Spica was sleep-walking(?) at that time, so the next morning, she remembered nothing about him and what happened.
"...Who?"
Going to school, he met Akane - an energetic girl that was the helper of, like, every clubs in the school, and Soushi - a lolicon otaku that doesn't mind boasting about his love for primary schooler. On the way home, Ryuichi's scar on his forehead was discovered by Aoi, and she dragged him right back into her room, and showed him her "Forbidden Grimoire" (a.k.a university notebook). Inside, was a prediction about the future: "The brother from the past life with a wound on his forehead will soon appear". Immediately, she told him that he lost past life's memory from a curse, so she would become his "protector" until his memory came back.
"Alright, from now on, I will become your protector!"
Next day, after school, Spica was given the task of going shopping. Chisato also assigned Ryuichi to go along with Spica, to prevent her from buying whatever she pleased. Despite this, during the shopping, you would have the choice of whether or not you want to obey her to keep her from destroying the Earth spoil her with her eating preference (no green pepper, pudding for life!), or be a cold heart asshole proper man with the policy of "tonight dinner first, the Earth later!".
After various incidents in the next days, including him charging into the toilet with broken lock while Chisato was still inside, and the "I already done with changing clothes" troll from Mion, the judgement day finally came. And the result was...*censored*
This is the end of the trial version 1. In the version 2, you will be able to go a little bit further into the common route, and have a peak into Aoi and Spica route (about 1/3 the length of the actual route, I guess). Plus, 5 H-scenes for 5 heroines will be available.
"Pyon pyon pyon...pyon"
SPICA IS SO CUTEEEE!!! Sorry, my bad.
Overall, this seems to be no different than Koisuru Shimai no Sextet - a moege with zero story and can easily be mistaken as a nukige. The comedy is at medium level, and mainly come from Spica's cuteness the chuuni exchange between the characters and all those lucky sukebe situation from Ryuichi. The heroine routes are expected to be all the same - they will fall in love with Ryuichi for whatever reason, then invite him to live with them in their room, and every kind of ichaicha will happen. I can't really say anything about the romance level in heroines route, since they have not even confessed yet in the taste-test trial. The common route is capable of keeping you away from falling asleep, but not good enough to make you want to play it for a long time. In fact, it took me two days just to finish this short trial, which normally I would consume in a single day. The language is painfully hard to understand when Aoi speak in full chuuni mode, though the daily conversation, and even Mion/Momo chuuni language are pretty simple.
GRAPHIC
It's Yukie a.k.a Peach Candy (Kimi e Okuru, Sora no Hana, Neko Cafe Macchiato, Hakoniwa Logic) who is in charge of the art, so no complain whatsoever. She is one of the few artist that managed to attract me even with huge boobs characters (Iriya Koko is an example. Well, there is the fact about Ogura Yui being her seiyuu too, but...). The moeness of her art is killing me! Still wish she would reduce the amount of balloons though...
MUSIC
Aside from the catchy OP, the rest of the BGMs are pretty normal, or maybe even, bland. Definitely not something that will make you remember afterward. Just my personal opinion though.
VOICE
Momo's voice is seriously annoying. I don't know why, but I just couldn't handle her weirdly high-pitched voice, especially when she was panicking. Again, personal opinion. Aside from that, everything is cool.
CONCLUSION
I have to say, this is not the moege-for-everyone. With the non-existence story, high amount of H-CG and just decent amount of comedy, unless you really like a heroine (like me, I played this VN just for Spica), or else, don't pick it, you won't be able to stay for long.
Temporary Score
Story: 4/10
Character: 9/10
Graphic: 9,5/10
Music: 6/10
Voice: 8/10
Overall: 7,3/10
My previous review:
Pure x Connect (Trial Edition)
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