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  1. On 29.12.2018 at 7:15 PM, neverending0 said:

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    I was pretty confused about Chiho's route since I had no idea which part was a dream and which wasn't. Entire story didn't make sense to me in general ...

     

    Don't worry, Barney is I am here to save you, by explaining how Pepe Silvia Chiho works

    Spoiler

    Summary of the route's events:

    1. Chiho gets bear from mom
    2. Chiho loses Bear
    3. protag finds bear and brings it to the police
    4. Chiho gets back bear from Police
    5. Chiho wants to find protag at school, but doesn't talk to him (in love I guess)
    6. Chiho stalks protag to work, but is too shy to enter
    7. Chiho stalks protag again with her mom and sits in way to watch the kitchen
    8. Chiho and mom go home, Chiho loses bear on the intersection
    9. Mother attempts to pick up the bear, but gets kissed by a truck (which is what QP shows protag as a dream)
    10. Chiho has amnesia now and loses the bear again
    11. protag finds the bear again brings it to da police one more time
    12. Protag meets Chiho *CUE COMMON ROUTE*
    13. They get together *CUE ROMANCE*
    14. Chiho remembers a bunch of shit (half of which isn't true in the end)
    15. Chiho retraces her steps back to the police, gets the bear back
    16. Chiho almost gets hit by a car but the protag saves her
    17. The protag now has amnesia and Chiho's amnesia is gone, but she has amnesia to all things she learned during the initial amnesia
    18. protag goes through some more stuff and realizes it's a dream
    19. protag wakes up from amnesia
    20. protag and Chiho meet each other and she remembers what happened during her amnesia because of the automated phone message
    21. Chiho explains the route in the epilogue via a giant exposition dump
    22. Chiho's mom is alive, she was just in a come before
    23. Chiho and protag confess once again, the END

    So, what happened and what didn't?

    This didn't happen:
    Everything protag assumed happened at the age 5 or 6
    Chiho and protag going out to wcdonalds and Naturale (she did that with her mom)
    the rooftop H-scene
    The phone not working and Chiho not remembering Protag
    Protag saving Chiho's mom (QP's dream)

    This did happen:
    The bear gets lost, found, lost again
    mom kisses a car
    Chiho had a crush prior to protag knowing her
    Protag hits a car
    Everything else

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    As we see here, it's not that complicated of a story. The execution of it all is just pointlessly confusing. Everything happening between step 14 to 18 happens in a span of 20 minutes and Chiho's epilogue is basically just her attempting to tell you what happened in 15 minutes of straight expository dialog.

    I don't think would've been a bad story if someone ironed out those clunky parts in a second draft, but the real issue with Chiho is that both she and her route feel really out of place. The tone, content and character has nothing to do with anything else that is happening in Sukisuki. (Even QP fucks off for almost the entire thing, although they did adress that.)

  2. I use escapism to nurture my crippled mental state, so I obviously get really deep into those feelings. On the condition that the writing, atmosphere and/or characters made me care enough. 

  3. 6 hours ago, Freestyle80 said:

    For Ayame’s one u need to get Yuuki’s grandpa to teach volleyball and also have her affection up to atleast ‘like’, much easier to get than Yuuki’s one

    That's some 4D chess level pathfinding, good god.

    52 minutes ago, Helvetica Standard said:

    Glad to see I'm not the only one with a beef for the dating sim elements... skipping text and trying different choices seems to be the only effective way to explore the routes.

    I would find it a lot less appalling if I could open the menu in the choice screen. Being unable to load from there is the worst. 

  4. On a technical level, this title is pretty impressive and I enjoy the (not retro, what should I call it? Classic?) art style. Unfortunately, the script simply isn't good.

    Focusing on two girls at the time is not the worst ideafor a story, because this way the information about them and their personalities is more focused and the characters are by default stronger than if they were split by four or five. But on the flipside, there is a frequency problem. The guy who gets to pick between the 2nd set of girls is an unbelievably irritating side-character you meet while reading through as the first character. That not only disconnects you as a reader, since your vehicle into the story didn't just change color. On top of said vessel changing from a car into a boat, the guy you are suddenly supposed to insert yourself into the guy you've spent the last 20, 30ish hours hating because he's just a twat. 

    This main character disconnect also leads to other issues with the split. Kurumi should in my opinion clearly be a romance option for Tooru, not Naoki. The way these two bond over the common route is way more intimate that the dumb expository backstory you get from the game. I wholly believe that the entire script would benefit from dropping Akira's route entirely, not making Naoki the second protagonist and moving Kurumi's route to Tooru. 

    For more traditional issues with the script, there's only two routes for the main characters and only one of them has a proper ending until the after story. Going 50/50 on satisfaction isn't a good ratio.

  5. On 22.12.2018 at 1:13 PM, littleshogun said:

     aforementioned Maitetsu (If you can see past the loli and censorship mess)

    It kind of IS a big deal, when Sekai's one, out-of-the-box, big release doesn't even release properly and the dumb fuck responsible for the company's PR tweets "What did you expect, I hated this project from the start lul".

    At least Koikuma happened. 

  6. I actually really like that beating the route and unlocking the love flower gives you an "Extended Cut" of that heroine's route, because you see all the common route events as a couple. 

    Rinka's route floored me, will genuinely remember that one for a while. After I picked "Don't", I didn't expect to get another 5 hours of route when I went back and picked the other choice. 

    Yuuki was almost an airtight read, I actually like both endings in their own way here; the confess ending has better bookends, but the normal ending feels more earned if that makes sense.

  7. 7 hours ago, Mr Poltroon said:

    How to get Rinka and Chiho:

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    Seeing Chiho requires completing at least one route. When you do, she'll show up on a second playthrough.
    Rinka requires completing a route, and then getting to the end of the game without confessing to anyone.

     

    Thank you. What a weird choice to lock them both and still spoil what I assume are half their CGs in the intro. 

  8. Without big spoilers, a simple yes or no answer from someone who say the/an ending: I've finished the first read without picking anyone out of sheer scientific interest and now I'm wondering

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    Do we actually find out who Souta's "fated" girl is?

    I initially assume(d) it's Rinka, but then towards the end of summer there was a lot of focus on Eri. 

     

  9. Joined the fight. Thoughts after 6 hours:

    - I refuse to accept that 2 of the 5 heroines really exist

    - this choice system is the second most annoying thing I've ever seen. Whoever thought releasing this without a walkthrough was okay should be held responsible in court. 

    - How and/or why did they waste this much time and that many resources for Maya if it doesn't lead to anything?

  10. But then we have Sanoba, Koikuma and etc which are 18+ highschool games not removed from the store. The usual steam consistency makes it hard to pinpoint a specific, general cause, because some offended admin could one day decide to nuke every single game on the store that involves somebody wearing a red t-shirt. 

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