VN Others Completed Mojika - Truth Rears Its Ugly Head [v1.00] [NITRO ORIGIN]

[TheMadUncleJack]

I agree that her motivation isn't really consistent at the end with what happened before but if I was to try to explain it, I'd say that she's a probably a Yandere. She probably got mad that MC didn't recognize her and fell in love with the bullied girl before the beginning of the game while having to maintain the system of pillars in the school. Thus making the bullying worse in the hopes he'd run to her. But he never did. I think that because she's the one that orders the MC's death in the routes where he doesn't choose her but is also the one who comes to stop the bullying when he gets forced to rape the bullied girl in the class room and if you look at here thoughts then, she's strangely mild in her insults towards him iirc.

From what i see, i'd say their motives naturally aligned but the main girl has to develop the MC under the principal's nose. One is making him to get used to his power and make good use of it (He really hated his power) so when the endgame begins, no one will get in their way. Two is to develop his mindlock. The MC is an asset. A valuable one. But also a wild card, because he is too focused looking after himself and doesn't have any real reason to play for her until she decides to tip him off to every single soul in the school. I mean betting on a dude with that mental, a lot can go wrong (the other routes). MC is particularly stupid too since he takes his power for granted. Didn't consider the possibility of someone else with his power. He could make the whole thing proceeds a lot faster if he is just bothered enough to dig around.

Then again, i can't blame him. After the forced rape scene, i too won't feel safe and always on edge if i know that video is still out there.

Anyway, i think her goal is not to let the principal to find out about the MC for as long as she can. The mindlock wasn't for her dad, i think. It's useless against him. It was for surviving the creature with her and get away once again, though this time while everything around it burning. If she is to reveal her intentions to the mc, it'll be over fast because her dad will sniff out her plan through the mc. She needed to lure everyone who's involved with the creature to the shrine and makes sure no one survives. That's the only way to cure the disease. To isolate the infected cells before they spread. (Emphasis on 'no one' because they both were also declared dead)

The Yakuza clan is easy. The shrine is where the drug is made. No drug, no money. No money, no control. Putting rival gang there to torch the shrine is enough to make them show up. Her dad has a lot less reasons. The only bait that works on him is herself. The (last?) of his 'molded' bitc-... ehrm... heir with wordsight. It didn't specifically mentioned, but i assumed he has no more orphans. Just that there were no one left except the mc and the main girl, thinking the orphans found foster homes or just can't stand being around him. In truth, they were all dead after they were chucked to the creature.

Yeah, i think the MC is merely her best bet for exit strategy in Magui Festival endgame. I also still can't rule out the possibility of them being siblings. MC could be lying. Because the way he says 'We're strangers' is a very strong way to put it.

Man, screw that true ending. You're really telling me she couldn't just have, I dunno, talked to the MC a single damn time and vaguely try to teach him that mindlock thing during the past years? Nah she HAD to mentally torture him for years (I think she was the reason the bullying became so bad?... even if that wasn't the case it still doesn't explain why she didn't just enlist his help normally) without giving him the vaguest directive, and them torture him even harder at the end but while giving him a good objective? And was the mindlock even fucking necessary to begin with?

I think it's because her dad keeping tabs on her, and for all she knows he's always 3 steps ahead. She has to develop the mc with mushroom treatment under the pretense to not let her dad know that the mc has the power. It's comically hard. And i agree, ridiculous. I mean he thinks that main girl wants to one up on him so much he's very eager to replace her when he meets the mc. And she's all too happy to keep making him thinking that this was the case. If the mc is found out too early, there goes her plan to destroy the whole thing. Because there's a chance that the mc is also eager to play for her dad because it's a very easy way for him to power. Don't forget he's way more powerful than she is. In a nutshell, she's trying to keep mc out of her dad's sight. That's why after the forced rape, she gets him personally. Because this kind of shit will get you in the principal's crosshair.

 

[godgodgodgodgod]

Call it whatever you like, i could care less. But that's not the point i would like to make. Yes, people are under no obligation to point the good parts. I don't have a problem with anyone disliking the game. It's their right, as much as mine to like the game. They're entitled to dislike it as much as i'm entitled to like it. This is an utsuge after all. I'm won't be surprised if it has a 1-3 star total.

You see, my problem is with people writing reviews that actually trying to dissuade people from trying the game. Not just this game, not just this genre. Any game. Even those with intense guro, or rule 7 in it so long as it isn't posted here (If there's one, we're obligated to call them out). Take what the guy above me wrote, that's what i call legitimate critique. Because he actually point out why he disliked the characters. Now, people who wrote reviews like they write YouTube comment just like the example i pointed out on my earlier post is hardly i call legitimate critique. Because they didn't elaborate their thought on it. Hell, i doubt they're actually bothered enough to continue to play it.

What amazes me more that people also often to not actually considering 'maybe this game/genre isn't for me' before posting reviews then proceed to diss the said game just because it didn't land well on their palette. Or at least give a warning like 'If you're not into this kind of thing, then this isn't for you'. It's easier to just walk away if you don't like the game.

"Yeah no, this isn't for me. i ain't into this. nope, not gonna do it." and move on. Learn to live and let live.

Yeah this is pretty accurate I think. Honestly I think what a lot of people fail to understand about reviews is a good review takes into consideration if you think people who are the target audience would enjoy whatever is being reviewed while explaining why people outside of that audience is unlikely/likely to enjoy it. Otherwise it tends just kind of wastes everyone's time in the same way asking some male fifty year old mechanic his opinion on the romance genre novels he has never cared to read does.

 

[notright]

Call it whatever you like, i could care less. But that's not the point i would like to make. Yes, people are under no obligation to point the good parts. I don't have a problem with anyone disliking the game. It's their right, as much as mine to like the game. They're entitled to dislike it as much as i'm entitled to like it. This is an utsuge after all. I'm won't be surprised if it has a 1-3 star total.

You see, my problem is with people writing reviews that actually trying to dissuade people from trying the game. Not just this game, not just this genre. Any game. Even those with intense guro, or rule 7 in it so long as it isn't posted here (If there's one, we're obligated to call them out). Take what the guy above me wrote, that's what i call legitimate critique. Because he actually point out why he disliked the characters. Now, people who wrote reviews like they write YouTube comment just like the example i pointed out on my earlier post is hardly i call legitimate critique. Because they didn't elaborate their thought on it. Hell, i doubt they're actually bothered enough to continue to play it.

What amazes me more that people also often to not actually considering 'maybe this game/genre isn't for me' before posting reviews then proceed to diss the said game just because it didn't land well on their palette. Or at least give a warning like 'If you're not into this kind of thing, then this isn't for you'. It's easier to just walk away if you don't like the game.

"Yeah no, this isn't for me. i ain't into this. nope, not gonna do it." and move on. Learn to live and let live.

My reason for giving this 1 star has absolutely nothing to do with the content which you seem hell bent on defending by implication.

The game is deliberately slow, to the detriment of the player, on purpose. The majority of people have real lives they sometimes need to deal with and wasting someones time or deliberately timegating content is a measurable objective detractor to a game. It's no different than wasting someones money.

The 3-5 seconds between lines of dialog is a psychological manipulation of the player *on purpose* not an artistic choice, it's meant to inflate playtime by orders of magnitude so that people who pay money can't return the game as they end up wasting a ton of time just "getting into it".

This is *extremely common* in porn games in general that are sold on Steam, hell, it's why many people are on F95 because the vast, vast, vast majority of porn games are scams meant to exploit horny people. So you've got to sift through legions of bad games to find good ones. This is just one more of the bad ones.

The fact that your character stares at the ground? A deliberate recycle of backgrounds so that development doesn't take as much effort, not an artistic choice. If it was an artistic choice then reasonable effort would be put into making sure that each "patch of ground" was unique in some minor way. They are not, the majority of them are nearly identical for each section of the game for the first 2 hours.

The amount of content in the game for at least the first 2 hours in general (all I could slog through before uninstalling) is incredibly repetitive and shallow, resorting to recycling entire areas, interactions, and even lines of dialog are outright copied in some sections.

There are extremely few unique art assets in the first 2 hours for a game supposedly 20 hours long (only because of previous extremely deliberate player braking). This is an objectively measurable thing.

Now, maybe the developer backloaded all the content? Sure. Possible. But the majority of people are not going to hang out to see it if it's even actually there at all.

Tell me this, without saying anything about the subjective kinks or story in this game (both entirely subjective, and I am going to guess "your jam"), how would you defend the game?

 

[zufield]

Does this work with Kirikiroid2?

 

[hagibi1012]

My reason for giving this 1 star has absolutely nothing to do with the content which you seem hell bent on defending by implication.

The game is deliberately slow, to the detriment of the player, on purpose. The majority of people have real lives they sometimes need to deal with and wasting someones time or deliberately timegating content is a measurable objective detractor to a game. It's no different than wasting someones money.

The 3-5 seconds between lines of dialog is a psychological manipulation of the player *on purpose* not an artistic choice, it's meant to inflate playtime by orders of magnitude so that people who pay money can't return the game as they end up wasting a ton of time just "getting into it".

This is *extremely common* in porn games in general that are sold on Steam, hell, it's why many people are on F95 because the vast, vast, vast majority of porn games are scams meant to exploit horny people. So you've got to sift through legions of bad games to find good ones. This is just one more of the bad ones.

The fact that your character stares at the ground? A deliberate recycle of backgrounds so that development doesn't take as much effort, not an artistic choice. If it was an artistic choice then reasonable effort would be put into making sure that each "patch of ground" was unique in some minor way. They are not, the majority of them are nearly identical for each section of the game for the first 2 hours.

The amount of content in the game for at least the first 2 hours in general (all I could slog through before uninstalling) is incredibly repetitive and shallow, resorting to recycling entire areas, interactions, and even lines of dialog are outright copied in some sections.

There are extremely few unique art assets in the first 2 hours for a game supposedly 20 hours long (only because of previous extremely deliberate player braking). This is an objectively measurable thing.

Now, maybe the developer backloaded all the content? Sure. Possible. But the majority of people are not going to hang out to see it if it's even actually there at all.

Tell me this, without saying anything about the subjective kinks or story in this game (both entirely subjective, and I am going to guess "your jam"), how would you defend the game?

Is that why the text is like this? In some other games, I've seen it as a side effect of the translation software, but specifically in this case the single line of text fades into/out-of view like an animation... I did 100% the game, but the first thing I tried to do after a few minutes of playing was to go into settings and max out the speed only to find that it was already maxed from the start.

Deliberately slowing down the game makes a lot of sense now that you've mentioned it. In other VNs, a decision that would be a single click or a hotkey is implemented as a sequence where you have to click and watch the camera pan 3 consecutive times. I am curious what the story's total word count was.


Personally, I would be okay with reusing assets, or even completely garbage assets given that the other portions of the game were strong enough to compensate. I came here for the rape and pregnancy tags, but neither were really strong in this game.

Man, screw that true ending. You're really telling me she couldn't just have, I dunno, talked to the MC a single damn time and vaguely try to teach him that mindlock thing during the past years? Nah she HAD to mentally torture him for years (I think she was the reason the bullying became so bad?... even if that wasn't the case it still doesn't explain why she didn't just enlist his help normally) without giving him the vaguest directive, and them torture him even harder at the end but while giving him a good objective? And was the mindlock even fucking necessary to begin with?

I skimmed this game pretty hard since I stopped enjoying it much, particularly with the NTR-a-thon (hard to call it NTR but it was certainly framed that way), but my god her plan felt absolutely ludicrously stupid from what I managed to pick up. Can anyone tell me why I shouldn't just completely hate the bitch?

Anyway, none of the characters were likeable. MC gets manipulated every move he makes, he isn't funny, he's not cool, he's not smart and he isn't morally admirable - I have no damn reason to cheer for him. He's not even that hatable so I can't even enjoy his deaths. He's just painfully pitiful and that's it. His self-loathing also gets annoying to read after a while, since it's really quite repetitive.

All the girls except the shrine girl sucked. Main girl was obviously not very likeable, and everyone else wasn't likeable either because literally the ONLY thing occupying their thoughts when he looks at any of them at first is "oh god he's so disgusting get this freak away from me" - like, not even a little fucking pity, really? And even the shrine maiden wasn't that likeable anyway because she's either totally emotionless or practically brainwashed at all times - it's hard to say whether there was any genuine personality going on with her.

I don't hate dark fiction, even edgy fiction, but what was I genuinely struggle to see what I was supposed to enjoy about this. It doesn't do interesting commentary, it doesn't have anyone I want to cheer for through the misery, it doesn't grip me with compelling tragedy (in part because I have no capacity to be sad for any of these characters), it's not really even an edgy revenge story. Is it just misery porn?

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Absolutely this is misery porn.

 

[OverHeat]

I honestly don't get what everyone sees in this game, it is, in fact, extremely low quality. Even barring the fact that it is not my specific kink it is objectively bad.

But I have noticed that very critical reviews are being taken down (when I posted there were one star reviews, now there are none) which is artificially inflating the rating on this website (including my own because it "broke the rules of reviews" and yet the automated system in no way elaborates on which rule was broken (fun fact, I read all the rules, it doesn't break any of them)).

Long story short, the first *hours* of this game follow an extremely slow deliberate pacing recycling almost the same content over and over and over and over. Pacing text at a ridiculously slow one sentence per 3-5+ seconds. I managed to count the number of unique background assets on my fingers before quitting the game and uninstalling because it was so monotonous.

This is most likely deliberately to artificially extend gameplay for legitimate Steam purchasers in order to manipulate the Steam refund system.

the game came out in 2018 man, the way sentences show up are the same pace, it just got translated, thats all

 

[hagibi1012]

the game came out in 2018 man, the way sentences show up are the same pace, it just got translated, thats all

Now that you mention it, I do not think there was a single traditional VN speech text box. Dialogue all appears like narration, but in quotes.

The other Nitroplus VNs I've played were not like this and they were pre 2018. If the text was slow pre translation and thus not deliberately changed for steam, It is odd how it is slow.

 

[SmellTheJava]

No way to mod out the watermark? it's a bit distracting. Seems the last patch breaks the game.

 

[Cutefunniness]

...Erm...This is what is in the downloads from the OP... Just saying.

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I actually also checked steamdb.info, to with certainty be able to say that it's the jast version in here before posting - so that I wouldn't accidentally be misinforming or anything... xD
You must have mixed up your downloads.

At any rate, good to have confirmation about the watermark - and its fortunate non-excessiveness. (I agree)

Ello! Thanks for clarifying!
I didn't realize at the time that the JAST version was what was uploaded here haha, I downloaded
the steam version from ryuugames assuming this is the same version on here! Yup!

Same watermark on either version, good to confirm that alright.
Thanks for replying still, hope you're enjoying the game! ^^

 

[NoK_E]

Is that why the text is like this? In some other games, I've seen it as a side effect of the translation software, but specifically in this case the single line of text fades into/out-of view like an animation... I did 100% the game, but the first thing I tried to do after a few minutes of playing was to go into settings and max out the speed only to find that it was already maxed from the start.

Deliberately slowing down the game makes a lot of sense now that you've mentioned it. In other VNs, a decision that would be a single click or a hotkey is implemented as a sequence where you have to click and watch the camera pan 3 consecutive times. I am curious what the story's total word count was.


Personally, I would be okay with reusing assets, or even completely garbage assets given that the other portions of the game were strong enough to compensate. I came here for the rape and pregnancy tags, but neither were really strong in this game.



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Absolutely this is misery porn.

This feels like a terribly immature interpretation of the game. I'm not going to say that Mojika is perfect or anything, and it has a lot of flaws, but you can't evaluate a Nitro+ game based on how well it appeals to your personal fantasies. The fact that most of the endings are kind of bad lends a degree of emotional realism to the game. Like, you're not going to make a girl fall in love with your dick by blackmailing her in real life, and in Mojika most of the girls end up despising you for trying that. If you want a more fetishistic experience there are literally hundreds of nukige out there, but that's clearly not what this game is going for. Like, there's a scene where one of the girls is doing the hentai thing and crying about how good the MC's dick feels while losing her virginity and how many orgasms she's having but in her head she's disgusted and in terrible pain, if you're going to talk about breaking the fourth wall, that's a prime example there, it's mocking the tropes and conventions of the medium.

There's masochistic material here and ryona and sadism too, but it's reductive to call it a fetish game. Ultimately it's doing its own thing, outside most convention, trying to tell a story and convey some ideas about truth and lies and using sex scenes as its catalyst. Too often we approach eroge with an idea that this must meet some audience or genre expectation - this game should make me feel loved and like I have a cute girlfriend, this game must appeal to my milf fetish, this game should let me hypnotize and bang every woman in a 5 mile radius - and that makes more radical, experimental stuff like Mojika harder to appreciate, because it doesn't fit any of those molds particularly well.

I would say that Mojika is a game for those galge fanatics who've played hundreds of games, gotten tired of the conventions and cliche, and are looking for something different, something that challenges their expectations of what a game like this should be. And in that sense I think it's terribly effective.

 

[TheMadUncleJack]

Tell me this, without saying anything about the subjective kinks or story in this game (both entirely subjective, and I am going to guess "your jam"), how would you defend the game?

I'm not defending the game from bad reviews. It bound to happen. People have different expectations. My 'jam' has nothing to do with this, I don't start wars over opinions. I'm defending the game, any game, particularly those i give shit about from reviewers who doesn't know about what they're playing and getting into. Which, at worst case cause some form of deliberate cancelling all because of failure to understand that this is that kind of game. And one way to do that is through reviews and feedbacks which happens a lot.

You see, i don't have a problem with 5:1 people putting 1 stars on a game and whatever the fuck their reasons are, i could care less. My problem is with people who ACTIVELY turning players away under pretense they're doing them a favor all because it doesn't meet their expectations thinking it will waste other players time as the game did to them while dissing the game outright like some fucking caped knight they are.

"This is a shit game, doesn't worth my time. MC suck, buggy AF, there were zero to no contents. (This is toleratable for me. This is why the review exists after all) So don't waste your time to even try. Thank me later. (This is what i have a goddamn problem with)"
I'm sorry wh-.... Yeah, fucking right.
If they don't, won't, or can't enjoy it, then neither will i?

Who the fuck are they to turn me or other players from a game we're interested in?
Who the hell and under whose standards gives them the right to cank a game?
Why is it their problem if me or other players ended up find it disappointing or outright waste of time as well?
Why should i give serious shit about their standard of story, gameplay, features, content amount, etc? Why should anyone?
When the hell is my money and time and how i should waste them become their fucking business?

Game reviewers are just your Tuesday Joe for all i know. Unless i know that they do this shit for a living, i'll just take them as small insight to find out what i'm getting into. If they indeed are right about their review and i'm too stubborn, i understand that i only have myself and my curiosity to blame. Let people play whatever the fuck they want.

In a nutshell, I'm against deliberate cancelling. You might be thinking why the hell i'm bothered pointing this out while people could just ignore these reviews. Because crowd mentality is a thing. Take 'Woke' games for example. A lot of people dissed them. They want people to not play those games and it works like an airstrike straight from heaven. DGMW, I HATE those games as much as them. But i won't go out of my way telling people not to play it. It's their choice and i respect that. I'll just warn them if this is that kind of game, that's it. I won't stop them. If all 'objectively bad' games like these as you put it, get that kind of treatment.... well, how long it'll survive i'll leave it to your imagination.

This is what i'm so hell bent of, and i don't fucking care. Not even to ask myself why. I'd be more and all too happy defending games, game mods, and their authors i give shit about against these entitled bastards and calling manipulators out on their bullshits. If that game doesn't worth to defend or i just don't want to, I simply not going to join the attacking side nor i will start bitching along. Because i never bothered enough, like i could care less what happen to that game. This one in particular, there were barely a thing i find likable. HELL I'VE PLAYED THE WHOLE DAMN THING MUTED. But it was good enough for me, and still find it far from deserving a cank.

Look, I don't know a damn thing about your 1 star review. Sorry I was blindly assumed it was explicitly meant to turn people away. You said you didn't break any of the 8 rules and i'll take your word for it, so that's the first conclusion came to my head. You can always take it up the mod or staff and ask why. If it's only about you not liking the game then anyone should've been fine with that. You're the only one here now in this thread who's bothered enough with their review taken down. I've lost all my fucks to find out why.

Now i get that this game is too repetitive for you, has no redeeming qualities, and it became a waste of time. Lack of content and constant braking to put it bluntly. It's fine. I don't feel anything particular about the characters or the plots too. I mean it's not as wholesome as the other VN I'm currently playing. But not everyone feel the same way you or i do and there are people who wants to find out for themselves and i want them to. Regardless of they will say at the end. Some people still find 'objectively measured' amount of lacking content is good enough.

I don't know what you wrote to begin with. But I DID saw at least a couple 1 star reviews in Steam review fashion a few minutes before i post mine. Didn't bother to read because of how short they were and they were all 1 stars. Those kind of 'review attempts' i always overlook because for all i know, they didn't bother to finish the game and put reviews while halfway through.

Maybe the mods took your review down because they saw it the same way as i do, or maybe they just don't like it's being there. Take it up to them.

I wish i said this sooner. And there, i didn't call out any kinks or anything related to the game. I'm done running my mouth. I see no point of keeping this up because in the end i won't have the last word about this game.

 

[TankH04]

You know the pacing's bad when you start hoping the game turns into sandbox halfway through.

 

[OverHeat]

You know the pacing's bad when you start hoping the game turns into sandbox halfway through.

idk i kinda just skimmed a lot of the descriptions(though some of them seem necessary definitely dont need all of it) and read the conversations.

 

[onsen-chinatsu]

I would say that Mojika is a game for those galge fanatics who've played hundreds of games, gotten tired of the conventions and cliche, and are looking for something different, something that challenges their expectations of what a game like this should be. And in that sense I think it's terribly effective.

I'd say this is definitely the niche that Shimokura Vio tries to go for, like in his previous directorial work Totono, in which the pink-haired heroine is the literal amalgamation of all the eroge heroines that you've encountered. She is the heroine in that sickeningly sweet moege that you played the other day and is the heroine in that crappy RPGM game that you played a week ago involving goblins and orcs. She has taken the dicks of "you", old men, ugly bastards, and various other fauna and flaura across all the eroge that you have played. While you could play it as it is, the VN would definitely make a lot more sense if you know the background and context behind it.

Mojika is similar with respect to that. It's a disgusting game that plays off on the players' biases and nuances with eroge/VNs. The way they display the choices, text, etc. is far from what is norm. It relies heavily on CGs (to the point that the entire game is made up of CGs), sound direction, and atmosphere to carry the story. Despite all the good that it has, it is not without its flaws.

Prior to playing the VN, a lot have pointed out that the weakest link is the writing itself and I'd have to agree. It does feel like a lot of logical leaps were made in some parts of the plot and I feel that the pacing is off at times. Other than that, it has the usual flaws that come with revenge stories. Still, I think the game's still worth something despite this.

Also, I really need to say this even at the risk of sounding like some corpo-shill whiteknight for Nitro+ but please don't shit on the staff for this game. It's one thing to criticize the game for this and that and to point out why the game is crap, but it's also another thing to accuse the staff and insult their character and integrity as an artist. It's really not nice to accuse the developers that they're lazy, scummy, greedy, money-hungry chucklefucks who socially-engineered this game to milk as much money as possible from the common shitter without proper proof.

Shimokura Vio is a talented but flawed writer. His works might push the pedal to the metal on the EDGE factor, but he's really passionate at what he does. He even did a great side-story for the Madoka Magica series in "Scene 0" and lots of people really loved it. The same also applies for the artist, Hamashima Shigeo. She (yes,

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) is a really talented artist but...well, guess I'm just not the target audience of her usual works (cough Maggot Baits cough).

Though I say that, feel free to bash Nitro+ (the company) though lol. They made shitty business decisions and are now a subsidiary of CyberAgent. Just like Alicesoft (Beat Blades gacha), Lilith (Taimanin gacha), and âge (Muv-Luv gacha), they sullied their hands with the forbidden gacha money and have basically stopped making mainstream eroge. Also, I don't like how they keep milking Steins;Gate, but that's just a pet peeve of mine.

 

[lovehentaiforever]

I want to ask the most important question!

Can I fuck them?

 

[oterno]

incest type?

 

[FiscalFish]

it was a decent read but I'm really disappointed how bad Kirara and Miyu routes are, and how little they play out in the actual story, compared to Gumi and the red herring priestess girl

game feels super backloaded as others have said, feels to me like the story does not really start until you get to Hana, I expected a few more twists and turns from Nitro+

 

[Beyo]

it was a decent read but I'm really disappointed how bad Kirara and Miyu routes are, and how little they play out in the actual story, compared to Gumi and the red herring priestess girl

game feels super backloaded as others have said, feels to me like the story does not really start until you get to Hana, I expected a few more twists and turns from Nitro+

Gumi's route is definitely one of the better routes imo, because it has enough meat outside h-scenes to stand on its own. That scene with Kirara is absolutely brutal and is good set-up for Kirara's route later down the line. Surprising chemistry between MC and Bee. Exposition for the Saikicks. (Took me a while to realize it's a play on Psychics.) After finishing Tsubaki's route, my pet theory says Gumi ends up being the festival's sacrifice. Miyu and Kirara routes needed more to play out for their character development instead of using timeskips. Miyu's route at least comes with the pillar reveal. Kirara's touches more on the Tamasa drug. Then you have Tsubaki who barely had a mention, and is in a weird place where she's either competing for best girl or rushed in development. Route has a focus on mindlocking and that phallus. Her relationship with MC is left ambiguous as to whether it extended past gratitude or not. Then you have the whiplash of seeing her disgust toward MC outside her route. Might even be the first time you share in on the MC's ugly angst.

 

[trnhuy09]

Kirara ending scene is ...

 

[trnhuy09]

I want to ask the most important question!

Can I fuck them?

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