Pretty great game overall. As expected from ANIM.teamMM. The build up is good, the sex scenes are enjoyable, and the endings cover several different possiblities.
However, one of those endings just rubbed me the wrong way, lol. The pregnancy end, while it made perfect sense, left a bad taste in my mouth. I dislike when the cheating heroine gets a 'happy ending' as a direct result of her unfaithfulness, and the whole 'bad boy gone good' trope makes me roll my eyes (it's too much like the kind of unrealistic wish fulfillment you find in harem manga). However, that end not only did both of those things, but it also had the heroine attempt to shift the blame onto the MC as if her weaknesses were his fault.
The girl knows better than anyone why he was being distant, took it upon herself to help him get better, and then proceeded to fuck him over in the worst way possible.
Now, don't get me wrong, that's some good NTR , but no way in hell does she deserve a happy ending off of that shit. And really, when I started thinking about it, the game actually leaves plenty or room to believe that she didn't get a (fully) happy ending.
So, for fun, here's what I think actually happened after the story faded to black.
The brutal kind of ending that I tend to enjoy...
This ended up being the next thing to come out of my never-ending back-log. I honestly don't remember if I've ever played any ANIM VNs before, but if they're all as annoying to get to run as this one was, odds are that I won't be playing many more of them. Seriously. Super obnoxious! The thing got pissy about just about anything running around it. Ugh. Seriously. Fuck those guys. Their company deserves to be pirated to death.
Ahem.
Leaving that aside... >.>"
With this being a classic VN, the most there is to talk about is the story itself, which means that it can be difficult to do so without getting into spoilers. This is particularly true for this one, because a number of details that are actually pretty important are only revealed later in the story. Still, there are some things to note before I open up the big ol' spoiler tag.
First of all, the translation. It's about what you'd expect from a 4.0 GPT translation from Dazed. That is to say, while it's mostly English, there's actually plenty of pronoun confusion as you read through the entire game, including near the start. There's particularly memorable ones around Yuuma, Haruna's Senpai... because his full name is Haruna Yuma, so GPT clearly got confused and started calling the big, masculine, muscular dude with a huge dick as "she" in some sections of the game. (Yes, this means that in a classic sense, if Haruna married him, her name would be Haruna Haruna. They joke about this in the VN too.)
As always, this means that it's difficult to be sure about any lost nuance and whatnot. The translation is serviceable, but it could definitely be much better than this. Maybe we'll get something better one day. Probably not though...
Moving on. One thing that people should likely be aware of going into this is that the VN relies quite a bit on "time passes off-screen and stuff is totally happening while it does". The story basically focused on various key moments, and basically just puts small descriptions about stuff that happened in between. The issue is that without knowing or looking up some things, like the fact that Japanese school term starts around the beginning of April, or the fact that their Summer break is near the end of July, or the fact that students in their second year of high-school equivalent are ~16 years old... there will be things that won't make sense or which may seem as if they're happening too quickly.
In particular, MC's relationship with Haruna might seem too fast considering his supposed trauma. However, the set-up makes a lot more sense when you understand how much time passes between him re-uniting with Haruna and deciding to date her. Them being childhood friends that were separated around the age of ~11 plays its part in this too. It's also notably later in the story that reveals just how close the two of them were back when they were children. Additionally, the game makes it a point that MC's trauma is not THAT severe (he's not terrified of women or unable to outright talk to them for example), and of course, like most trauma, what makes it flare up varies. Specifically, it's obvious early on that Haruna affects him less than other girls from the get go because he was familiar with her and trusted her more.
The next thing I want to touch on before going into the big spoiler section is this VN's NTR, such as it is. Like all classic VNs, the route splits depends entirely on choices which lead to different story lines. As such, there's a (relatively short) route where MC can start dating Haruna and absolutely nothing happens and they're just happy together. There's also an even shorter route where he doesn't start dating her at all and she ends up with the other guy. Then of course there's the two routes where he starts dating her but she ends up cheating on him with the other guy.
Unlike a good number of other NTR stories out there, contrary to what one might expect, the cheating routes actually have endings where MC still remains with Haruna after she cheats with the other guy. There's 2 major cheating routes if you will, and each one has 2.5 endings. The 0.5 coming from the fact that there's one ending that can happen on either route depending on choices.
The important thing to note about this is that what makes those "MC keeps the girls anyway" endings possible is the fact this story is very soft on the NTR aspect. While the other guy is big, muscular, more skilled at sex and all that... Haruna never actually reaches the point where she cares about his dick more than she cares about MC. In general, all the endings where she ends up with the other guy have nothing to do with her disliking the MC and more to do with her having literally no other choice in the matter. Quite frankly, she'd obviously prefer to date the both of them at the same time openly, and I'm honestly surprised that they didn't include a route like that at least as a joke. There's quite frankly no real corruption in this story, or at the very least, it's very light. There is betrayal though, but, uh... I'll get more into that in the big spoiler section later.
In some ways, this is less of a NTR story in the classic sense and one more focused on "just cheating", if you will. At least, it's not classic, ye-olden brutal NTR. In some ways, I'd classify this more as a drama with hentai than NTR, but that's just me.
Oh, and, before I move into the big spoiler section, I suppose I should add a note about the supporting characters. There's two actually named (and with images) supporting characters that show up, and, unlike what you'd expect of typical NTR stories, they're really just there to expand the world and offer support for the story in various ways. Neither of them are sexually involved, in spite of the fact that at times, it feels like they would be.
Ah, and I'll also mention that the VN is split between MC's perspective and Haruna's perspective. The meat of the H-scenes is, of course, in Haruna's perspective. Her perspective unlocks after completing one of the endings, I think? I don't remember exactly since I played all of MC's ending first. Then I started a New Game and picked her perspective too. The perspective split is pretty decent imho. I've definitely seen way worse. My only quibble about Haruna's perspective is that they did NOT include her perspective in a couple of her endings with MC.
All in all, I'm not sure who I'd recommend this VN too. For me, it doesn't really scratch the NTR itch... or rather, the corruption itch, because that's my main draw to NTR. It doesn't really scratch my sadistic itch either, because neither Haruna nor Yuuma ever really get off on fucking with MC and whatnot. It's a decent read, and the scenes are hot and all that... the writing is decent (as much as can be discerned with this level of translation anyway)... but in some ways, this VN feels like Haruna herself. That is to say, it wanted to eat the cake and still have it too, and obviously failed at it.
I suppose it's interesting on account of the fact that it's a rare story of this type where the FMC is the absolute worst character in the whole thing and where both of the guys involved would have likely been better off if she didn't exist.
I don't remember the exact words in Japanese, but it's a thing that basically stands for "I loved/liked her first". It refers to a type of "NTR" where a guy likes a girl, but isn't in a romantic relationship with her, and then some other guy swoops in and takes her (usually via the power of dick) and the guy who liked her is left without her.
There's a lot of variants to this, where the 1st guy and the girl can be close friends or whatnot, but there are also cases where the girl doesn't even know the 1st guy exists basically, much less has feelings for him.
The scenario where MC doesn't confess to Haruna and she ends up with Yuuma without her ever dating MC tends to fall under this. (Even though Yuuma actually loved Haruna first, in a romantic sense. MC wasn't even in town when Yuuma started loving her.)
As such, it can be argued that the happy ending for the MC is a BSS situation for Yuuma, though we don't see his perspective on the matter to know what he thinks or feels about it.
Me? Eeeh... I find the whole BSS thing silly, like complaining about someone "stealing" the last roll of toilet paper at the supermarket.
just play the VN yourself, you start off playing male perspective first, dont forget to save each selection then when you reach the end, you start new game and you play the female perspective and do same for male, save each selection to unlock the gallery....
Pretty great game overall. As expected from ANIM.teamMM. The build up is good, the sex scenes are enjoyable, and the endings cover several different possiblities.
However, one of those endings just rubbed me the wrong way, lol. The pregnancy end, while it made perfect sense, left a bad taste in my mouth. I dislike when the cheating heroine gets a 'happy ending' as a direct result of her unfaithfulness, and the whole 'bad boy gone good' trope makes me roll my eyes (it's too much like the kind of unrealistic wish fulfillment you find in harem manga). However, that end not only did both of those things, but it also had the heroine attempt to shift the blame onto the MC as if her weaknesses were his fault.
The girl knows better than anyone why he was being distant, took it upon herself to help him get better, and then proceeded to fuck him over in the worst way possible.
Now, don't get me wrong, that's some good NTR , but no way in hell does she deserve a happy ending off of that shit. And really, when I started thinking about it, the game actually leaves plenty or room to believe that she didn't get a (fully) happy ending.
So, for fun, here's what I think actually happened after the story faded to black.
The brutal kind of ending that I tend to enjoy...
Is it because of my ad blocks or something? Because none of the buttons to the sight you linked work, clicking the name above only sends me back to the home page of the game on the site.
well mc story is rly short and has only 1 scene the 1 outside with yuuma and all 4 choices leading to the exact same result i feel like something is wrong there is also only 1 percent unlocked of the gallery
, but no way in hell does she deserve a happy ending off of that shit. And really, when I started thinking about it, the game actually leaves plenty or room to believe that she didn't get a (fully) happy ending.
