This review contains spoilers
This is such a conflicting game. On the one hand it has some fantastic fucking writing once you’re following Ryuki as the protagonist, but when you’re following Mizuki as the protagonist the writing is just pure dog shit.
Even though Uchikoshi loves writing about multiple timelines in all of his games and about interacting with said failed timelines to get to your true ending, I felt like there was an obvious chance lost to make Bibi be Mizuki from a failed timeline. Instead, the writing decided to spit on the original game by making Mizuki have no reason to feel a thing about her parents and made the issues of the first game be worthless. The fact that it’s normal and can be completely unexplained just exists that Date can get super human powers after viewing porn mags, but that Mizuki needed to be a man made designer test tube baby to justify the existence of her superhuman strength and abilities just feels like such a cop out.
Also, the “true timeline” still has plenty of plot holes and makes no sense. Mizuki as the protagonist is basically just setting up predators with the women they preyed on in some form or another so I cannot like any of those characters (and in fact ended up laughing when Gen died.)
The writing is so good and heart wrenching and amazing when you’re following Ryuki as the protagonist, but the second you go to following Mizuki as the protagonist, it just shits all over all the wonderful writing of the first game and the characters relationships, as well as the struggles Mizuki went through from the first game.
It’s so unfortunate because I really love Ryuki and his half of the game is so fucking fantastic but the writing for everything else is so complete dogshit it feels offensive. I guess if you want to play it just go into it expecting it to be terrible.
Even though Uchikoshi loves writing about multiple timelines in all of his games and about interacting with said failed timelines to get to your true ending, I felt like there was an obvious chance lost to make Bibi be Mizuki from a failed timeline. Instead, the writing decided to spit on the original game by making Mizuki have no reason to feel a thing about her parents and made the issues of the first game be worthless. The fact that it’s normal and can be completely unexplained just exists that Date can get super human powers after viewing porn mags, but that Mizuki needed to be a man made designer test tube baby to justify the existence of her superhuman strength and abilities just feels like such a cop out.
Also, the “true timeline” still has plenty of plot holes and makes no sense. Mizuki as the protagonist is basically just setting up predators with the women they preyed on in some form or another so I cannot like any of those characters (and in fact ended up laughing when Gen died.)
The writing is so good and heart wrenching and amazing when you’re following Ryuki as the protagonist, but the second you go to following Mizuki as the protagonist, it just shits all over all the wonderful writing of the first game and the characters relationships, as well as the struggles Mizuki went through from the first game.
It’s so unfortunate because I really love Ryuki and his half of the game is so fucking fantastic but the writing for everything else is so complete dogshit it feels offensive. I guess if you want to play it just go into it expecting it to be terrible.