/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Finished Amatsutsumi, skipping the side heroine routes cause I heard they're not important nor very good, plus they do get a lot of screen time in their own common route chapters kind of like in Eustia.

Overall quite a bit of a let-down, half because the premise led me to have wrong expectations and half because the individual dramas or characters simply weren't that interesting. After the first chapter with the protagonist just casually brainwashing himself a new family or punishing a random passerby who accidentally bumps into Kokoro I was expecting more of those kinds of antics teetering on outright amoral spurring from his innocence or overall a darker tone, but he turns out to become quite a regular nice guy way too early. The humor parts stemming from his lack of outside world's common knowledge also felt like they got dropped rather early on though I suppose the side heroine routes may have had more of those parts, but I didn't really get a good feel from any of the heroines to make me want to play through those. Kyouko and Mana's common route chapters in general were too similar with both suffering from guilt caused by accidentally leading a close person to their death.

Even the hyped up parts about the protagonist finally encountering someone he hates enough to want to kill them was pretty damn lukewarm, both the protagonist's reactions and real Hotaru's malice. There's actually a very, very similar character in completely another game, Bansenjin to be exact, but I think it was done much better there. Hotaru route in general didn't have that much going for it to set it apart from earlier chapters, just dilly dallying around a lot until the obvious reveal about her resetting memory, drama and then dilly dallying around some more until one of the two possible finales. And oh boy was her happy ending very fucking convenient.