/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Got all the endings for the first White Album (well remake version). Technically, I have to do like 10 more playthroughs to get every single event and conversation, but whatever that's for tomorrow. Anyways, I'd say this lands squarely in the "OK" category. The best parts were, of course, the more dramatic, story-heavy bits, so I ended up liking Rina's scenario the most by a mile. Best girl + best drama can't be beat. The main weakness of the game is its overall structure. Having the map movement to go to events and talking to people is fun... on your first playthrough. Not really surprising that games with this kind of structure basically went away. Just be sure to do Yuki's route first, but after that you can do whatever you want.

As you'd expect from a game with this premise, the MC's defining trait is that he's 優しい but objectively he's scum in every single route (minus Yuki's since you don't cheat there; that one is mostly just moe) and you wouldn't want this asshole to be your friend. It's kind of amusing how far they went with this paradox however. Like in Mana's route, it wasn't enough that you groom your student during your バイト. They actually made Mana Yuki's cousin of all things. So MC is literally banging his girlfriend's cousin. Just lol. There's also Misaki's route which has the extra bonus that the MC also completely betrays his best bro who also loved Misaki. As a cherry on top, MC doesn't even explain the situation to Yuki, Misaki does it off screen for him. Amazingly cowardly.

Anyways to sum it up: OK to good drama but it's kind of tedious to get there. I did like some of the fluff conversations with characters but having to constantly skip around on subsequent playthroughs is really a chore. I guess sometime in 2024 I'll finally get around to WA2 now that this is (almost) out of the way and my autism about release order is soothed.