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>>13681010
When I was reading ChuSinGura, I finally realized that faceless protags are much better than protags with ugly/annoying face.

Completed ChuSinGura 46+1 and ChuSinGura 46+1 Bushi no Kodou.

Almost week of my life wasted and I still don't understand why this VN is rated so high among Japanese.

First of all, writing is irrecoverably terrible. And if you get used to text itself after a while, abuse of disjointed narrative and ridiculous amount of flashbacks are there to annoy you to the very end.

Every second scene goes like this: in the middle of Serious Plot Dialogue it will fast-forward to next day, omitting content of said dialogue, then soon some Important Event will happen, where sudden reversal happens and then we get back to Serious Plot Dialogue, and characters will discuss their """brilliant""" plan, spiced with tons of further flashbacks to content from already read scenes, reduplicating parts of these scenes 1-to-1. Its almost like author expected that users would hold ctrl half of game.

Style and pacing is inconsistent across different routes (or better say "loops", as game is technically linear). One loop it goes full MLA on reader, then next one its slow-paced Umineko-style debates on history. And then we have grand finale with True Enemy, pinnacle of idiocy and cheap story solutions: whole revenge thing didn't matter all along.

Fandisk is essential part of original story, filling in huge omitted block in last loop. Bakumatsu thing was relatively good, compared to original, but as its fandisk, they thought its essential to mix it with stream of horrible irrelevant h-scenes happening in different timeline.

Game features nice scripting, tons of various SEs and even animation, but art style is just too weird for me. And while event CGs were tolerable as long as they didn't feature protag's face, h-scene CGs were so bad that I skipped all of them. Bizarre angles, bizarre poses, bizarre anatomy. That was most weirdly colored and shaped penis I ever seen in VNs.