Saturday, February 18, 2023

Bustafellows - Limbo's route !Spoiler alert!

 


Unexpectedly, Limbo proved to be a little more interesting than I thought. At first, he looks like just that boy, who you fell in love with, because he looks so good, but had nothing behind him. But he... no he was actually a sweet boy with shady businesses. 

He has a normal family, and he does a very good job. He has different views of justice, but you can see how he is actually right. But apart from him being cute, and his route... 

There is this guy Navid. Navid is an old friend of Limbo's, but he also... is a weird person. I was thrilled with joy when I read his first attempt to make Limbo suffer. He actually told him, he will get a bomb go of under the heroine and she will become no more than PINK MIST! I mean... I grew up with horror movies, and I love this kind of approach. The route was interesting because Teuta was constantly in danger without knowing, but I knew, and I didn't always have the chance to choose what to do or say. 

At some point, Navid made Teuta kill herself. I mean, he tried hard... And I managed to get both ends. It was pretty sweet at the end of the Good ending, where Limbo was happy but also... I enjoyed the Bad ending so much! 

I liked how they made good use of this power of hers, just as in Scarecrow's route. Even though I thought she would use it more often. Not as if it was needed... 

Even Though I enjoyed this route, I didn't see the flames of love between these two, which bothered me a little. I know about the B side, but I still haven't played it after not enjoying Crow's B side. Also, I just can't wait to play Mozu or Shu but I'm still lazy to start it on the computer so I keep playing other games on the lite. 


Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Amnesia memories - After game thoughts

I know, I know... I should have posted this a few months ago, but I was busy playing other games. Shhh... Let's start at the very beginning.

A brief year ago, I was still on my mobile otome game and didn't quite know about the shady world of Nintendo games. I mean... 2D guys, a couple of photos, a few bg music and a good story. I didn't think highly of the industry. Even when I bought Amnesia back in November, I thought of it as some cheap game. I'll get myself through while I'm bored as I usually do around winter afternoons. 

Soon after starting the game, I knew, it was a grave mistake to underestimate the game, because I loved the story dearly. As usual, I planned to get the game and play Shin's route. He is the cover boy, and I liked his looks. After playing Shin, the game drew me in and I naturally played all the other routes one by one without getting bored of the game or the guys. And in the end, I was thrilled, because I got this amazing game on a Steam discount for less than 4 pounds. 

To be quick and spoiler free, the game is about a young girl, who happens to lose her memories without a cause and starts seeing a very kind and friendly ghost, who's willing to help her get her memories back in order to get himself separated again. 

It is a multiple-dimensional game. Every love interest has his own world and the heroine's memories always belong to the actual world. Before the girl (US) wakes up, we can choose the world to wake up in. The worlds are marked with the French card's motives, so we shouldn't know which world is which world until someone starts an interaction with us in a world. 

Orion, our spirit companion warns us that there could be bad people who exploit our amnesia, so we have to keep it secret as long as we can trust someone enough to tell them. We can actually reach a point when we talk about even Orion. Isn't it sound quite crazy? 


There are also gauges to tell the levels of trust, affection and suspicion. Our job is to rise trust and affection and to keep suspicion low. Also, there is a doubt gauge in one of the routes, and I missed it from another route too. It was a shame, that we didn't have it. 

The end of the game then finally gives an explanation of everything that happened in the game. Some never liked it and others did. As far as I've seen other otome gamers, not much of them had it as a favourite from who I know from Instagram, but I hope there are others like me. It was an exciting game from the start, and I even fell in love with the biggest red flag in the game. Actually, I think, from all the otome red flags, he is the one who I really understood. And probably that is why I never felt like he was a red flag. 




The game has a few mini-games built in and a few stories from the love interests point of view. I really recommend clearing them. They aren't only to unlock the achievements but they are also really good. I liked especially Shin's story. 

As most of you might already know, this is how I bought my first Nintendo. I was browsing the internet, reading all the reviews on the blogs, and I found new photos of the game. This led me to a blog stating facts about the fan disc. I was pretty lucky because the English translation just came out last year as far as I know, so I was just in time to get it at the highest price from the USA. I bought a Nintendo switch lite because it's cute enough and I planned to sell it after playing this one game!! (but since then I've spent a fortune on other otome games, and instead of selling it, I'll play it until rotten)

I'll make sure to post a few spoiler-rich route discussions for those who already finished the game. I hope I'll get a few comments on what you thought of the game and the characters. 

Keep safe and play as much as you can! 


Sunday, February 5, 2023

Bustafellows - Scarecrow's route !Spoiler alert!


 

 I've been playing through myself so hard in these games, that I forgot to take some time to review one another routes or so. 

I wish to mention this game, Bustafellows. 

The game has this weird title, and the weird boys in it. Almost all of them are charming, but today I'll highlight Crow-chan. 

At first, I like to experience every otome, as a real adventure, so I never use a guide. I'm not playing for the good ending, I'm doing everything for my personal real ending. That is how I ended up on this route. I was pretty honest and I clumsily ruined my chances to be loved by Limbo. But I actually didn't mind, since Scarecrow is sweet. And yes, he has a story. The route was also interesting for me, and I ended up enjoying the game despite the hardships at the beginning. 

I don't want to dive deep into the controlling of the game in this post, but this was the hardship part. I bought it on steam, and it definitely wasn't perfect for pc, but I learnt the lesson. 

So, the whole common route isn't just started as a lovey-dovey story and ended up being sweet. No. It started as a crime, and it had a noir taste a little. At least for me. The city seems to be a big city like New York, but it is called New Sieg. Also we have this shady feeling of something's off in the background, but it is usually chill and fun with the guys. 

To not to talk about the others, let's go with Crow straightaway. He is a hacker and he has this big luxurious house where we all live. It didn't caught me off-guard that I ended up in the hackers route, I do have something going on with hackers honestly. And also I like sweet guys. Well... too. 

His route made us know him a little more. I think I got close to him somewhere inside. There was also a fun twist. I mean I thought it would be fun, but at the end it wasn't. And also... it was forceful, not fun and not used well. 

And here is where my spoiler starts. 

So... there we got this chapter which is actually the route's A side. And in the teaser, we can catch a glimpse of Crow being really gap moe, and attempts to kill the heroine. That seem somehow interesting, but deeper in the story when we realize what truly happens, it isn't fun. It is... another personality disorder or something? It ends up as a little drama, but nothing more. They ended up together, and so the personality isn't seem to be bothering them further... which is... WHAT? honestly... Okay, I still wasn't able to unlock the further episodes, and I don't know what to expect. But this is weird. 

And the worst possible way they ruined his route was the B side of the story. Scarecrow being all cute and lovely more a boy than a man, but very worthy of love and... The MC I liked all the way through the route, suddenly acts soooooo mean towards this nice guy. She is rude, not fun and likeable on the B side anymore. Crow is still cute, and it was not enjoyable for me to see him treated like that. I wish I never played B side. It should have been a treat to get some cute romance, but the girl ended up bullying the guy who likes him. I'm not sure what to think. They probably meant it just as teasing as a couple, but it didn't come through for me.

What your thoughts was of B side? Let me know down below the comment section. See you all later!