I can sort of ignore that age part, there were 3 other problems. Again, if I step into Haru’s shoes, I’m 22, Maki’s 35, that’s a pretty huge age gap. If Kouichi’s age is a problem, Maki is sort of too. Haru’s actions did not help either, he literally binds Kouichi up and just gets his way with him making it a one-sided affair (ra3p), then at the end of the VN, Haru even taunts/mocks Kouichi for sleeping with him. I guess more than anything, the age factor sort of blocks me out from thinking it as romance. Inui Kouichi and I share at least one thing in common at the start. My list of visual novels is actually pretty long, and I thought I can handle the BL novels pretty well, but when I put myself into the role of Haru, I had to sit in front of the computer for a while and think of what to write about Kouichi, but in the end there’s no other way to put it other than, “Dad, I just don’t like you that way, seriously”. In case, you still haven’t realize, I’m a guy. But as I played through his route, I find that it is worse than expected. My train of thought is to generally play the worst routes in a VN so I can “get it out of the way”. Kouichi is a bar owner who’s a pretty normal guy looking to find his son, a bonafide ossan. This ends up as a character-based VN more than anything else. Again, it is made even worse when there are no CGs that relates to them. It is also both the writer’s fault and Haru’s characterization that made the overall mysteries even less uninteresting than it is. Perhaps he’s trying to use his hyper-sexuality as an escape point, but I wouldn’t go too far into analyzing him. Underneath his skin, the most obvious things are him supressing his real feelings and a craving for parental love. Haru is interesting when he displays his true feelings, but when his hyper-sexuality and fake-ness are in play it diminishes his characterization. It’s like finding a restaurant that cooks a relatively nice looking steak, only to find that the sauce and meat combination is completely bland, and yet you realize that the meat is actually quite high grade. There is a certain amount of depth in Haru. There are at least 60% worth of HCGs for each character, which makes me think that more importance was placed in H-scenes rather than romance or plot. I would have given it a higher rating had there been relevant CGs given to the plot but there wasn’t any at all, so it feels like the story isn’t important to the readers but more of a filler.
It’s just like how real life plays out, there are things that are usually not in your control and they can easily go wrong very fast. If there’s anything worth praising in the story, it’s how the plot is realistically done. It gets even messier because there’s a lack of, well, chemistry (?) between the characters (except Hiroyuki) in my opinion. With Haru’s attitude, there’s not really much of a point to see it as a mystery, or see him as a detective which kind of makes the mystery genre an afterthought of sorts. You get interested into how the protagonists solve and escape the death sentences.įor NTY, you don’t really care about the characters enough, especially when there’s a lack of involvement from the protagonist himself. For higurashi, everything plays out as a bad ending for each individual novel in the first half. It introduces you to a case where the protagonist’s life is on the line, and that you need to solve the mystery otherwise it’s game over. If you had read danganronpa’s story, there is a sort of flow to it. As to why I consider the story to be generic, well, it’s kind of hard for me to point it out exactly.
Stalking, finding a neet brother, a child abuse case and Haru’s true motive in the VN. NTY is split mostly into 4 major chapters where they are of each different case. The DRM is a simple copy and paste of the codes given after purchase. I can immediately run the VN without any further installation after unpacking.
My download speed was approximately 1mbps. Link (NSFW/R18+/Link might be wonky): Mangagamer NTYĪpproximately 3gb in size, split into 2 zips for download, unpacked into 4.37 gb.
Worth buying or not: Because it’s the only recent BL VNs in the market, so if you want to see more BL VNs, you buy it regardless of my score. = No visible spelling mistake, but I see some inconsistent past/present tense usage (does not affect the story).įinal score, 5.5/10, and play Hiroyuki’s route first regardless of your interest in the other characters. One is even old enough to be the protagonist’s father.
– 3/4 characters are older than the protagonist. – Protagonist is hypersexual and is hardly relatable for readers. – Protagonist is not interesting, and unsuited for solving mysteries due to flippant attitude.