Two things, one I'm reading this in japanse so everything is going to take me longer, thus instead of a all-encompasing PR I'm going to make episodic PRs for each route, second the plot is an absolute mess so I'm doing my best to colect the shambles but there's only so much I can do. (edit 12/24 The plot was so bad that I drop the thing so... Yeah, just one arc covered)
Intro PR: We start in a poisonous flower field with some little girl singing Louis Armstrong's "what a beautiful world" (basically) for absolutely no reason. Why the protagonist in a poisonous flower field instead of a normal flower field, no idea. Why is there even a poisonous flower field in the middle of the city to begin with, no idea. I suspect the funeral home had some hand in the matter.
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| Edit. It wasn't poisonous, I just assumed it was due this synopsis |
Before we can ask ourselves more questions that would've remained unanswered anyways, we teleport or time travel or don't know if it's even the same person that was on the field to some dude edgying about how life is unfair, he goes on and on with phrases like "No one is waiting for me at home, I'm so alone, so broke boo-hoo" etc, which for a minute I thought could explain why the guy was in the poison field before I'm faced with the first "choice".
The guy suddenly stops his whining and says "there's a flower on the street, what's the name of that flower?". I'm like, "How tf should I know? You're the one in front of the fuckin' flower aren't you? Why does it even matters???" Now, I'm calling it a choice but honestly is just close your eyes and point between five options (that I discussed for a full day with my friend doing all sorts of connections between flower characteristics and possible personality traits) only to find out that it's just a name. Like, you choose "dandilon" and the girl is called dandilon, or you choose "jazmine" bam you get a girl named jazmine. Ockham's razor, eh?
15/8/24 Moeko "Moemuri Kurara" Ivy:
So after lots of thought I went for Ivy because it's the only one "flower" which is NOT a flower and later my decision was further consolidated by remembering thicc Poison Ivy (batman).
Again we get time traveled/teleported into a dude that we aren't really sure if it's the same whiny dude or the poison-flower-field dude and he's at work thinking about how proud he is of being a cringe-worthy fat-n-fugly wanker type otaku instead of actually working. He really outdoes himself thinking how "high" his standars are, that he would only accept "end of the century beauties" and that he doesn't "waste his precious time" on three dimesional persons since he rathers watch another anime.
A sexy-secretary type coworker asks him out since she likes him for some not explained, plot convenient reason and the second "choice" appears:
1. Go away, fugly
2. I'm busy don't speak to me.
I had to read twice to actually believe it but yes it's a not-choice choice. Like why is it even there? There are a lot of those later on the "game" where you choose the least cringy one, knowing that it doesn't really matters but what the hell a man can try.
The girl starts crying but the dude doesn't give a flying fuck, he goes back to "working". When he leaves for the day and starts pondering on what's on the "otaku's menu" (what trash food he's eating next) he drops his jaw at the sight of the same girl that he called fugly few hours ago. Like, literally the same but without the glasses and with some silly ribbons.
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| Is it a bird? Is it a plane??? |
The guy was saying all sorts of face-palm worthy phrases like, "you're an aaangeel!" "Marry me! I love you!". For a moment I was like "outstanding move" for Moeko to cosplay and seize the fat fuck's heart, "this is what's called a pro gamer move". But then I started noticing something weird. The dude asks her for her name as if he didn't knew her and she makes up something on the fly. The dude actually can't tell who she is! Talking about mistaking clark kent for superman. I check the log and see that her dialoges are marked as "???: bla bla bla" as if we didn't know who she was. Heh, the suspense is killing me!
Anyways. The scenes pass by and we get a lot of the dude's creepiness that really makes us wonder if maybe he's the mentally insane/challenged one, like smelling his hand because it's the one that "touched hers" and praising the sweet smell (could it be the soap?) or the guy actually stalking her, or the guy thinking of her "holy, pure chastity" or the dude worshiping her "heavenly abode" (just a regular house with like, one anime poster she probably dug out the trash).
In one occasion, girl ruins the food she was supposed to prepare for dinner, burns it to a crisp almost setting the house on fire, and the dude actually eats that garbage "to make her feel better", and goes about how "tasty" it is. Dude. Just phone for a pizza. It's not like it's the end of the world if you don't eat the food she ruined.
After about a year of the dude otaku talking the girl to death, dragging her to akihabara, making her watch shitty niche animes that are utter garbage (tentative assumptions) the dude tries to shack her, but in a moment of (whatevers' left) self-dignity the girl stops him and says "before, there's something I need to tell you" and goes into her room to change clothes.
After a full year it seems the idiocy started rubbing off to her and she's been having problems with her sense of self, laying on her bed thinking "am I two persons or only one? Who am I?" (imagine if all cosplayers had troble telling apart their personality from the characters they're playing) and need reasurence, so she comes out as "moeko" (regular clothes and glasses) and looking at the guy says with a straight face "this is my true form" like some supervillan. And the dude goes "MOEKO???? What are you doing here!" (facepalm) and she reply "I'm sorry I lied, but I need to know if you can love me knowing I'm (also) Moeko", which enables the first (true?) choice in the game so far, the most under-the-nose "yes I do" and "no I don't".
The Yes, I do "happy ending" is most risible thing I've ever seen, she goes back into the room and comes with the Moe-Muri cosplay saying "you know, I'm actually a magic girl and have been tasked with saving the world from an ancient evil. I need to dress like this to cast my magic" (is she serious? Nah, she can't be. Right?) and the dude goes "I will help you save the world! Together!" (Insert interrogation signs negro meme) "Thanks Itarou! I love you! Now take my hand, we need to jump off the window!" (suspicion (((increse)))). Then, epiloge. We're at the (poisonous?) flower field, the girl thanks Itarou-dude for helping her, some sentimentaloid crap and the "camara" turns to show the guy is a skeleton.
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| Literally my face during the whole scene |
Ok, so I got a lot of questions: One, I know the dude's an idiot, but he really jump off a building cause the girl told him to? Where they not on a first floor? Why is the guy dead? If the fall was deadly, shouldn't have the girl died too? And if not, why the guy died? If the guy died and she didn't why is she perfectly not-injured and the dude's a fucking skeleton? What? She dragged his corpse through half town unto the flower field on broad daylight?? Why a skeleton? did she let him rot for few months before the scene?? Well. Terrible.
The "No, I don't" is more in line with the plot so it's less, how to say it... that. The girl pulls a love-love diary and slaps the guy in the face with all the cringe phrases he said to her about marriage, everlasting love, red-string fated couple and whatnots and like "what? I change my clothes and you no longer like me?" which is all pretty reasonable but the guy goes haywire and "sends her flying".
She hits her head on the counter, badly, and the dude runs off. Like, not even checking if she's fine or calling an ambulance, an absolute ass. Then he goes to sleep while mumbling about how the vixen tricked him (everyone like: you're not a clown, you're the entire circus).
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| well earned |
Dark screen, heavy breathing, Halloween-like music theme and the "corpse" of the girl "dissapears", ploooot twiiist! She breaks into his house punching her way through the freggin' wall while saying a bunch of shit I didn't understood about being together forever and choke-slams him into summision, drags him yelling and kicking out the building, no one does shit, then she puts a noose around his neck, hangs him to death and kills herself immidiatly afterwards. The cops arrive next morning, looked at the wrecked room, the torn-in-pieces door and follow the trail of blood unto the dangling corpses on the front of the building concluding "Welp, no signs of faul play here. Must have been suicide". Another coworker says "What a dark couple, they deseved each other" (too soon, someone???)