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Review of Kamidanomi Shisugite Ore no Mirai ga Yabai.

SubjectKamidanomi Shisugite Ore no Mirai ga Yabai.
KamiYaba - De-localization 18+ RePatch and TL Fixes
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Vote: 5.3
lusterveritith on 2024-11-29
ReviewLower levels of 'meh'. I wish i enjoyed it, or that i could recommend it.. these kinds of slice-of-life romcoms with magic sparkled in (and some interesting kouhai's) is extremely up my alley! But, i can't. And it breaks my heart.

Lets go through positives first. I think this game had a really good foundations. Focus on literal and figurative meanings of 'distance' with regards to relationships, efficient use of 'fate'.. as a way to explain route structure as well as various lucky coincidences that would normally be pushing it, eventually converting that into a show of character's self-improvement and praise of their best efforts. And more.

Unfortunately, its borderline impossible to appreciate that, for a number of reasons.. the biggest one being the translation. Its real bad. Forget 'bubbies' and honorifics (and there are fanpatches for that, thank Cthulu), prose is constantly awkward, full of typos and mistakes of all types. My head hurt from constant need to analyze sentences to figure out wtf they meant (good that i have some understanding of Japanese and could hear the original VA), and the flow was just horrible.

For other problem, as annoying if not more, is that the game was pretty bad with bringing out moe during heroine routes (so, vast majority of the game 'cuz common route is very short). A little bit of an issue in a moege. Some routes were exceptionally bad in that regard (Yukari, my poor kouhai, was practically character-assassinated) but even on the good ones it was more as if the writers randomly stumbled upon making a cute scene/chara interaction rather than being deliberate with it. Most routes also closely followed a very similar 'lovers blueprint' of scenes which made things boring, and there are a few reused plotlines too.

Personal Rankings:

Routes: Hanayo > Mao > Suzuna = Urara = Nanami >> Yukari

Side routes were mercifully shorter, and different enough to be genuinely enjoyable.. to some extend anyway.

Characters: Yukari > Urara > Suzuna > Hanayo > Nanami > Mao
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