Review of Himawari
Subject | Himawari Himawari -The Sunflower- |
By | Helpfulness: 0 Vote: 4funnerific on 2020-09-15 last updated on 2020-09-19 |
Review | Disclaimer: This is NOT a review. It's a rant about the issues of the game, originally posted on Fuwanovel. Feel free to delete it if that breaks the rules. - Fuck Daigo, seriously. A 40-year old loud and creepy guy imposing on a little girl's only private space and making moves on her. And she falls in love with him because stockholm syndrome. - "First love stronger and inevitably more important than any following ones" - "Non-blood-related not really family" - Aqua acting like a spoiled princess in her route: they're supposed to be equals there, yet the protag is the only one working his ass off. The bad ends are pretty bad in this game overall, but it was particularly awful at the end of Aqua route. Is she even interested in the relationship? - The implication that what Souichirou did was wrong — the naivete that radical solutions like that (killing a ton of people) are always bad and "there's always another way". Oh how sick I am of that line of thinking, you see this childish writing almost everywhere in Japanese media. - The statement that it was Akira who tore Daigo and Akari apart — so Akira is to blame for just being there because Akari wanted someone's D and Daigo wasn't close enough? - Youichi forgot about Aoi not because of Moon AIDS, but because "he couldn't live on otherwise" — now that's a hell of a convenient memory, haven't we seen this somewhere before? How about a ton of other titles with the same idiotic cliche? - You can switch to Aries/Aoi immediately after everything that happened with Aqua? How can you live with yourself after that, Youichi? - Contrived ending to Aqua route, with Akira — the bad guys are the good guys now? Admit it writers, you simply couldn't think of any other way of making it a happy end plus giving Aqua the ability to marry which is apparently an indispensable thing in relationships (spoiler: it isn't, get rekt). - No killing allowed. Typical of almost all Japanese works. Aqua pointing a gun at Akira and about to pull the trigger? Show me someone who felt any tension from that scene, and if that person is familiar with Japanese media I'll laugh at them. Then we just handle the scene with two dudes beating each other up a little as if that solves anything. Fucking classic. - The loli trio constantly being obedient dogs when they can just take over the whole place when things get rough. They wouldn't even need to kill anyone for that. - Going back to the first episode. Trying to grow sunflowers in a public park? Isn't that, like, illegal? Those sunflowers will just get in the way. - The "grab her hand" bad end. Why is it either take the hand by force or not do anything? How about, you know, asking? But oh no, that'll get in the way of the plot. - In 2050, the only nations to have ever stood on the surface of the moon are America and Japan? Take your Japanese pride somewhere else, will ya? - The world is in turmoil because some astronaut guy died two years ago? Some idiot who got spectacularly turned down while the entire world was watching? Life goes on, plus he wasn't the first one to land on the moon anyway. - I thought Daigo was a womanizer, but with Youichi kissing Asuka in the backstory for no apparent reason I don't even know anymore. Despite this, Daigo doesn't land even a single kiss on Aqua, clearly to avoid giving the player a feeling of NTR (yes, I know that NTR is originally about sex, this is the expanded meaning). - The list goes on... (Dropped before starting Asuka route) |
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