#1 by infinispec
2022-01-21 at 09:47 | < report >Tl;dr: I agree that the majority of the story was decent with its elements of slice of life, comedy, and drama, but the supernatural plot confuses me.
I don't think this story was bad, but I feel like it could have been a lot more interesting and certain elements could have been explained better. Like you mentioned in your review, I feel that everything that occurs prior to the ending feels meaningless. It feels as if the reader is forced to abandon any understanding that we thought we had of the story, and accept that Fuuko is not a God, but a parasite colony that is only concerned about its survival. The ending info dump of the true nature of Fuuko just leaves me with a more questions than answers.
- If taking full-control of a young, healthy host and retaining its ego was Fuuko’s ultimate goal. Why does Fuuko honor Reiji’s demand to forgo its ego and split the fragments between their bodies to keep them alive?
- After acquiring the last fragment and regaining full power to take control of a new dead host, why doesn’t Fuuko use its shapeshifting parasite hand and put a hole in Reiji’s chest like it did to his sister? I have a hard time believing a dying Reiji would be able to decapitate his dying sister and himself to prevent them from being used as a new host, nor do I believe that Fuuko would be unable to stop this or find a new host. Hell, why didn’t Fuuko just shapeshift into a human and kill Reiji and/or Erika from the start? Why use weak “resonant frequencies” to make him fall down the stairs?
- Fuuko can shapeshift a dead cat into a human, perform mental manipulation on people who are not directly infested by one of her parasitic fragments, and strengthen a human’s body to be able to heal fatal wounds and survive falling from the top of a mountain without a scratch. Fuuko is able to utilize all of these absurd powers as something that isn’t a deity, but an advanced parasite and yet is seemingly unable to extended the “lifespan” of a dead cat?
This isn’t even to mention how if Fuuko was never a cat god, then why did her “powers” cause cat ears to appear on the Aoba siblings? Overall, I just feel that Fuuko’s inclusion as a villain unnecessarily overshadowed the moments of slice of life, comedy, and drama within this story. I think it just made the story unnecessarily confusing for me and her existence ultimately had no impact on the finale. Despite being seemingly evil, she essentially sacrifices herself to save the Aoba siblings and they live happily ever after. It’s a shame honestly because Putin/Fuuko was definitely my favorite character, just to be painted as the villain behind everything at the end and defeated by Reiji’s kitchen knife.
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#2 by abandoned
2022-01-21 at 16:29 | < report >Couldn't have put it better myself.
I believe there was even a moment during the final confrontation where Reiji pointed out some contradictions with her abilities being a god vs parasite, but "she" just answered haphazardly as if the writers were saying "don't worry about it" and moved on.
I too found her to be my favorite throughout the game, it definitely leaves a bitter taste in my mouth seeing how everything turned out. It just feels... Rushed & unfinished.
But I guess can't expect a bulletproof plot from a small VN like this, I guess it is what it is. |