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Review of Date A Live: Ren Dystopia

SubjectDate A Live: Ren Dystopia
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diabloryuzaki on 2020-09-27
Reviewthe 4th game from DAL series as VN with ren as new heroine and dystopia as new theme. the OP movie give more feel about it and can make people expect more to this vn while ren character description and illustration give mysterious feeling to the reader to guess what is her angel, her angel authority and her role in this vn

the common route is short, i forget about how short is common route in rinne utopia, ars install and rio reincarnation but ren dystopia give short common route like you even didn't need 50 minutes to finished it using auto function with normal speed. many youtube streamer have been proved it so it is not doubted that ren dystopia have the shortest common route than previous game not only that, every heroine routes except ren is not too long like less than 2 hours and you can finished it. to make it look worse, their character development in this vn is very very short. okay, i know that ren dystopia started after origami incident but it doesn't mean you can make more short than before. we have seen them enough in LN? that is that not this and we talk how is their alternative development in VN. the reason why we have DAL with VN version is not all LN reader can accept their favorite heroines relationship development in LN or they want another alternative development in this VN

in rinne utopia, we can see marriage ending, after marriage ending or lover ending with deep relationship
in arusu install, we can see more charming development like mahou shoujo kotori, touka sensei, cat kurumi or brown skin yoshino
in rio reincarnation, we can see another whole new development to remember how sad we are after see true ending in rinne utopia and ars install then the developer choose to give more another good ending that are different from before

but what we got in ren dystopia? after the heroines wish 3 times to ren then let's go to the climax, not only that we have less SoL scene after the heroines make a wish for the first time. like if that not enough, the climax is too boring because it don't have too much battle scene or the battle scene is too simple. if it is not because the bgm, i even can't endure to sleep when enter the climax, not only that the reward when we enter heroines epilogue is "very not worth it". even heroines epilogue in arusu install is more better than ren dystopia

enough with heroine route so what about with ren route? ren have two route, dystopia and true end. her dystopia route is more similar to rinne route but with her role as villain and her true end is similar to rio reincarnation true end. basically her route is just copy-paste from previous vn and didn't give too much tear jerking moment, just too mild

btw we see mayuri, maria, marina, rinne even rio in true end, what actually happen in here? no nothing particular, like what i said before her true end is just copy-paste from rio reincarnation true end and the developer choose to milking previous masterpiece heroine again in here where they even only have lines as side character rather than main character. but they appear in main character page in the official website? yeah, and their lines is so little in vn so it is still side character not only that you can't expect their ending in here like what rio reincarnation give to you

fun fact, when rinne appear in front of shido once again he recognize her as phantom but mayuri chop him hardly to force him recognize her as rinne. ren truth is interesting too, because since she is created 30 years ago her first wish is to see "him" once again. i give punctuation mark because for LN reader, you know what i mean right? phantom appear again in the end to apologize for seal ren and ren forgive her

interesting fact, ren is the oldest sister in pure spirit where rinne even said that ren is her older sister but different from other pure spirit, ren recognize herself as taboo child because she is sealed right after created. btw rio call ren with obaa-san when know that ren is rinne's older sister lol

conclusion, except fun & interesting fact there is no particularly good route in this vn include ren route. the main reason is too short and too half ass, it is even more worst than how episodic vn do. it is not weird if i said that it is the worst DAL vn ever

if not because the existence of rinne, rio and ars sister it is not weird i give 5-6 to this vn but because they are in here well i forgive it by give 7
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