/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Hanesaki Mio's route was soo fucking GARBAGE. It's sad because Mio is actually an interesting multi layered character, that was cute in her own way without having to be uugu bug eyed anime girl, they RUINED her by removing her glases and giving her contacts and a new look half way through the route. I loved her nerdy look, that is why I bought the fucking game on the ps3, again warning me never to buy console versions of vns for console exclusive content.

Soo many loose strings left untied up. The way they hinted that she was child actor/model, the photos left behind at her desk which was never mentioned again. Mio's connection to potpourri, flowers and flower meaning was just dropped half way and never expanded on.

The scene in the library where Kouno starts feeling nostalgia felt forced because the route was sooo short, artificially elongated by the fact that you had to play soo many of the forced events of the main story in between Mio scenes. The fact that Mio never interacts with anyone but Kouno while every other girl has friends and group events really isolates her and reinforces that she was just half assed tacked on character just so the ps3 version could have exclusive content. The confession was cute but it was soo forced and rushed, it was well done but it needed more time to develop and it need more doki doki scenes to build up to that moment.

Over all I loved it when I was reading it, I had a lot of fun reading the route. However, in retrospect it was rushed garbage I really expected more from Aquaplus even for a tacked on route. I really liked Mio, she deserved better, a really good character and a potentially good route that suffered from obvious production time limit issues. The story was all over the place and it abruptly ended in a confession initiated by the girl, a girl built up to be secretive about her true feelings, it felt very out of character.