#Mona plays Code Realize Guardian of Rebirth

[monasatlantis]

Code - Realize Guardian of Rebirth (Victors path review)

So I’ve got Code - Realize Guardian of Rebirth as a Christmas gift, and I’ve finished my first route a few days ago and thought it would be time for my first review...

For me, chose Lupin would make the most sense story wise... but the game doesn’t let you. In fact, you have to see the good ending of the 4 other routes before you can even unlock Lupins path. I know the system from Amnesia and know why it is that way, but I absolutely despise that system. Because the game forces you to play the routes of boys you do not like. In Amnesia, I only liked one of the four boys and I wasn’t really happy about playing the final route either and just did it to finally unlock all the mysteries - just to get killed on the freaking very last day while I have managed to avoid all the 12 or so other possible deaths XD

So with Code Realize, I have a similar problem. When I realized that Lupin was not at my disposal I decided to switch over to Victor, simply because I felt drawn to him because I knew his voice actor from other games (among them, he is Kiros japenese voice from MLQC and he also gives his voice to Lloyd in the Trails-Saga...) and not really because of Victor himself. And although Victors character is absolutely okay, I can not say that he is my type XD I did relatively enjoy his route tho. And after I reached his Happy Ending on my very first try playing this game, now is the time to say a few words about his path.

First: Man was that one easy. I do think all in all that Code Realize is relatively “easy” as you have mostly just one decision per chapter, which yes, can still make you crash into a bad ending, but the chances to make the wrong choice are a lot less than in some other games, where you have to make multiple choices per chapter. However, Victors route was especially easy. Do to his easy to read character, it wasn’t hard to figure out what to do or say to stay on the right track. Getting that happy ending was a walk in the park, really. Lets take one of the last decisions for example, where you have to choose between either trusting him or killing yourself to save him and everyone else. Now in some other routes, killing yourself would have been the right answer, because then the LI could have heroically jump in and tell you not to give up and so on. But he wasn’t the type for that. FIRST he was the type who is totally focused on his work so that he would not have seen you try to kill yourself AND he is the kind of character that more than anything else, wants you to trust him and would not have appreciated that you were ready and willing to sacrifice yourself for the greater good. And it was easy to understand that, because he was so easy to read. And it was like that throughout the whole 13 chapters.

BTW. 13 Chapters is a good amount of chapters. Its not too long and not too short. Shortly before we FINALLY enter a route, it felt actually a bit exhausting to be honest, as they were stretching the story a bit. I mean, we started out searching for Isaac and whatever we did, we never managed to get our hands on an information that would lead us there. Instead, we were facing a Vampire Child when we actually were out there, trying to get money because we couldn’t afford our fruitless search anymore. So I was ready to feel bored, when I finally entered Victors route and things started to actually get interesting.

However... there were a lot of questionable choices made when it came to Victors-Plot. One of the biggest issue, was the chapter were they tried to infiltrate the palace. We started with the explanation that aside from Victor, only MC went on that mission, because as a woman she was less threatening... And I was rolling my eyes at that. Because yes, you totally take the girl with you, that is on the Wanted-List for several reasons AND she is of course totally not threatening at all, given the fact that one touch of her skin would kill you. Uhu... Also their ridiculous try to fool us with the infiltration-plot was making the story look stupid instead of interesting. Why tell us that the plan was to do it the direct way... just to suddenly start the next scene with “Our plan actually only begins now, that we got captured and imprisoned”, like... it made no sense at all that they first talked about a totally different plan... because no one else was listening. Instead it made the whole chapter look even more stupid. Why not say that plan A was to go the direct way and then, when they were imprisoned say that they were prepared for that and had a plan B for that case? It would have made more sense AND sounded more like they actually had everything under control.

I also dislike how in the final chapters MC all of a sudden is getting badass and puts all her training to use even tho she failed at that like just the previous chapter and almost every chapter before that. Why not showing her gradually getting better at the stuff she has been trained for the chapters before? It felt totally weird that all of a sudden, now that no one could come and save her, she suddenly gets badass and good at it too. I like badass MCs, don’t get me wrong. But it has to make sense.

When they got in contact with that poison do to the attack, it was revealed that it actually could heal her and that she was even feeling better because she breathed it in. Should that not have slowed down her chancing process, given that drinking the poison directly saved her completely? Instead, a short time later, she was feeling terrible again AND the changing-process started even sooner, instead of later. It kind of felt a bit weird.

Victor got in contact with that poison quite a lot during his life and I always wondered why it was never mentioned that he might have a lesser lifespan or something like that. But I guess they didn’t intend to destroy the happy ending, which was all in all very nice and enjoyable.

However, there is one more complain from me. The translation suddenly was really bad when Victors chapter started. Spelling and translating mistakes were everywhere, while it had been totally fine in the previous “normal” chapters. Makes you wonder if they were in a rush or if they just didn’t pay much attention to the different routes.

My next path will likely be Van Hellsing, as he is the only other character that I find interesting. I probably will use a walkthrough for the other two as I couldn’t care less about them...