#krayola plays Olympia Soiree

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Some spoiler free thoughts on Riku's route

I've officially completed Riku's route, short stories and all. He's not a terrible first route, per se, but his route definitely felt like the introductory friendly route and it suffered a lot a times for it.

Pros:

+ one of the bigger twists was foreshadowed quite nicely even though I was stupid enough to ignore it because I was focusing on other things as I sometimes do when I'm not properly paying attention.

+ Riku is cute and I like him and his blushing mess. His CGS are also great!

+ Olympia does a great job of taking charge, even if made my choices for her as too direct at times and it cost me. I like heroines who take charge in a situation.

Cons:

-There are times, especially late in the route that Riku started to get on my nerves a little. He reminds me a lot of Red from Taiali in more than a few ways but ultimately I prefer Red ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

-I like awkward romances but this one felt kind of rushed at certain points. I think Riku and Olympia needed a little bit more scenes to develop their romance. Riku was the very last guy you meet in the common route so she doesn't have an established friendship/dynamic the way she already does with Yosuga or Kuroba or how her mindset shifts the way it did with Akaza.

-This route was clearly a set-up for the other routes. I felt like some of the plot stuff was shoehorned in just to create a plot and it's clear they were raising more questions than answers. I think the twist itself could have been a good plot point of it's own but it ultimately went nowhere. I'm hoping it plays a bigger, more substantial role in other routes.

Verdict:

I give Mr. Submissive and Breedable's route anywhere between 6 and a half to possibly 7 out of 10 hamburgers, depending on how the other routes go. 🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔

Tomorrow, I will start the Shota Tokisada's route! He's the one I'm least looking forward to but at the same time the common route gave me some questions regarding him and I want them to be answered. Also I can't keep a straight face every time Paris squeaks so there's also that.

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Some (Spoiler Free) Thoughts on Tokisada's Route:

Let's get this out of the way: I don't like shotas. Younger guys who do the whole oneesan thing don't do it for me except for Gretel, sorta, but I have a giant crush on Takuya Eguchi so I let that slide. Yet, Otome games love having them. Just really not my thing.

On the bright side, I tend to really adore guys associated with the color green. Shiraishi, Victor Frankenstein, Kent, Gretel I'm sorry for this one, Yang I'm not sorry about this one. So did Tokisada live up to his fellow green comrades?

Well...I suppose the honest answer is to wait until the end of my run but for now, I need to acknowledge the things I really liked and disliked about the route.

Pros:

+ The romance. I was pleasantly surprised by this. I'm gonna be honest here: I greatly preferred this romantic development in this route than in Riku's. I'm a sucker for the boy meets girl, boy is into girl, girl decides to give the boy a chance by going out on cute dates, girl falls for boy trope. I found it to be surprisingly realistic and rather refreshing. A lot of their early scenes were super cute and all of those cute moments were utilized effectively for the later plot moments, which is something I like because I'm an emotional masochist. I think he and Olympia developed really good chemistry as the route went on that if felt natural.

+ I learned about some history? Yeah, that was cool. I caught Tokisada saying something something that I culturally recognized and then I learned a bunch of stuff about Catholicism in Japan of all things. Speaking of Catholicism, Olympia Soiree does the religion much better than Piofiore did. The less we talk about that, the better. I'm a history minor but my area of focus is not Asian History (although I do know a bit about Central Asian) so I learned a ton of new stuff here which is always awesome!

+ The villain of the route. I think I simped harder for the villain than Tokisada himself. So much so I want to write something about it. Also the bad endings were kind of fire, imo. Trashfire but it's still fire!

+ This route gave me an intense need and craving to try mint chocolate ice cream so I bought some talenti and it was amazing. Thank you, Tokisada, for opening my eyes. Your taste in ice cream is impeccable.

The Neutral:

+/- Tokisada's character development. At times, I felt this was too on the nose sometimes, like yeah he wants to change and grow up, we get it. He also does some stupid stuff which I high key kind of found myself groaning at. He does grow by the end, at least and wants to keep changing. Was it as perfectly done as say... Shiraishi? No, but by the end of the route, it did feel like he had changed for the better and found a purpose and a place to belong, which is always a great thing.

Cons:

-It bears repeating but I really don't like his character archetype. Shotas just aren't my thing. At least him and Olympia are close in age, I suppose?

-I loved the villain but I wish there was more time spent on it. It wasn't as bad as Riku's route, where the villain's motives felt weak, as though it'll be revealed in a grander scale on another route, but I felt more could be done. I'm still so intrigued by this person but there's so much more than could be done.

-I found the ending to be rather rushed and it kind of felt cheap. Don't want to delve too deep into that, but yeah.

Verdict:

I hate to say it but I liked this route more than I intended. My expectations were extremely low but I kind of came out pleasantly surprised. I feel kind of bad it's above Riku's in terms of route rankings even though I would much rather date Riku, lmao. He's not at the top of my green guys, who are at an impossibly high tier for me but he tries his best to be a good guy, which is neat.

I'll give him 7 and a half mint ice creams, but I'll be nice and give him 4 ice cream and 4 peach emojis🍦🍦🍦🍦🍑🍑🍑🍑

And a new thing I'm incorporating:

Flashback counter: 76, 79 if you wanna include the short story

I intend on taking a super small break for Deltarune because I realized the other day that I've played 10 Otome games in a row and should try something else, but I'm super excited to get on Yosuga's radar, because he sure was on mine since the moment I spotted him. Also purple is one of my favorite colors. so what it doooo 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

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So I'm almost done with Yosuga's route and I have no idea what to even say regarding his route. I'm just simply at a complete loss of words.

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I can't even think of a song to assign him like for no reason, I randomly got deja Vu stuck in my head despite not even liking that song before today.

So I'm almost done with Yosuga's route and I have no idea what to even say regarding his route. I'm just simply at a complete loss of words.