Even before playing Oz mafia, I had quite a clear idea of what I could expect from this game; I won’t lie, I would have probably just skipped it, if Satoi’s art wasn’t involved. But since I’m a shallow person and all the characters looked so handsome, I’ve decided to try it.
I’ve played the PC version, which had a terrible problem: sometimes the voice dropped. And this also happened in the middle of the conversation! It’s not even a bug, it’s just a low budget problem, that’s why not all the sentences are acted by the seiyuus.
That alone was so irritating, that I was tempted to drop the game since the common route: but again, the beautiful CGs stopped me. I would do everything for Satoi’s art………. I sat through so many terrible games just for her, I should be an honorary member of her fanclub or something.
Caramia’s route was nothing memorable, even if he was quite nice and I didn’t dislike him; but when I reached the first ending, I’ve realized that to complete his gallery I had to unlock all his endings…. and some of them, involved cheating!
I still remember that this could happen in Storm Lover too, but I liked so much all the characters that I just played the normal routes instead; while Oz mafia seemed so plain to me, and with a mediocre writing, that this cheating option was way funnier!
I don’t understand Caramia’s reaction when the heroine admitted that she preferred another boy over him tho: he was just smiling nicely and accepting it. Why aren’t you even angry or sad? Did you really like her in the first place? I know he was very gentle with everyone, but that situation was so unbelievable that it made me angry, I swear.
I was very interested in Kyrie at first, but I realized immediately that I could never trust him. Even in the good endings, I couldn’t really love him and feel happy for the heroine, because I felt a constant sense of possible betrayal and general lack of trust.
But I think I can’t expect more, for an heroine like this: I think she was one of the worse I’ve ever played in my life. And believe me, I’ve tried many different otoge.
I’ll be honest, I don’t know how someone could love her, if not for her good looks; she wasn’t even able to stay faithful to them, poor boys… it was quite painful, to seat trough some cheating scenes.
Axel was really cute, I loved to see him blushing! He was probably the best boy for me, I just wished his endings were better, because I was not completely satisfied.
All the other characters have shorter routes with less endings, so the cheating option isn’t possible anymore.
I don’t appreciate much this decision: it’s obvious that the writers spent a lot of time working on the 3 main characters’ routes (with so many endings and CGs) while they just wasted all the potential of the other characters, giving them only a few scenes with even terrible plotholes.
Caesar was a nice character, and I think he could have been way better, if just the route was written decently; I don’t get why the heroine wanted to go see him outside of the city, even if in the beginning he was randomly trying to kill her. It feels like she fell in love at first sight, but…. how can you be so innocent and careless, girl? He could actually kill you!
Hameln’s route could have been very interesting too, because he had an original and quite complicated personality; unfortunately, I think I could complete his route in about an hour, so I couldn’t develop any deep feeling for him in such a short time. His personality also seemed too different, if you compare his role in other people’s route and how he acted when you actually get to play him… I was confused.
Robin Hood’s route was creepy.
I don’t know why, but I had this idea of him being a nice tsundere…. in fact, he was actually some sort of crazy yandere. Also, the heroine felt too desperate to be loved, she kept annoying him while he was working! In the ending, she was actually happy to be nothing but a replacement to his (almost dead) wife… but I can’t even feel sorry for her.
After recovering from this nonsense, I played Scarlet.
I don’t know if it’s just my opinion, but… was he friendzoned or something? I couldn’t feel any love from their relationship, there’s not a real romantic endings either. There are hints of him loving the heroine, but nothing more, not even a kiss scene.
I was already prepared to sit through a copypasta with Sou, because he’s such a cute and girly shota that I didn’t think I could ever see him as a real love interest. Sometimes he acted quite mature tho, but that felt so out of place, compared to his appearance… and also, the sad endings somehow made everything even more awkward to me.
I left the most interesting and crazy route last: the brothel!
I was so curious about that place, and the fact that Dorian Grey owned everything was so absurd that it made me even more attracted. He was a priest, and he looked like a gentleman, but in fact he had so many criminal affairs in that city… I was expecting the endings to be shocking too and I was not disappointed.
Probably some of these scenes are my personal favorites, because at least the heroine showed some personality and she even became the new boss! I don’t think I’ll be able to play again something like that in my life, it will always be a good memory.
My opinion about this game, anyway, is not very defined. It’s something like: “I have no idea of what I’ve played, but it was not that bad. Maybe?”.
If I had played the psvita full voiced port, it would have been way better for sure; don’t bother with the PC version, the voice vanishing in the middle of a sentence is really too annoying.
The 3 main characters route were not that bad: not great either, but the cheating option was quite original and enjoyable. Also, they have so many CGs, that I was sincerely amazed.
The writing in all the others was forgettable or just bad, but I think the idea was wrong from the start: why having so many playable characters? If they had focused on 5/6 routes, it would have been better for sure. Also the terrible, useless and bitchy heroine just gave a general bad feeling.
If you decide to play it, you have been warned!
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