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It took me a while, before playing Re:birthday song: Satoi’s art attracted me so much, but I was afraid that the sad story would made me desperately cry in the end.

Anyway, I won over my fears, and I finally started it.

The beginning of the game seemed quite nice, even funny: the heroine failed her exams, and she got assigned to another class, where she met all the main characters.

Then she had to do a lot of silly works with them, like taking care of animals, which made this everything but a nakige! But obviously, it couldn’t last forever.

I’ve started playing from Kairi, who looked like the nicest out of all: in fact, he was a very sweet guy, and he kept taking care of the heroine.

Also, he said a line I personally appreciated, that was something like “I want you to be confident, you should love yourself like I do”. It really got me, it’s a simple yet wonderful line, I think I’ve never heard it anywhere else and it felt good!

His past was very sad, as expected; also, the heroine had many problems to become shinigami at first, because she couldn’t stand people dying. I can understand this, but…….. once you know what a shinigami is, you must be prepared! It doesn’t make sense, if you say it’s a cool job, then you can’t do it properly when your time comes.

It was nice to see Kairi recovering from his traumatic past, discovering the reality behind his death and finally send his father to heaven. I enjoyed both the Happy ending and the Shinigami ending equally, the most important thing for me was to see Kairi smiling happily, after all that pain in his childhood!

Ame was nice to play, I loved his soothing personality.

The overall plot was too similar to Kairi’s route, but as you will see in the real ending all the characters were connected to the heroine in the real world, that’s why she met them again in the underworld and could reborn with them.

His secret felt a bit weird and out of place, compared to the realism of Kairi’s tragic past, but it also fit his character really well, so I’m not complaining.

But why no kiss CG?? their relationship was really cute, but they looked more like brother and sister instead of lovers.

Shun’s route was the most tragic to me: I hated his mother at first, but so many terrible things happened… I couldn’t help to feel sorry for her too.

In the beginning it was a bit boring, because he just skipped all the lessons and the poor heroine had also to take punishments; but then it’s tsundere side came out, and he was really cute.

Yoru was my favorite!

He was very serious and strict, but also caring and supporting, when he helped the heroine to study; the sudden kiss scene was very unexpected and gorgeous, I loved it! His past wasn’t even sad, so this route had no boring and overdramatic issue to solve, it focused more on their relationship.

Also, the resurrection ending was really cute, I loved them together!

Nami sensei’s route was a bit boring at first: I had to pair up with Yuyu, and at that point his childish voice really annoyed me, I couldn’t stand him anymore.

Many people seemed to hate Nami, but I had no problems with him… or maybe it’s just because I’m used to yandere and I think they are interesting most of the time; I’ve played way worse routes, this wasn’t disturbing at all!

My only complain were the endings: they were good for the character himself, but since this was the last route, which revealed all the secrets behind the school, I was also hoping for a great ending that involved equally all the characters.

All those flashbacks in the epilogue were not satisfying at all!

I would have loved to see the heroine standing on her own, without choosing anyone of them… but I guess this is impossible.

Do I recommend this game?

Well…. I don’t thinks so.

It’s not bad, don’t give me wrong! But I think there are too many lacking points:

  • Too much copy pasta

    Once you’re done with the first route, you can easily predict what will happen in the others.

    And this is boring as hell, because the only thing left to know is the reason why they died, and it’s always sad or rage inducing.

  • Too many slow scenes

    Some dialogues felt useless and pretty boring; I couldn’t even pay attention and got easily distracted.

  • The CGs felt inconsistent

    This is very painful to see, because I love Satoi, but some CGs have weird angles or wrong timing. I don’t think it’s her fault, she probably draw what honeybee requested her, but someone here made huge mistakes! When CGs are needed, you only see a white screen; then, you see useless CG when there’s no need at all.

That said, this is not a kusoge at all: the overall plot is interesting, some scenes made me cry, and I loved the characters; Yoru most of all, was a really nice boy.

I will probably play Un:birthday too, because it looks more interesting and I’m curious about the older Shinigami; but I won’t get my expectations too high, because it may have the same problems as this.