When Tierblade was announced, I wasn’t very interested: I don’t care about Gundams and the system looked pretty terrible, so I was already imagining myself wasting a lot of time to collect all the junk to obtain the platinum, and it wasn’t nice.

But my friends loved it, and I started regretting my choice; also, my inner Evangelion fan was curious to see if it was psychological and intriguing, so I finally gave up and bought it for my birthday. Well… it was a good present for myself!

At first, I was really excited: I loved the common route and the robot battles didn’t bore me at all; the stuff collecting that worried me was easy, I just had to visit certain places and pick them up.

I loved how all the routes showed a different aspect of the whole story, I truly wanted to go on and understand more and more about the truth: that’s something not all the games can do, and that’s what makes the difference between a “normal game” and a “good game”.

Tierblade got my interest in every moment of every route, there was nothing predictable!

Well, at least for the main characters. After Row, it all went downhill for me.

I’ve played Sud first, and I don’t regret it (even tho starting with Atharva could be good anyway).

I loved his personality, that’s what made him look like “the main” guy in my eyes.

It was nice to have someone I could always trust, even if he wasn’t that strong, he always did his best to protect Eve and make her feel loved; guys like him are pure gold.

Atharva’s route was sad and psychological, despite him having a funny (and embarrassing!) personality: maybe, it was overall the best route for me, at least I got my bits of emo stuff like I expected from this Evangelion-like game.

Yajur was…. wow. I don’t even know where to start, and I can’t spoil, so…. let’s just say it was unexpected. I don’t agree with Eve’s decision, even if I can understand her opinion: she’s too nice, my reaction probably would have been similar to the “true” Eve’s… am I a bad person? I can’t forgive easily………. I mean, let’s think about the poor onii chan! He was literally an angel.

Row was my favorite character, no doubt. I loved him since the moment he made his first appearance, he’s completely crazy and so desperate… how can you not love him? His life was hell!

Maybe I’m biased, but he also got the best CGs and the sweetest scenes, at least his route didn’t lack emotions at all.

After a few routes, I admit I started getting tired of the Tierblade battles, but I was curious until the end, because Cradle got his own route, even if he’s just a robot!

I was waiting to see how he could become human and what his appearance would be… well, let’s say I’m disappointed.

The writing here just gave up any kind of logic, and most of the time I was just ???? wtf am I playing ??? wtf did just happen ??? WHY??

I don’t understand how Otomate could approve this nonsense… after 4 great routes, with good plot, amazing characters, perfect writing, why trying to ruin everything in the end?

A route for Cradle could have been sweet and interesting, but…. not like that.

I basically spent 2 hours skipping, going through flashbacks, and then when I thought something good was about to start…. I got THAT.

I had a similar problem with the True ending: after all the patient skipping, my expectations were let down terribly.

It was so boring I was almost falling asleep, I was even missing the only important lines (about Gil) because I honestly didn’t care anymore: the fight scenes started to look all the same and seeing Arcadia defeated so many times obviously wasn’t interesting.

Despite the bad aftertaste left by the last 3 endings, I have to say I overall enjoyed the game, and I’m going to play the FD for sure.

All the endings were too short and didn’t explain deeper what happened next, to the characters and to the world around them, so I’m still curious to know more; also, I liked all the characters and I’ll gladly meet them once again. Well, the wait is short for me, since it’s going to be released soon!