White Lies & Sweet Nothings Epilogue Impressions and Review – Spoiler Free

If you’re look for a main route review, here you go.

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First the comments that apply to all the epilogues:

• The characters’ personalities and interactions are consistent with the main routes, like the same writer continued each story.

• There’s no forced relationship drama.

• Some of the plot points are goofy, but that matches the game’s tone.

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Now for the individual routes:

• Sam: I really like the interactions with the secondary characters, and the main couple make me giggle.

• Mason: I love the main couple’s dialog and relationship dynamic. It’s a natural continuation of the main story with the right number of call-backs.

• Darren: This route surprised and pleased me. It always bothered me a little that in his main route the MC couldn’t tell Darren to relax, she likes him whatever he does…and in the epilogue she realizes she should and DOES. The rom-com MC has character growth. Yay!

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Overall: Recommended. I’m usually left feeling annoyed at either the short length or dumb plot points for Voltage epilogues, but these are really good.

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Voltage Entertainment USA’s White Lies & Sweet Nothings is available on iOS and Android.

My Killer Romance Epilogue Impressions and Review – Spoiler Free

For Independence Day, Voltage Entertainment USA discounted all the routes for their more recent titles. Expect a lot of shorter recommendations as I work through the spin-offs. I’ll begin with my impressions of the My Killer Romance epilogues.  If you’re looking for a review of the main routes, here you go.

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Kieran: meh. It’s okay, but it seems like a missed opportunity.  The whole plot is Kieran’s meeting the MC’s family, but we don’t learn anything that isn’t in Blake’s main route. (Yes, I finally tried Blake’s route.  Review incoming.)

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Nathaniel: not recommended. I didn’t believe the interactions, and the main issue wasn’t an issue.  The wandering flock of penguins interacting with small children also threw me.

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Raphael: recommended, but…my eyes, my poor innocent eyes, go put a shirt on, dude! Once I covered the screen to block the sprites (yes, it really is that bad) and just read the text, I enjoyed the route. It sets up a new plot, the couple’s interactions are cute, and Nathaniel, Leo, and Xavier are jerks without being mua-ha-ha villains.

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Xavier: recommended. The set up for a new plot did not intrigue me as much as Raphael’s, but Xavier’s personality and interactions stay true to his main route’s character.

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Voltage Entertainment USA’s My Killer Romance is available on iOS and Android.

Dreamy Days in West Tokyo: Johji Main Route Impressions and Review – Spoilers

Basic Premise: The seventeen-year-old main character moves back to the town and friends she left ten years ago.

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Ryuzo: “Er, I don’t know what’s really going on, but hang in there.”

Me: “Neither do I.  I’m so confused.”

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This route is weird.  The writing’s weird.  The plot’s weird.  The relationships are weird.  I can’t even get irritated by all the contradictions and the trampling of the reader’s suspension of disbelief.  It’s past that level.

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SPOILERS AHOY!

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Seventeen-year-old girl is sent to live with thirty-something year old guy.  Okay, I can buy that – relative, close family friend, whatever.  What I can’t buy is that neither Johji nor her family told her about their previous connection and she doesn’t think to ask ’til she’s been living with him for quite a while.  She can even ask if he’s her dad and then doesn’t bother to get an answer.  What.

The MC immediately gets in the car with someone she’s never seen or met before.  A six-year-old has more self-preservation than this chick.

Johji flat-out tells the MC before the story’s half-way mark that he’s not interested in Character A and proceeds to display this lack of interest.  The MC spends the second half of the story worrying about Johji marrying Character A, her being in the way, yadda yadda.

The reader never gets to see the MC and Johji develop a friendship/relationship of equals in the present.  It feels like the MC like Johji because he was nice to her when she was six, and he likes her because…frankly, I don’t know.  I couldn’t believe either of them.

Even though the reader doesn’t see a current-day relationship develop, the MC spends ALL her time focused on Johji.  How can you have no relationship development yet still replace plot with relationship angst?

Mother who neglected to mention to her daughter and husband that she had been writing Johji for years and years sends MC back to live with him again after he declares his feelings. 

Also, the complete absence of history trivia and bartending information that flavor Johji’s interactions in the other routes baffles me.  Why would you completely ignore his interests when trying to create a romantic lead?

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Overall: Not recommended.  Of the Dreamy Days routes, I’d give Takeshi a try instead.

Voltage’s Dreamy Days in West Tokyo is available on iOS and Android.