Aura wrote:I obviously am disqualified from considering Rin's route here, but of the other four, Shizune's is my favourite.
22 writes really good sentences and most of the time, the best dialogue out of any of us. A reader can delve deeper into Shizune's route than the others, which I personally like too. Now if only the side characters' character designs were less clowny.
I am surprised, but it is true that I feel like the Shizune route is quite interesting but "touch" a smaller amount of people than the others.
There has qualities, especially rereading values, but I am not attached to Shizune and although it may seem stupid, I can't really go deep into a story whose characters don't interest me; I found Shizune seriously boring (but this is just my opinion), there are deep things about her but I did not really have the will to think about because the character does not interest me; I find that Misha and Kenji were mose interesting in this Route than Shizune herself.
Perhaps the message does not concern me ? also I don't really like the atmosphere of this Route; I guess it's very subjective. (For example :
( I found the character Hanako endearing at first, then always endearing and attriguant quickly when we see that there is someone under her shyness; the mood of the Lilly's Route had something of oniric; Emi Route was my first and I think that I would have appreciated this Route less if i have played this after the Hanako and Lilly Route)I understand that the author wanted to make a less exalted romance with a realistic end (they will try to stay together but that's all) but it's not to my taste.
Maybe I was looking for something more emotional than intellectual (like the Shizune Route since her fans) ?, without saying that one is better than the other.
I agree with the fact that the secondary characters in the Shizune Route are a bit distracting : it is difficult to take seriously Jigoro and his impact on Shizune. (to a lesser extent, Hideaki)
I'm not talking about Kenji because it has always been his role, and opinion on him depends on whether you find him funny or not, embarrassing for the story or not. (personally I like him because he lightens the story, find him funny and I love the fact that he has some depth for a humorous character)
After I still find that this Route have "more objective" flaws : not much progress (The whole sequence in Shizune's Home is useless, even learn sign language to Hideaki changes nothing.), not much connection between Shizune and Hisao, or not well made in my opinion. (She don't even know about his arythmia),ect...I know
competition between their two is the way they communicate, but I do not see much in it. (Maybe because I'm not a competitive people myself)
and I find it cold; i'm feel more concerned by the way Hisao and Hanako communicates for example. (Maybe because she looks more like me than Shizune)
The pace isn't very good, I got bored during this Route...maybe too long for the content ? The twist with Misha and the rest of the story is good but the shift in the family of Shizune and the routine of the student council is too long in my opinion.
In all routes, there is like a moral, a profound way of seeing a character,ect...I don't see the point of the Shizune Route and i find her almost one-dimensional.
"With my eternal life, I will see the world through to its end. Until everyone who won't like me is gone."
— Porky Minch
"Can you face your fears ?"
— Hanako
I speak from the noise
Souls and shapes, forever twisted
the lost voices of the damned
lure the bringer of despair