CHAOS;Child
I got a lot deeper into the game. Finally at the point where Yui gets killed.
So, yeah. I feel like this story just is rather lacking in 'direction'. There doesn't seem to be any real overarching theme or goal, or even any actual character development, which is the worst. Takeru is either holed up in his trailer or the newspaper club, or making flagrantly dumb decisions that he only survives from pure luck. In this aspect, he's similar to Takumi. Takumi, however, at least was paranoid from the start, and he started to show some proper character development, especially with Rimi's help...and that was just in what looked like it was a heavily butched anime adaptation! In the actual VN, it's probably a lot more profound! I haven't seen any of that from Takeru (yet), which is unfortunate. Really, I haven't seen any character development from anybody. Mio is a bitch, Hinae is a horny bipolar hanger-on, Nono is a rulers-stickler, etc. Some movement, please!
Speaking of the first game, there is an interesting parallel I noticed with CHAOS;Head. Takumi thought the murders were getting closer and closer to him and believed whoever was committing them was out for him, and he was right. The mastermind hasn't been revealed in CC, but similarly, the murders are getting closer and closer to Takeru as well.
The whole idea of Rorschach blots and the 10th Rorschach is kind of interesting. A shame it seems to get frittered away.
My opinion on the mastermind behind the murders, or at least a close accomplice, is Gen, the old man in the park. For the murder in the love hotel, he was apparently the one who tipped off Serika about a disturbance there, and then he was the last person to interact with Takeru right before Takeru stumbled into all the sumo stickers that led him into the encounter with the pyromaniac.
I will say, however. Yui's murder? Goddamn, the way her body is laid out is just so ticklishly, delightfully cruel. That takes some imagination.
As for Takeru, though his talent is telekinesis, I suspect that's not all there is to it. I have an inkling there's another parallel to Takumi Nishijou
So, yeah. I feel like this story just is rather lacking in 'direction'. There doesn't seem to be any real overarching theme or goal, or even any actual character development, which is the worst. Takeru is either holed up in his trailer or the newspaper club, or making flagrantly dumb decisions that he only survives from pure luck. In this aspect, he's similar to Takumi. Takumi, however, at least was paranoid from the start, and he started to show some proper character development, especially with Rimi's help...and that was just in what looked like it was a heavily butched anime adaptation! In the actual VN, it's probably a lot more profound! I haven't seen any of that from Takeru (yet), which is unfortunate. Really, I haven't seen any character development from anybody. Mio is a bitch, Hinae is a horny bipolar hanger-on, Nono is a rulers-stickler, etc. Some movement, please!
Speaking of the first game, there is an interesting parallel I noticed with CHAOS;Head. Takumi thought the murders were getting closer and closer to him and believed whoever was committing them was out for him, and he was right. The mastermind hasn't been revealed in CC, but similarly, the murders are getting closer and closer to Takeru as well.
The whole idea of Rorschach blots and the 10th Rorschach is kind of interesting. A shame it seems to get frittered away.
My opinion on the mastermind behind the murders, or at least a close accomplice, is Gen, the old man in the park. For the murder in the love hotel, he was apparently the one who tipped off Serika about a disturbance there, and then he was the last person to interact with Takeru right before Takeru stumbled into all the sumo stickers that led him into the encounter with the pyromaniac.
I will say, however. Yui's murder? Goddamn, the way her body is laid out is just so ticklishly, delightfully cruel. That takes some imagination.
As for Takeru, though his talent is telekinesis, I suspect that's not all there is to it. I have an inkling there's another parallel to Takumi Nishijou