Posted on: January 16, 2022
OtakuBoy99
Games: 0 Reviews: 1
Beautiful and horrible at the same time.
This visual novel infuriates me. Like, it infuriates me but I can't call it bad. You know what I mean? From a technical perspective, it's amazing. The writing style, the worldbuilding, the graphics, voice acting, music -- it's all amazing. My main problem comes from what exactly it tries to portray. Basically what this novel tries to say is that killing is bad. And I have two problems with that statement: 1) First, the person from which this statement is coming. Like, It's okay to slaughter innocent people (like fifteen-year-old boys) but it's not okay to kill absolutely fucking rapists? Top-notch morals right here Kageaki. Great, great stuff. 2) Overall, this message is EXTREMELY harmful. During World War 2 my country suffered immensely, and my people had no choice but to stand up and fight back. So you are telling me it's okay to just give up and let Nazi's slaughter us? Respectfully fuck off. Also, I'm so tired to see the onslaught of "mature" content in visual novels these days. This medium legitimately thinks that unless it uses an abundance of extreme physical and sexual violence then it's not mature enough. All other forms of medium were producing mature works without this crap for ages, why do visual novels think that they are different? I legitimately do not understand why vn's has this privilege. On a side note, I have felt like Nitro+ can't write a sex/rape scene and make it not cringe. Finally, this visual novel has chosen probably the worst time to be translated. The world right now is a pretty bleak place,. You have got all this political tension, you have got protests, you have got the riots, you have got the fear of the coronavirus, the fear of war, etc. and right now we don't need dark, gloomy and depressive storytelling. You need something that is more lighthearted, that is a return to form, something about good and evil, and not a thing that is trying to "deconstruct" those concepts! But we got this instead... Oh well.
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