01-28-2013, 01:06 AM | #1 |
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After many hours of constant reading, I am finally finished with Rewrite! This has been a really fun ride. Unlike most Key games, this focuses more on the plot than the characters, which is kind of refreshing. The plot itself is interesting enough to keep me focused, which is pretty uncommon nowadays. Sadly there have been a few obvious flaws in the writing here and there, but they weren't enough to discourage me. Things got even better when the Terra route started. General Plot Rewrite starts with Tennouji Kotarou, the main character, making a speech about how he wasted his childhood being by himself, so he decides to change it by making friends and making a club. He eventually joins an existing "club" called the "Occult Research Club", even if it's just an excuse for Senri Akane to have a private room at school. Kotarou takes the club name literally and investigates supernatural events happening at the town. Some other acquaintances of Kotarou who also don't fit in eventually join. During Kotarou's investigations, he begins to realize there's something big happening in town, but he has no idea what. However, it seems all of the members of the club are somehow involved. Characters/Routes Kanbe Kotori - She is Kotarou's childhood friend. Kotori spends most of her time in the forest around town, and is good at raising plants. She's a charming character. I love her interactions with Kotarou. They always have inside jokes with each other. Kotori's path itself is pretty good, but there's one terrible scene which really put a bad taste in my mouth for the path overall. Ohtori Chihaya - She is a transfer student who arrived at the start of Rewrite. She's insanely strong. Chihaya is also dumb to accompany that. Thankfully they don't write her as being excessively stupid. Though her reaction to everyone treating her like an idiot is always amusing. For her path, it's okay by itself, but it makes no sense when compared to the other paths. It's like the writer (different than the one who wrote most of the others) didn't care about the Rewrite plot at all and just made a shounen route. Konohana Lucia - Lucia is the class representative of Kotarou's class. She's the overly serious character who often blows up at the smallest things. She always wears gloves and everyone treats her as a neat freak. I umm....I hated her when I first saw her. Lucia is the representation of almost everything I hate in harems, and something Key SHOULD be too good to resort to. Ahem, anyway, despite that, her route is really good. It's one of the better romance paths I have been through in a VN. Nakatsu Shizuru - Shizuru is the moe character in Rewrite. She's quiet and always hangs around Lucia. She's also reasonable, which balances the duo of her and Lucia out. Shizuru is pretty charming. It's just a shame that her route sucks. The writer just wants to make the entire path moe moe love-dovey time with Shizuru with no real sense to it. Though if it's any consolation, atleast it's better than Kud's route? Senri Akane - Akane is the president of the Occult Research club. Despite this, she openly denies the supernatural. During most of the club's adventures, Akane strongly rejects going out with them, since going outside is a bother. She's probably my favorite heroine. Thankfully she's treated to a good route. It has a few flaws here and there, but it's one of the few paths where the main guy is actually useful. Moon - After finishing the character routes this is unlocked. The Moon route is basically an epilogue to the character routes and a prologue to the Terra routes. I leaves some closure to some paths that might not have had any. It was pretty nice. Terra - This is where shit gets real. This is more about Kotarou than anything. It goes over his past and answers the remaining questions left. I can't say too much about this without spoiling anything. Though Kotarou probably has the most interesting backstory of the entire cast, which is really nice. The main character should have the best backstory. Though my biggest problem with this is that it gets rushed towards the end and not many of the girls are even involved. Why make me play this after the heroine routes if YOU AREN'T GOING TO INVOLVE THEM IN THE LAST ROUTE?! Other than that, it was a really nice ride. God I've spent too much god damn time on this post. Overall, I really enjoyed reading Rewrite. Every bit of my focus went to this title when reading this, even when I wasn't reading. Actually it got me pondering about various things. The characters aren't as charming as the Little Busters characters, but the plot is infinitely better. Though LB doesn't really have much of one. Rewrite gets a 9 from me. This is probably the second longest VN I have ever read (Clannad being first). It took me a total of two weeks of straight reading to finish this, and I'm confident in my VN reading speed. |
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01-28-2013, 01:58 AM | #3 |
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The paragraph headed "General Plot" sounded so interesting I ... will have to make room for this. >_> But I haven't got room. Dammit.
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03-30-2013, 12:24 AM | #4 |
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Heck yeah, five years, I remember making that post. We'll show my past self who's a bloody idiot!
I started Rewrite. Not too far in it (4 October), but maybe I've become too affectionate over Little Busters because of the prolonged experience I had with the characters. What took BBB...not very long to finish took me months, so perhaps my opinion is being bent due to the over-exposure I had toward LB. What I mean to imply is I like pretty much nothing in Rewrite thus far, sans the widescreen presentation and stunning background images. In this respect, both resemble Muv-Luv Alternative. But the story/characters/comedy thus far is way below LB and I wasn't even a huge LB comedy fan at first. Actually, it's kind of weird. LB was similar to Muv-Luv, presumably this has stuff related to Alternative. Stuff I've taken note of: Spoiler: show
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04-06-2013, 11:21 PM | #5 |
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I'm mostly just making this post as a reminder to Doppel.
You can only do Shizuru's route after you do Kotori's route, and you can only do Akane's after you do Chihaya's. Lucia's doesn't have any prerequisites. I guess I can mention who writes all the routes. Tanaka Romeo, mostly known for writing Cross Channel and Shimashita, did most of the plot for Rewrite. He did the common route, Kotori's route, Akane's route, the Moon route, and the Terra route. Tonokawa, the only writer who is actually in Key, did Chihaya and Shizuru's routes. For what you're familiar with, he also did Kurugaya and Komari's routes in Little Busters. Ryukishi did Lucia's route. In her route it's pretty damn obvious there's a different writer, because he does whatever the hell he wants with her route. |
04-08-2013, 08:25 AM | #7 |
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I finished Kotori's Route before going to sleep.
On the whole, it was good. However, I did have some disagreements with it. Koutaro's not a dunder-head and has some legitimate memory issues, but there's some things that happen which he doesn't notice, and it seems silly/out of place to me when it happens and he doesn't comment on it. That comes across as incongruous writing, where the author has something occur, then drops it and brings it up a bit later. Kotori's Route isn't exactly linear, either, and the development happens in splooshes, with her acting normal until suddenly breaking down. BBB and I liked different scenes in the route and happened to dislike the scene the other liked! There were some legitimate curveballs that fell for strikes against me. The reveal of how Koutaro looks down on others, and a leap of logic at the end (which I should have suspected, but Koutaro never brought up) were surprising. All in all, I'd put it at a 6/10. That's about par for a decent novel, it could have used a lot more ligation to seal in the logic gaps. Simply too much was chaotically happening around me that wasn't explained. I'm going for Chihaya next even though I don't like her.
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04-17-2013, 02:53 PM | #10 |
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I guess I can throw a post to keep it from going past quadruple? I mentioned this before, but Chihaya's route has quite a few moments similar to a VN we have all played. Actually, I was like "Holy shit! This is like ****!"(I wasn't excited btw).
It's actually kinda like (Not a spoiler, but if you want to find out for yourself, then don't look I guess) Spoiler: show I WAS going to respond to your post with a "Come on! You already have the answer inside yourself!", but I guess you already came across your answer. Oh, two things to look forward to when you complete Akane and Shizuru's routes. They both come with special endings. I think both of them sound really nice. Here's Shizuru's (DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS! Those assholes spoil almost the whole thing!) Last edited by big bad birtha; 04-18-2013 at 09:28 AM. |
04-21-2013, 01:26 AM | #12 |
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At long last, I have thoroughly dominated the Chihaya Route.
It's a lot worse than Kotori's, I felt. It spills a lot of plot points rather clumsily, without the grace of Kotori's Route, and is inconsistent in a lot of characters and scene presentation. It's a lot more action-oriented but quickly runs into over-the-top territory. I wasn't as touched emotionally as Kotori's even though I didn't like the ending scene of Kotori's Route. It's just a weaker route overall...less interesting heroine, feeble pacing/character development, and a kind of crazy plot progression. I'd give it a 6/10. It's not a bad route, but it peaked really early and started to drag a lot. Shizuru next. Looking for a sweet F5 from eye-patch girl.
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05-01-2013, 04:44 AM | #13 |
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In an odd twist of fate, I've beaten Shizuru's Path ahead of schedule. See, it takes me weeks to beat each route, but only took 10+ days for me to plow through this beast.
I liked it. A lot more than BBB did, but that's because of split preference. This route embodies a lot of the things BBB hates, which on this axis diametrically oppose my own likes. Spoiler: show Misc notes Spoiler: show Akane is next, then Lucia. Good to hear they're good routes.
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05-03-2013, 12:04 AM | #14 |
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I BEAT AKANE'S PATH YAY ME
YAY I GIVE IT AN 8/10 IT WASN'T THE KIND OF DEVELOPMENT I WAS EXPECTING, BUT WAS NEVERTHELESS SATISFYING I forgot to rate Shizuru's. 6/10...yeah, it's kind of a cop-out to rate all the other routes the same, but I really liked Shizuru's and it had some nice scenes. It's difficult to characterize but before Akane's Route I didn't really have a strong route to point out what was good and what wasn't. Akane's had good scenes, good development, good action and a good resolution. I wasn't pleased with everything, but that's why it's only a solid 8 instead of a 9 or 10. Lucia next. Woo woo!
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I'd say you're halfway through the mystery in Lucia's route, but that's just a small part of her route. There's still quite a bit more to go through.
I was going to ask you this last night, but I'll go ahead and put it here. Don't read until the Asahi Haruka mystery is solved: Spoiler: show Also so far your route scores are generally the same as mine. The only difference is I gave Kotori a 7 and Shizuru a 4. |
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I'd say you're about halfway through. The route picks up when Shizuru gets sick from eating too much candy.
Also do you also think Lucia's VA is overacting this route, or is it just me? It wasn't enough to bother me, but it was enough for me to notice. |
05-05-2013, 10:57 PM | #19 |
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I don't think she's over-reacting, but I felt from the bus scene to the mall, her personality was simplified to the point of caricature. I felt like those two scenes were nothing but twenty minutes of Koutaro saying something, Lucia getting embarrassed, Koutaro feeling guilty, and so on. This is in stark contrast to the kind of dissonant behaviour she displayed earlier in the route that made her more interesting.
Needless to say, I didn't like that banter. Lucia being so "easy to read" as Shizuru put it harkens back to the narcissism Akane and Kotori brought up in their routes, it's not an appreciation of a distinct, thinking individual, but induced behaviour. Such happened in MLA too and I'm still not a fan.
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05-07-2013, 01:40 AM | #21 |
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Alright, I can't take this anymore! I gotta play Terra! Moon was too awesome for words!
But my god dang pride won't let me give up on trying to figure stuff out ahead of time, so here's the speculation. Spoiler: show From that, I have little information about connections the Occult Club members had prior to 2011, save However,-! Spoiler: show TEN SECONDS IN Spoiler: show ELEVEN MINUTES IN? Spoiler: show
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I guess I'll revive this dead beast to go on about the anime. It seems Visualarts has greenlit Rewrite+ in English. Rewrite+'s plot is apparently modified a bit by Romeo, has extra character models, and has extra CGs. It also includes Harvest Festa. Unfortunately, we have no idea when this will happen, because they're still delaying the hell out of Harmonia. Maybe Romeo will make Shizuru, Lucia, and Chihaya's routes less dumb and simplistic?
Onto comparisons! I'll try to be optimistic, but that won't mean I think the adaptation is good. I think it's a dull imitation of Rewrite. Episode 5 Spoiler: show Episode 6 Spoiler: show Episode 7 Spoiler: show Episode 8 Spoiler: show |
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