Golden?? oldie – Kirakiss XXX

I had an urge to try some games I had left unfinished the other day, so I stuck in one that I got way back called Soshite Kono Uchuu ni Kirameku Kimi no Uta XXX. It’s actually a fandisc of a game of the same name (without the XXX), but after finishing about half of it, I doubt I’ll be looking for the original game. I can forgive a  fandisc for having not much volume in it, but there are a lot of other problems with this that I think would be even worse in the real game.

First, the story itself could be interesting, but in all the routes I’ve done there was almost no action, and most of it was just boring with some strange twist thrown in at the end for shock value. Also,there are only about 3 CGs for each character, and with a game that’s almost full price (about $10 less than a full game), that’s just not gonna cut it. Finally, and worst of all in my book (along with the bad stories), the endings are not that happy. There are two endings for each character, a “Good” and a “Bad”, but really several of the Goods are just as depressing as the bad ones. Plus, there’s no final CG like you often get, and no epilogue – in one route I’m not even sure they survived! In another one, the guy died – and that was the good ending, in the bad one they both died. >.>

And looking at the Amazon reviews for the original just confirms my intention to stay away – the original game only got two stars, while the fandisc got 2.5!!  People complain that the story sounded interesting (which I agree with) but that it wasn’t executed well, the CGs are bad (in the fandisc they’re okay, but nothing great), and there are very few dialogue choices (in the fandisc there are about 5). Oh, and apparently in the first game, most of the guys you only meet two or three times before the ending.

Sigh…well it does have two (kinda boring) minigames that you can play as well…in short, if you have this on your to-buy list, you can probably find something else more worthwhile. If not, you can safely forget about this one – this won’t be showing up in any “Best of” lists for otome games.

0 Responses to “Golden?? oldie – Kirakiss XXX”

1. Yamialexa says:

   January 19, 2009 at 5:27 am

   Good thing I never got it then, huh?
   I had an eye on it a while back, because I liked the character art and the story didn’t seem that bad either, but that time I didn’t have the money for it. Quite a relief that I didn’t waste money on it