Random Thought – Hiiro no Kakera

I’m writing a big long post on Toki no Kizuna – right now the bad is outweighing the good – and thinking of Hiiro no Kakera. Thinking about things that didn’t make sense – and it occurred to me again (don’t think I ever mentioned it here) that it makes absolutely no sense for Tamaki to be chased after by you-know-who (minimum spoilers) to give up her life. If she dies, who’s going to be the next Tamayori-hime? Pretty short-term thinking there.

Toki no Kizuna post will be up by tomorrow! And I’m getting magazines this week so an update post on Kamigami no Asobi and other new games is coming.

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2 Responses to “Random Thought – Hiiro no Kakera”

1. ET says:

   August 20, 2012 at 9:30 pm

   Hiiro has so, so many plot holes. The story of how the Onizaki clan became a guardian didn’t exactly line up with the other clans. (The Onizakis were the first guardians due to love for Tamayorihime, but that happened when she died, but the other guardians swore to serve her when he was crazy?) How Mahiro was supposed to be the failsafe solution, but in other routes he’s not even mentioned as a possibility. How the guardian families still keep their lines when they marry the Tamayorihime every generation and they don’t seem to have that many kids…

   In the end, I felt that the stories involved with the ‘villains’ are the best-planned ones in the games (even though Ein and Zwei were dreadfully boring). I rather liked the parts where they went into the backstories for Arlia, Mitsuru and Japan’s MIB….and that feels kind of wrong. We’re supposed to be moe-ing over the boys, not the side characters who are mostly girls!
2. lijakaca says:

   August 21, 2012 at 6:53 pm

   Haha, that’s so true. It was one of the first otome games I played, and I thought it was me not understanding, but everytime I played a new route I’d be thinking, “But wait, I thought (whoever it was I just played) was the real one the princess loved” or “but what about this (setup in another route) which would totally make this conflict meaningless?” But that was the breakthrough title for Otomate, and several characters are still really popular in polls. Ah well.