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I think I've made peace with the payment structure for this game. There are lots of things to spend money on but they are mostly not worth it. The premium scenes are nice, but it's the same events, just more graphically described. Early in the route that means more detailed descriptions of the attraction/UST, at the end it means a more graphically described sex scene. So, not really essential. I got two of the early ones, for a total of $8, and that felt like the right number and a reasonable price for a route. I feel like if I love a character enough to play through both the Romantic and the Dramatic routes I can always buy more of the premium scenes the second time around, since they are mostly the same in the two routes.
My hunch is that Mitsunari was really not the right character to start this game with, as he seemed intended to be the fluff break between angstfests in other routes. Mitsunari in this game is a pure, perfect angel of a man who is too honest, gentle and kind for this world and for his violent times. The plot, such as it was, was about him learning to live in a messy world and find love in it. It was also about fighting wars using brains rather than strength, and with as little violence as possible, and while trying above all to save lives. In other words, feel-good fluff very well targeted to my particular tastes. I am definitely curious about the choice to do this with a historical figure who is usually written as a nasty piece of work. (As he was in Demon's Bond, to be fair, for all his lovability in Kazutake's route.) I am not sure if this is very clever or very random, and I'm still thinking about it.
Since that was so fluffy I've just started the Ieyasu route, and apparently he is both tsundere and yandere. Should be fun.
I'm also most of the way though the Mitsunari route in Samurai Love Ballad. This game is somewhat more to my taste, everyone is terrible and it's more deeply connected to the history. This Mitsunari is super-interesting on a lot of levels and I'll write a post about him when I'm done with the route.
I'm definitely committed to both games, there's nothing I love better in a game than being able to date people from all sides of a historical conflict. And playing two of them at once gives me enough to read that I don't mind only getting half a chapter of each game every day. Plus it is super-fun to get these dramatically different interpretations of the same character.
My hunch is that Mitsunari was really not the right character to start this game with, as he seemed intended to be the fluff break between angstfests in other routes. Mitsunari in this game is a pure, perfect angel of a man who is too honest, gentle and kind for this world and for his violent times. The plot, such as it was, was about him learning to live in a messy world and find love in it. It was also about fighting wars using brains rather than strength, and with as little violence as possible, and while trying above all to save lives. In other words, feel-good fluff very well targeted to my particular tastes. I am definitely curious about the choice to do this with a historical figure who is usually written as a nasty piece of work. (As he was in Demon's Bond, to be fair, for all his lovability in Kazutake's route.) I am not sure if this is very clever or very random, and I'm still thinking about it.
Since that was so fluffy I've just started the Ieyasu route, and apparently he is both tsundere and yandere. Should be fun.
I'm also most of the way though the Mitsunari route in Samurai Love Ballad. This game is somewhat more to my taste, everyone is terrible and it's more deeply connected to the history. This Mitsunari is super-interesting on a lot of levels and I'll write a post about him when I'm done with the route.
I'm definitely committed to both games, there's nothing I love better in a game than being able to date people from all sides of a historical conflict. And playing two of them at once gives me enough to read that I don't mind only getting half a chapter of each game every day. Plus it is super-fun to get these dramatically different interpretations of the same character.
