Which route was your least favorite?

[Moist Trumpet]

Forgive me if a thread like this has already been made.

SO, which route did you find the most disappointing and what let you down? The story? The choices? The character development?

I'm going to go with a (probably) popular opinion here and say I enjoyed Toma's route the absolute least. The thing that bothered me from the beginning on how obsessed he was with the idea of being an 'older brother' to the MC and Shin. I'll reason that he's played this role almost his entire life so it might be what's comfortable and normal for him. Yet... he's so deadset on it and OBVIOUSLY IT BOTHERS HIM AND OBVIOUSLY THE MC WANTS IN HIS PANTS but he still chooses to play that role because reasons I guess.

whatever.

and god. GOD. his whole mental break is so unprecedented and there's no reasoning for it! There's not even so much as a subtle hint as to what may have cause him to consider this behavior acceptable. Far as we know his childhood was standard and MAYBE he's a little lonely since his parents basically said "young folk should live on their own sometimes maybe so go do that".

there's no explanation for him to act like this! there's no justification! he's just a ♥♥♥♥!

He's so bent on being a big brother to both Shin and MC but goes so far as to threaten Shin if he tries to do anything to help MC??? So he's only a reliable and protective big brother... selectively.

The thing that boggles me the most is he thinks a young adult would want to be surrounded in feminine toys for /children/ whilst being in a cramped dog cage and explains it away with "well i havent known what you like since we were kids so idk"

the whole route is just so uncomfortable because you just have to go along with all of his nonsense. you have to LIE to shin and say you're there of your own volition. you have to tell orion you're not sad being stuck in a cage, that Toma has his good points and there's no option to tell Toma how sick this is and how unhappy you are. you have to kiss his ass the whole way through. i mean if you want the GOOD ending. augh. AUGH. I could complain to hell and back about Toma's route.

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Toma's was the creepiest (but I enjoyed it, it was just so different!), but ultimatly Ikki's was my least favorite. In general I found the super power of his eyes to be lame, it just didn't work for me. I probably would have enjoyed it more if they had just written him as a straight playboy character without the supossedly magical eyes. The bullying by the fanclub and the dating for a limited time so everyone could share...again, just didn't work for me.

[purple&green2023]

I tried Shin's route first before doing Toma's but dear god it still did not prepare me for the level of patheticness, level of selfish insanity that Toma's route is which says something. It's not even fun crazy or entertaining, it made me want to punch Toma everytime his face came on the screen. So that being said Toma's route is my least favourite.

[TheThunderbirdRising]

Only two video games have ever made me feel physically nauseous: Spec Ops the Line when I used white phosphorous on civilians and this game, when I realized Toma was drugging me Every ending in that route was a bad one.

Other than than that, Kent was one of the most frustating game experiences I've had, as everything you have to do in that route to get the good ending was so counter intuiative to what the game was telling you. The story and character of Kent was good though. I never liked Shin through his entire route, until the very end of the good ending when the heroine straight up told him to stop being a ♥♥♥♥ to her. Then I was cool with them being together

[Musashi]

Shin's, actually. Toma gets so much ♥♥♥♥ from the western fanbase/sjw for "abuse" but Shin was quite guilty for quite a bit of verbal and Ukyo ummmmmmm, physical. That said, from bad ends in other routes, I expected it from Ukyo's, but Shin is the "poster boy," so...

Shin's route made me all kinds of angry.

Why? I'm sure I'll get hung, drawn, and quatertered by his fans, but this is my honest opinion.

First: He kept forcing himself physically on the heroine and she didn't seem to care much for it. He was quite into the idea of "being seen as a man" but that isn't he ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way to do it.

But more than that, the entire Shinano drama was his construct entirely, even if indirectly so. Why's that, you ask...? Well, he tried to make out with Heroine and she wasn't entirely comfortable and ran away / rejected him. She ended up um, tripping off a cliff. Not his fault directly, but still.

So what did he do: He went back to the lodge, called the authorties (for some reason; was there even a crime at this time? No. He could have just asked the others for help searching.) then proceeded to remain seated there because he was afraid he'd be presumed guilty because of his father's guilt. After he was the one who called the authorities.

Then, Toma did find the heroine and she was delirious because of blood loss due to the trash and broken bottles in the area. She mistook him for Shin, twice, and he... shoved her. SHOVED HER, okay, fandom? He shoved her. He didn't STRANGLE her. My god, such misinformation is spread.

Heroine is found by Ikki and Kent and is taken away in an ambulence; she thanks Toma in the ambulance hinting that she realized it was -him- who discovered her second.

But the the little piece of ♥♥♥♥ known as Orion happens and I'm sure Shin believes her shove injuries were far worse than they were.

God, this route made me so mad. And the fact Toma basically lost both relationships(with Shin and Heroine) that were most important to him, in the normal and good ending. I actually prefer the bad endings. He didn't have to go to jail for that. I'm sorry he's human.

After that, Ukyo. I get he has um, obvious multiple personality issues, but I don't buy that as a... realistic excuse. I guess I found Toma's build up to madness more convincing and I loved it.

Joker World had some issues I really didn't like The fact on like day 8 you go to the park, see him, he wakes up and strangles you and it's glossed over. I was disgusted, because if that were end game Toma or Ikki route it'd be a bad/or the end. But Orion INSISTS heroine find out more about Ukyo rather than GTF away from the Tokyo Strangler.

And the various um, phone incidents... etc... etc...

Honestly, Kent is legit the only guy who is morally okay, but .. i'm more interested in grey area dudes.

[Tysere]

For me, Toma/Kent are both pretty meh. Toma is like...really stupidly bad OOC to a fanfiction level crappy. Kent..I'm just not fond of his personality at all.

[eu83n3]

I don't like Ikki's route. Just don't like Ikki :c

[musicalcakes]

Toma's a terrible person, but I found his route entertaining in the same way that watching a slow-motion trainwreck is entertaining.

Ikki, though? Ikki I just want to smack. Yeesh. He's perfectly sane and fully aware that his eyes brainwash people, yet he's all too willing to take advantage of that and sleep with girls who may never have been interested in him otherwise. It's scummier than sleeping with drunk (or otherwise intoxicated) girls, and then he has the gall to act like HE'S the victim. He's also a petulant baby when he doesn't get his way (as evidenced by the bad end in which he discovers your amnesia) and spends most of his route being too spineless to face the problems he himself created. His interest in the main character is very shallow, as he was only intrigued by his magic eyes NOT working on her, and instead of treating her as a romantic partner he can finally connect with on a deeper level than the brainwashing allows, he just...treats the relationship as a challenge and spends all his time trying to get in her pants. Grow up, Ikki.

I liked Ikki's character better on routes where you aren't dating him.

[Skye]

Shin is an angsty loner.
Toma is a possesive freak with a little sister complex.
Kent's a belitting know-it-all.
Ikki is a doormat playboy.
Ukyo's normal attitude is too sugary sweet, but at least he knows he's crazy. (Sideyes to Toma.)
...
None of them can seemingly keep their hands to themselves???
....
I'd probably say my personal favorite was Ikki, probably. He's just in my niche. His pros outweight the ♥♥♥♥, especially compared to the other 4.
Also, there is an anime of this otome, if y'all were interested lol.

[Yume]

Toma, of course. Totally un-romantic. His behaviour doesn't make sense to me.

[whereisnovember]

Ukyo's was my least favorite. Toma is a close second, but at least you can the way Toma's mind works. It's messed up and backwards, but there was a way to parse out his logic. Ukyo was far more unpredictable, which to me, was scarier.

[Whooki91]

My least favourite route is Ikki. I seriously hated they turned around his playboy attitude in "I am the victim" thing.
He can't have a serious relationship because of his eyes and because he isn't able to control his fangirl club. I didn't buy his theory at all.
He basically enjoyed the company of every girls even though his ex girlfriends were tricked by his eyes and they weren't really in love with him.
Not to mention he basically overcome the fact all the girls left him after 3 months without investigating the reason or, if truth be told, he just ignored the "enthusiastic" attachment of his fanclub.

I found him more interesting in other route, than his own. If they kept his playboy personality in his route, with "I don't give a damn, I just want to woohoo with you" attitude, his route would have been more entertaining. Maybe a cliché, but not riddiculous like " I made a wish that became my course".


Ukyo's route was interesting, but I would have preferred to break the 4th wall and actually talk with him about parallel universe where we met.

Toma's route was creepy, but still interesting. I have never interacted with a yandere guy and I found him very sly.
Its not easy to fool him in his route. Its a pity that MC hasn't showed a bit of personality and basically indulged Toma's craziness behaviour.