Just finished Yoriko's route in DamaMuko and all I can say is urgh ... if Haruka's route left me with a largely positive impression, then this one made me want to head-desk. Hard. And keep doing so until either the desk gives in, or my head. And I have a feeling my head would have won, if it could survive this contrived nonsense. I literally have nothing good to say about Yoriko's route. Not a single thing.
Spoiler for rant:
I guess the very starting point of this route should have clued me in that making sense wouldn't be on the priority list. Their rooftop conversation with Yoriko concluding that she really is useless for the astronomy club, then deciding the only good thing about her are her breasts (Which was just played for laughs 10 seconds ago), then stripping her top and asking Naoki to fondle them was already WTF worthy. None of it made any sense, came out of the complete blue, and was completely out of line with her previously established scarey-cat character. Why did she ask him to fondle her breasts (and why did she conclude she needs to do this in order to be "useful") ? Hell if I know!
What followed afterwards wasn't anything better really - rather it was completely stupid, degrading for both Yoriko's character and the writing quality of the title as a whole. As a follow up, for no good reason, Yoriko gets turned from an extremely shy and timid person to a conglomerate of lust whose daily agenda consists of finding the next place where to have sex with Naoki, and that's if she isn't busy masturbating in some school toilet while fantasizing about having sex with Naoki.
I was ready to laugh in frustration when she turned up at Naoki's place to seriously discuss their relationship at his request, with a vibrator up her ...*ahem*. She even kept it in at school! Did they really have to turn her character in to some sex depraved manic whose mind is in the gutter 110% of the time on a good day ? Just because?
If that was the only issue though, I could have still lived with it - despite how stupidly contrived and laughable of a "development" it had been up to that point. Nothing wrong with a relationship strongly rooted in the physical side of affection for a change.
What completely ruined it for me though was Yoriko's constant insistence that Naoki actually loves Rin and thus constantly trying to set them up (while remaining his sex friend on the side of course), and Naoki having all the wits of a lobotomized ape, incapable of forming two coherent sentences to refute her claim. Seriously, did they have to make him appear as a nearly brain-dead rag who gets pulled along with everything everyone else says, unable to muster a response beyond "Makabe-san ...!?" or "Errrr ?"
Coupled with the uranium levels of density he was blessed with regarding everything even remotely romance or feeling related even during the times when he could stutter out more than half a sentence (That wasn't related to how sexy Yoriko's breasts look), and he really became the live reincarnation of the stupid, dense, indecisive rag of a male lead that protagonists are notorious for. And thanks to this, we had all that beautifully forced drama with Rin that could have easily been avoided if Naoki was allowed to utilize his mouth for something besides sucking on Yoriko, like ... stutter out his thoughts in coherent manner and straighten things out sometime last week instead of stringing Rin around for no other reason besides contrived drama!
And then we have the awesome "cliffhanger" of Yoriko being stabbed in the end by that raving lunatic nameless classmate witch a kitchen knife because he couldn't stand the sight of his precious goddess having eyes for someone else. Wait, how did he manage that considering they just apprehended him 10 minutes ago in an earlier attempt ? Oh, right - there was an announcement that the "Bride Contest" voting has started, so the students who were hauling him away released him in their rush to cast a vote, allowing this maniac to make a second run!
But all is good, because Yoriko was saved a ketchup bottle she had stuffed between her breasts previously and had forgotten to take it out! What. The. BLEEP! But hey, at least Yoriko won the vote and thus was allowed to go out with Naoki, because if they hadn't gotten the 'permission' of the student body in terms of this popularity vote, ohohoho, that would have been the end of them! What a tense moment indeed! /sarcasm
So ... yeah, this route was through and through stupid. And I mean pants-on-head levels of stupid. I am having serious second thoughts whether I want to try any of the remaining routes ... if this is the level of writing I can expect, and if Naoki is indeed such a density incarnate, only made tolerable in Haruka's route because of how well she understands him and thus preventing his lack of comprehension getting in the way, I'm not sure I want to. The only plus side is that these routes appear to be quite short indeed.
Other than that, my feelings on Yoriko's route can be promptly summed up in one word(?) : aAaaAARrrGgHhHhh!