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Originally Posted by Balzac

Yeah, NW did have poor route presentation. It also didn't seem too different from tenshin, I was hoping for another genre shift.



Well, believe me, the scale goes pretty far, so it's best to stop and take a break so you don't get overwhelmed with details. Don't make the same mistake I did.

I'm back to lurking, until related news comes out. Still will be checking this thread from time to time.

Yeah, finished Lucia, now delving into Chihaya's route

Spoiler for Lucia route end:

It was a nice ending but I certainly can't classify it as a standard "good end". I mean, all of Kazamatsuri got wiped out in a Great Hinamizawa Disaster fashion, then got nuked, and Lucia didn't even manage to lose her toxic condition... it would be a bit over the top to call it good the action scenes were kickass, though. As expected from Ryu07.

I also have some reserve about Lucia going rogue after that mad scientist Brenda kidnaps her. Wasn't Kotarou's love towards her supposed to be the cure for all of her fears and scars of the past? The mall date scene hinted that, but instead, we see her murdering thousands of people with her poison and trying to kill him and her best friend right in the finale, all for the sake of completing the mission the person who made her her guinea pig, made her go nearly blind, affected by taste loss and packed her with inhibitors and all kind of drugs gave her. Hmmmmm. Sounds a little far-fetched to me, or I simply can't understand what happens inside Lucia/Haruka's brain. Sure, she already had negative thoughts about being harmful and extraneous to this current world or being a walking bomb floating in her head, but she really goes berserk from the sunflower scene forward.

I may be going against the majority of readers here, but I truly enjoyed the "politics stuff", between Guardian, Gaia, the Vatican and whatnot. It felt as if the whole world was involved in the Kazamatsuri events, and not just our main characters and some plot-device-secret-organization to try and deliver some plot.