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Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete - 7/10


This review is going to read like a mess because of all the spoiler text, if you'd prefer to read this on VNDB you can here: https://vndb.org/w13482

 

All specific spoilers will be marked with how major or minor I feel they are. Outside of spoilers I'll use as much general language as possible to avoid them.

I'd recommend Waremete to most readers who want a romantic comedy with some cute moments but a healthy dose of plot. The downside to the plot is that a lot of things are repeated or follow a formula in the various routes which leads to quite a bit of predictability, but I think that is to be expected in this genre of story.

Characters are fairly well written and all of them have a surprising amount of depth to them with a few exceptions. Kenny is a joke character, but a decent one, but even he has a bit of depth with his shows of true friendship and understanding of the other characters. Kaori is probably the most flat main character in this visual novel, even lacking much character development in her own route. On the other side there's Airi, who is the most interesting, smartest, most violent, and deepest character in the story, even - moderate characterization spoiler for an ending -

 

showing a yandere side at one point, which I personally wish was a bigger part of the story and maybe spread out into other routes a bit

Nagisa is the barbed tongued ojou who I found adorable, scary, and wonderful. Yui is the airheaded kuudere that is very interesting and gets quite a bit of character development throughout the story. I enjoyed Nagisa's route the most out of all of them, but the only route that really landed flat for me was Kaori's. Extremely minor spoiler:

 

Route opinions are largely based off their good endings rather than anything else.

The plot is interesting. The story does one thing that I personally loved and that's - major spoiler -

 

having a terrible accident truly happen out of nowhere. This event was supposed to be a gut punch, and that was the best way to do it. No fight beforehand, no one to blame, just an accident. Although it walks it back with the good end and made me feel terrible about a certain decision added to split the endings.

Not everyone will like that, but I think it's the most effective way to get across the emotions that the characters themselves are likely feeling in that moment. Past that it's largely a fairly standard story for this genre, although - moderate spoiler -

 

it did start to produce some anxiety around the date display in every successive route.

There are 16 H-scenes present here, they are decently long, are of about average quality, mostly pretty vanilla - H content spoiler - 

 

a rimjob, an anal scene, and some light BDSM is present

It's worth mentioning that the H-scenes do feature some decent characterization and some light plot elements in them, which is quite a bit different than your average VN where they could largely be skipped without missing anything. Music features three vocal tracks with Hashimoto Miyuki, all of which are pretty good. A lot of the BGM are just repeated versions of those tracks - mostly the OP - in various instrumentals with tempo changes, which I didn't mind since I liked the OP in particular, but it does lead itself to being a bit one-note. Systems work pretty well with no issues since it's KiriKiri. With it being an older KiriKiri game, I had to use the Win8WOH fix for my disc version. The English patch from Studio Frisay worked with no issues on said disc version. Localization done by them is pretty well done.

With all that said, I'd recommend Waremete to most readers looking for a romcom with a decent helping of plot thrown in. It's a good read, and it's available for pretty cheap, especially if you buy secondhand - it was about 3000 yen for my copy including proxy and shipping fees - and has also gone on sale on DMM before for the same or cheaper.

 

 

Edited by LostPomegranate
grammar fixes, trying to improve readability a bit.

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