Grisaia no Kajitsu Review

[Vorathiel]

I'm just at finish of common route. It wasn't THAT long, I thought I will spend like 2x more time. But still - pretty boring.  Especially because of that type of short scenes instead of flowing narration.
But I just wanted to point that my opinion about this title grew up a litte, it was.... pleasant. Nothing super, nothing really good, but still - pleasant. My anger and annoyance was burned down and the more time I spend with those characters, the more I get accustomed to them. Not that I started to like them, but they stopped disturbing me.

But. Starters for Makina, Amane and Maid routes are pretty... 'cancerous'. Especially Makina. I mean, it's all fine, she looking for father figure etc, because she looks and acts like a child, and that means - she is a child, her age doesn't matter. But I know that VNs have a tendencies to 'fuck every female character', so I'm just trembling about that ultra-wrong idea of father figure having sex with his little child-daughter figure.

Amane and that 'you are my girlfriend, because you are just a homemaiden without any hobbies and interest, but I'm not your boyfriend' sounds pretty bipolar. I like thet really much that he treat her like he should, but on the other hand I think like this is going in really disturbing way.

Maid route starts with 'praise me senpai', which is really stupid, and pretty cringe'y. But oh well, her whole character is very often cringeworthy, so no really complaints here.


And that's all I've read today, rest tomorrow. But basing on that I don't really like anybody besides Makina, so I will read her route as the last, I have no idea with which route I should start. Help me here and tell me which route has a best story. (I don't really want to start with Amane, because verybody is giving allusionthat Yuuji and Amane are/will be together, and I don't like when other people are forcing me things down my throat, so I would like just to rebel, and not doing this route as first. But if this route is hands down the best (excluding Makinas' from this equation) then I will start with that.)

[Molipa]

Well, Michiru is considered as the best route by a lot of people, for what I've seen. And, I didn't like her as a heroine, so I found it difficult to do her route, but still I have to agree that there was a kind of good plot. Personnaly I liked Yumiko's route, but mostly because that's my favorite girl, and also because it's the route where the protag has the more balls, but except that, I think it's not really a good route, not at all even. I think Sachi's route was kinda okayish, but not that great, there are too many things that bothered me. And at last, Amane... well, I liked it for some reasons, but there were other things that bothered me as well, especially the end.

 

That being said, if you want to start with the best possible route, I'd recommand Amane, or, if you don't have too much problem with her, Michiru.