Worthy SEQUEL
PoG27
{This review may/will contain spoilers}The first game was amazing in terms of art style, music, voice acting and writing. This game is no different. It's nice to have a epilogues for the original girls, but they're mostly just a minor challenge to rise to or an event to approach. No real drama-also just 2 chapters. They're nice with a couple new H-scenes.I can appreciate how they added in the first 13 chapters of the original (I don't think they needed 16 like the original because 14-16 was just options and situation to help narrow down your choices between the girls after the main drama has subsided from the first half) and had the creative freedom in order to let the other routes start at the beginning of summer break.There are 5 new routes, but they're too short. They add in options, yes, but the original had chapter 17-26 to work out an arch and develop the characters and story. This game instead gives a total of 4 chapters for each new route. They skip around a lot.My only major complaint is the inconsistency for the endings of routes. Some epilogues/routes end seemingly at a good stopping point, but other at odd moments where you're sure they should do a bit more to make more fulfilling (ex: Rise). ---~Ruriko: She should have already been an option before. It's a shame she's relegated to a sequel. She has a nice simple route, but I just personally dislike the ending.~Konomi: I can respect the way they took with writing this one. It shows how you're into her due to merit and personality, not because you're a lolicon. Also, it has a cute ending.~Mitsuko: She's supposed to be a shrew/tsundere I guess (?), but they REALLY play up how much she either hates or is indifferent to you in the original, so it's like they shoehorned a reason and method for her to like you. It really seems like a complete change of personality for the most part being with her. It's also seem just a watered-down rehash for Ritsuko's thing about being your foe but falling for you, just with an opposite outcome to push through her minor arc in the short amount of chapters they had to work with. It's also my least favorite of the endings. I think she has the nicest theme in the soundtrack though.~Tamie: It's a contrived premise for the drama for her arc, but I rolled with it. I don't know what it was, but maybe the voice acting, the way they expanded on her character, or something else, but she became my favorite route to go down.~Marika: Nice bit of character development. She grew on me for than I originally thought.===TLDR: I loved the first game and really like this one, but don't get this game outright. If you bought and enjoyed the original, it's a worthy follow-up, but you need the affinity for it to justify the price.
