🎥 Lover Pretend💘Route Review of🗑️Riku🎭 the prodigy actor, that i would have left behind for Sena tbh
1VGG is back! Today's game: Lover Pretend
Part #3
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https://www.nintendo.de/Spiele/Nintendo-Switch-Spiele/Lover-Pretend-2296780.html
Since i will stop (mostly) to cover Otome in full on my channel, i will instead make Route Reviews of what i played. In Route Review i will review each route's best ending. I will talk about my impressions at the start of the route in a non spoilery way, then go into dynamics between the Main Character and the LoveInterest as well as the sturcture of this route so you can get an idea of whats to come and if you are interested in him.
After this i'll start to go into usually mild spoilers, but i'llk warn you before i do.
At the end i rate the LI.
ABOUT THIS GAME:
Lover Pretend is a Visual Novel of the Otoge (Otome Game) Genre. It has a story that splits of in "Routes" and each one is tied to one Character that you are trying to get into a (usually) romantic relationship with. Each Route has multiple Endings depending on your choices.
LoverPretend tells the Story of "Chiyuki" who is a college student in our modern world. She spends her time working towards her dream of steping into the footsteps left by her dead mother: becoming a script writer for movies in the entertainment industry.
While she works towards her goal, she shoulders the mystery of her unknown father. Will she find out who her mother fell in love while writing the script for her favourite movie? After many years, it just so happens that all the people who had a connection to her late mother are reunited in one way or another in a new movie and Chiyuki is part of the crew....
In this route Chiyuki fell in love with the prodigy actor Riku Nishijima. He's been famous since she was a child and everthing he does star in is a hit. Hes good looking, calm, charming and good in public relations. MC starts to see a different side of him while woring with him - but even though she feels like she's growin closer, something is still... off.
Over the couse of the story MC will break through his hard shell and discover whats beneigh.
Honestly, i'd like to put what i found back in and forget i ever saw it.
Please, Yukito, take me away from his man.
Thank you very much!
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:10 About Riku & this Review (warning about this beeing a rant basically)
01:22 Riku's Character (early chapters, mild-medium spoilers)
02:06 Riku's Route structure (minor spoilers)
02:59 spoiler in form of visual graph of my feelings throughout the route
04:06 Mild-medium spoilers (Community Feedback, "Health of relationship")
05:17 Redeeming factors & Ending (mild-medium spoilers)
06:49 Dynamics (mild spoilers)
08:08 Tier Ranking
08:28 Some thoughts about Kazumas Ending
09:10 Tier Ranking Riku
11:37 Medium spoilers: the 3 Rikus and why he's problematic
14:06 The graph returns and i explain it
15:20 The problem with how Riku is written
16:30 The difficulty of ranking Riku
17:04 Discussion of toxicity and realism
18:04 My verdict of the ending and it's impact in retrospective
20:19 Raiting of the Route & looking forward to Harumi
21:56 Outro