Ooe Review
4 years after its announcement Ooe has finally been released. Having played all of Adelta’s a previous works, I have been following and waiting for the game since day 1. Closed murder detective stories are one of my favourite things, sprinkle a bit of horror into it and you will have me on the edge. From all the Adelta work this one has intrigued me the most. So finally, after so long we are presented: Ooe
Warning: 18+ Spoiler, CG Spoiler and more Spoiler
Description
A commemoration for the second anniversary of an actress’s death is being held on Ooejima, a remote island beyond Hachijoujima, south of Tokyo. Oosaki, a detective, receives a request to attend the ceremony on someone’s behalf. However, the ship meant to bring them back fails to show up at the appointed hour, no one has heard a thing from the coordinator of the event, and there seems to be an inexplicable fear and hatred between all of the attendees. Stranded on an ominous island, ten people try to unravel the mystery of the threads weaving their past and the death of the actress named An Ooe. An unconventional mystery set in the Showa era with a Japanese twist on the classic closed circle literary device. It is the year 1955, mid-showa period. An era characterised by chaotic sentiments, with traces of war still visible. The attendees, accompanied by doubts and their devotion to An Ooe, come to the memorial service in an abandoned village. They manage to overcome the barriers of status and spend their time in harmony. However, the situation changes when the servant who helped them until then is found dead. Driven by extreme suspicion, they start to search for the murderer, but this is followed by a second and third crime...
Story
I’m extremely impressed with the game. The story isn’t dropped at you at once but slowly reveals itself to you as you pass through the routes. I was worried that everything would be revealed in the first route like in hashihime (which I didn’t like) or that would be too rushed and confussing (like in uuultraC), but here the pacing of the game is slow, and you learn more and more about the game and its characters. Even if some routes were shorter than others, I never had the feeling that the pacing was off, it always felt well developed. There is also no “true ending” in this game, instead you find out the mystery behind the client and their motives as well as the death of the actress, through the different routes. The “climax” of the story, in my opinion is a few routes before the end, but the routes after it didn’t feel like they were useless, instead they were there to bind the last loose threads to the story. Which led me to have a satisfying feeling once I finished the game.
The game has 10 routes with one character having two endings and one character having two routes, so technically 12 routes? I think Kurosawa did extremely well with the writing this time, which really surprised me. (I’m critical of her because even if her writing style is beautiful her content is sometimes questionable, to say the least) Another point I really liked is how different each route was, completely different, some routes were going more into the classic detective way, some were straight up comedy, some were really emotional and some were just straight up crack, it kept me really engaged and always made me look forward to the next. The extras in this game also are important since one story line will only get solved in them and you will learn more information about all the murder and other incidence that happened in the game in them. Another thing I really liked is how, although the story is told from Oosaki’s pov, the writing is very neutral, and doesn’t make a lot of judgement, this made it feel like a third-person pov in a way, and let you have a more open-minded approach on the game.
Story
I’m extremely impressed with the game. The story isn’t dropped at you at once but slowly reveals itself to you as you pass through the routes. I was worried that everything would be revealed in the first route like in hashihime (which I didn’t like) or that would be too rushed and confussing (like in uuultraC), but here the pacing of the game is slow, and you learn more and more about the game and its characters. Even if some routes were shorter than others, I never had the feeling that the pacing was off, it always felt well developed. There is also no “true ending” in this game, instead you find out the mystery behind the client and their motives as well as the death of the actress, through the different routes. The “climax” of the story, in my opinion is a few routes before the end, but the routes after it didn’t feel like they were useless, instead they were there to bind the last loose threads to the story. Which led me to have a satisfying feeling once I finished the game.
The game has 10 routes with one character having two endings and one character having two routes, so technically 12 routes? I think Kurosawa did extremely well with the writing this time, which really surprised me. (I’m critical of her because even if her writing style is beautiful her content is sometimes questionable, to say the least) Another point I really liked is how different each route was, completely different, some routes were going more into the classic detective way, some were straight up comedy, some were really emotional and some were just straight up crack, it kept me really engaged and always made me look forward to the next. The extras in this game also are important since one story line will only get solved in them and you will learn more information about all the murder and other incidence that happened in the game in them. Another thing I really liked is how, although the story is told from Oosaki’s pov, the writing is very neutral, and doesn’t make a lot of judgement, this made it feel like a third-person pov in a way.
Character
Ariake
Let’s talk about the worst part about this game. I fucking hated everything about Ariake, he is annoying, his wanna be cute attitude was shit, he only gave a shit about himself and Oosaki, but only if Oosaki was paying him attention. When the characters were first released back in 2021 I experienced something called “hate at first sight” with Ariake. Something about his face pissed me off so I never was a fan, but usually I try to be open-minded when going into a game, I went in without any expectations….and got the worst. From the beginning Oosaki is falling for Ariakes fake play, and thinking Ariake is the weak and he had to protect him, when in reality Ariake had being pretending the whole time, manipulating Oosaki to break him. Which ends in total disaster for Oosaki’s mental health and ends with him becoming a killer and a terrible person himself. From the beginning on I knew Ariake was fake, I knew his arm wasn’t broken and I knew he killed his wife, but because of my kindly opened minded nature I put all my hate biased to the side, but I’M AN IDIOT I SHOULD HAVE BELIEVE IN MY GUT FEELING. Fuuuuu- I hated everything about him and his stupid ass ending. Manipulative bastard with no charm. What made me even more annoying is how Oosaki (stupid idiot) always fell for his fake play even in other routes, uuugh. I played the whole game with a friend and when we finished the first the route we both wanted to jump out the window, honestly a first route impression that couldn’t have been worse. The H-scene was the most uncomfortable experience of my game career, the whole “Ariake is fake” reveal, right before it made me want to end myself. Don’t think I have ever thrown so many insults at a love interest and Kurosawa…. And her obvious bias towards him isn’t helping AAAAAAHHHHH I HATE THIS. BUT at least he was the first route so I moved on fast and enjoyed the rest of the game, though tbh after this route I had to take a mental break from this game.
And now let’s talk about my unbiased opinion. Generally, I thought the routes was the weakest, it takes a pretty long while until you get out the common route and then it just drags on with not a lot of things happening, beside a bit Oosaki lore before it escalated with this ass ending. This ending itself also did a great harm on my liking for Oosaki who I really enjoyed until till then, but suddenly he became a cold killer, murdering innocent people because of a stupid lie and in my eyes, he became the type of cold seme I hated. If you see the route as a what it is, a disturbing psychological horror, it’s not bad but I still wouldn’t say it was good, it’s giving edgy twitter user energy. Also, the A end? Stupid fake pretentious happy ending. From the extra you learn that they even try to commit suicide together in this end, so basically the route, no matter if A or B end has no happy end. Oosaki just wants to die, and it hurt my heart seeing him be so miserable and even more broken than in the beginning. Idk why I even should care or like this pairing??? The worst impression you can even get from the first route. Lmao eww. Ariake worst Adelta character for real.
Shinbashi
After the shit that went down in the first route I was almost too scared to continue but lucky the following route went way better. The first routes sucks, because it makes you think Shinbashi is an asshole (well he kinda is lmao) and the enemy, but in reality he has been telling the truth all along. This route had me packed from the beginning, once the choice for his route shows up your start spending all the time with Shinbashi, and boy this man is hilarious. I thought his weird way of speaking keigo is fake but apparently it’s how he really speaks. If you can understand even a bit of Japanese you will notice how he mixes keigo (super polite language) with insulting words, creating this completely sassy language, with banger lines. Shinbashi has serious trust issues, so it was nice seeing him slowly beginning to trust Oosaki (kinda) to the point of even saving him from drowning. Non- pairing related things I liked about this route, Aomi and Takeshiba play hide and seek ghost version lmao (I saw right through it) , Takeshiba stabbing Shijoumae (hell yeah go my boy), and Hinode jumping into the sea had my mouth on the floor. I’m generally a fan of brutal murder so I had a good time with this route lmao. I thought the final scene was sooo good with Oosaki exposing Shinbashi as a murder and then going straight to the confession, omg my heart, the emotion hit so good (especially after the last route). I fully expected Shinbashi to be homophobic but nope, man literally took Oosaki’s confession as a marriage proposal LMAO, in fact there is not even a hint of homophobia in this game and I’m living for it. The fact that Shinbashi was inspired by a cat and is a cat freak is so funny, he is literally a meow meow. (Also, the fact that he killed his brother because he killed his cat? Relatable, fully acceptable would have done the same sir, my honor he is innocent). So yeah, I enjoyed his route very much, the only bad thing about this route is that Ariake is still alive.
Aomi
The purest, holiest character in this game. A tragic character who absolutely did nothing wrong and is blaming himself for some reason. Aomi is one of my absolute favourite characters, it’s a pleasure (especially for the eyes) every time he is on screen, I really love the soft gentle way he speaks. Even if he only says the most necessary, you can easily tell how much he cares. His route is very bittersweet and very emotional, and the final scene really reflected that, with his Hscene being very emotion driven. Compared two the first routes, where Oosaki takes on the detective role, in this one he takes on the role of the apparent killer, which was a nice twist, but also leads to the most unfortunate incident and one of few “whoops” moments of Oosaki: The rape scene. To be honest, I wasn’t surprised since we already saw that he could do terrible things previous route, so I didn’t think it was OOC of him but that didn’t make it any better. Especially since he is attacking an innocent person, but I’m at least glad that A. its wasn’t shown in CG (which would have made it very sexualized) and B. that he seems to truly regret it, judging by his immediate after-reaction and thoughts during the hscene. This is one of the routes that left me longing for more. I want to see how these two will grow together and if Oosaki can help Aomi to overcome his self-blaming. To be honest, I do like, that Oosaki has to work for Aomi’s love after all the things that happened, I feel like he should work more for it but in the end, I wish both of them happiness.
Shiodome
A killer, a psycho and a cannibal, and yet I fell for his charm. You can see the madness in Shiodome’s face but something about him just makes you like him. Who am I kidding he is CUTE as hell. Despite him being crazy and kind of scary, scenes with him were the most fun, since he acts extremely unpredictable, it’s hard to tell what he will do next. Despite everything else he is a very smart kid, and I could sit all day and listen to him talk. He is loud, can’t sit quietly and makes chaos, but he is like a cute pet monkey you can’t help but want to pet. There are also some scenes where he is very supportive of other characters, and I really liked that. He had a very sad childhood so I can understand where his personality comes from, that’s why I think he just needs more love. He has two routes: A and B. You have to play B first and that route is terrifying to say the least. It jumps into completely madness (which is not surprised consider how he is a 5 on the madness scale) with everyone going crazy and killing each other beside Oosaki and Shiodome, who actually eats his eye and and ear…..k. Oosaki also completely cuts off his family and job in this end, which was painful to see at and tries to fill his loneliness with Shiodomes. This end has the same psychological horror aspect as Ariake’s route and has no real happy end. It was just as uncomfortable, and I seriously felt like vomiting. You can’t even enjoy the H-scene because it keeps showing you a flashback of Oosaki fighting his cute kohai and his dad. From a romance perspective shit as hell, from a horror perspective a masterpiece. Not sure if you’re even supposed to ship this pairing because everything is trying to make your experience as uncomfortable as possible. But unlike Ariakes route, Shiodome and Oosaki felt both like victims of their own delusions here so despite this outcome I have no hate for them as characters. That beside emo white hair Oosaki looked horrendous, and I cringed every time he was shown on screen. Also, Ariake died so 10/10 route. 👍
Ending A. Is a rather short route and starts right after Funeno’s death. With Oosaki trying to repair the phone and taking Shiodome with him to keep him awake during the night. There isn’t much going on beside Shiodome trying to escape and Oosaki catching him again in 0.1 seconds and then spending the rest of the time sitting ON him so he can’t escape again lol, stupid whore Ariake joining in for a few minutes, and then the reveal with Toyosu (which was a good transition for his own route). Shiodome being crazy enough to get stabbed to save Oosaki (unexpected but I take it). Shiodome gets jailed for 3 years because he still killed Funeno in this route (I’m surprised it was only 3 years?) I had games before where the LI was put in a mental hospital but jail is new lmao. I’m super biased towards Shiodome so I’m happy that he was released only after 3 years, and my god is the ending CUTE. Oosaki buying them a house?? BEST LOVER Shinagawa being super pissed but Shiodome still trying to make friends with him was so funny. And Shiodome asking if Oosaki can accept him the way he is and if he can be a good wife?? ADORABLE I NEED 10 OF THOSE The only sad thing is that they didn’t have a good end H-scene but *cough I’m hoping for continuation cough* Also Shiodome is the only 5 who got a real happy end, and I appreciate that, he may be crazy, but he really deserves it. ❤️
Takeshiba
Obviously, I have been biased towards Takeshiba from the start because A. Kansai-ben and B. sexy hair. The japanese fandom says he is the “ichiban eroi” (most erotic) and I have to agree with that lol. With Takeshiba being a 4 (that 1 missing point keeping him from a 5 is keeping him sane) I thought his route would also go the madness way, but surprisingly we got a comedy route in the first part of it, with the whole gang (except Funeno who is dead and Shiodome who is in bath jail again) playing silly games. Seeing adult man fight over a stupid card game and playing the rock-paper-scissors game: newspaper edition was hilarious. Oosaki’s dialogue was so smooth during the game, I’m sure he made several men fall for him (judging by shinbashis blush lmao). Seeing Ariake suffering was good for my soul. How much of a piece of shit do you have to be to call someone a pedo for holding onto a child during a simple game? I hope he drowns. But at least he fucked off later when Oosaki asked him for his cooperation. Back to Takeshiba, the scene on the boat was my fav when Takeshiba revealed his evil intentions and tried to stab Oosaki but instead got pinned down in seconds LMAO what a stupid and pathetic man (I’m so in love with him). There were so many cute cgs in this route (Takeshiba on the boat, him hugging Hinode, Oosaki carrying Takeshiba piggyback style). Takeshiba having a child reveal was very unexpected, but fucking cute? We need more LI with children in my opinon (too bad he couldn’t keep her in the end😭 ) The whole end scene with them having dinner together, Takeshiba getting drunk and Oosaki carrying him while Takeshiba tells him basically his whole life story and then later at the love hotel-inn was super cute and super hot??? Hello? Damn Kurosawa improved on those H-scenes. I honestly didn’t expect Takeshiba to be so lewd (and I’m sure not complaining), the Oosaki dick lore was too much for my taste though lmao. I can’t believe the whole route can be summarised with Takeshiba looking at Oosaki’s dick and thinking “This can fix me” LMAO.
No, no I’m joking but for real, it was unexpected. Takeshiba is so mean playing with Oosaki’s feeling, but come one man, you aren’t old stop talking like Oosaki is having sexual intercourse with an old geezer, this ain’t Shijoumae. Despite that, (I’m usually not into the jealous type), but Oosaki being jealous is surely a treat. It felt like Takeshiba couldn’t even imagine Oosaki liking a pathetic middle-aged man, and I want to see what will happen if Oosaki were to confess to him, I can imagine them actually becoming a couple (wishful thinking, but come on this is BL after all I don’t need women in this) I also hope to see a continuation of their story, because Takeshiba deserves the love. The whole end was so cute I watched it like a teenage girl reading a romance novel. This route was my unbiased favourite one, and they are definitely one of my favourite pairings of the game, which I didn’t expect at all but it was just so good, and as much as I enjoy madness, wholesome and funny endings will always be my favourite. And honestly after reading the extras I think Takeshiba did the right thing by killing his family, he even blocked all escape routes, truly vile (I just love him so much) and that he deep down is a good boy ❤️. Also, the fact that he is a christian was the second biggest shock for me in this game.
Shijoumae
Never liked Shijoumae and even after finishing the game I can’t say I do now, I don’t hate him, he had some funny scenes but he is totally not my taste. I’m glad he is not a real LI but just an ending. I’m fully supporting him killing Ariake but Hinode? A CHILD???? How heartless can you be? And it pisses me off that he didn’t get a punishment for all the murder he committed so I fully support Oosaki raping him, he deserved it. (Destroying his pride but not staining his hand with murder, still better than Ariake’s end) Oosaki was so pitiful in this route, he tried to commit suicide twice…. Only to be saved by Shizuma the second time 😭 (More about this later). What pissed me off the most in this route is that he apparently OUTLIVES OOSAKI WHAT, HE IS 62 HOW? Also, man has the hottest wife in the universe, and he doesn’t lay his hand on her???? What a fucking loser. I hope his wife has her own personal harem. But once again, the writing was impressive, and Ariake died so 10/10 immediately.
Toyosu
Toyusu is my other non-biased favourite route. He is one of the two non-romance route and I’m honestly glad he is not romanceable (his hips wouldn’t survive Oosaki’s giant dick). His route starts with Hinode dying? What? Yeah, actually I noticed very fast something was off there because usually when characters die in this game their corpses are shown as a silhouette, which wasn’t the case here. Later Toyosu also “dies” in his own route lol. Obviously, he isn’t dead, and he was just pretending to be killed just like Hinode because he has been the client all along (and not only him), at this point I wasn’t surprised since it was already more or less clear from Shiodome’s A ending (He knew Aomi’s real first name) Toyosu was actually just pretending to be a monk, in reality he was a doctor. But I honestly thought the reveal was done well and even if I didn’t like Toyosu in the beginning I did end up liking him a lot. He is really sweet after all and how can I hate someone who took care of a child. This is the route we finally learn about Oosaki’s first name, and the reveal was done so well. Even if there was no pairing in this route, I thought the scene in the end with Oosaki visiting Toyosu, the scene with the fireworks and the Oosaki asking him not to die was so beautiful and emotional, and most important OOSAKI SMILED FOR THE FIRST TIME. The last scene with Oosaki calling his dad in the end and telling him he loves him had me in tears (If you play this with MTL you won’t notice but when his dad tells him he loves him and Oosaki says it back, his name tag changes to “Hiiro”, such a small but cute detail). Nothing in this game could make me cry, but the moment Oosaki’s dad shows up, I’m in tears. The relationship between them is just so cute, it left me emotional every single time. I’m really sad Toyosu dies a few months after the story but not like you can do anything about it since he is already at the end of his life.
Hinode
Three word. Too. Much. Ariake. FUCK. The first 2h of this game could be called Ariake route part 2 for real. And I don’t even know what the point of him being there was because in the end it didn’t even connect to anything and was just useless time spending. Kurosawa forcing her favourite whore into our faces again (kill me). We played this route with four people and there was constant groaning every time Ariake showed up. Anyway, I felt like the route needed more Hinode…. Yeah, in the first few hours Oosaki doesn’t even spend time with him. And once he does the route suddenly ends….uhm okay. Technically Hinode is not a Love Interest, and he has no H-scene OBVISOULY HE IS 14, please. I was so worried over it, but I’m glad Kurosawa stayed sane here hahaha. So, in this route we learn that Hinode is also part of the ”client” and that he came to the island to revenge his mother who vanished and apparently An Ooe’s murderer is one of the attendees, and that the whole murder of this An is the reason why his mother vanished or something. Ariake, being the human waste, he is set Hinode up against Shiodome for some reason and Oosaki rushes to save them only to find Hinode having shot Shiodome (I swear despite Shiodome being a 5 he is constantly a victim, he even dies accidently in Toyosu’s route, give this child a break please).
And then he tries to shot Oosaki too, but right on time SHIZUMA SHOWS UP AND SAVE HIM 😭😭 He also takes Shiodome to the Hachijoujima per boat so he can get treated. Once they all back again there is also a show down with Shizuma and Hinode who tells Hinode he played around with An and dumped her, so she killed herself (which is obviously a lie) but it’s enough to direct all of Hinode’s anger at himself. Anywayyyy.. The routes end with Oosaki suddenly becoming a dad- as in he takes over as Hinode’s caretaker, since he used to live with Toyosu and Toyosu is now in jail. And so, the days of dad Oosaki, his angry son Hinode and his deeply hatred for Shizuma begins. Hinode even writes a plan on the many ways he tries to kill Shizuma HAHAHAHA look at this small baby killer, oh he is so cute.
Also to never miss a chance on hating more on Ariake 👆 Oosaki asks Ariake to help him to buy some clothes for Hinode because he has no idea how to and ARIAKE JUST DUMPS HIM AND FUCKS OFF, HOW CAN YOU BE SUCH A BITCH TOWARDS A CHILD I’M- I don’t even know I hated him already before but after this scene I was just done forever with him. How can such a shitty as character even exist??? Like EVER OTHER CHARACTER HAS THEIR CHARM POINT only Ariake is human waste beyond return. I’m burning with hatred. Anyways, yes Hinode. I thought Hinode was super cute (maybe because I love children), he was surprisingly strong minded and competitive, and I really liked that about him. He acted accordingly for his age but not like a brat or anything. In the beginning I was worried over his anger but it turned out to be such a minor thing so I don’t mind. Rather I think it makes him even cuter hahaha. His mom was some psycho who raised him like a girl, for some reason and he doesn’t speak, like at all, due to trauma. I’m sad we never got to hear him speak in the end but I hope he learns to speak again (and we get to hear it someday) And talking about the future, despite Hinode not being a LI in the route, if you read the extras you will learn that once Hinode turns 22 he and Oosaki will actually start dating, so he is basically a future LI for Oosaki. Not sure how I feel about it since Oosaki is basically a father figure for him now, but I’m open minded so I wouldn’t mind listening to this story, Kurosawa. 🙏
Funeno
Funeno’s route was-
It felt like a fucking fever dream. AND IT STARTED OUT SO NORMAL. Obviously Funeno doesn’t die here. Everything goes well after the ceremony they have dinner and the next day they go back to the port, where the boat doesn’t show up obviously but this time Funeno is here and he actually remembers the boat he has and carries it over to the beach so they can escape. They decide that Funeno and Takeshiba should make the ride back, but obviously the plan doesn’t work out and they start fight on the boat causing it to sink and for them being washed up on Ooejima again. Oh, and I also forgot to mention that Shiodome went missing the day before. Now, their next plan is to use the phone, but it turns out the phone had been broken, and all eyes immediately land on Funeno, because he was the last one to go back to get the boat. So, they basically tie him up and take on the job to torture him (like wtf) Takeshiba is a pretty much an ass to Funeno and Ariake also shows his true colours, shocking Oosaki (seriously my boy, it’s so obvious how can you be so blind?), they also look for Shiodome but can’t find him. After they basically strip Funeno (what kind of torture is this?), Funeno confesses that he killed Shiodome accidently after Shiodome tried to threaten him with the red letter and left his corpse in the forest. Oosaki, who is the only one believing in Funeno is innocence, smells that something isn’t right and goes to investigate with Ariake tagging along (ugh). They end up in the warehouse where, apparently Shiodomes things are being stored at, but suddenly they get locked up and a hand reaches from the upper window and set the warehouse on fire. So as they are about to turn crispy, Oosaki remembers that they can survive buy throwing all the burning things into one corner (I think the warehouse is made out of stone? But idk if this would actually work in real life lmao.)
Anyway, the plan works put and they don’t burn to crisp but still get injured, and the next morning they get freed. Oosaki is badly wounded and Shijoumae treats his injury, but due to them he basically has to walk around shirtless and only has his jacked draped over his shoulders AND THIS IS WHEN HELL BREAKS LOSE. It all starts as Oosaki walking along the inn and meeting Ariake. Suddenly Ariake gets extra flirty and first basically hugs Oosaki and then HE PULLS DOWN HIS PANTS AND GIVES HIM A BJ WHAT (we were pretty annoyed to be honest because it was going into another Ariake route 2 way) Oosaki is super confused too and just tires to escape lmao, so then he meets Shinbashi and tries to talk to him about the Funeno thing and how they need to find the true culprit since Funeno wasn’t the one, who tried to burn them to crisp and while he does so Shinbashi just keep blushing for some reason, and you may thing he is blushing because Oosaki is standing in front of him shirtless and yes he does look hot
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but then then Shinbashi calls him a weirdo and a pervert and we learn what the actual problem is Oosaki’s little Oosaki has developed his own life, yes he has an erection. Shinbashi completely freaks out, Oosaki on the other hand is calm and says that it’s just a physical reaction and he should ignore that (Oosaki is the only man who doesn’t think with his dick and has full control over his desire, really impressive). Shinbashi of course doesn’t do that, instead he misunderstands when Oosaki say they should call Aomi, which they do. Shinbashi then say to Aomi that he wants to “match roads” with him, which of course is just a big misunderstanding. Oosaki just wants to talk to Aomi because he thinks Aomi would listen to him which he does, but Shinbashi just constantly exposes Oosakis dick (Shinbashi is a pervert himself tbh he just pretends he isn’t, in the extras you can see that his sexual desire is a 4/4 man is horny on main), then also Ariake joins the chaos and they begin to fight over Oosaki’s dick and grabbing it at some point even Aomi joins???? (What the hell was Kurosawa even smoking?) Anyway, Oosaki manages to escape….but not before running into Toyosu…with his dick still exposed….Even Toyosu was fucking blushing. Of course, right after there is more drama because Takeshiba comes in running saying Funeno has escape and is now running on the island naked…great more chaos. Here we also learn that apparently everyone suddenly got horny for Oosaki because of some toxins, that got stuck on him when he walked around the forest because they used the island for who knows what during WW2. Is that really true though? Idk never really gets explained. Anyway, after more wtf dialogue and Takeshiba trying to push Oosaki down (which actually leads to Oosaki blushing lmao), Oosaki escapes and goes searching for Funeno and finds him in the burned warehouse and because he is naked, he gives him his underwear? Okay. Oosaki asks him if he is really sure if Shiodome died during the conflict because Oosaki thinks that he actually survived, so after their short meet up he goes back to the forest where he find Shiodome, alive, talking to the phone he broke with a bloody face… on a tree…. I know Shiodome was never sane but man really lost the last of his working brain cells. Shiodome tries to shot him with a gun (I forgot where he got it from) but doesn’t hit him and then tells him he doesn’t want to kill him but just dance the mambo with him? Lmao. He then tries to shot him again but Funeno comes suddenly running out the forest and disarms him. So, they drag Shiodome back to the inn and back to bathroom jail.
Now that the true culprit has been found they finally fix the phone and try to get out- but not before everyone starts to get horny for Oosaki again, Oosaki just wants to call for help and get out but the horny group (Ariake, Shinbashi, EVEN AOMI, Takeshiba, Shijoumae why?) basically go horny animal on him and straight up jump him. (Toyosu and Hinode as well as Funeno excuses themselves out before the shit show begins though) And this is where the scene cuts off. The game jumps right to the summary of the island event and then to Oosaki meeting up with Shizuma to deliver him his report and information of the attendees he collected, Funeno also joined because of the whole him being scared of Shizuma thing and him thinking Oosaki is Shizuma. So, its starts out normally but then as Oosaki is talking about the information he collected about the first attendee (Ariake) the game just SHOWS A HSCENE CG IN YOUR FACE with one character after another LMAOOOO. Oosaki just keeps talking about how he often he “interacted” with the people and Shizuma is all like “Is this about sex???? This is about sex, isn’t it????” So yes, after the cut Oosaki HAD SEX WITH ALL THE CHARACTERS, EVEN AOMI lmaoooo and not once but SEVEVERAL ROUNDS (I was dying from laughing). Sure, a way to lose your virginity, man had like 15 rounds of sex lmao. Even with Shiodome who joined in the end lol (Funeno, Toyosu and Hinode were of course not part of it) Man told this all to Shizuma with a calm attitude and even Shizuma was like “Why did you had sex with them???” So yeah interesting route LMAO
Now back to Funeno who is supposed to be the LI of this route. Oosaki visits him one day at his home on Hachijoujima, where Funeno greets him in the cutest Yukata, then they have dinner and Oosaki also gets a cute yukata that matches Funenos. Funeno plays the Koto for him, which is super cute. At bed time Funeno for some reason thought Oosaki would enjoy the presence of a prostitute?? (Man heard him talk about how he fucked 6 dudes, how did he came to this conclusion that Ooaki is straight?) Oosaki of course tells him he doesn’t want that and that he is rather interested in Funeno, and gets all flirty with him, then kisses him and invites him to sleep with him (in the not innocent way) so they go for it lol. I would like to say thank you to Kurosawa to giving me small seme Oosaki after she chickened out last time. The next day Oosaki goes back home but before he leaves he tells Funeno that he wants him to call him by his first name “Hiiro” ❤️ Despite the route being chaotic and horny af the ending is sugar sweet. Also, according to the extras, sugar daddy Shizuma helps to turn Ooejima into a resort where Funeno works and takes care of the vegetation. And Oosaki visits it as Shizuma’s “double” as an excuse to see Funeno lmao what an end. As for Funeno, he was super adorable, I feel bad for him dying almost every route, he didn’t deserve it. But my biggest personal shock in this game was his age HE IS 20 YEARS OLD WHAT I though he is like 40???? WHAT YOU MEAN HE IS A BABY OMG. Also Funeno is canonly gay, nice. Kurosawa mentioned when the game was announced that every character will be straight but apparently, she didn’t stick to it, no way these people are straight. Oh, one thing that did make me kinda mad in this route, even with the relationship, apparently Oosaki will keep the harem because his side bitches are toxic and wont give in easily 😐 no please don’t do that Kurosawa not cool. I really don’t mind the shit that went down before but not in a serious relationship…..not cool at all.
Shizuma
(and now please excuse the following simping)
If you haven’t guessed it from the lines above already, Shizuma is my favourite character in this game. In fact, he has been my favourite, way before the release of it. Let’s go back 3 ½ year. When Ooe was first announced in 2021, the characters were slowly introduced along the way, and when the first artwork of Shizuma dropped I fell in love on first sight. He was completely my taste (funny to say that when everyone has the same eye and hair colour) and I just wanted to have this man. But obviously I knew that he was a side character. So, the following years were spent on me praying that this hot man has a route. I wanted him SO BAD. The constant teasing art of him didn’t help. I didn’t care if he was evil or the mastermind or whatever I just wanted this man. So, when Kurosawa announced that there will be a 10th secret route I was hoping that maybe he was the last route? But at the same time, I was also scared because the last adelta route is cursed and always sucks, disappointing me in every way possible. So, I delulued myself into not believing that he is a route to not get disappointed lmao and boy I was so into him, it wasn’t even funny. Since up to the release we didn’t knew what the last route was, and once the game dropped I basically cut all connection to the outside world to avoid spoiler. That’s why up to the point we finished Funeno I had no idea if he is and route or not and behold HE WAS A ROUTE AFTER ALL YESSSSSS VICTORY 🙌 Not only that it didn’t suck (god I’m so happy) even now I’m still not 100% believe this is reality because my delusion were so strong lol. (Try living in denial for 3 years and you will understand)
It's always risky to like a character before you actually experience his story but I was far, far too gone already. When the demo of the game first dropped I wasn’t actually that trilled with Shizuma, he was kinda cringe and obviously shady (though that didn’t bother me much, he had always been shady), but after playing the first route when the first part of the game came out I fell even harder for him. I know this is super ridiculous to say but when he showed up in the end of Ariakes route, after all the shit that went down and me with my dislike for both MC and LI in that moment Shizuma felt like the most sane character in this game, so I was completely gone once again (Also his cute look helped too) and went back to being a Shizuma simp again, but harder this time. After the first part I had a very good impression of him. He was the funny, chill character, the only one to use casually speech (a part I really like about him) a bit extreme horny (but this was also announced pre game, I mean the first art of him has him showing his nipple standing butt naked behind Oosaki lol), but oh boy I wasn’t ready for what part 2 had to deliver. Right from the first route Shizuma felt different, more serious way more affectionate. Since he gives off a shady atmosphere you expect him to be sly, but he wasn’t at all. Instead, he was worried over Oosaki and regretted some of his choices. It broke my heart when in Shiodomes end B Shiodome mentioned that Shizuma liked Oosaki. And in the following routes he didn’t save Oosaki’s life once but even twice. Stopping him from committing suicide after all the shit that went down with Shijoumae. The lines were my favourite I was almost crying in this scene, the way he was just hugging Oosaki from behind was just so loving. 😭
(literally kill me please)
From this point on I doubt that he was actually a killer (since he was supposed to have killed his brother) and I thought that he must have been a good person all along because no way can you be so kind and still be evil in some way, his words felt too honest for it to be an act. Even in Hinode’s when he said that he was just playing around it felt like a big lie, Oosaki also agreed, it was like he deliberately wanted to be hated. And as expected when you play his route you learn he has been a good person all along. This route is completely different since he is the one going to Ooejima and not Oosaki, instead Oosaki stays behind at his summer house and awaits his calls. In the beginning he acts like always but slowly Oosaki notices what is going behind all of this. Shizuma isn’t Shizuma but his own brother Sukekiyo who is only pretending to be Shizuma because he wants to take over the sins of his brother, who was the one who actually committed suicide (Also I read the book “the inugami family” Kurosawa based the daiba family on where Shizuma and Sukekiyo also switch roles, so it was an easy guess). His brother was apparently really shitty and was the one who played around with An leading to all of this. Shizuma himself (I’m going to continue calling Sukekiyo Shizuma like the game does) is super kind, which is also why he was actually staying secretly at Hachijoujima the whole time, worried about Oosaki and why he could show up on time to save him. Since making sure Oosaki was safe was his priority. Oh, and he was actually married but after the whole incident his marriage also shattered (and to be honest I may be a heartless person for saying this but this is BL so I can’t give less of a shit about his ex-wife, I always disliked putting any girlfriend/wife/children topics in BL).
The reason he wanted to be brothers with Oosaki, was because Oosaki reminded him of his brother and all this man wanted in his life was to have a happy family but instead his whole family died, and he was left alone and now has serious commitment issues….Wow this is a lot of baggage I didn’t expect from his character. Not only that but he actually asked Oosaki to kill him, which lead to Oosaki crying his eyes out (damn this was a lot to take in, especially since Shizuma was always such a fun character, but turns out he had been a sad boy all along). Why are all the good boys in this game blaming themselves? Shizuma, Aomi, Oosaki. The game makes you think Shizuma is the mastermind because he himself wants you believe it, which is honestly just sad. In the end I’m actually really glad that Shizuma turned out to be so kind, not that I wouldn’t have taken him in another way, but I love the good boys, so I’ll gladly take him as my son. I just hope he learns to love again and stops to take the blame. He is really bad at showing his emotion so it’s always hard to tell when he is lying. It says that after he met Oosaki his life improved and I really hope Oosaki will help him to love again so I wish him all the best. ❤️ And now back to the simping part lol. Anyway once the whole island part is over and Shizuma nearly dies being stabbed, Oosaki finds him at the graveyard one day and Shizuma invites him over to visit his atelier (finally Ive been waiting for this lol). And already on the way Oosaki’s true intentions beginning to show because he gets jealous with everyone Shizuma interacts with LMAO, once they at the atelier they talk about art and about Shizuma’s ex-wife, who Oosaki actually meet during his stay and Oosaki then ask if Shizuma still likes his ex-wife and after that straight up confesses LMAO what a timing. Shizuma as sly as always pulls the whole “I just want to be brothers” thing (to be honest it’s impossible to tell if he is telling the true or not), but tries to be super suggestive when doing so and Oosaki just gets pissed and pushes him onto the bed lol.
Shizuma tries to pull some onii-san fantasy kink lmao (no they are in fact not related, and jesus I’m so happy when this was finally clear, since it could have been a possibility), but then it turns into some paint kink?? (I don’t even know). Oosaki tries to kiss him but gets rejected because, Shizuma who is allergic to wheat can’t kiss anyone who eat any wheat products, but Oosaki says he hadn’t eaten anything and has no problem cutting things out of his diet, since he has no preference lol (man heard Shizuma is allergic to wheat and said goodbye to wheat forever, true love). Then they finally do kiss and strip off their clothes and we get this beautiful cg of Shizuma lying naked in bed making the lewd hands signs he always does in artworks and what does Oosaki do? HE LEAVE THE FUCKING ROOM TO TAKE A SHOWER (virgin reveal) boy…… Honestly, he can be happy Shizuma didn’t run away but I seriously wonder how much of an act Shizuma is actually pulling because I’m sure most things he was saying was just to piss off Oosaki and boy did it work. Anyway, once Oosaki returns we finally get to see Shizuma’s true power bottom potentials YES FINALLY, to be honest when I saw him the first time I was hoping to see him power bottom AND KUROSAWA DELIVERED 🙏 I am so grateful I will never insult you again, Kurosawa🙏 . Shizuma absolutely destroyed Oosaki in bed LMAO Oosaki was the one moaning, he even called him “virgin boy” AHAHAHA. Yeah, obviously Shizuma has experience (I’m not even surprised) and always bottoms according to him. Oosaki of course didn’t let this shame stay on him and tried to pull the reverse card lol. This turned into serious competition sex, also didn’t help that Shizuma had hickeys on him from his last partner and was talking about how Oosaki is his 108 person (if you didn’t know in Japan they let the new year’s bell ring 108 times to free yourself from your 108 worldly desires), making Oosaki even more jealous, so he fought back and said he won’t stop until Oosaki will become his only one (yes go on son fight for your lover), then Oosaki completely went feral on Shizuma lmao this poor man. I’m honestly impressed of Oosaki’s stamia, even as a virgin he can do several rounds, very impressive. So yes I’m very biased for Shizuma so of course he is my favourite route, he is the route that only true Shizuma simps can enjoy. Like me lmao Once again I would like to thank Kurosawa for giving me the most perfect Shizuma power bottom CG I will never forget it, all my dreams came true in that moment, I am truly blessed.
Oosaki
Adelta’s first seme protagonist. When he was first announced I thought he was going to be the stone type but it turned out despite Oosaki’s face, he is actually pretty emotional. His voice also doesn’t feel cold, and you can tell he truly means what he says. I went a whole circle with Oosaki as a character. My first impression was very neutral, when I played the demo, he was the one I was most interested in. He was a very depressed boy so I wanted him to get better. After the first route I honestly just disliked him, he had turned into the cold seme type I hated. And even after the second and third route my affection for him hadn’t been restored to the one I had in the beginning, so I was really worried because I didn’t want to dislike him. Luckily his terrible transformation in the first route and the rape in the second route were the biggest “whoopsies” about him and the rest of the game went smoothly, so in the end I can say that I ended up really liking him. He is cute, surprisingly emotional and honestly a very adorable lover and he treats his partners well (if he isn’t burning from jealousy lmao, I’m totally lying I was slurping that shit up) It’s a bit confusing to understand at first why he is falling for the LI but I come to the conclusion that there are two ways that will make Oosaki fall in love. Number one is when someone proofs him his life is worth by either telling him that or saving his life, like with Shinbashi, Ariake or Shiodome (A). The other way is when LI is a weak man, he wants to save and protect. Man really said “pathetic loser are my taste “(kinda understandable though). Also, I don’t care what Kurosawa says I will headcanon this man as gay, because nothing in this game has ever hinted at him being into woman ever, even his first love was a boy (the only good thing to come out of the cursed first route).
My boy has deep hatred for himself because he was born out of incest, which he can’t even do anything about??? Like my boy it’s not your fault stopping blaming yourself over it. And also, over the fact that he is responsible for the death of his grandma, who set herself on fire after she found out he beat up a child. Honestly, Oosaki himself was still a stupid child back then and children do stupid shit, so his grandma’s reaction was a bit…. extreme. And now he is scarred (literally on his hands) for life. I was kinda expecting a route to show how Oosaki gets over his past and forgives himself (even if there is nothing to forgive in my opinion), but that never happened sadly, though in the extras it says that he will learn to forgive in the end so I’m glad it will happen at some point at least. I also love how in the future he will help ex-criminals to make a fresh start. His happiness always depends on the ending, since some of the endings lead to even more misery for him, but I feel really sorry for him so I want him to have bright future and a loving partner.
Artwork & Musik
The art in the game is phenomenal. All CGs including the background are drawn by Kurosawa and damn she improved so much since her last game. I’m biased once again since her style is my absolute favourite, the way she shades just looks so good, the skin of the characters looks so juicy- okay I’m going into the simping again but damn, all character looked so HOT especially Aomi, no matter what he did, even when he was being chocked, a pleasure for the eye. I feel like some scene could have more Cgs and once again total lack of Kiss CGs, only Ariake and Shinbashi got one, KUROSAWA IF YOU’RE READING THIS I NEED MORE KISS CGS ONEGAIITASHIMASU. Even the background Cgs looked sexy, you will never see such good-looking furniture ever again. A visual masterpiece.
As for the music in the game, sadly there is no opening song which sucks, and according to Kurosawa it has no because the game is supposed to be serious but? Idk what this has to do with OP, plenty serious games have an opening theme, it just has to match the vibe so yeah I wish the game had one. As for the ending songs, they are bangers like always, 4 ending songs, with most ending songs being shared between characters, except Shinbashi who has his own ending song. I fucking hate that Shizuma shares an ending song with Ariake?? Also why is this stupid bitch the only one that got an extra music video? Kurosawa your favourism is seriously annoying and all it does is make me hate the character even more. At least don’t make it so obvious, your taste is terrible. I feel like Aomi’s/Funeno’s ending song is the most unique song out of those four. The Ost is also great, it always matched the game very well and has some banger tracks like always. As for general sounds I feel like some sounds were weird and didn’t sound like what they are supposed to, and also this time we had sex sfw and no just no, I didn’t not like them at all, once I found out you can turn them off I have never turned them on again, my poor ears have been violated and my poor eyes abused from the first hscene enough.
Conclusion
A masterpiece? Obviously, I had minor complaints (Ariake) and some criticism (Ariake), but apart from them, I had such a good time playing this game. The story, the pacing, the characters, everything was so good. Kurosawa improved a lot since her last game, this game felt way more balanced than her others and I’m glad she took her time to write it because it surely paid off. I played in a time span of a week and it was the craziest week of my game life. Since every route is different from another one, it felt like a wild roller coaster ride, where you don’t know what’s coming next. The emotions were all over the place, but I could finally finish an Adelta game without feeling mad or angry and just feel fulfilled. Also, I hope we get to see more content for this game. I’m really looking forward to the after stories and hopefully more SS in the future.
Of course, I fully recommend this game to everyone wanting to play some mystery, detective, full on madness game, and everyone who just wants to see pretty boys’ kiss.
Until next time~
