Review/Walkthrough of Sweetest Valentine (Ichigo Route, all endings)
Includes: Mild gore, depictions of blood, murder, suicide, animal death/abuse, abuse, yandere.
Link on itch.io: https://syllphana.itch.io/sweetest-valentine
Game Description on itch.io:
1 day later, and it'll be Valentine's Day.
You're playing as Aimi (name changeable) (I will be playing under the name 'Mekora') and, of course you're not going to miss out going on a date during the special day. The problem is, you'll have to choose between your childhood friend or your crush who doesn't seem to like you back.
Unfortunately, that isn't the only problem you'll be facing.
In your hometown, some people have gone missing without a word. Whether they are killed or kidnapped, nobody knows. You might want to be careful so that you don't become one of them.
From last time (playing the Yuzuki route), I have no fucking clue what to expect from this.
Ichigo has 4 endings, 2 bad, 1 normal ending, and 1 true ending. I'm staring at the walkthrough for this one.
I'll also be writing this as I play
To begin his route, you have to choose him when the mc decides who to give her valentines gift to.
You bring him inside your house and give him your cake, a strawberry shortcake. It's his favorite.
The MC tells him that she'll give him a cake every week. Ichigo goes home with the guarantee of a date the next day.
The next day, the MC wakes up with a pep in her step and early. She plans to go to Ichigo's house today to surprise him but finds that her door is unlocked despite her locking the door and her parents are definitely not home. Her house was broken in.
She hears footsteps and goes to investigate, taking a knife. To unlock this ending, you have to 'Ambush him first'.
Surprise, surprise. That was Ichigo. You stab and in effect, kill him.
The same thing, pick the opposite of what you picked (Pick 'Stay and Hide')
You hide under the table instead of attacking, before you call the police, Ichigo stops you. Turns out he was trying to find you. Ichigo offers for you to stay at his house for a while due to your broken lock,.
You are both late to school, Ichigo decides to flip the switch and skip school instead. Dragging her to their date.
They arrive at a donut shop. They order their donuts and godamn I wanted donuts after this.
Honestly from seeing this, I just don't think anything can go wrong except a few oopsies. This is probably just some lighthearted stuff compared to Yuzuki's route.
He brings the two of you to their favorite coffee shop, we cut away to the guy who dropped his gift box that had a dead bird inside. He seems to be watching them, questioning why the MC is doing *something*. He implies there's someone we should be worrying about. Considering his role in Yuzuki's route, I'm a bit confused.
Ichigo and the MC seemed to have eaten all day. MC's stomach is beginning to hurt and they head to the old playground they used to go to to rest. They recount their past memories (One is a bully cutting open a rabbit's stomach...jeez). They talk about how they became friends and after almost confessing that if the MC didn't approach him, he would stay the same, he interrupts himself and changes the subject. The MC brings up the subject again and Ichigo confesses to her his home life.
He then confesses that he has loved her, always even if she doesn't reciprocate his feelings. He tells her that he knows she likes Yuzuki.
To unlock his ending, pick 'That might be true, but there's no harm in giving it a go.'
You begin dating, begin having a happy life, and this all seems to not be a bad ending after all! ...yet.
The police arrive one day and arrest Ichigo, accusing him of the murders.
Surprise!
Kind of expected this honestly, anyways he gets killed because of a death sentence. Why does he kill these people though? No idea.
The same thing, pick the opposite of what you picked previously.
They continue being good friends, and I feel like this is gonna be fine. I mean, it is the normal ending, right?
They hear Yuzuki and someone else and Ichigo drags the MC...once again. When the MC questions him. He's extremely nervous, reasoning since it's their date, Yuzuki shouldn't be annoying them
They go to Ichigo's house. Ichigo reminds the MC NOT to go to his parent's room because his parents went missing. Though...from the last route, I highly suspect why he doesn't want us going inside there.
The MC wakes up late at night with Ichigo nowhere to be seen, and the MC goes back to sleep.
We are brought to where Ichigo is, where he seems to be threatening someone and who is it? Dead bird guy of course! His name is revealed to be Haruto. He seemed to have seen Ichigo murder someone so when Haruto was watching you two, turns out he was trying to protect you.
It is revealed that Haruto was trying to tell you about Ichigo and the dead bird thing was that the bags were switched up. Ichigo reveals his plan to frame Haruto. He then murders Haruto.
We are brought back to the MC where she is panicking about Ichigo's disappearance. The MC, while investigating, finds a trail of blood leading to Ichigo's parent's room. To unlock this ending, you have to search elsewhere.
The MC searches everywhere and when she comes back, turns out Ichigo has been searching for her aswell. MC talks about the blood and Ichigo gaslights her, telling her there is no blood. They eat, forgive each other and they continue their lives, Yuzuki became depressed because of the death of Haruto.
Years later, Ichigo goes missing. He leaves to run from the police.
Same stuff, pick the opposite shit.
MC enters the door, going into a secret entry. Before she can get to the end, a blood-stained Ichigo stops her. Ichigo shows you Haruto's severed head.
He tells her that the reason he kills is because of her.
Now tell me, if you were in this situation..y'know, best friend is really really in love with you and stuff that he kills for you. What is the correct response?
a. Run
b. Try to attack him
c. call the police
d. Totally be in love with him.
You might say it's the first three and you'd be totally right. However, the MC isn't like normal people
Sheesh, her love is way more obsessive than Ichigo's. She weirds him out!
MC forces a confession out of him and Ichigo breaks confessing that his first murder was his parents but in fear of losing the MC, didn't turn himself in. MC confesses that she likes killing animals and that she killed the bunny...bro.
They become like Bonnie and Clyde, running away and pretending they were missing
We are given a look into the future
This was...wow. I thought that the MC wouldn't descend into this whole thing again after the last route but surprise for me yeah?
What do I think is more insane? No idea, they're both so odd and surprising.
MC definitely needs help though...That is not something you should be getting turned on by. It's one thing to love someone and still love them after they killed someone and it's another thing to love someone BECAUSE they killed someone.
Really cool game though, if you aren't that sensitive to gore, its really worth checking out.
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