#overrequiemz

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Cg translations :

Kaize - Claude - Molly - Noil - Dorothy

Gameplay preview:

Kaize - Claude - Molly - Noil - Dorothy

Prologue preview :

01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06

I fell in love with this game ever since I've seen it on my January's B-log, and the more I digged for infos the more I was intrigued.

Here is the opening movie for the game :

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Story :

[Oz], a kingdom ruled by a monarch and 4 witches

There, numerous strange structures called [Ruins] have appeared. Decaying buildings, ivy-covered trains This is the scenery you're used to seeing, but this seems out of place here Inside the [Ruins], strange lifeforms are roaming around

Lost in this other world, you've been sentenced to death To escape from your fate, you have no other choice than to go investigate the monster-filled [Ruins]

You will embark on a journey along fellow death row inmates They, who were once [Bloodthirsty killers] On this journey, you'll have to head to the [Ruins] while being at the mercy of their quirks It seems that numerous choices will be made as you are travelling But, remember one thing

There is no such thing as a meaningless life

Your journey towards the end, alongside these bloodthirsty murderers, have began

Source :

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In a nutshell this is a post apocalyptic medieval world and The Wizard of Oz mix match.

The game is also composed of two types of routes for each guy [Fact] (the "safe" route) & [Dark] (we're getting freaky in this one) and a total of 4 endings per guy

So let me introduce the main characters : (don't mind the names the = is official)

Yuhiru (cv : none)

"I won't regret my choices"

The senior high school student lost in another world The senior high school student lost in the Oz kingdom Because of her dark eyes and hair, she was condemned as a [devil possessed being] She's standing up for herself against this grotesque situation

Age : 18 Height : 165cm Occupation : Senior Highschool Student

Kaize = Ozma (cv : Azakami Youhei)

"As long as I live, the calamity won't end"

The black eyed, devil possessed prince The feared cursed prince His indifferent smile can cause misunderstandings because deep down he is afraid of what other can think of him He killed his father the King, with his own hands

Age : 20 Height : 182cm Birthday : 3rd of August Occupation : 2nd Prince Likes : Cheese omelette / Cleaning Hates : Alcohol / Strangers Wish : To get revenge Family : Father (deceased) / Mother (deceased) / Elder brother (deceased)

Claude = Grain (cv : Furukawa Makoto)

"Do you think knowing the truth would keep you sane ?"

The researcher obsessed with the [Ruins] A [Ruins] researcher that was banished from the Royal Academy He is a caring and knowledgeable wise man. He tends to hide his inner self and keep everything to himself He brutally murdered everyone in his hometown, including his family

Age : 23 Height : 183cm Birthday : 3rd of December Occupation : Researcher Likes : Stew with a lot of vegetables / Mathematical puzzles Hates : Snails / Horror stories Wish : To discover the truth about the tragedy Family : Father (deceased) / Mother (deceased) / Younger sister (deceased)

Molly = Woodland (cv : Ishikawa Kaito)

"Let us pray for your souls. Worry no more… … and die"

The mysterious undertaker The young undertaker that keeps his smile in front of corpses He emanates the lovely aura of a fairy tale prince. He knows how to lockpick and escape from any situation, somehow He attacked a group of peddlers on the main road

Age : 24 Height : 175cm Birthday : 4th of November Occupation : Undertaker Likes : Rye bread / Card games Hates : Sausage meat / Swimming Wish : To meet his fated one Family : Father

Noil = Bestia (cv : Suzuki Ryouta)

"I have to survive, even if I'll struggle till the end"

The wild rogue knight The one being known as the problem child of the royal knight's order He may be wild but nevertheless he takes his duties seriously. He is a warrior of great pride He slaughtered a platoon of knights under his command

Age : 19 Height : 186cm Birthday : 12th of July Occupation : Knight Likes : Rabbit paella / Cooking Hates : Doctors / Preaching Wish : To arrest his friend Family : Father (adopted) / Mother (adopted) / 2 Elder brother (adopted) / Elder sister

Dorothy (cv : Horie Shun)

"Isn't punishment a form of kindness ?"

The polite but actually rude Witch of the North The goverment official nicknamed [Witch] tasked with keeping an eye on criminals, travelling with you He is irresponsibly lazy. For some reason, he is overprotective of you Even if he seems interested in medicine, I wish he wouldn't treat me with such a suspicious smile

Age : 25 (self proclaimed) Height : 177cm Birthday : 10th of October Occupation : Witch Likes : Butter pancakes / Starry sky Hates : Being punctual / Guiding others Wish : For you to be alive Family : None

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[Otome game] OverRequiemZ - Ramblings

This isn't really a review, but more of a jumble of my impressions and thoughts over what I played of OverRequiemZ. This will be full of spoilers, so don't read ahead if you don't want to be spoiled about the game.

As usual, I'm not a completionist, so I didn't bother playing all the routes (especially since the ones I played were mostly pretty mid). Thus, I'll only talk about (and judge (¬ ¬ ) ) what I played.

Kaize Fact ✅ Dark ✅

Claude Fact ❌ Dark ❌

Molly Fact ❌ Dark ✅

Noil Fact ❌ Dark  ± ✅

Dorothy Fact ❌ Dark ❌

First Kaize... Where do I even start lol. I won't say I'm disappointed since I wasn't really expecting anything, but... His route still leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

Imo he was the most good-looking member of the cast by far (why aren't there more black-haired lis out there (≖︵≖) ). It was also my first encounter with his seiyuu Azakami Youhei (and I was so charmed by his voice that I'm now hesitating to buy Money Parasite just for him (*/_＼) ). Needless to say the voice acting was the best part of the route.

I played Kaize's fact route first, and it was just dumb reveals after dumb reveals + the plot desperately trying to make me cry about Kaize by showing 534682 randomass pnj charas calling him a monster.

Overall, Kaize was so emo. So so so emo. God I thought I would never reach the end of his fact route because of how utterly indifferent I felt towards his misery.

Usually, I don't like emo boys. (This might come across as surprising (?) given the way I write Dazai in my fanfics, but I don't consider the way I write Dazai to be emo. Or at least, it isn't meant to be an emo that very badly wants the reader to cry and pity the character.) What I usually dislike about emo characters is that most of the time, they're written as this super sad and pitiful chara who didn't deserve what happened to him and is completely defined by the fact he is A POOR BOY. Sigh.

And here, once again, the writing didn't do Kaize any favor. Like no, it's not because I ran into 17 random villagers, soldiers and children calling him a monster that I will feel sorry for him. It doesn't work like that. By the way, the number of times the word "monster" is used in this game is ridiculous. If you don't know the word 化け物, trust me, you will learn it with this game.

And the brother plot... I have no words to describe how much I despised the brother plot. "So hello, I'm the villain of the route. And I'm actually Kaize's dead brother, whom I cared very much about (despite everyone fearing him because of his black hair — and do I even go on about how stupid this whole black hair fear ordeal is, because hair dying techniques already existed in antiquity mind y— ), but since my hate for everything and everyone is so deep, I'm going to tell him I was afraid of him all this time and call him a monster. But in the end, I'll go back to my kind self and tell him I actually loved him because he is my little brother uwu" (눈_눈) No. Just no.

At some point, he was calling Kaize a demon when he had demon wings himself. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM (ノ°益°)ノ (And I know the whole point of this was to point at how ironic the situation was, but the way it was written just made the whole scene ridiculous.) Anyway, I'm barely scraching the surface of how badly written this character is because I could produce 10 other paragraphs about him, so I'll just stop here to keep this post from being a total rant lol.

Let's talk about things I liked instead. In Kaize's fact route, there were a total of 2 scenes I liked. The one where Yuhiru asks Kaize what he wants, and he answers he wanted to be loved by his mother, admired by his father, and appreciated by his brother. This was probably the only time when Kaize very simply said he just wanted to be loved without talking about all this monster bullshit.

The second one was the moment when Kaize said he didn't want to kill the demon who led his father to death because he wanted to avenge his father. It was because he wanted the recognition of his people, and the admiration of his father. Like omg, some character development, can you expand on that please. Don't let this be a random line thrown in the final battle for no reason, please don't brush it off, pl— It doesn't work well when I beg a game to be good.

So basically, I felt nothing while playing this route, and the plot trying to make me sob about poor little lonely Kaize made everything worse.

After dragging myself through Kaize's fact route, I went into his dark route with 0 expectation apart from good voice acting.

I have to admit it started well (at least, as well as it can do with an overall one-dimensional chara). I liked how Kaize started getting dependent on Yuhiru. Too bad Yuhiru didn't grow dependent on him as well. Instead, we got the standard yandere development. Which wasn't too bad I guess. I even liked the overall idea of the route (being Kaize doing everything he could to have Yuhiru by his side, but Yuhiru just staying because she's afraid of him, and in the end, Kaize was still this lonely being despite having Yuhiru next to him).

The "dream" end wasn't bad either. I guess I just like codependency plot better than yandere plot. I would've been really happy if that route had gone down the codependency path, but that's how it is.

Overall, my only real complaint about the dark route is that the game doesn't do great when trying to make you care about its characters, so I didn't feel anything while reading it.

Soooo about Molly's dark route. I actually enjoyed it for the most part. The quest chapters were fine — even though it failed (like every other ones) to make me attached to the character. I even really enjoyed the beginning of the dark route when they grew codependent on each other. That part with her fainting regularly was really well done, and I was actually surprised when I learned the truth.

I thought Yuhiru learning about her own trauma, then forgetting about it again, would've been a great spot to end the route, but of course they had to go further and make Molly even more yandere. Also, for some reason, when Yuhiru becomes aware of her own trauma, she doesn't get more traumatized but instead actually recovers some lucidity??? That was weird.

I won't talk very long about all the stuff going on with the eyeballs, because that ended up being quite ridiculous. You know, when you read that very very trashy idea that's just too trashy and gore to be taken seriously. (I mean, okay, there are probably very weird people out there who would decorate their room with eyeballs in bottles, but would there be that many that a freaking eyeballs traffic is born?) Well, whatever, that's probably just the game trying to be edgy and dark.

Onto Noil, now. I don't have a lot of things to say about him. His quest chapters were boring and dull. At this point, I was too bored to even pretend to care and took forever to get to his dark route. Also, I can't take a guy named Yuujin seriously. Like really, Yuujin? Like 友人? And he's his best friend? I sure didn't see this coming.

After I played dark 6, I got even more bored (especially since Otomate spoiled their own plot twist with a promo cg (○ ｀ｰ´)○☆)ﾟoﾟ)/ ) then, I fell sick and was dead beat for a week. Then... I didn't have the energy to pick the game back, so I just left Noil there lfskdfjsdk

Poor Noil, he probably didn't deserve that, but I honestly couldn't bring myself to care about anything in his route.

Imo, OverRequiemz is a very mid game. There is yandere and trash content, but it sure would've been better if I cared about the characters.

It had potential tho. I really liked the choice concept, with choices that don't matter, choices who give you a voice line in the menu, and only two choices that decide the path you get on. Unfortunately, the choices that were supposedly important didn't feel that meaningful. I thought I'd get a choice that would be difficult to make, that would make room for character development. Instead, I just got standard otome choices.

The soundtrack was pretty mid as well. The bgms sound pretty, but I don't feel any emotions from them. There were 2 soundtracks that I really liked tho.

廃墟の深層 was great, especially when used when that interdimensional crack opened and red snow fell. The atmosphere was very ethereal and mystic.

タイトル was a great menu music. Very soft and gentle.

On the bgm topic tho, that fucking 悲しみと許し violin music can go to hell. Aweful.

Overall, OverRequiemZ felt like a checklist game with no soul:

Chapter 1 : slice of life stuff ✓

Chapter 2 : slice of life stuff with some reveals about li's traumatic past with sad violin music ✓

Chapter 3 : slice of life stuff with a romantic scene ✓

Chapter 4 : more reveals about li's traumatic past with even more sad violin music ✓

Chapter 5 : action scene with a randomass choice at the end ✓

Chapter 6-9 fact : dumb reveals with even moooooore sad violin music ✓

Chapter 10 fact : final battle with cool battle cg ✓

Chapter 6-8 dark : mc and li growing kind of codependent on each other ✓

Chapter 9-10 dark : li getting yandere af because of mc suddenly isn't so dependent on him anymore for ??? reason ✓

If I had to summarize my opinion on OverRequiemZ, it would be "I DON'T CARE." Or, as we say in French: