Stream: Pieces
Dive into Pieces through my perspective. This page serves as a living journal, updated daily with bite-sized reviews, exclusive video highlights, and curated screenshot galleries from my adventure.
Aino Miori's voice is so oneesan!
Continuing on Aino's route and wanted to show everyone the typical oneesan voice of Aino Miori is during the interactions with Tsubame in this visual novel.
In this specific scene she is reprimanding him because he closed Castella (the bird) in a closet as she was a nuisance in his attempts to get intimate with Aino. Tsubame tries various ways to escape from the allegations, but in the end only makes Aino even more angry by saying that he was just "trying to release her stress and it wasn't him". This triggers Aino's revenge "now I'll make sure to release your stress too!" and well, poor Tsubame RIP.
I really like her "I'm angry, but I'm trying to control myself here" voice that you know it's trouble (even Castella escaped), but you can't say openly because technically she's still talking normally.
Aino is voiced by Iwasaki Kanae who is, admittedly, a rather minor seiyuu in the visual novel industry. I've had a look at the other titles she worked on and I didn't find any other visual novel that I read in that list, but after a much wider search found out she was Airi Altinate in "I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job" and man that series was nice. I should give the light novel a try later...
Aino's sleeping with Yua
I just finished Tsumugi's scenario which was, as I predicted in the previous article, all about overcoming the feeling of guilt after what happened to Yua in her route. Yua is, in that route, still sleeping in that world to allow everyone else to continue their lives normally which creates a huge sense of guilt in Tsumugi for her happiness.
The issue is solved by a meeting in the dreaming world with Yua that reassure them that she's going to wake up in the near future and that they should just wait a bit more for her.
Now starting Aino's scenario in which Yua is also sleeping, but this time she's in her room and not disappeared from the world like in Tsumugi's route. When Tsubame was poking Aino's thighs while she was sleeping hugging Yua she appeared to be pissed off and punched him, but it must've been the wind! Clearly can't be that Yua is reacting!
Aside from these small jokes nothing special happening as they go around trying to reintroduce what is the situation of the world in this specific route. Aino is honestly a lot cuter than I was expecting with her "older oneesan" personality that falls short often due to her tendency to fall asleep everywhere. Apparently she improved compared to the original game though, she only sleep 15 hours a day now! It's progress, small, but progress nonetheless.
Tsumugi and Tsubame relationship
I've been going ahead with Tsumugi's scenario and it's now certain that it's a continuation from her specific ending. In this scenario Yua isn't there as she disappeared to allow everyone else to continue with her life and Tsubame/Tsumugi are living their life at the best. Tsubame is under the assumption that Tsumugi doesn't remember about Yua, but that's just a lie as she does remember.
Just as they're going through their life normally (with some nice comedy scenes with Alice worrying about them as they look too much like an older couple), they discover that Castella (Yua's bird) is somehow back which shouldn't be possible as she're strictly connected to Yua and couldn't exist without her. Does this mean that Yua is going to come back to deliver an happy end in this reality too? That would be a nice touch to make all the routes "canon" and just different parallel world and all with a happy end for everyone, but let's see what they do.
Right now Tsubame broke his four limbs protecting Tsumugi from a fall and is now being pampered by Tsumugi, quite cute scene. She's become ultra protective of him after the event and it's quite cute to see their back and forth as everyone else is instead kind of "what are these two doing?"
Tsumugi going to the hospital?!
I've started with Tsumugi as the first scenario I'm tackling of this game and it seems to be set after the end of her route which is an interesting choice considering that there was a true ending that technically invalidates all the other in the original game. The scenario start with a, honestly extremely hot scene with Tsumugi in swimsuit (I've keep a screenshot for the final article) and continues with a series of misunderstanding between Tsubame and Tsumugi.
Mainly around why Tsumugi seems distracted at school and elsewhere. Tsubame thinks she's pregnant and start following her to see where she goes. While doing that he encounter Alice (the scene I attached as a video to this post) and the misunderstanding enlarges even further because it is revealed that she's going to the hospital making his alarm signals go off all at the same time. (but no, she went just because her mother had a small back pain issue). Alice is left dumbfounded there as he goes away while thinking what to do.
Talking more about the ending thing, now I'm wondering if the true ending of this fandisk actually work in a way that "solves" that and make them all real in some sort of parallel universe way. Wouldn't surprise me considering the type of fantasy content that pieces delivered in the previous title.
Let's start with Yurikago no Canaria.
As promised yesterday, this marks the beginning of this new journal stream about the visual novel series Pieces / Yurikago no Canaria. This visual novel is a fandisk / sequel of Pieces / Wataridori no Sumnium (that I reviewed at this page https://blog.emptyblue.it/impression/pieces-wataridori-no-somnium-alice-was-so-hyper-tsumugi-and-yua ). As usual, this page will be completely full of spoilers without any warning so be aware about it if you're bothered by it.
From a quick look at the interface, it looks like there will be one scenario for each heroine (Yua, Miori, Alice, Tsumugi and Kimika) plus a true ending scenario on top of it that unlocks after we go through the Yua specific scenario. I'm not totally sure what to expect out of it, but I'm excited to jump back into this world yet again.
The original game was quite conclusive with the story so I'm not fully sure what can they add on top of it aside from some funny moments with the various heroines, but let's see I guess.
At least we're getting the Ijuuin Kimika route this time around, it was a shame that they skipped over it in the main game despite giving her such good developments in her story arc during the common route. Hopefully they'll make her justice here.
Either way, let me start and come back here once I have something more to say!
