TAISHO x ALICE episode 2 is a fairytale visual novel in which you must save your Prince Charming! The game is fully voiced in Japanese (excluding the main character). As you progress through the story, you will be asked to make choices at key points that will lead you to different endings. You will take on the role of the fairytale heroine in order to rehabilitate your chosen love interest and guide him to his "happily ever after"!
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KAGUYA
This review contains spoilers
TAISHO x Alice episode 2 continues on with the same heroine from the previous episode, just with two different "prince charming" for you to save this time. Please be advised that this episode deals with more mature themes than the last episode, including mental illness, self-harm, suicidal idealization, drug addiction and sexual assault.
The prologue is pretty much the exact same as the previous episode, which kinda made me wonder why it was even included. To me it seems silly to assume people would buy and play episode 2 before going to episode 1 first. My opinion of the boy, Alice, who you meet in the prologue, didn't really change, as he was as annoying and useless as in the previous episode. I kinda understood more why he was added though, as I was playing through the routes for the characters. He is there to be a common, combining factor between all of the characters, always giving advice when you least expect it.
This episode was definitely not what I expected. At first I was slightly disappointed to see settings different from the first part. I was eager to romance Kaguya as my trusted servant and friend, alas... almost all relationships, occupations and connections between characters were changed, I assume they chose to do it this way, since in the prologue you are entering a different realm, so making everything different, but still using the same characters, is easier.
If I were completely honest, I didn't enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed the first one. I was expecting to like this one more actually, since I read some things about it being darker than the previous episode, but I wasn't aware just how dark it was actually going to be. Then again, I think the biggest issue I had with both routes was that all of the plot points happened way too immediately with no character development or story build-up at all.
It also felt like the heroine wasn't herself in this episode, I think she acted way differently, which made choosing some choices a little bit difficult and often resulted in bad endings, as there were a lot more of them here. The devs were obviously gunning for the element of surprise in this episode, which usually works well for characters that are romancable, but when the surprises involve the heroine's personality, then it gets rather confusing. As the protagonist, shouldn't I be aware of my own personality?
Overall however, I still think this game is worth it, even though they changed a lot of things. The first episode was better, but this one was worth it as well. As I did in the episode 1 review, I still recommend you getting this game at a sale rather than at full price.
The prologue is pretty much the exact same as the previous episode, which kinda made me wonder why it was even included. To me it seems silly to assume people would buy and play episode 2 before going to episode 1 first. My opinion of the boy, Alice, who you meet in the prologue, didn't really change, as he was as annoying and useless as in the previous episode. I kinda understood more why he was added though, as I was playing through the routes for the characters. He is there to be a common, combining factor between all of the characters, always giving advice when you least expect it.
This episode was definitely not what I expected. At first I was slightly disappointed to see settings different from the first part. I was eager to romance Kaguya as my trusted servant and friend, alas... almost all relationships, occupations and connections between characters were changed, I assume they chose to do it this way, since in the prologue you are entering a different realm, so making everything different, but still using the same characters, is easier.
If I were completely honest, I didn't enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed the first one. I was expecting to like this one more actually, since I read some things about it being darker than the previous episode, but I wasn't aware just how dark it was actually going to be. Then again, I think the biggest issue I had with both routes was that all of the plot points happened way too immediately with no character development or story build-up at all.
It also felt like the heroine wasn't herself in this episode, I think she acted way differently, which made choosing some choices a little bit difficult and often resulted in bad endings, as there were a lot more of them here. The devs were obviously gunning for the element of surprise in this episode, which usually works well for characters that are romancable, but when the surprises involve the heroine's personality, then it gets rather confusing. As the protagonist, shouldn't I be aware of my own personality?
Overall however, I still think this game is worth it, even though they changed a lot of things. The first episode was better, but this one was worth it as well. As I did in the episode 1 review, I still recommend you getting this game at a sale rather than at full price.
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