This was a fun sequel which gave us not only continuations of the 5 main endings, along with two new endings to the original and a side story during the events of the original, but its time to address the elephant in the room. In the side story we see the Heroine make a friend she refers to as "her age" and this girl is 13. Every love interest is a man that is Liberally in his mid 20's (minus Saint Germain who is in the 3000's but I digress). Yes this is Victorian times where the age of consent is different but it still problematises the romances.

I was excited to jump into this one cause I just can’t get enough of the series! I thought all of the white rose stories were lovely and the perfect length, with of course Lupin’s being my favorite 😋 Van Helsing definitely shot up to #2 for me here! His route was just so incredibly sweet, plus none can deny the sexiness of Junichi Suwabe’s voice. I did end up skipping around St. Germain’s route a lot because I’m just not a fan of his as a LI, plus his stories are so sad lol.
I also pretty much skipped the entire side story with Shirley as I just wasn’t super interested. But she is adorable!
I did like the addition of the Finis route; he’s not my favorite but it’s nice to see the different ways the story could have unfolded!
I also loved Delly’s room, such a cute addition and ummmmmm I think we need a fan disc just for him as an adult 😳 IYKYK

This is the sequel to Code: Realize ~ Guardians of Rebirth and I can only recommend this to fans of the first game, as this collection of stories relies on you having played the Code: Realize games in order. Although in the visual novel genre, there is limited gameplay, this is even more evident in Future Blessings. For the most part, you will be just reading through the stories. In fact, there are only two stories in which you get to actually make any choices. That being said, I did enjoy getting to see what the main characters got up to after the end of Guardians of Rebirth and the fact that Finis and Sholmes got their own short stories, definitely made this game worth playing for me. Overall, if you enjoyed Guardians of Rebirth and wanted an opportunity to spend more time in that world and with those characters, then I recommend you play Future Blessings. If you have yet to start the series, I would recommend you start with Guardians of Rebirth.