Okaaayyyy so I actually habe another question hahaha.
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Soooo in the true end, I'm confused. Were the aliens who attacked them all gone and that the remaining threat was the faulty experiment of S****'s dad? Sooooo was the MC and S**** able to defeat the threat and save mankind? Is mankind safe now? If they are, will their new focus now be on rehabilitating the Earth?
I'm gonna attempt to answer all in one comment this time, so get ready for a gigantic wall of text xD You'll have to let me know if I miss anything, but I'll do my best :3
I never actually gave the MC a canon name (probably cos I'm the kind of player who likes to self-insert, or make a character up to roleplay as) so yeah, she doesn't really have one x3 I probably should have given her one though really! There's a tiny variation in the creepy guy's lines at the end if you name the MC Anathema though :D
Yeah, S**** was pretty much referring to all of the Kuro's as a whole cos he just hates them, even though it's not even their fault that they are the way they are :( With the first Kuro's, I didn't mention anything within the game, but I like to think they just started out fairly normally, without making too many personality changes, but then (as you said) the Kuro would become more and more messed up over time with all the cruel things happening.
They definitely would have had some Kuro's though which they would have altered right from the moment of waking them up cos they were doing all kinds of tests down there, and would have wanted to cover as many things as possible. Also, with any of the Kuro's, if they're not seeing the sorta results and reactions that they're looking for, they would either tweak them to see if anything different happens when they change parts of his personality, or they will just terminate if they think a unit is a lost cause (apart from Dollmaker, who they just sorta abandoned instead >.<)
Yeah, you're right that when Kuro disappears at the end of the princess route it was because they pulled him from the simulation :3 The main thing that would have lead him to realise the scenario was close to ending was the defeat of Kai. Cos in each scenario there is a big challenge that the pair are tasked to overcome, and the scenario only ends in success if they manage to be victorious. Usually, they will keep running the scenario when things go wrong (like the bad ends), they will only retire a pair of clones if they are just hopeless. Even then, they will just attempt to run the same scenario with a different pair. So since Kuro has more general awareness of how they run stuff, he knew that the big bad of the scenario had been defeated and it would all be over soon for them in that world :(
With the bad end about knocking on the door, there was that and a few others where I was worried that maybe it would give too much away too soon by having Kuro hint at things with lines like that, haha. But the reason he tells MC she can do better next time is because he knows that the folks in the lab will just patch MC up and they'll go again. Pretty much all the bad ends in the initial 5 routes are simulation fails, and so Raine just oversees everything and attempts to guide/comfort the MC after she dies or makes a wrong move, then prepares her to be reinserted into the scenario to try again. Kuro knows that that's what's happening, and it's almost like his world is on pause while he's waiting for it all to continue. Kuro knows that MC will likely make it to the end of a scenario victoriously eventually, because Raine is essentially pushing her forward all the time towards the end (cos they do want the pairings to succeed, but each simulation is like a new test of their abilities.) The Kuro's generally know that when MC dies in the middle of a scenario/simulation, she's technically gonna survive, but watching her go through all the horrible stuff properly messes him up >.< Hence why he's sometimes the cause of the bad ends x3
Yeah, Tim's voice acting was awesome throughout, but in the scene you mentioned, that whole speech in that bad end was just delivered so brilliantly! That and some of his other lines actually make me cry a little when I listen to em cos he has so much emotion in his acting :3
You're right that Kuro just wants to save the MC by any means possible. He hates seeing her suffer, and hates himself even more for losing it sometimes :( He just knows from the few feelings he has leftover/passed on from S**** that him and MC are supposed to be together, he loves her with all of his heart, and he just wishes that they could be free to love each other in a place where neither of them have to hurt. Instead, he knows there's pretty much no way out for them, so all he can do is make the best of a bad situation and try to have some form of a relationship with her inside the simulations.
Also, if there weren't that many bad ends, I think that maybe it wouldn't come across as well as to how much they have suffered on their journey. To be honest, I would have liked to have made even more routes, which would have lead to even more bad endings, haha. Like I wanted there to be a whole route for the Idol and the Cadet scenarios, but I was too short on time with having Tim able to continue voicing Kuro since he was moving to Japan for a new job. It's probably a good thing that I didn't make the game any longer than it already is though, cos it took years to make >.< and I feel like I probably should have made something much smaller for a first project xD
I'm a huge lover of bad ends in any kind of game, but they seem to be in visual novels more than anything else :D I don't really mind what happens in them, but like you, I only like them if they make sense as part of the story, ones that are just jammed in without any real reason just get on my nerves >.< haha.
Yeah, that bad end in the detective route where the MC is trapped is one of the more emotional ones of the route I think :3 Like you say, the snow reminded her of Kuro, even though she was losing all of her memories, because of it being icy like him.
I'm super thankful that there are so many free resources available to use online for projects like this, cos it wouldn't have been the same without all the soundtrack and SFX, and almost all of the music and SFX I used was free stuff that people have just created and then given to the world to use :3
Funnily enough, I can't even remember why I decided to make Kuro icy cold to the touch in the first place! It just sorta ended up sticking after I wrote it for the first one, haha. I think it was possibly because when I first wrote the student route many years ago, I didn't know for sure what I was going to do with the overall story, and I think maybe I was actually originally going to have Kuro as a real spirit or something. Instead, I ended up making a lot of big changes in my head to what I wanted the whole story to be, so Kuro ended up being referred to as a spirit in a lot of the simulations, even though he wasn't really one in reality.
The detective route Kuro's way of giving power was my favourite :D It's my favourite route in general, aside from the hidden one! I'm glad that it made it feel like each route was a whole life of its own, cos that's how I wanted it to come across :3
Writing character interactions is my absolute most favourite thing to write <3 I remember waaaaay back when I was in school, I loved English class, especially when we got to do fiction writing. The teacher would always have a go at me for my stories though, saying that I wrote too much dialogue and not enough of anything else xD That I should spend more time explaining what the characters are doing rather than what they're saying, haha. That used to annoy me, cos when I read books as a kid, the dialogue bits were always my favourite x3 When I first discovered VNs and saw that they contained more dialogue and character interaction than a typical physical book, I was in heaven immediately x3
It makes me super happy that you love the way the characters were written and their interactions <3
That's good if you like reading my explanations :D I worry that I ramble on way too much when I'm trying to explain anything, and that most people will get bored and wish I would shut up x3 hehe.
I'm kinda glad that you think Kuro and Ukyo are similar, as Kuro was actually slightly inspired by Ukyo! :3 Amnesia was the first non-mobile VN I played many years ago, and I liked it a lot! Ukyo's story broke my heart, but I really loved it. With Kuro and SR, I sort of wanted to capture a more intense version of the sort of pain that Ukyo went through in Amnesia. I just loved Ukyo's story so much and wished there was more of it!
I'm happy to hear you like that feature after finishing the game where the music on the title screen permanently changes :3 That tune is pretty much the creepy guy's theme. It took me a few days of headaches to get it all working properly, haha. At one point, I thought I was gonna have to give up, cos there were a few bugs that I just couldn't figure out how to fix, but I got there in the end!
In regards to music, I really enjoy giving specific characters, or moments their own sorta theme, haha. That piece that you're talking about is called Unwritten Return, and the description of the piece on the site I got it from suits S**** very well :D This is the description:
"Dreamy and edgy; Not a combination you often find, and yet - here it is. The ambiguous and slippery nature of the piece are a wonderful thing. Perfect for scoring a character where the audience is unsure of them. Could be good? Could be evil? WE DON'T KNOW!"
If you want to listen to it any time, this is the website it came from here.
That's the place I used for most of the soundtrack! I spent weeks combing through the huge database of amazing tracks there, picking out all the ones I thought would fit well with SR :3
As for the title music being used in the hidden route too, I really wanted to do that because I absolutely love it when games have a main theme or title theme that is used during important moments of the story later on :D I haven't seen it in that many games, but every time I come across it I just love it so much! So I had to do it myself, haha. If you ever want to listen to that piece, it's this one.
To answer your last question, the creatures that pretty much destroyed the surface world were all actually spawned from the faulty experiment that Isaac released. I know I didn't really go into much detail about that in the game (again cos I was worried people might get bored if I included too much lore/backstory >.<) But yeah, the experiment that Isaac set loose to test went rogue, and they were unable to recapture it, so it just went completely outta control and spawned a tonne of thralls which it used to destroy most of the earth's surface. Really it was just doing what it was designed for as well, because it was an experimental bioweapon for human warfare. When humanity decided to retreat underground though, it decided that it couldn't be bothered to pursue them, instead choosing to live in relative peace after it successfully cleared out the surface of the world. Killing the creature would have killed off any remaining minor creatures that might still have been around, cos the creature which was the sorta last boss, was in control of all the other creatures, kinda like a hivemind type thing going on (like how when you fight the guardian outside the tower where the big creature is sleeping, that guardian has very little will of it's own, it's more just a puppet for the big creature.)
So yeah, like you say, by defeating the main creature, S**** and MC pretty much saved mankind... which technically means that Isaac actually succeeded in his quest to create a powerful enough weapon to save the world, even though it was his fault in the first place >.<" At least he fixed his mistake I guess! Though I'm pretty sure he could have found a much less cruel way of defeating the creature xD
But yeah, humanity should be safe from that particular threat, and it falls to all the survivors underground to begin the process of starting again like you say :3 I wonder if S**** and MC would take charge of rehabilitation, or if they would decide that they've been through enough and just want a quiet life, leaving others to work on that while they have a well-deserved break, haha.
I hope I managed to answer alright anyhow :3 Feel free to let me know if I missed anything! Thanks for all of your questions + have an awesome daaaay :D
WOW! Thank you so much for this hahaha. As I'm coping with finishing the game, I could only really ask for more about it to satiate my curiosity sooo yeaaaaah the HUGE wall of text was really like giving me cake with extra chocolate in it haha.
Annnddd ummm haha, I actually have more questions again.
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Soooo are many Kuros and MCs tested at the same time or are they tested one by one and if it fails then they move on to wakinh the next one?
So just to confirm, the higher the number, the more routes tge Kuros remember right? Like if Kuro and tge MC suceed in a route, that pair will be used in another route and if they are consistently successful they are most often used in more scenarios, thus they get to retain more of their memories. Can one of the Kuros remember multiple routes or is his memory wiped after every route. I'm really curios as to the extent of the memory wiping in Kuro haha. Cuz I'm also confused as to to the extent of what he meant when he was in the training room with 26. Like when he was with that MC what was it that he explained over and over? Their situation or the routes? I'm also curious about that particular Kuro...if we were to assume that He IS the Kuro of the 5 routes, will he still have memory of all those 5 routes or will they have been wiped from him?
Btw, 26 is actually my favourite number. So I have an attachment to 26 hahaha, quite surprised that was her number, and to me it felt like she was really the MC of the 5 routes.
Alsooo when they are in the simulation, can MC and Kuro feel things? Like can they taste food, can they really feel Kuro's icy touch, can they feel sensations like pain or the butterflies in their stomachs when they kiss? Ooorrrrr is it only an illusion of sensation like when someone is dreaming?
Alsooooo thank you for the links to the music. I was sure that I had other favourites as well, like the one in the detective route where the MC confides in Kuro so I'm happy ro fins them in the links (I mihhy find even more gems in there haha).
I find it interesting that most of the bad ends can be easily avoided if only the MC listend to Kuro hahaha, very competent spirit guide indeed haha.
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Alsoooooo when the creepy voice ma de me choose an ending at the end and blood got splattered in that ending...WHAT DID HE DOOO!?!?!?!?! I chose the CG where 339 and 13 travel outside the research facility..ssooooo if we were to treat that ending as a separate timeline, did the creepy voice kill the 339 and 13 of that time?
I wonder what would happen though if I play the game all over again and arrive at the end again, will the creepy voice say the same things? Hahaha
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Also in terms if sprites, I found S****'s to be the most eye candy haha ( I was also excited to see his blurry form at the end of the student route cuz I thought ohmygoshhhh it's the true route Kuro!!!!) but for some reason, detective Kuro's sprite was my favourite. Maybe because he was my favourite Kuro or the way the voice and the lines of that particular Kuro struck me the most, or maybe it was the pose hahaha. But before that though it was actually Princess route Kuro that I deemed as the face of Kuro, becayse it matched so much that when I got to the detective route, it was so jarring to see detective Kuro as the new Kuro, but surprisingly I got used to him quickly. When I got to the gamer route I was able to see the gamer route Kuro as Kuro too but after dinishing the game, the one that looked the most Kuro was the detective one. Did that makr sense? Hahahaha. Either way, when I think if Kuro, it is always detective route Kuro that first appears in my mind. I think that itvwas because of Tim's voice, if he didn't voice the characters the immersion would have been briken and I woild not be able to see the other route Kuros as Kuro, especially detective route Kuro cuz really, with those curves he looked more like a female Kuro, haha. Software limitations but, it worked out in the end. So yeah the voice really sold it to my mind that all of them were Kuro, if it wasn't for the voice I woild have been thinking all throughout that "that's not my Kuro". I guess that was advantageous since he took on so many forms.
Now I am actually curious as to how detective route Kuro would have looked like in the artstyle of the talented artist who drew student Kuro for you.
Oh yeah, I also like the detail that he floats hahahaha, I could really see detective Kuro floating because of his pose. Do all of them except gamer Kuro float?
Oh yeaaah! Mage Kuro also reminded me of Ukyo cuz long green hair hahaha sooo I guess that also helped in my attachment to the Kuros hahaha.
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Alsoooooo even if they are clones...are the Kuros and MCs human? Like bone and flesh human? Or are they biologically altered somehow to be superhumans?
Alsoooo does Kuro in the 5 routes need to eat? If he does, dies ge have a sweeth tooth?
Oh yeah, I was also curious about this too, why was Kuro so indecisive in the mage route when he said to go to the stairs but quickly said not to. Whyyy?
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Sooooo I browsed through the incompetech site and I managed to find some of the music tracks used in the game...and I almost cried. First few notes of the track "Heartbreaking" and I instantly remember the gamer route Kuro and how he had to stay back in the virtual world. It was as if the sadness I felt for them during that moment was instantly excavated from the depths of my heart. Gosh, I can't believe that the game still has that effect on me even now haha.
I'm curious about something again, how much are the Kuros aware of the simulation? Like they know everything is a lie and they just act based on the story or they actually believe that they are living in that simulation but that it has to come to end cuz it's just another life they have to live through?
Hey hey! I just wanted to drop you a quick message to let you know that I've read your most recent comments, I just haven't had a chance to reply yet cos I've been having an unusually busy weekend, haha. I will make sure to get back to you as soon as I can though :3 I hope you've been having an awesome weekend!
Oh yeah, I also want to thank you because you actually indirectly helped me haha. You see, these past few days I've been doing a video presentation for our college department's orientation program (since our classes start today hehe). I already drew the character used to narrate, finished recording my voice over and have already put in all the information needed. Everything was already edited and all I really needed was music to put and then I am ready to render the video. Since it will be presented in facebook live, I really needed to use music that was free to use and was suitable to the video as well. I was really fretting on what music to use, especially about how to cite it and all. I really did not know where to look. But then I remembered that you actually gave a link to the wonderful tracks in the game, thus I was able to find very good music there (while also almost crying when I stumbled on the music that you used in the game). So yeah, you saved me a lot of time and headaches when I was finishing everything. The timing was so good, as if God really led these chain of events to help me in that crisis haha.
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Soooo I replayed the game again and...I sorta have a hypothesis on how Kuro determines when their life in the simulation ends after the big fight ended.
Sooooo they will see this sign and know it is near, cuz the time varies. In the Princess route they had a week or so if I remember correctly before Kuro was gone, and in the detective route it was shortly after the fight. Soooo I noticed the rainbow. I can't remember if other routes had this showing up but in the princess route, after the fight with Kai and everything was sunny in the land, in the background there was a rainbow, and in the detective route there was the rainbow cotton candy and even rainbow ferris wheel (probably a hint to where to take her???) My theory is that if they see the rainbow after defeating the big bad of the route then they will be gone shortly after. But this may also be totally wrong and maybe there is another meaning to the rainbows. After the route a cg with rainbows appear and MC sees a place with rainbows. So what's up with the rainbows? Hehe. Do they somehow symbolize a new beginning in the game? I am curious about this rainbow theme going on hehe.
And the place with rainbows...is that place like inside her cobsciousness as she is being pulled out of the simulation?
Also in the princess route why was Kuro pulled out first when usually it is Kuro who makes her fall asleep in order to take her out of the simulation. Also is the reason he makes her sleep in most routes is that so she will not notice the transition to when she is pulled out?
I'm so sorry my reply has taken a lot longer this time >.< I've been super busy with work related to my other project, CiQ, haha. My good friend Anthony is helping me with casting and the audition deadline was last week so he sent me lots of auditions to listen to. We spent the week trying to pick the final cast and I was preparing scripts to get sent out to em :3 Can't believe how much time has passed already, it's like the whole week just flew by! Haha. Anyways, I shall go ahead and get to replying now :D
Although you don't see the pairs being tested other than the ones you play as, there are other lab workers + test rooms all testing various pairs at the same time. So while you're playing as MC, there are loooooads of other pairs being tested by different people who aren't as important/high ranking as Raine. Raine and Isaac tend to just work with whichever pairings are showing the most potential (not always though cos sometimes they go on tours of the lab and drop in on other workers to check on their progress and stuff) :3
You're correct about if a pairing is successful they will be used in another route :3 The number they have is just kinda like their model/factory number though. The lower the number, the older the body. So 26's body was pretty old and had been through a lot x3 The fact that they put part of 26's consciousness in 339 is supposed to sorta show how many MC's they're going through cos they go through em in number order, and the next available unit to wake up was the 339th unit in the lab. As for Kuro, the one in the training room would remember fragments of what happened during the simulations, but more importantly, he remembers what is happening outside of the simulations. They let him remember on purpose so that he's easier to break >.< And the one that you see with 26 is pretty broken :( He wouldn't always have been like that, but all the years of knowing that the simulations are more like a dream/escape and then having to face the horrible reality he's stuck in really wore him down.
When he talks about having explained to 26 over and over, he means that he's tried to get her to remember/understand that the simulations are exactly that, and that where they are right now is reality, but because they always take that information from her, he was never able to successfully get her to see that truth. So in the end he just gave up trying :(
I only called her 26 cos it was my age at the time of writing her part of the story :3 I tend to think of her as the heroine of the 5 main routes also. I'm 28 now, haha.
In the simulations, Isaac would have wanted physical feelings and sensations to feel as real as possible, so I'd say that they're probably stringer than the sensations of a dream, but not quite as powerful as how they would actually feel in reality.
As for the creepy voice's reaction to the ending you picked, yeah, he doesn't like it if you pick that one x3 But it's okay, they're safe, he's basically just throwing a tantrum and showing you what he thinks of sweet things/threatening you, haha. There are some slight changes in his dialogue at the end. He says something slightly different for each choice that you pick during the conversation with him + he has one slightly different name if your player name is Anathema :3
I'm glad you liked S****'s sprite :D I thought he was the best looking one too x3 I went a little crazy adding all the belts to him xD I kinda wanted to make him look like a Final Fantasy character, haha. I love detective Kuro's hair x3 it's all flowy kinda like he's underwater :D His body looks super feminine though with it being in that tight outfit >.< haha. I mean his sprite body is technically just a flat-chested female body xD There are nowhere near enough sprite resources around for male bodied sprites T_T Oh gosh, I think all of the Kuro's drawn in Mei's art style would have looked incredibly gorgeous cos the student route one that she drew is HOT x3 haha.
As for floating, I can't actually remember x3 I don't think I had mage or gamer Kuro floating. I hadn't really decided for student Kuro, but I don't think I referenced him floating. It was more just something I thought would suit the detective one that anything else :3
The clones are fairly close to human, yeah :3 Not quite 100% since they've been manufactured in the lab. They have certain alterations to their bodies to make them more durable and stuff, but for the most part, they have flesh and bone like you say. They don't really need to eat, but they able to process food. If any of the Kuro's were gonna have a sweet tooth I'd say it would be the detective and gamer ones :D I can imagine the gamer Kuro just innocently sucking on lollipops or something x3 and detective Kuro with his candyfloss, haha.
In regards to mage route Kuro being indecisive about where MC should go, that version of Kuro is the most sorta split between wanting to help MC and wanting to destroy MC x3 They pretty much have ended up with a split personality and try really hard to keep it under control with the route. The indecisiveness is Kuro having an internal battle between the two personalities. The unfortunate bad end that follows is what happens when the twisted side of Kuro comes to the surface and defeats the sweet side x3 So you're exactly right when you say it seemed like there were two Kuro's in there! By that point in their story, poor Kuro is already pretty messed up from years of going through what they have. The Kuro in the 5 routes is always struggling internally to keep the crazy part of him locked away, but in the mage route, he just doesn't do a very good job of suppressing that x3
Yeah, a lot of the music on Incompetech is incredible :3 I couldn't have asked for a better library to choose from! Almost all of the tracks came from there aside from the odd few that came from Purple Planet Music and then some that I own from a music pack I bought many years ago, haha.
The Kuro's kinda treat the simulations as a holiday when they're worn down, because getting to live that life is better than life in the lab, so in a way, it's like a breath of fresh air for them and they enjoy the 'freedom' that they have there compared to what they get in the lab. Kinda like if your whole life is a nightmare, you're gonna prefer a having dreams to facing your nightmare reality x3 When they're fresh Kuro's, they're less aware of what goes on in reality, so they treat the simulations more seriously like they really mean something, whereas the more worn down Kuro's know it's all gonna come to an end, but at least it's better than lab life x3
Aww, I'm so glad to hear that I indirectly helped you by linking you to Incompetech :3 How did the presentation go in the end? I hope it turned out great and that you were happy with it :D
I would honestly love to say that your hypothesis on rainbows is correct, cos it sounds really awesome! But I'd be lying if I claimed that x3 haha. I hate to say it, but the rainbows don't really have any significance :( I wish they did now you've said what you said cos that would have been a cool idea to have! In truth though, I don't know why I picked those backgrounds >.< I had a big resource pack of free backgrounds that were all different colours with different patterns in and for some reason my brain decided to go with those ones to represent the transitions between simulation and reality x3 Since they don't have an official meaning, your rainbow theory could be adopted as canon if ya like :D Cos I think that's a really neat way of looking at it!
The rainbow places are supposed to kinda be like within her consciousness in between worlds, yeah, cos it's like there's no actual physical space when transitioning, so the only thing there is the mind :3 Kinda the same as some of the moving backgrounds like the goopy ones and the sparkly ones are supposed to represent the same thing.
There's no real reason in particular why Kuro was pulled out first in the princess route. It would have happened in other scenarios that we don't get to see as well, it's just more common for Isaac or Raine to allow them to have a sort of goodbye at the end. Though I guess you could kinda look at it as when they're allowed to have a nice goodbye together it's when Raine is overseeing operations since she's kinda, and when Kuro is pulled first it could be when Isaac is overseeing cos he's not as nice as Raine x3 haha. And yeah, the reason he usually helps her is because the transition is kinda jarring and would possibly leave an imprint in her mind of the change between worlds even after memory wiping. It's more that Kuro is ordered to send her to sleep that way cos they don't want her gaining too much awareness of the simulations. So if she's blacked out it's easier for them to move her mind from one place to another. Kinda like putting a computer into sleep mode x3
I'm sorry once again for how late my reply is! I hope you've had a fantastic week + that you have a lovely weekend :3
Hello! Thank you so much for this reply again haha, it really felt like I got a surprise dessert haha. I really didn't mind that the reply was longer this time, I'm just happy that there even is a reply haha, understandable as irl stuff can be overwhelming some days.
Annddd I am happy to say that my teachers LOVED it! The music set the tone of the videos so well, especially when it came to introducing our course and the student council. But while they were actually enjoying the slideshow for the introduction of the council officers my mind was actually going through a series of flashbacks from the gamer route (as I ended up using the music from the very beginming of that route). So yeah, thanks again haha.
Alsooooo I still can't get over the game haha, sooo I replayed it again. Andddd I noticed something in the student route. The principal was able to see Kuro right because they were one and the same, how were they one and the same? Was the principal Isaac or another experiment? I'm guessing that Kuro saying he was a part of all of that was him saying that he is part of the simulations being done to them. It boggles me just how I missed that blatantly obvious hint the first time I played haha.
Alsoooo yaaay! Now I really deem Mage Kuro as the one who is most similar to Ukyo, with the green hair and split personality and all. Idk, the association just makes it more painful for me haha, painful in the heartbreaking way cuz they are both tragic lovers so I remember both in each other. But somehow detective route Kuro is still my favourite even after the multiple playthroughs. In my mind it's as if he's the official Kuro haha.
Alsooo, it actually cleared something up for me, sooo 26's memories was put shortly into 339 right? They didn't have to go through 27 then 28 them 29 and so on, sooo 339 was already the next in line to wake up. Sooo is she also the latest unit? Or how many more were produced after her and Kuro?
Alsooo since they are also humans...do they need to eat too?
Anddd now I'm curious about this too, how does Kuro of the 5 routes sleep, he seems to get tired as he stiffles a yawn. While he and the MC are actually in a simulation, can they actually get tired?
I replayed the game again, I couldn't help it. Well, I got through to the Princess route and I just confirmed that Kuro hovers! Now I am curious as to how far he can go. Can he basically float really really high and far away and just choose not to cuz he don't want to be far from the MC or does he have limitations like 1km away from her.
Replaying the game, it showed just how competent Kuro was as a spirit guide. I could have gotten straight to the good ending of a route 95% of the time just by following his suggestions and choosing what would be a more comfortable choice for him (he'll murder me if he's not happy anyway lol) and he makes so much sense at most times (if he is not being too yandere). Most remarkable times was when he advised the MC to execute the traitors and in the detective route where he theorized the trap the villaim had for the MC and when he said that the MC's genuine kindness and selflessness wasn't a weakness. I guess that's another thing I liked about Kuro. He is always so supportive and sees the best in the MC, he really just wants to see her fluorish. And he knows when to correct her when the situation calls for it, and he owns up when he has mistakes. Those moments made me really admire Kuro as a character and showed tgat he really loved her.
It pained me to choose the wrong choices cuz I knew I was gonna hurt Kuro in some way (the one where MC kissed Farro became more painful to me cuz after I knew that Kuro was in pain everytime Farro touched her, I understood why Kuro just let her suffer, cuz Kuro himself must have suffered terribly out of jealousy and extreme pain when they kissed). But they were essential to know more about the plot and to further the point that they were in a simulation sooooo that gave me a reason to actually choose them. I find it neat though that you get to go back to fix toir mistakes and even if Kuro knows you made a mistake, he still loves the MC.
