Alternative Titles: ドラマティカル マーダー Company: Nitro+Chiral Release Date: 23.03.12 Official Site: Platform: PC Genre: 18+ BL, ADV, gay shit, funky cyber shit, mind fucking shit, wifebeater character alert Plot: Aw yee, Nitro+ Chiral’s newest game. From post apocalyptic, to kitty boys to meat shitting high schoolers, the setting’s a futuristic cyber one this time, many many many many years into the future. Our protagonist, Aoba, works in a Junk Shop and lives a relatively normal life but slowly finds out that his constant headaches are key to a giant ploy on the island. Kay it’s better than it sounds rofl trust me on tha. Anyway, it’s been a long time since I done a BL game innit eh?
First, a tad about the town. The town’s on an island called MIDORIJIMA and is divided into 4 parts, NESW. North is a forbidden area where it is known as a ghost town. The South is home to the residential area with little shops. To the East lies the hangout for the younger generation, being filled with game centres and clothing stores. And finally, the West is where all the rich, important VIP dudes are, “PLATINUM JAIL”.
PLATINUM JAIL’s made by the monopoly TOUE and they’re in the entertainment industry or sth. In the centre of PLATINUM JAIL stands a tower called the OPAL TOWER (or OVAL TOWER i’m not sure but I’ll stick to OPAL) which has casinos, theatres, hotels etc and you need to be a VIP member to gain access to PLATINUM JAIL. Basically, if you’re not from PLATINUM JAIL, you’re pretty much living in the ghetto slums lol and there are a lot of gangs and teams around. TOUE’s been trying to kick the ghetto people out of the island for ages to expand PLATINUM JAIL. There are also things called ALL MATEs in this world and they’re like mini robo pets people have that act as network support things (a walking, talking tablet of sorts that can also do your chores for u) and instead of having phones, people here have a bracelet thing called a COIL. Aoba’s allmate is this adorable puffball dark blue terrier/ pomeranian. ALL MATES can be used as partners to participate in a super popular game called LIME: It’s a virtual battle simulation game where people fight each other without risk of hurting their real bodies.
A tranny judge called USUI (shown above) was implemented and she calls up random tournaments where ppl gather to compete. It used to be a small scale free game but when it got super popular, TOUE became its sponsor Anyway, the game opens with Aoba talking on the phone to a customer. Halfway through the convo though, the customer reveals that he doesn’t want to buy anything and actually called cuz he thinks Aoba’s voice sounds hot so he wants to ask him out for a cuppa coffee LOOOL. Aoba ‘seduces’ the guy into buying some stuff though but headbangs the desk after cuz this always happens to him rofl.
He gets a text afterward from a TORAWARE NO HIME begging him to save her. Before Aoba can figure out who it is, 3 bratty neighbourhood kids bust into his store and start wreaking havoc on the store till the shopowner HAGE tells em all to gtfo. He sends Aoba out to deliver some stuff and our protagonist runs into KOUJAKU Aoba’s childhood friend. Koujaku’s blessed with good looks and a キーラ スマイル rofl so he’s super popular with the chicks and has his own massive manditory legion of fangirls to uh protect him from other girls and boys alike. He works as a freelance hairstylist/braider who opens his store whenever and wherever he feels like it. Koujaku says hi bye to Aoba and Aoba then meets his old friend, MIZUKI, who’s the leader of a gang called DRY JUICE.
He wants Aoba to join his group but Aoba’s determined to remain a NoMark (no group) and Mizuki tells him about how teams have been going missing recently, only to show up a couple days later with all their memories wiped. Something of the like called KAMIKAKUSHI happened around 10 years ago and the culprit was believed to be the strongest, most badass evil gang called MORPHINE. However, MORPHINE’s become something of an urban legend now and Mizuki leaves when a Lime tournament nearby begins.
Aoba’s about to go home but a white light engulfs him and for a mo, he feels someone’s hand on his head before he’s pushed into the crowd Lime fans. USUI, the tranny buddha wannabe judge of LIME materialises and begins the battle. Aoba suddenly gets a massive headache and scrambles away from the crowd. Aoba wakes up with a killer headache again but faints before he can do much.
He’s taken home where he flops down and sleeps and dreams of a man that night but can’t catch wot he’s saying. Koujaku drops by the next day and comments that Aoba’s hair has gotten long. Ere, it’s revealed that Aoba doesn’t cut his hair much cuz it’s PAINFUL to do it: his hair can apparently feel o.O He feels less the longer the hairs are so he can cut it okay when they’re longer but das about it. They’re uh sensitive so that’s why he doesn’t like people touching his hair (I can tell they’re gna come in handy in the porno scenes rofl) and when he was a kid, Koujaku used to save him from getting his long hair tugged at cuz he looked like a pansy.
Anyway Mizuki’s been acting weird lately and worried, Aoba goes to check up on the guy only to find DRY JUICE’s base covered in MORPHINE’s gang symbol. DRY JUICE’s members are all gone and the place is covered in blood. Remembering the KAMIKAKUSHI incident, Aoba then runs around town with Koujaku, tryna figure shit out. He gets a text again from TORAWARE NO HIME, asking him to save her again but he figures it’s spam again so he bins it. However, TORAWARE NO HIME proceeds onto mass spamming him till he opens the msg and plays the gamewhich lasts 5 secs before it fades out lol.
Then realising that he might get targeted too cuz he’s friends with Mizuki, he hurries home in case sth happened to his gran TAE. When he gets home though, there’s some DICKHEAD X here who knocks the shit out of Aoba When Aoba wakes up, he’s elsewhere with DICKHEAD X. DICKHEAD X then orders his cronies to rape Aoba wtf but last minute, some shit happens with Aoba and he blacks out. When Aoba wakes up, DICKHEAD X tells him that there were some ex DRY JUICE — MORPHINE turned members in his house so woteva Aoba thinks he did to his gran, he didn’t – DICKHEAD X’s target was Aoba from the start. Anyway errone joins hands cuz they all want something from Aoba rofl and they conclude that MORPHINE kidnapped Tae and they’re hidden out in in some warehouse in the North. Aoba notices that the place looks like the the game he played from TORAWARE NO HIME but has no time to ponder cuz they’re jumped by a bunch of zombie looking DRYJUICE guys. Aoba fights to way to the centre and finds no other than MIZUKI there with his gran held captive.
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At this point, Mizuki’s obv a leeeetttlleee bit CRAY CRAY and rambles on about how MORPHINE came to him and asked DRYJUICE to join hands with em. Mizuki asks once more whether Aoba’ll join him or not and when Aoba downright refuses, Mizuki puts a knife to Tae’s throat and threatens to kill her if Aoba doesn’t join. This time, Aoba flings himself at Mizuki but before he makes contact, he feels the same sensation he did when he was thrown into LIME. NExt thing he knows, he’s inside DRYJUICE’s base.
Outside, he finds Mizuki who begs him for help and confesses that he joined MORPHINE to stop his team members from all leaving: lately, errone’s been so obsessed with LIME and DRYJUICE members have been slowly leaving to go join LIME teams instead. Mizuki loves his team so he doesn’t want em to leave and thought joining MORPHINE would make people take DRYJUICE more srsly.
However, MORPHINE starts burning their own logo into DRYJUICE members and mind controlling em or some shit. Mizuki starts spazzing out on the ground then and Aoba’s brought back to reality. His gran’s safe and Mizuki’s out cold on the ground. Aoba’s glad the whole thing’s over and before blacking out, he tells his gran 「婆ちゃん、頭、痛いよ」 and she answers 「あとで薬を飲みな。もう帰るよ」 Aoba wakes up the next day still with a terrible headache but Tae’s good.
She sits em all down and tells them that she suspects MORPHINE is now part of TOUE co. 20+ years ago, Tae was a research employee at TOUE and did experiments on brains and stuff. Tae thought it was to cure brain cancer etc but instead, TOUE was trying to discover how to control people. Tae quit and had no contact with TOUE till a little while back where TOUE demanded that she return to researching shit. Tae refused and she suspects that TOUE sent out MORPHINE thugs to capture her.
The people who’ve been disappearing and then reappearing all stoning (the KAMIKAKUSHI like incident Mizuki was talking about near the beginning) are prolly failed test subjects of TOUE. Then there’s Aoba. Tae tells him that he has the power to get inside peoples’ heads, like for realz.
In using his voice, he can pretty much make people do what he wants if he really tried: das why pervert customers liked his voice and das why he could use his voice to get em all to buy shit. He could force himself into minds of others and destroy their entire mind if he wanted to – “well theoretically speaking anyway” lool. People who can do that are called SCRAPS – well now there’s a pleasant name hurhru and his ability is called SCRAP. Anyway, Tae goes on to reveal that Aoba was in the hospital some time ago cuz of an accident with LIME.
Apparently he got into a fight and would suffer some memory loss and one day, when Tae went to see him in the hospital, she found the nurse knocked out on the ground beside Aoba, who was standing up and evil smirking all fine. After that, Aoba slept for 2 days and that’s when his headaches began. The nurse couldn’t rmb wot happened and Tae speculates that was cuz Aoba used SCRAP to wipe memories of that. The meds Tae has been giving Aoba were not only to cure him of headaches, but also to suppress his SCRAP abilities and the “other him” inside. As of late though, they’ve been losing effect cuz his SCRAP abilities have been building up over the years.
The base nature of SCRAP is to kill and destroy so Aoba prolly accidentally destroyed Mizuki’s mind when he was inside but Tae believes Aoba can use it to do good so Aoba runs off to PLATINUM JAIL to solve shit. Next day, popo come to get Aoba and he flees with Koujaku.
They both get a text from TORAWARE NO HIME but this time, with an invitation into PLATINUM JAIL. The two of em go there where they’re sent to FLAME WILLOW, an entertainment district place with bars and clubs etc. Koujaku disappears to go whore around in a club and suspicious, Aoba follows him and gains access to the place via some dude in a kimono who gave him a card cuz he felt like it. Inside, Aoba gets tipsy and needs Koujaku to piggyback him to a hotel. Koujaku asks wtf he was doing there and Aoba admits to tailing him.
He tells Koujaku that some dude in a kimono let him in and Koujaku totally flips when he hears about the kimono dude and tells Aoba to never go to the club again and he leaves without telling Aoba wot he was doing there himself. Next day, Aoba goes off to confront Koujaku about ytd again but instead, walks in on the dude half naked and sees that Koujaku has some yakuza tatts on his back + numerous scars. Koujaku again, refuses to say anything adn tells Aoba to go back to sleep. Aoba does and he dreams about his childhood with Koujaku. Tae once returned late home and prior to that, Aoba started weeping like a pansy cuz he thought Tae died or something lolol.
Anyway, Koujaku was there to comfort him and played with pansy Aoba till Tae returned. Aoba wakes up to find Koujaku gone so he rushes over to the club to find the guy. Mr Kimono shows up again and offers to help find Koujaku but Aoba declines and returns home soon after when it starts raining. Moments later, Koujaku comes home too and super pissed, demands to know wot Aoba and Mr Kimono were talking about. Aoba’s like “?????” and Koujaku ends up pushing the guy onto the bed and starts ravishing the poor guy.
Aoba starts getting a headache and a voice in his head screams at him to destroy Koujaku and Aoba ends up using SCRAP to get Koujaku off. First thing Aoba does is punch Koujaku and the guy just looks horribly disgusted with himself before walking off without another word. Pissed, Aoba goes outside to clear his head and ends up meeting Mr. Kimono who offers to let Aoba crash at his place for the night. He introduces himself as Ryuuhou. Inside, Aoba finds out that Ryuuhou is a tattooist and that the guy’s uh pretty cray – he drugged Aoba’s tea and tells him that he’s very very interested in Aoba cuz he can sense “destruction” in him.
He’s about to tattoo Aoba’s back with his magical tattoos before Koujaku busts in, called in by Ren. Ryuuhou pretends not to know who Koujaku is till the guy lifts up his hair and reveals the tatts on his face too. Well Ryuuhou manages to get away but Koujaku sends his men after him Back at the hotel, Koujaku apologises for being a rapist and finally tells Aoba the truth. Koujaku’s dad is actually a yakuza boss and Koujaku’s to be the heir. His mom’s only a mistress though so she left the island with Koujaku but when the real wife was found to be infertile, the yakuza group wanted Koujaku. Along the way, Koujaku’s mom died and he was forced into the yakuza and got coerced into getting tatts. Ryuuhou’s the one who gave him tatts and also killed his mom or sth so Koujaku wants to kill the asshole Ryuuhou’s fled to the OPAL TOWER so Aoba and co fight their way in.
Sure enough, Ryuuhou’s there and it turns out that he can control Koujaku’s men (when they entered his house to save Aoba, they got infected by his tatts or sth) and he commands them to grab Aoba. He goads Koujaku by calling him a mother lover killer which sends Koujaku into berserker mode. Here, Ryuuhou tells him that he’s actually part of TOUE – some years ago, TOUE thought of controlling people through tatts so they hired Ryuuhou and his first test subject was Koujaku. When Koujaku gets too emotional, the tatts’ll start to consume him. Ryuuhou tells Koujaku to kill him cuz he’s fulfilled now seeing his work of art bloom so Koujaku rushes in for the kill and stabs Ryuuhou.
Koujaku is still in berserker mode so Aoba decides to use SCRAP to get inside his mind Inside, he finds young Koujaku getting his tatts done by Ryuuhou. There’s some black mass of evil there too and blood starts spattering everywhere. Koujaku tells of how he blacked out from the pain during the tattoo session and when he woke up, he woke up in a sea of blood – everyone in his yakuza fam was dead including his own mother.
He wanted to kill himself for the monster he was but he thought of Aoba’s face and how he’d cry if he never returned. So Koujaku returned and when he saw the same smile from a now much bigger Aoba, he thought how everything would be okay now but killing Ryuuhou made him realise that it’d never be okay cuz he’d still be a murderous piece of flowery tattoed shit. The black shit threatens to devour Koujaku but Aoba uses his SCRAP and orders Koujaku to not lose to the tatts or his past.
Koujaku recovers and returns to real life with Aoba. Aoba hugs him and tells him that he knows everything now and it’s all gna be good. Koujaku asks if he can uh touch Aoba rofl. Aoba says yes. Koujaku asks if he can kiss him. Aoba says yes.
Aoba declares that he’s gonna destroy whatever’s eating up Koujaku so he does so with SCRAP. However, using SCRAP has fucked up the balance of Aoba and Aoba 2, the other Aoba who keeps telling him to destroy shit.
Aoba 2 represents his desire to destroy everything and now Aoba 2 is about to bust out and SCRAP everything. Koujaku though tells Aoba not to put last minute shit like this and leave him so Aoba manages and Koujaku etc fight their way out of a crumbling OPAL TOWER. OPAL TOWER collapses cuz of some bad maintenance or wtfuckever and TOUE founders flee. TOUE soon falls too and they’re distributed within a couple other lesser companies and the island is now free from the grips of TOUE. Mizuki’s getting btr, Aoba’s losing feeling in his hair and Aoba 2’s gone into a slumber. A week later, Koujaku leaves the hospital and goes over to Aoba’s house at night. There, he confesses that he’s always liked Aoba but never faced it cuz it was like totally omg gaaayyyy!!!
He’s tried to kill the feeling over and over but it just kept coming back stronger and stronger and that night when he turned into a rapist, he realised afterwards that he’s ALWAYS wanted to feel Aoba up. Aoba confesses that he likes Koujaku too and the two get it on, with Koujaku getting a nosebleed halfway through cuz Aoba’s too hot lolololol. He asks Aoba to let him cut his hair when it doesn’t hurt cuz that’s been his lifelong dream rofl 3 months later, Aoba’s taken to crashing at Koujaku’s place to erm avoid his grandmother finding shit out. He now sports a short do, his hair finally being desensitised enough to be cut. Koujaku spent 2 hours cutting his hair apparently and kept Aoba’s hair in a jar LOOL but anyway, all ends well and Koujaku promises to treasure Aoba:D BAD END SCRAP fails to leash Koujaku and he gets consumed by the tatts. TOUE takes over the island and captures Koujaku. Aoba2 takes over Aoba and everyday, he goes to visit cray cray Koujaku.
NOISE AKA deadR4BB17 (cuz he looks like a deadmau5 wannabe lol). The leader of a team called RUFF RABBIT, he’s all - most of the time and doesn’t talk much but turns out to be horribly direct and “mypaced” in the most embarrassing of ways. He’s also pretty cocky so he gets into fights a lot, especially with Koujaku.
Aoba meets NOISE one day when he finds himself forcibly shoved into Lime’s public network and forced to participate. Aoba yells that he’s not part of the game but is instead, given a player name of SLY BLUE by some guy in a deadR4BB17 head and a labcoat. Ren takes on a human form in the game and the two are forced to fight uhrabbits LOL but Aoba doesn’t know wtf he’s doing and Ren ends up taking a mass hit for him.
Aoba gets another headache attack but when he recovers, he’s someone else and knows how to play the game. He orders Ren to change his settings and Ren then becomes his badass who can pew pew from his arms like Cyborg from Teen Titans rofl. Deadmau5 wannabe orders the bunnies to attack and they seemingly kill off Ren before his shield regens in 2 seconds but that’s the end of the Lime game for now. Aoba wakes up with a killer headache again but faints before he can do much.
He’s taken home where he flops down and sleeps and dreams of a man that night but can’t catch wot he’s saying. Noise breaks into his room shortly after and demands to know how Aoba bested him in that Lime match. Aoba can’t remember cuz he was Aoba2 at that time but that just irks Noise and he demands a rematch. Before Noise can do anything though, Tae stops Noise and he leaves but comes back the next day to Aoba’s shop. The 3 brats try to attack Noise but Noise freaks em out by kissing em on the hand rofl and when Aoba’s like “jesus u pedo wtf u doig to little kids”, Noise tells Aoba it ain’t weird at all and kisses Aobaon the lips LOL. Aoba freaks while Noise is like “-” about it and then the latter asks the protagonist to join his LIME team, RUFF RABBITS.
A Lime match then starts outside so the two head out and Koujaku’s about to have a brawl with Noise over some stupid shit till Aoba stops em. I loled so hard when I saw the gang sign for the RUFF RABBITS rofl looks at what the guys behind Noise are doing with their hands xD Anyway, the shit with Mizuki etc happens and after that, Aoba and Noise suddenly get sucked into a Lime game. Noise ends up saving Aoba and the two are invited to PLATINUM JAIL. There, Aoba catches Noise fiddling with Ren and flies into a rage but realises that Noise was only removing some viruses in Ren acquired from the Lime game. That and Noise’s hand is fucked up cuz he got hurt saving Aoba.
Aoba tries to apologise but Noise just changes the subject and goes out to eat with Aoba. Noise gets into a fight again though and ends up fucking up his hand even more. Aoba forces the guy to let him clean his wounds which confuses Noise cuz he doesn’t get why Aoba’s getting so worked up over a stranger like him. Noise then figures it must be cuz he’d be more use to Aoba intact, to which Aoba testily exclaims that it’s cuz he’s WORRIED abt him. Noise still doesn’t get it but has what he thinks is a “EUREKA!!” moment and he kisses Aoba LOL.
Aoba’s like ASJDIFHAKJDSLFJDSIFJADSF like wtf u doing mannnn and Noise is just goes that Aoba is all俺狙い anyway. Rofl Aoba gets a hardon so Noise is like: I DO U YOU DO ME MIGHT AS WELL TWO DICKS WITH TWO HANDS To which poor Aoba is just confused like: Dwbi Aoba, I get what you mean about youngsters these days lol Anyway, Noise ignores Aoba’s protests and after some goading from Noise, Aoba has happy time with Noise, who is surprisingly gentle and has piercings on his dong – damn he’s brave:O But then again Noise doesn’t seem to be able to feel pain cuz he told Aoba to uhbite his dong The guys Noise beat up some hours ago come back and Aoba and Noise fight their way out. Aoba uses SCRAP to save Noise who then gets mad as fuck cuz he thinks Aoba lied to him about not rmbing how to use SCRAP that time in Lime.
Noise strangles Aoba in an attempt to force SCRAP but when Aoba doesn’t fight back, Noise just has some angry tirade about how he doesn’t understand Aoba in any way, why the guy is so worried abt him etc cuz in the world he knows, people are only ever nice to you if they want something from you. Aoba repeats that it’s cuz he’s simply worried about Noise: though Noise is strong, he’s got no street smarts and he runs around taking down everything and everyone head on, thinking he’s some invincible superman – he’s not Wolverine so his wounds don’t heal himself and Aoba can’t help but worry. Noise calms down but says he ain’t leaving Aoba till they have a rematch but anyway, lets head to OPAL TOWER now. At the OPAL TOWER, Aoba takes a hit for Noise who gets super irate and goes on about how he never told Aoba to save him etcetc and bottom line is, he doesn’t care whether he dies or not so srsly stop helping him. Aoba gets mad that Noise has so little self worth so the two get into an angry fistfight.
Noise shows no sign of feeling pain and when Aoba asks, he explains that he CAN’T feel pain, not even when he’s stabbed or anything. He can vaguely tell when people are touching him but not pain so that’s why he doesn’t want Aoba to nurse him or take hits: he can’t feel shit anyway. Because of his uh “affliction”, he could never play with the other kids cuz he didn’t know what would hurt them.
He’d always be too rough and this brought shame to his richass parents so they locked him up in his room and never let him out. He was lonely at first but learned not to care as he grew older and liked being alone. That’s why Aoba is weird and confuses him. Aoba slaps him lightly and tells him he’s being a dumb knobhead before he pulls Noise in for a hug, and tells Noise that there are things in the world that are good and wonderful. Noise asks whether Aoba is going to teach him these good things and Aoba answers that if Noise promises to stop being so reckless, he just might;) Noise gets all embarrassed and does the whole “BETSUNI SHIRANEEE KI GA MUITARAAAAA” thang lol Aoba’s unable to move cuz of his wound from saving Noise so Noise runs off to find firstaid suppliesafter giving Aoba a goodbye kiss omg why is Noise so cute Ren becomes some crazy mutt and chews the shit out of Aoba. BAD END 2 Virus and Trap manage to capture Aoba but decide not to fork him over to Mr.TOUE cuz they both like Aoba too much. Instead, they make Aoba their sex toy and rape him senseless everyday, shoving both their dongs into him at the same time and getting their lion and snake ALLMATES to join in as well.
Wtf are you srs Afterthoughts and Conclusion TbhI’m disappointed. As with the last two games I reviewed, it’s not the game itself that’s bad; stand alone, they are decent but it’s just that I was expecting more especially since Dramatical Murder is from the revered Nitro+Chiral But anyway, that aside, this was fun to play:D My favourite is probably Clear but I loved Noise and Ren too – all three of em were too adorable. I don’t rmb Koujaku cuz I played his route like3 months ago rofl but Mink can go die in a fire that cesspool of loathsome shit.
I think I might have missed something huge in his route cuz why would anyone make such a disgusting character you can go after? TOUE was a boring, typical chessmaster antagonist and Trip and Virus were just two big rapist dickholes. Aoba was a pretty cute protagonist, kinda like Konoe from Lamento but more upbeat but I think he’s also retarded cuz he liked all that violent shit with Mink. I don’t even Fab music, standard Nitro+Chiral fare.
There’s a different artist again and I like how bright her stuff is though I liked TnC/Lamento and Sweet Pool art better. Still, nice clothing designs especially with Noise lol and his cute rabbit ALLMATEs. If you look into the game CGs or Recollections there are these two unused CGs of Mink and Aoba together.
I’m not saying that these two CGs would’ve made Mink’s path more enjoyable but I guess Nitro+Chiral decided that the game took up too much space, so they axed someone. That someone being DICKHEAD X But yeah, the game overall was mediocre. It’s like all this information was being shoved in to make the plot interesting and shit. It’s sad when a great company like Nitro+Chiral makes something that isn’t badjust mediocre. So dissapointing. LOL bet they realised what a shitty character Mink was halfway through but they weren’t assed enough to go back and correct him so it was like “eh whatever lets just shove in two CGs ere and hope it works”. I didn’t even see those two CGs – i didn’t bother looking through his shit cuz I hated him tha much I know I was expecting something AMAZING too: on its own, I think the game fares well as one of teh btr BL games around but when one takes into account that it was by Nitro+Chiral, one realises that it really should have been WAY better.
Ehh, i read your blog about the routes.////./////. For clear he have a d.k, lol he was made to be able to live like a human for the organization’s mind controlling plans OwO. So clear’s job was suppose to be able to infiltrate the human population and live like one so much so that making love is possible. Lol don’t ask me how they were able to make it, i can only ans that their technology is high enough.
Fyi clear did climax with aoba plus he could feel aoba properly. But i’m not sure if there were white stuff coming out of him or not, cg no show, text too vague on it. I think Mink’s character is based on BDSM type of people. I played the route by accident and yes his story isn’t that solid, but the characters that showed up were quite typical: BDSM rough ojiisan, Mink. Cute sweet gentle seke, Clear Perfect childhood friend guy, Koujaku Tsundere ‘uchiha sasuke’ character, Noiz Only Ren is a bit different, the ‘forever guardian angel’ type, rarely shows up in N+C works, (especially the cute part with Sei) but, meh. The types of seme that show up don’t have much variety. By the way, love this review, the way you re-tell everything is just awesome and sums up quite everything (I noticed this after having just finished the game, yay!).
Did you play Nitro+Chiral’s previous works? TnC, Sweet Pool and Lamento? The thing is, Dramatical Murder isn’t mediocre on its own.
It’s a good BL game imo with a solid story and a nice mix of characters + nice art. But when compared to its predecessors, I feel it really doesn’t match up at all. Nitro+Chiral’s games have always been kinda dark like TnC and especially Sweet Pool (Lamento less so but it’s still there) and I think that’s kinda like one of its trademarks. The previous 3 games brought sth new to the BL genre (1. Apocalypse, 2.
Kitty boys, 3. Shitting meat monsters) but I don’t feel Dramatical Murder really set itself apart from the other BL games that much. If no one told me who the makers were, I don’t think I would ever have guessed that Nitro+Chiral made the game. I found the story of Dramatical Murder a bit half assed with the whole “oh yeah Aoba’s actually got a twin + his hair can feel + yeah Ren’s part of him” – it all seemed to come out of nowhere to me and I found the antagonist completely boring and just a stock “I WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD” character. They also had Mink, who totally disgusting and got no explanation to why he was such a dickwad and to why Aoba suddenly fell in love with him. I don’t know if I’m explaining this too well since it’s been a while since I played this but bottom line is, Dramatical Murder is far from being BAD: it’s a pretty great stand alone game but I think it’s getting labeled as “mediocre” mostly because Nitro+Chiral’s previous games were BRILLIANT and made me weep (Sweet Pool WHY) while this one doesn’t invoke the same level of emotion and just doesn’t leave you going “DAMN DAH WUZ SOME GOOD SHIT” – high expectations contributed much to this too. I think it’s only something that you’ll understand if you had previously played Nitro+Chiral’s other games before this one.
There’s something really empty about the DMMd plot. I guess it’s the lack of foreshadowing, more than anything else. They tried to save everything for the True route and that made a lot of the revelations seem like arse pulls. I’ve noticed that each Nitro+CHiRAL targets a different subgoup within the yaoi fanbase so I’m guessing DMMd is aimed at girls who like fluffier stories? I wonder if Re:Connect’ll be able to bring something new to the table And now I shall purge this goofy smile from my face and regain my manliness by playing TnC. You should play lamento next THEN sweet Pool – personally, I don’t rly rmb much of tnc and lamento since it was back when my japanese was even worse than now but I rmb thinking they were fab.
Then my japanese picked up by the time I played Sweet Pool and that game just blew my mind, regardless of how disgusting pooping meat monsters is lol. I probably will, I’ve just been so swamped with life lately and I’m trying to get my other half finished posts done first. I guess nitro+chiral mb upped the quality of the art and stuff so the filesize got massive perhaps. Well I would say for from your review ((not finished with the game lol)) that drmm or whatever it is like one of thoes begginer games for people who wanna get into BL visual novels like there gate way game to see how they like because you don’t wanna just hand them all the good stuff like the gAmes you mentioned in the comments because then everything else wouldn’t fair up to them if u just threw all the good dark amazing charecter type games at them and stuff just something that pretty OK to see how they like it but that’s is just my OP((lol also my first BL game))). First of all I just wanna say I love your reviews they crack me up. “Ren route is kinda ruined for me cos of the selfcest, incest and theoretical beastiality.” ^ROFL WHY U GTA GO BRING THAT UP I WAS TRYING SO HARD TO IGNORE ALL THAT:P Damn straight Noiz was fucking hilarious man, their sex scene was the most random thing on earth (I died when Aoba was like “NEW AGE??” and wondering whether this was how sex worked for Noiz’s generation). I’m glad I’m not the only one who was just left absolutely dumbfounded by Mink’s route.
It was justabuse so I didn’t see what I was supposed to coo over lol. Not sure if you’re going to read this, but I just read your review, and it was some pretty funny stuff. You have an interesting sense of humor.
Just like what a bunch of other people already said, I totally recommend you play DRAMAtical Murder: Reconnect. Once you play it, it becomes clear that the BL VN geniuses at Nitro+ChiRal purposely made the routes in the first game open ended so they can release this sequel. All the lose ends in the first game are tied up in Reconnect.
I definitely understand how you feel about Minklol after I played the first game, I hated Mink with a passion, too. However, once I played DRAMAtical Murder Reconnect, I totally love him now xD He (briefly) explains why he treated Aoba the way he did in the first game, and he’s shown in such a better light in the sequel compared to the first. Whereas in the first game Mink’s route seemed the most unsatisfying, in my opinion Mink’s good ending route in the sequel was the most complete and satisfying:3 (And Mink is not Jamaican, he’s Native American/First Nations lol, he just had dread locks as a “disguise”). Also, if you thought what Mink did to Aoba in the first game was bad, you should see what Virus and Trip do to Aoba in ReconnectSome of the most disturbing stuff I’ve seen in a long time, and now I absolutely HATE Virus and Trip with a passion =.=’ Plus, I recommend you play all the bad endings first and then the good endings later, so you feel more pleasurable with the game that way (and yeah, play through Virus and Trip’s one and only bad ending first just to get it over with right away).
Once you go through all the endings, the Mizuki and Aoba endings will be unlocked;D So yeah, if you haven’t already because you’re busy or something, hopefully you’ll have time to check out DRAMAtical Murder: Reconnect. Clear’s route in Reconnect was just as awesome as it was in the first gameso many feels (bad ending = sad tears; good ending = “omg that was so touching and beautiful” tears);3 p.p.s. Oh yeah, and the anime for DRAMAtical Murder just came out a while ago, it’s really rushed because they try to squeeze in every character’s good ending one episode at a time, but if you’re interested you should go check it out, too!
You guys are all such assholes to Mink. Like the whole freaking Mink fanbase gets it, he raped Aoba. Do we approve of it? Fuck no BUT we did however look more into it to find out his real character and guess what he actually turned out to be the best, sweetest, most misunderstood gentle giant, and the fact that Fuwanovel had the fucking balls to intentionally mistranslate his entire reconnect route to make him seem like an asshole proves it. This is a link to the real proper translation of Mink’s reconnect route: Not liking him is fine but talking shit about his character without even having played the second game and sending death threats to the people of the fandom that actually like Mink is shameful, rude, and extremely unneccessary. You all need to grow up and drop the damn hate. I’m not entirely sure whether your comment was directed towards me specifically or towards other more provocative Mink haters but here’s my response in case it was meant for me.
Unfortunately, I have not had the time to play the second game nor have I read any spoilers about the second game (I try not to read reviews or spoilers about games that I plan on playing to avoid any extra bias on my part). Also note that this post was written 2 years ago and has not been updated to include any new takes I have on the second game or anything. So, my knowledge of reconnect can be effectively summarised as “the second game of DMMD which is apparently pretty damn good” and nothing more. Perhaps Mink is indeed a wonderful person but I don’t know anything about that and until I have time to play the second game and see for myself, I cannot effectively reevaluate Mink’s character. Therefore, I believe that it is justified that I chastise Mink in this post for being an abusive rapist and hold a negative view of his character because he is inarguably, an abusive rapist in the first game and that is what this post is based solely off on. I can’t speak for the other players who dislike Mink and send death threats but this is my reasoning and I assure you, that I have better things to do than actively spread Mink hate and send death threats to fans of his character. If your comment was meant for me, then I believe your anger is misdirected and that you are barking up the wrong tree.
Oh yeah I get what you mean about the Trip and Virus thing. I guess they’re “more appealing” cuz they seem like “nicer rapists” or some shit like that I have no idea. Maybe it’s because they look like twins too. Their endings with Aoba killed them for me so I like them about as much as I like Mink.
Either way, don’t let it get to you I guess, there are good fans and bad fans in every fandom and let the haters flame away: I doubt there’s much you can do since if they’re actually posting death threats over a video game, they don’t have much sense in their noggin either way. Spread DMMD love and tell everyone about Mink’s greatness!
Which is sth I need to witness myself:D.
Serena Williams boosted her chances of winning an eighth Wimbledon and 24th Grand Slam by making the fourth round at the All England Club on Friday as big sister Venus fell victim to the curse of the seeds. Serena, seeded a modest 25 this year, enjoyed a 7-5, 7-6 (7/2) win over France's Kristina Mladenovic to set up a last-16 duel with Russian qualifier — and fellow mother — Evgeniya Rodina. Victory on Centre Court, sealed with a 13th ace, came 20 minutes after Venus, a five-time champion, had slumped to a 6-2, 6-7 (5/7), 8-6 loss to Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands over on Court One.
Only two of the top 10 seeds remain in the women's draw — number one Simona Halep, who plays her third round match on Saturday, and seventh seed Karolina Pliskova who is in action later Friday. 'I have worked really hard and it's been a long arduous road,' said Serena, playing in just her second Slam since the birth of her daughter Olympia last September. 'At this stage of my career, it doesn't really matter who I face, every opponent is playing their A-game. 'A lot of top players have lost. Technically I am not a top player although I have the wins of one.'
Venus, 38 and the runner-up last year, was worn down by Dutch 20th seed Bertens in a dramatic third round clash lasting two hours and 40 minutes. Bertens faces Pliskova or Romanian world number 28 Mihaela Buzarnescu for a place in the quarter-finals. 'It means a lot. I still really can't believe it. It was such a tough match and such a big fight so I'm really happy that I won this one,' Bertens said. Also exiting was 10th seed Madison Keys, who had made at least the quarter-finals of her last three majors.
The American lost 7-5, 5-7, 6-4 to Rodina, ranked 120th in the world. Keys and Venus joined the likes of defending champion Garbine Muguruza, world number two Caroline Wozniacki, two-time champion Petra Kvitova and US Open winner Sloane Stephens in falling in the first week. Also eliminated in the first round was 2004 champion Maria Sharapova. Keys lost nine games on the trot from 5-2 up in the first set to 0-4 down in the second. She rallied to level the third-round match before Rodina sealed a maiden place in the last 16 of a major.
Keys fired 15 aces in the match but also committed 48 unforced errors. 'I have played the quallies and three matches this week which were all three sets,' said 29-year-old Rodina.
'She hits the ball so hard. I am a little surprised that I won, I was a little bit lucky.' Later Friday, eight-time champion Roger Federer takes on German comeback specialist Jan-Lennard Struff. The world number 64 has had to fight back from two sets to love down in his first two matches to beat Leonardo Mayer and 39-year-old Ivo Karlovic. Defending champion and top seed Federer, by contrast, has made the third round without breaking sweat. The 36-year-old Swiss has won 26 consecutive sets at the All England Club.
Federer beat Struff in the second round of the Australian Open in January in straight sets. Zverev, Anderson through German fourth seed Alexander Zverev made the third round, seeing off Taylor Fritz of the United States 6-4, 5-7, 6-7 (0/7), 6-1, 6-2 and faces Latvian qualifier Ernests Gulbis for a spot in the last 16. Zverev had trailed two sets to one when his tie with Fritz was halted due to darkness on Thursday. But the 21-year-old raced away with the last two sets in Friday's bright sunshine. 'Stopping last night was not a nice feeling to go to bed with,' said Zverev who said he had vomited on Friday due to a stomach bug and came close to quitting.
Russia's Ekaterina Makarova defied second round victim Wozniacki's churlish prediction that she wouldn't progress further in the tournament by reaching the last 16. Makarova, who made the quarter-finals four years ago, beat a weary-looking Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
She next faces Italy's Camila Giorgi who saved a match point to beat Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic 3-6, 7-6 (8/6), 6-2. Giorgi last made the fourth round six years ago. South Africa's Kevin Anderson, seeded eight, swept past Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 7-5, 7-5 on the back of 22 aces and 42 winners. Anderson has reached the last 16 for the fourth time and goes on to face France's Gael Monfils.