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No. 1315
SPOILER POST
To unlock Metsu Mode (Hard mode with more story):up up up up right right down at the title screen or score 40k points.
Story stuff:
First, this game has two story routes, and the ending will only show after you've completed the photo album (all 5 pictures). The condition for the routes:
A. Score above 10k and below 20k.
B. Score above 20k, ending divided to three stages:
i. Score > 20k
ii. Score > 50k
iii. Score > 100k
After obtaining each picture, a text file (memo) will appear in the game folder explaining the things they are doing at the camp, mostly about the surprise party for Ageha, the girl with the hot green socks . Each ending for route B also spawns memo that explains the background of the story, and what happens afterwards. If you've entered route B, then on the title screen if you wait long enough (or hold spacebar for some time) the background changes to a piece of story about Irisu's past.
The main character is Irisu, the so-called bunny girl. She and the other 3 (namely Uujishima, Edo, and Ageha) are all university students. The game happens at some point where they all go camping someplace.
Irisu was actually planning to kill Ageha and Edo, motive explained further below. The block crushing game you're playing happens inside Irisu's mind. How well you perform determines the route that she will take.
In the first ending (route A, of which all of you consider 'bad end'), Irisu executes the murder plan . Thus a news reporting a tragedy befelling 3 students on a camping trip, 2 bodies found while one gone missing. photo.png shows all three students being blackened out with marker, and will reset after you play the game one more time and stays that way until much later. Image of Irisu crying after the game ends probably shows that she regrets the incident.
In the second route, the first part is what you guys consider the 'happy end'. Being scared and worried since her friends still haven't come back, Ageha returned to the lodge, only to find some pieces of memo (the ones in the game folder) and a 3-shot photo with Uuji and Edo blackened out. She starts to freak out, demand explanation, suspect Irisu and badmouth her. Behind her, a bunny girl with a witch hat closes up (from outside the game window) and swings with a club....(game exits by itself)
(Restart game)... only to reveal that it was a surprise party held for Ageha's birthday! (Notice the club is actually food, maybe a bread. Her real weapon is actually the striped socks but that will be explained later.) When Irisu calls out to her, the music suddenly stops, giving some kind of suspense but it was just Irisu congratulating her.... but what's with the suspense?
A new text file appears in the game folder explaining the reason why the guys went missing earlier, and Ageha's feelings afterwards. It also reveals she wants to be alone together with Uuji, and that Uuji's been sketching some eerie cat suicide stuff (background of gameplay) which he says has no special meanings, he's just imitating some foreign cartoon which had bunnies instead of cats. She, as a cat-lover, wants him rather to draw those creepy stuff using bunnies instead of cats, and this is going to trigger something really bad later.
After this, in game menu, a story appears after pressing spacebar for long time. Irisu grew up being lonely because her family moved often so she was afraid of making one. Her only friend was a rabbit kept in schoolyard, and it wasn't popular with the kids. There was another animal kept in school, a cat which is loved by everyone, but Irisu couldn't mix in due to her asthma. One day, she found the rabbit dead only with is head, and a cat was licking it. And so she killed the cat (the outcome is actually unknown, but you can guess). Ever since, she holds grudge against cats.
Second part (>50k), gameplay ends with Irisu showing scary face. A final text file (Irisu's diary?) entitled "can't stop taking cough medicine" is unlocked and placed inside the game folder, revealing the truth behind the camping trip. Irisu found two people sitting beside her in class to be noisy, wondered what is so amusing about the chatter, and wished they were all dead. One day, her eyes met with a pretty boy who always seen alone, but gives her a warm smile. That boy was Uujishima. She had a chance to peek inside his notebook and found sketches of cats commiting suicide in various ways. Due to this, she felt that they both share the same feeling and the day their eyes met was destined. Since then, "they started to get on together" (delusion in play). Uuji is becoming more and more dear to her, she likened the distance of their seats (4 seats apart) to the fence of the rabbithouse in her elementary years, and wondered if he won't get eaten. Actually, they still haven't spoken to each other.
Lately, a girl (Ageha) is getting friendly with Uuji, and that is irritating. That cat like girl, and another stupid boy (Edo), together with Uuji, seems to be planning a trip, and Irisu is not going to let them take Uuji away. "The cough is not stopping"
After some events, she decided to kill them. For this, she came up with a plan, and started befriending the trio and even became someone who decides the matter of the trip, which is kind of a miracle since she is not used to this kind of friend stuff, but for the sake of Uuji...
An insight to what seems to be the plan for a perfect crime makes her rethink how wicked it was. She burned the notes of the plan, and instead came up with a birthday surprise plan instead. Nevertheless, she gives herself good marks for certain good points of the plan, like filling one of her socks with sands and gravel to be used as a blackjack (notice the art in the game menu).
"puts some more white powder medicine inside her mouth, the sensation coming to her nerves, and her breath is becoming easier"
The reason the plan wasn't worked out was: she didn't feel like it. Behind her eyes, there is this invisible inorganic world where she destroys something. She had always been playing this since childhood and it somehow give her relaxation. Anyways, she was glad she didn't go with it. The plan had some flaws: her target in the first place was Ageha, and there was no need to call her lover to the place of murder.
"starts to stuff more white powder down her throat. The 30th packet. The mixture of ephedrine and codeine makes her sympatethic nervous system fly~~"
This time, she isn't going to let the mood of the moment ruin her plan. And when she succeeds, she is going to sit alone with Uuji, sunset on their backs, enjoying his sketches.
Final part (>100k):
photo.png now shows Ageha's face erased/whitened out. alluding to Irisu's success in her plan's execution (Ageha's dead). So now she is going to see Uuji's sketches. Wait, earlier, Ageha asked Uuji to draw rabbit instead of cat, right? (there's another picture named u-tarou.png in game folder).
Well that's long as hell, and it isn't even the end. Next post I'll detail the story of Metsu mode.
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