Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kokoro ★★☆☆☆

Where can you buy?

• Available on Steam

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Explanation to Negative Feedback

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Are we dumb because we’re human?

We’ve got Kokoro the grasshopper girl who’s smart, then we have Masato the skull guy who’s so smart that he doesn’t even need to study like Kokoro does, and then there’s us, the human, who’s dumb and has absolutely no shot at getting into Tokyo U no matter how much Kokoro helps us with studying.

I mean, granted, I get it, when she comes over to help us study, we’re busy studying her, and so we don’t get any schoolwork done, but seriously. Apparently all these creatures are smart–hell, even our sister is smart–and then there’s us.

Are humans inherently dumber in this universe?

Weird character designs

I’m all for interesting character designs, but I just don’t understand the characters within this game. It’s obviously a world where humans and anthromorphic creatures exist, but I guess if there’s a grasshopper chick, why would any of the other characters make much sense.

But then again, we’re familiar with humans and grasshoppers and bats, so why is there a nightmare-fueled Mister Potato-Head as a teacher and the boneman as a friend?

It just doesn’t make much sense to me to know specific species from earth, and then we see beings from hell.

Grasshoppers make sounds before killing you

Who would’ve thought, right?

It’s a little weird though. Do grasshoppers actually make noise? I know crickets do, and grasshoppers can fly to a certain extent, and they also spit, which is absolutely gross when you’re holding one and don’t realize it’s going to happen.

Kokoro doesn’t do this, at least to my knowledge.

But she does make some kind of war cry when you make a choice within the game.

Silent segments are too long

There’s a time and place for taking the music portion out of a video game, and that can sometimes be to up the tension of a moment where something might happen. Where the audience watching might be holding their breath to see what comes next.

Sometimes that doesn’t work in this game because the silence that stretches through the portions of this game is just too long. Especially when the text is on auto mode and you’re waiting for the text to progress while listening to absolutely nothing when the character’s aren’t voicing lines.

I just prefer some kind of music in the background, even if it’s subtle.

Masato scares me as a friend

I mean, he scares me in general, but as a friend, he’s extra scary, specifically toward the end of the game when he’s talking to you about Kokoro. He grabs hold of the front of your shirt, has a raging look on his face, is yelling at you, throws hands, and…well, with a friend like him, who needs enemies, right?

Credits go slow

Minor nit-pick because not everyone sits through credits, but if you want to, for how little credits there are, it goes incredibly slow, and I’m wondering if they made it go so slow just so you could listen to the music going on…which is atrocious to listen to.

Don’t roll credits for one section at a time.

Auto text goes faster than voice acting

I noticed this in the later portion of the game (probably because I played the last section right before this review), but yes, if you have the auto-text going, it might progress forward before a character is done reading their lines, which…why.

Just why would you allow that to happen in a game with voice acting in it.

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Explanation to Positive Feedback

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Our sister’s skirt defies gravity

And thank god for that.

What kind of person hangs from the ceiling while wearing a skirt and expects it to not reveal everything underneath? Do you know how awkward that would be to see that happen with your sister?

Didn’t think a grasshopper could look that good

I mean, they made her look good.

She came onto the scene and I did a double-take. Like, all right girl, get it. All these furries and scalies in the world, now we’re bringing in the insecties to spice things up. I bet nobody thought a grasshopper chick would look any kind of good in a swimsuit.

Don’t get me wrong, her face is still sort of creepy, but everything put together…she’s a nice piece of artwork.

Voice acting

You know what, I don’t mind most of the voice acting–our teacher’s is a bit cringe and our sister’s as well, but the other characters that speak, I don’t mind. It’s not all great, but it’s not all bad, and it is in Japanese.

Though when our sister laughs, it’s so high pitched and annoying, she’s almost been able to trigger a migraine for me. I absolutely hate her laugh.

Multiple endings

A single section in this game will give you three choices, and each one of these choices offer a different ending. Two are not the choices you want. One is clearly what you’re supposed to choose.

You can decide on which one that might be.