You're putting me in a car?? You're not cool enough to just throw me over your shoulder and run real fast?

i just. wow....where do i start?

first off: this game was 1 of my most awaited games this year. when i finished piofiore 2 years ago i love the game to bits. its so dramatic and angsty and surprisingly has some funny moments that cools down the tragedic content that kept spiralling one after another. so when i found out it got localized i was THRILLED! years went by and i played other otome games to pass the time and when i finally got the chance to get and play the sequel lemme just say. it exceeded every expectation i have and remindes me just how much i love the series.

this is literally the game so far that i didnt speedrun a route. i love ALL the love interests. even my least fav LI has an amazing route tht left me reading for more until the end. all the characters are fleshed out and their developments were leagues leagues LEAGUES better than i hoped (esp yang coz i never expected him to mellow down yet still be in character). i love liliana so much. she may be the soft timid MC but she has a strong fire in her and the strength that neither the LIs have. shes so lovable and kind and i will protect her with my life.

all the villains truly live up to their names: villains. i love yuan the most from voice to character but he still scares me but i love him. i can fix him. sebastian. scares THE HELL out of me. criminal minds level that psycho. raul and teo really did well on making me hate them lmao same for stinky eugene

as for the routes of my preference?

1. yangs route. i do feel sad coz everyone else died but i love the lao shu fam and seeing yang change for the better for lili feels SO satisfying. he wants to be better for lili. he doesnt even realize hes being better for lili. he shows his love for lili with his actions. his confession is stl so damn romantic. liliaba also is so strongwilled which makes yang love her more and more. his tragic end is the only tragic end in this game that made me CRY. no matter good or bad end yang truly loves liliana. will redo yangs route like how i did his route in the 1st game

2. alternativa finale route. like how i love the finale route in the first game i love the finale route in this sequel. i just love found family tropes in situations that seem clearly impossible (a nun 4 mafia bosses and an assassin) i love how everyone loves lili and since lili loves them all they arent mauling each other lmao. the scene where all saved lili is my fav. the scene where lili bravely confront sebastian is my fav. yang is so fcking hilarious in that route n to see him fight together w the others so VERY satisfying

3. henris route. im so happy he got a full route and wow. the criminal minds style storyline really caught me off guard. but i love it! its still founs family but henris alive and happy and im happy :') also henris tragic end hurts me but damn those cgs 👀

4. yangs alt route. its like the tip of an iceberg to theie dynamic hehe also i just want the other mafia bosses and orlok lose their shit once they found out lili likes yang

5. dantes alt route = gilberts alt route = nicolas alt route = orloks alt route. theyre all happy n alive n thats important to me.

6. dantess route = orloks route = gilberts route = nicolas route. all routes are so interesting and fun to read!!

all in all. this is by far my most favourite otome game ever. 11/10. infinity/10 even. i love this game sososososososososo much!!! this fits all the criterias of a perfect otome game for me. it has all i want and more ♡

re: playing orlok's route; hahaha where do i even start? unexpectedly, it was a very long run. it didn't end at chapter 5 as i expected, probably bc i didnt pick the obey yang option. expectedly, it was a bad end. exoectedly, it was like a dante bad end. unexpectedly, i didn't get bored. can you believe i got like 5 bad ends in this run? my route progress is 40% now! in one run

it was also a while before i got to play this again. my sisters busy with some drawing project os i havent been allowed near her laptop lately and she discovered a new pc game (the ace attornsy prequel). she's been in a good mood bc of that game tho

1. i didnt predict that rosberg would be orlok's actual dad..? yknow considering that he seemed to neglect orlok emotionally. tho im not surprised that he had a son. most ppl have a hard time staying celibate anyway, like u tout sex as the ultimate form of love between a man and a woman and expect ppl not to want that lol (obviously the solution would be to take away the stigma regarding sex but idk, not a theologist). honestly i thought that "rosberg being a shite parental figure" would trump the "hes actually my dad card", but still. the writers are okay with anti-church sentiments but not anti-filial piety... interesting.

2. yang dying and the laoshu disbanding seems like an inevitability in nearly every ending. which i suppose doesn't go against his character? i wondee what happened to make him not value his own life like that. its very interesting.

3. the voice acting. iT SLAPPED HARD. admittedly i am talking abt yang during his final moments, bc why not. something weird occured during that, actually--i was playing on earphones that only worked on one side. But during yang's Evil Monologue, like the first fucking word he said, it suddenly started working in both ears. i got chills man. it was also chilly at the time. nobuhiko okamoto's stuff never ceases to disappoint me. kaito ishikawa was ngl his delivery... stop making me wanna learn voice acting my girls. i lowkey wish the mc had a voice too. esp during the pg13 scenes. thatd sound sexy.

4. speaking of pg13 scenes, um.

5. this run was a bad end for orlok as much as it was for dante, yeah? only difference is that orlok is the protag and dante is the antagonist. interestingly, orlok showed signs of turning his back on his old ways (and god in turn) when the thing with luca and yang and rosberg happened and he said nope. i think on the other hand started throwing his morals away the moment nicola got buried. that moment when he could finally make his move, that was when he was like, "fuck it, im gonna avenge everyone and do what i want in the process". then dante got a leg over orlok and victor (figuratively and literally, respectively) by using the visconti. i wonder what got gilbert to do that though. surely he must have known that orlok was gonna kill him? whyd he sacrifice himself for dante??

6. i feel like luca dying had something to do with the laoshu. poisoning, maybe?

7. ill be honest the romance here didn't really capture my attention. i was looking for something more, uh, fucked up maybe? but the writer's attitude towards religion and the church did. it felt really self-aware. im also not surprised that orlok killed victor in one of his bad ends. i didnt really have faith in his ability to question his faith. im surprised that the writer managed ti capture the feeling of questioning the church."if i dont obey him now, then my whole life would be a lie" and "give me a reason to kill him, say its an order by god, anything" had me thinking back to my pre-apostasy days. idk, i expected less from a visual novel with a largely catholic backdrop. my expectations have been nicely surpassed.

8. back to the pg13 scenes. its AMAZINGLY amazing. maybe im just horny? idk. i rlly think inserting a scene like that then wouldhave been perfect. like there was a scene of someone's ear getting cut off for fucks sake (which ngl could have gone on for longer than it canonically did, to my squeamish self's disgust). or at least some soft description of the scene could have been used like "he held me down and forced his way in, smiling as i struggled. i finally stopped resisting after the moon began descending from her crest. that smile turned into full laughter. still orlok's cries were the loudest in my ears." pr something. like UGH. sex isnt inherently bad my friends!! unless u use it as a way to violate other ppl like in this situation.... ..... ..... i still think sex scenes can provide amazing symbolism tho. honestly its amazing i can stand reading and writing um adult relationship scenes when i cant stand to read a description of a man's thigh getting stabbed. or seeing a dead body. jfc.

not sure what ill do after this. still havent finished dante and nicola's route 100% and orlok's route, i missed a bad end i think. think ill go for the bad end that i missed, then ill take a short break by digesting something fluffy (aka the ace attorney game where payne is japanese! jfc!). lets see when i can liveblog again.

apparently in the sequel it’s shown that he can cook

it’s been 84 years but i finally started piofiore

(really i was waiting on my shadowcast so i can stream from my switch for @ravenclawnerd so when i start going absolutely fucking feral in her ears she knows why without having to ask) 

i was expecting a long common route, a la code: realize or cafe enchante. but no! short common route! i love this for me. 

so we started nicola’s route and did not get very far because i needed dinner and then sleep but here are some highlights because i am a fountain of hilarious commentary. 

( vague spoilers? maybe? like spoilers for the first hour of the game does that even count???) 

“i wonder, if we don’t tell dante good morning, will he just shoot us for being rude?” (this comment was made in reference to the choice in cafe enchante where kotone can just like, see the plot coming and decide she doesn’t even like coffee and just ‘naaaah’ and skip the whole game, which is the most hilarious bad end i have ever come across in a what is otherwise a Very Serious Otome)

numerous comments from both tina and myself that we Do Not Trust the nun. like. Do Not Trust Like That. every time she appeared. 

“what is this? like, there’s only one bed? there’s only one church??” 

“oh he just shot that guy. that was very casual.” 

“when life gives you lemons, fuck a mafia underboss.” 

this is so randomly timed ahahahaha but I managed to see like 100% of your liveblogs because I'd keep looking for yang tags on Tumblr when I was playing the route 2 see someone lose their shit over yang like I did and literally every single post u made I resonated it with they were SO FUNNY piofiore is just the start u must do more

HAHAHAHAHAHAH im glad u enjoyed my love for yang. love tht lil creacher. i never knew peace when i found out he exists

i cant wait for piofiore 1926!!!!!!!

my favourite dialogue in piofiore looks like this:

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the stuffed panda is my favourite character

nearly done with henry’s route o_o

yang’s route is so good aaaaaa

I LOVE YANG’S TRAGIC ENDING SO MUCH

yang hasn’t really shown up in bad ends?

this game is... long

????? dante ‘comes across as the true LI’ but gilbert is the one locked behind the other four???????

piofiore’s men are so hot