Romance and bad jokes in Feudal Japan! Let's Play Yo-Jin-Bo

If it helps as this is the PC version we cannot romance the man with the octopus hair. But we haven't got to the nutcase who wears glasses yet!




Again. ;_________;










And now we are all caught up on how this bad past came to happen.

Next chapter: we go back and KICK THE BAD PAST'S ASS.

I don't to romance HIM, that would be silly.

Just his hair.

It'd make a beautiful wig for you to wear (◕‿◕✿)

Chapter five!

ROMANCE THE GHOST


Then a voice calls out to us


Sayori wakes up and finds herself not in her room. Look familiar at all to you Sayori? (Note that she's worried about where her books are. That's my girl <3) The voices calls out to us again.


OPERATION FIXING THE PAST IS GO. Muneshige asks us why we're screaming.


Luckily Sayori is smart enough to recall details of what she's seen! It might not be much but let's remember how dense some otome heroines can be.


He's not impressed by our recalling, possibly because he's never met Cathy Ack.


Man I hate repeats. Sayori asks if by princess he's referring to her.


Things that addle brains in this game: Jin's nips, mango pudding.
Sayori asks if she's a princess.


Nevermind your identity issues, we've got a castle to escape from!


"No problem then". I like characters who responses to weird situations like this.


How about doctors and nurses? Muneshige tells us that he was raised in Kitahama Castle and knows its secret exits.


Oh gosh, and we've only just met! This game is RACY.


Always.


THIS WASN'T IN OUR DREAM.


Where do you think dumbass we're gonna go get engagements rings, can't you see this hardcore handholding action going on here??


Muneshige takes care of the ninjas and as a modern day schoolgirl we're not used to this kind of violence.


So we get carried away from the carnage by Muneshige (and prove ourselves to be better at this seduction thing than Hatsu already)


Not unless that middle schooler was particularly muscular and good with a sword.


We're fine right here~ We head towards the back of the castle to escape again.


As we're not actually Hatsu we're not planning some sort of trick on you, relax~

I'll take "things Hatsu would not say in this situation" for 100. Muneshige tells her she has nothing to apologise for.


"It's unnerving how sensible you're being". Sayori apologises again for not behaving like herself.


"You must be in shock. Don't worry about it too much."


Yes, yes he is.


GET IT SAYORI.


We arrive at the tree with the secret passage, and get off his back (booo). Sayori giggles, and explains why she's laughing.



YES it's absolutely not because we saw you say it before, no sir



Says the man who came up with it in the first place.


Sayori agrees!


We go into the passage, Muneshige provides motivational music again. Sayori says it's kinda annoying, Muneshige asks what she said.


This effectively sums up every gettable character in this game. We reach the resting space, and reveal that we know there are mice down here.


(✿◠‿◠)


This time we beat him on the Mickey Mouse jokes and ruin his routine.


ICE COLD.


Suuuuuuuure.


Let's do a George Michael impression instead! (For those who are interested: I think it's the same pun in Japanese too)


And we get busted like the ninjas are police officers and we're in a public toilet.

It was probably just a stray member of Wham! they're epidemic in this region. The ninjas split up to search for them, and Muneshige says he's pathetic.


You're too nice Sayori, that impression was awful.


Sayori also reassures him that there is a place for people who buy ten games for the little prizes, and it's called Comiket.


Don't enable him!


Look at what you just did! Now he'll start drawing bad doujinshi!



That's right, fight that bad future!


And we've reached another decision point.

We can either a) just say nothing, or b) go NO! I have to say something!

Say something! That's the whole reason you're here.

B! COMMUNICATE!

Say something

No point being there if she's not gonna change anything.

There's no point coming back to the past if we don't change it!





JUST SHUT UP AND TRUST US. So we tell Muneshige the truth: we're not Hatsu and the pendant brought us here. We're from the future and it's Sayori's mind but Hatsu's body. (This is probably why Hatsu isn't gettable because it'd be too confusing.)


FINE BE AS DENSE AS YOUR AVERAGE OTOME CHARACTER SEE IF I CARE. But we finally get to the important point: hell no to going down that tunnel.


We also get a present, but it's a sword and uh I don't think Sayori knows how to use those.


But forcing a gift on someone is rude to the gift! Muneshige decides we'll go back to the bedroom...to hide under the floor. Sigh.


We get out of the tunnel, and follow Muneshige's lead back into the castle, into the bedroom and under the floor.


Sayori: Um, no, I'm fi-
Muneshige: Please forgive me.


Muneshige: This should be a bit better. It isn't like you to be so selfless, Princess.
Sayori: ...
Sayori is a little freaked out by the fact he smells like blood but he's warm and did save her life. So she falls asleep in the arms of her saviour.

Next chapter: BOYS, BOYS, BOYS! We're looking for a good time as our bodyguards are hired, meet our last potential victim suitor and get to choose our route!

Theorizing that one could time travel within her own lifetime, Doctor Sayori Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator - and vanished. Se awoke to find herself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were oddly her own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. Her only guide on this journey is Muneshige, an observer from this time, who appears in the form of a samurai only Sayori ever listens to. And so Doctor Beckett finds herself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that her next leap... will be the leap home.

I love this game already. Wouldn't actually want to date any of the guys so far though.

I don't think the last guy is much of an improvement. If anything he's worse :P

He's my favorite anyway. <3

Agreed.

I like my crazies

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I second this FOREVER. I find crazy whacky villains like that very interesting. And also there's something about Harumoto's face that I like... Hmm.
I have this thing for 2D weird, psycho characters, you see.

When I first saw reviews about this game, I totally didn't know Muneshige ws romance-able. I wants!

Yay I caught up!
And this game is so deliciously-meta!

So wait, is the last suitor a megane-character? All otome games must have a megane-character.

How did you know? At least I'm pretty sure he was a megane, I have a hard time when it comes to remembering things.

Yep, he's the megane.

If I remember correctly, not only is he a megane, he's a kichiku megane. Who dresses like a half-unwrapped mummy. With lots of skin showing everywhere.

Most Otome games are like that.
There's usually at least one character that's a megane, shouta, your typical ojii-san, hotheaded boy, childhood-something, and one yandere.

Either that or I'm Psychic.

Hrm, I'm afraid to ask, but what's kichiku?

I think it means barbarian? I'd classify him as yandere myself, or, as Jin likes to say, a glasses-wearing psychopath.

I like.
Hedgehogs love prickly characters you know. Yanderes, especially megane yanderes, stoke the embers of my heart.

TVTropes has all the answers you need >:D

That IS pretty much what "kichiku megane" means.

Yes, our megane can't really be considered yandere anyway; he shows none, or close to none, of the symptoms of either an obsessive or posessive yandere. He just really likes killing things.

I'm almost tempted to reread this thread because I need some silliness after contemplating the human experience for the past 2 hours in an attempt to come up with ideas for my English final. But alas, sleep beckons. I heard this megane is particularly insane. Thus, I predict this forum will love him.

Do you know how sad I was that I can't romance Muneshige as Hatsu
Do you know

The last glass-wearing character wasn't too bad but I'll go for him and Jin only because I'm a completionist.

Wait what? Oh you mean you can't romance Muneshige as the nutcase princess? Yeeaaahh... I love that nutcase princess more than our heroine :/

Don't kill me but this somehow reminds me of Christian Grey. Except the glasses part.

That's what you get when I have Fifty Shades related nightmares.

If it's any consolation...

I'm still adamant in my preference for the girly-haired, gratuitous French-speaking ronin, but I am warming to the idea of going through Mon-Mon's path. And Muneshige's. And Jin's. And...

... Y'know what? Just romance all of them.

Uhhhhh I really want to reply to this but I'd have to throw out some major spoilers about this haha. And I don't want to spoil anything, even in tags.

Chapter 6 is coming right up! And just because I'm curious, does anyone else have really nerdy ringtones? Because I currently have the Onett theme set as my parents' ringtone and the tgs2 love mode music for my partner yes I'm awful

I have "Pursuing My True Self" from Persona 4 as my general-purpose ringtone.

I have "A Little Piece of Heaven" as my ringtone, so I guess not nerdy, but once my ringtone was Mario's song.

"Parade" from Paprika. Nerd-ish, kinda ?

Meanwhile, back at home Yahei is stressing out over Hatsu's absence. Not just because she's being a brat again but there's a big important meeting tomorrow with the neighbouring clan she's to marry into.


A passing vassal drops the two of them into it.


You suffer from a severe lack of imagination then.


Yahei agrees, it's got to be the princess. Yahei gets an attack of dizziness, and the Vassal reminds him that it could be a serious issue!


He gets a smack for his promo and a messenger is sent to Kitahama Castle.


It also turns out that Hatsu wasn't aware that Harumoto led the movement supporting her rival, which makes her decision mildly less stupid, though not by much.


The messenger returns a few hours later, and she's ABSOLUTELY NOT THERE, NO SIR.


However Yahei has as much faith in Harumoto as I do. As they have no actual proof that anything has happened to her, no soldiers can be send. But wait! What did Hatsu say when she was talking about boys??


Well done Hatsu, your obsession with boys might have just saved your/Sayori's life.


Meanwhile, the idiots future bodyguards are still hanging out at the festival, looking at GIRLS. Jin is getting his creep on!


RUDE. But it turns out he's talking about the stalls. Bo then discusses his success with the ladies.


Bo: You know about that?
Yo: But even if we take you with us, you never actually speak to girls, whereas we have some basic social skills.
Jin: I just don't like sitting there drinking and having detailed personal question-and-answer sessions.
Yo: You can't get around it. You just met the girl, so you have to ask her about herself.
Jin: I don't mind that part. It's just...I don't like when they ask about me.
I sympathise Jin, I don't mind other people telling me about themselves when we're drinking but I hate the inevitable probing personal questions and the following dissection of my personal life by complete strangers. This isn't a sore spot at all.


Yo and Bo got invited to another party! Jin didn't! LAUGH AT HIS FAILURE WITH WOMEN.


Hoist by his own petard! Jin insists that it's completely different, he just doesn't get the chance to meet the ladies!


"I'm going to stab you in your sleep, Yo."


Oh hello who's this Ittosai guy?


Ah nevermind, he's a ghost (straight ghost route???) There's some more taunting of Jin but Yo is nice enough to let Jin go in his place. In the excitement he bangs into someone's sword.


Unless your name is Kenshin you are not relevant, wandering samurai! Jin apologises and gets called a peasant. You have no master dude, you're hardly in a position to be a snob.


THIS WILL END WELL FOR YOU. Jin points out they're both rounin and surprise, the guy doesn't take it well.

(I'm really nosy. Thanks for sharing!)



Jin kicks the other guy's ass and just to add insult to injury


OH SNAP.


Some girls like it dirty though!


Yahei's finally hunted them down.


You think that's amazing? I've seen someone eat a plate of spaghetti without chewing it! (It's impressive but also kinda gross)


I think I dated Jin in high school.


Aren't you used to people not listening to you by now? Finally Jin stops discussing his future dating plans and the plot can move on. Yahei asks about what his fighting style is, and Jin asks him to introduce himself. Yahei explains that he's a servant of the Mochizuki Clan and can't discuss what he needs from them in public.

(It doesn't sound as dirty in game as it does in my summary.)


We see Yo's pet peeve being triggered for the first time! Also he can't go to the outhouse by himself after scary movies.


The real voice of reason in this game strikes again! Yo and Jin yell at each other and then Jin draws his sword.


A wild Mon-Mon appears!


And gets clobbered for his trouble. Nice work!


;___;


You are the only normal person in this game, bless you.




False alarm! He's okay! As any normal person would have died from the blow, Yahei asks if he's immortal. But it's the mediating and the fact that Jin's sword sucks has saved him.


Yahei hesitates. Mon-Mon insists in gratuitous English! PLEASE CALL ME...MON-MON!!!


Now you've got it. They get down to business: please rescue our princess. The four agree, but one has less than pure motives.


"I get dibs!"

The voice-acting makes him sound like Ebichu. Jinchu keeps the house!
Mon-Mon then gives kissing advice to Jin. You're not very good at this 'monk' thing are you.


"First guy wins! I know how this works!" The guys find out that yes, this is the same princess who they met at the festival. Yahei begs them (head to tamami begging) to find her.


I'd damn well hope so. They all agree to go rescue her because she's cute (uhh). "Even a tom-boy is fine if she's cute!"


Probably because it is.


Aw look, you made him sad! The money is arranged upon! It's enough for new capes!



Capes are serious business.


Nobody is safe from the seductive powers of Mon-Mon!


Is that legal? I don't know feudal Japan's policy on massage parlours.

Jin is noble and refuses any money up front.


Yo is disappointed. All that cape money!


Noble is another word for stupid after all. There's the problem of blunt swords, but Yahei fixes it.




Shit just got real you guys. You don't want an old man committing seppuku on your conscience, right?


Good Mon-Mon.

Hey, Jay, would you mind if I put some videos up for some of these scenes so people can hear the voice acting? I've got a lot of the early scenes, and some of the later scenes from Muneshige and Ittosai's route. I won't link anything until you've actually posted it.