My first foray into the otome genre was with an ironically titled game called Amnesia: Memories on the Vita, and I was…less than impressed. The romance options consisted of emotionless jerks, perverts, and one of them was a full-blown psychopath who locked you in a cage. The dialogue was flat-out disturbing at times as well – the whole “if you expose yourself I don’t know what I’ll do” thing is alarming. Do people really enjoy being told they’re at risk of having someone else forced on them if they do something? Is this considered romantic in some quarters? If so, the human mind is perhaps far more twisted than I had thought possible…

Anyways, Code: Realize was nothing like that, thankfully. In fact, I’m amazed at just how good it was.

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