/u/ - Yuri★

>>27780

Dragged on a little bit, didn't really get exciting till the end but wasn't too bad.

Uzume likes school swimsuits.

>>27817

>>27856

It's getting dark now. Traps everywhere basically and our heroines keep running into them.

And the worst part is, how can you save someone who has a deathwish?

>>27882

If you've got any amazing powers or some shit L(R)en, now's the time to use them.

I'm thinking she might not be Selene but Tsukuyomi somehow.

>>27883

Fuck it, I'll sacrifice some sleep to see if I can finish this. If this ends the way I'm thinking it does and in a depressing way, then I'm gonna be slightly pissed. Just slightly. Even Aoi Shiro didn't end this badly, well, on the main route at least.

>>27884

So guess who turned out a bit yandere And who's Tsuchigumo. You'd think that's a person but it's actually a position in the clan she's in.

Also right about Len and Selene.

>>27886

Oh… well. That was quick. Small thing, if you're the middle person organising a whole entire scheme, don't reveal to those more powerful that you're expendable.

Well, looks like the worst didn't happen. And said traitor actually took Uzume's powers, so she won't be doing anything stupid again.

>>27887

So one princess rescued. Did Shino rescue hers?

>>27888

KInd of. Shino's crying in her room and Ruka blames herself. Len kicking Ruka's shins and saying "Just go be with her, you idiot" drove her into action though.

>>27889

In the words Immortal of Charlie Brown "Good Grief."

>>27890

Hehe. Glad Uzume and Len had a chance to socialise like this.

>>27892

If they just said that their master was the world tree, maybe hippies and the like would have joined them. Think the story has run away abit now though.

>>27893

Heh, 4/u/ is talking about western VNs and such shit but not this for some reason. But now that I've finished it, let's give it a review, I'll spoil important points.

So, the first game from memory just wasn't engaging me. Len arrives at the village, gets trained, some battles happen but nothing really important happens until the end, when Uzume sends Len away, she trains DBZ style in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and comes out the other side saying she's gonna beat down Shino. That's where No.1 ends. Good cliff hanger and made me wonder where all this action had been for the past awhile. For note, this VN took me two and a half weeks to get through basically because I was bored with it. This only took me 3 days because I was hooked.

Now, No.2 starts of right where we left off. They fight for a bit before Len comes to her senses, she's gonna save Uzume her way and teach Shino how to power up with her swords. Some stuff happens, there's a brief split path where the couples spend the night with each other and then it's off to put Len's plan into action. A thing of note was that August 20th was a deadline for a ceasefire between the groups but that date has absolutely no significance, even though it was Inari that suggested the date.

She's going to steal the magatama so Uzume can't complete the ritual but as for Uzume, she's already placed a fake with a fake will to shock Len. And then the battles start. Len and Shino run off, meet with Inari and battle some. Haku goes by their flank and gets blown up by a mine. I assume she's alive because she says only divine swords can harm foxes. That sword point might be important but it won't be brought up later. I'll come back to this.

With me so far? Okay. Shino and Len want to rush back to Uzume, knowing the seals are failing. They get Tsuchimikado at sword point to drive them. At this point, Mitsurugi betrays the two old people and slays them, for having only vengeance on their minds and not the grand plan she has. Uzume stops at the shopping mall because that's where Hime is. Turns out that Hime is inside Tsuchigumo, or is actually one. That giant hunk of armour is just a mech suit and it's her abilities that make her strong. She's easily stronger than Shino apparently. So she retreats instead of wanting to hurt Shino but Tsuchimikado wants her dead, so instead of playing the obedient dog, she kills him. Ruka also belongs to a clan of humans that has mixed Ayakashi blood with them, and they live in poverty and when she was young, Tsuchimikado brought her to another clan likes hers and told her to kill in defence. She did, wiping out pretty much everyone. Turns out that the clan Mitsurugi belongs to was that clan, how Tsuchimikado got both of them to work together is down to serious blackmail.

Okay, alot of info. Ready for more? Back to Uzume, she's basically crying because she really doesn't want to sacrifice herself. She's sobbing about Len and it's kind of agonising to watch. Then in comes Mitsurugi. Len arrives and finds out what she did to Uzume, she used some sort of cube and stole her power, dunno what she specifically did but Uzume doesn't have to sacrifice herself. You should be happy and not remember this plot point at all. Mitsurugi says to come to the Imperial Shrine in a week for the final battle. Shino cries in her room because Hime is away but is comforted by Uzume outside the sanctuary for the first time. Len gets Shino and Ruka to make up and they each spend a week getting stronger. Len also she's a Homunculus, basically a splice between human, ayakashi, and divine DNA. She was meant to be a vessel for Tsukuyomi, which explains how she can heal fast and detect people. But that's it for it. Selene herself or whatever doesn't appear and doesn't have any effect over Len leading to this final battle.

>>27896

Last part. Len and Mitsurugi face off against each other, deciding who can change the fate of the world. Len isn't strong enough and is actually slain by Mitsurugi. But just like Goku, she taps into some of that hidden divinity and come back alive. And instead of gaining the skills necessary to defeat Mitsurugi, she rewrites the fate of the world itself so she lands a disarming blow on her. Mitsurugi knocks her out and walks away, trusting the future to her. But Inari still performs the ritual to revive her God. And you want to know what her God was?

A GOD DAMN FUCKING TREE IN THE MIDDLE OF KYOTO.

And yes, It's Yggdrasil. Shino and Len cry about all those that died to revive a fucking plant and then time skips with a picture still, saying the world did indeed change and you better accept this ending.

Credits roll and the absolute madman put a "To Be Continued…" at the end. I was honestly shocked at what I had just scene. That's not all, the extra scenes unlock and the last one is one between cat Len and Ruka (for some reason) with another two saying 'coming soon.'

Okay, take a breath. You're caught up to where I am now, let me lay all the problems down.

I like this from the get go, gave me reason to keep going with the story, weither Uzume could be saved and after that it was that final battle. But looking back I begin to notice the problems and it's mostly to do with the ending. Let's leave the obvious aside and pick at the small details.

What will happen to Ruka's clan now that she's having free reign? Will they be saved? Doesn't ever say.

What happened to Haku? Does she give the final blade piece to Len? Does the compleated blade allow Len to know more of Utano? Doesn't ever say.

How does Len tap into her god powers and what was this Ayakashi Record Inari spoke of? Doesn't ever say.

Where does Mitsurugi go after this? How badly is the world affected by a giant tree appearing in Kyoto? Why do the girls become guardians for said tree? Doesn't ever say.

Probably the biggest question: Why does it imply Shinto mythology and indeed alot of characters and things are related to it but then have Norse the focal point for the ending?

Even bigger question: Why was Inari's god a fucking tree?

I was expecting something like Orochi from Okami but instead I get a tree. You spend 98% of your TWO games showing us all this Shinto stuff then you drag Norse out of fucking nowhere. Why?

WHY THE FUCKING TREE?

I have no answers. Yet apparently its' "To Be Continued." I dunno man, this ending has left me stumped… heh, for answers. My recommendation for Ne No Kami is if you're going in expecting Shinto and yuri, go play Aoi Shiro. If you want some tolerable stuff that gets really good in the middle then falls flat at then end, then go through it. It's only about 20 hours combined or so. But if we're talking serious, I can't honestly recommend it.

>>27897

Like I said make, I was expecting some demon snake thing like Orochi that made sacrificing the previous Uzume worthwhile but instead I get a fucking tree.

I… honestly don't understand where the author is trying to take this series or why not just have Inari reveal that at the start.

"Oh hey, the old gods sealed the life force of the planet for some reason and it's a giant tree, for some reason." Urgh, I just don't know anymore.