Mashiroiro Symphony Is a Pure Text Game — And I Mean the PSP Version

Old post, reposted. Originally written 2012/07/22

Cleared the redhead. Thoughts:

• Sana’s tsundere level is 6. Airi and friends are nothing.

• Sana’s little brother’s sarcastic-tsundere level is 7. The redhead is nothing next to him.

• On the Yuzuki route and the Sana route, Sakuno’s dignity gets scattered all over the floor.

• The Sana route convinced me that Miu-senpai is a closet schemer.

• Sana is a bit of a masochist.

• Nothing dramatic happens on the Sana route. It just does a good job showing how an ordinary, unremarkable girl thinks about love. Which is also why people trash the plot — I don’t buy it, though. Maybe real girls are like this. Or maybe the writer for this route was a woman.

• The Sana route is long. Crazy long. It opens on the Miu route, moves into the Sana route, then comes back to Miu for the ending where Miu-senpai graduates and hands the cat club over to Sana. Five months of story. Four hours of my life. Aaaaah.

• Sana perfectly roasts every heroine who spreads her legs for Shingo on the other routes with one line: “We’re still high schoolers, we can’t do that kind of thing — otherwise I’d just be a woman who opens her legs for anyone.”

• To everyone complaining about the plot: stop fixating on how Sana keeps throwing herself at him. The route later explains it — she’s scared Shingo will dump her over all the verbal abuse and violence from before, and that’s why she acts like this.

• Going by the censored PSP version, Mashiroiro Symphony really is “pure white.” I’m not talking about the PC version.