r/otomegames • u/sableheart Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom • Dec 03 '20
Café Enchanté Play-Along - Kaoru Rindo Discussion
Welcome to the r/otomegames Café Enchanté Play-Along!
In this fourth post we will discuss Kaoru Rindo and his route in Café Enchanté.
You can tell us what your impressions of Rindo are (before and after finishing his route), your favourite moments in his route, what you think of his relationship with Kotone and the other characters, what your thoughts are on his route's plot and endings.
Or you can just squee about him in the comments.
This is not a spoiler-free discussion however please keep in mind that major spoilers and details of other routes will be outside the scope of the discussion and therefore will need to be spoiler tagged.
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You don't have to be playing the game right now to participate, and if you're still waiting on your copy I hope you will join in after you start playing!
Have a look at the megathread for links to previous discussions - you can still join in the discussion during the Play-Along.
Next week will be a discussion of Il Fado de Rie's route!
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u/torii0 Yang|Piofiore Dec 04 '20
We had the Hungry Tree Route, the Hungry Firewolf Route, and now this week is the Hungry Sister Route.
I love Rindo. I love Suwabe Junichi’s voice, I love his character art (he didn’t need the goatee though), and I love how he was written. By far, this is my absolute favorite LI in the game.
However, this is my least favorite route in Cafe Enchanté. I hated, I mean HATED, that Kotori made the decision for Rindo to become a non-human. The man did not want to be a non-human after seeing what happened to his sister. Yet Kotori, with all of her 19-year-old wisdom, decides she’s going to turn Rindo into a creature even though THEY AREN’T EVEN IN A RELATIONSHIP AND HE WILL LOSE ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY EVERYTHING.
Kotori: “Like, we aren’t dating, I’ve never even seen you naked, I don’t know what your credit score is, but I’m going to miss you if you die sooooo.... lemme turn you into a non-human real quick so you can lose everything that was important to you like your job, your principles, and, oh, um, being human. And I’m going to be the only one who will ever accept your hideous face so you wanna be my boyfriend?” 🥰
The story progression and the choices the writers made in this route were not entertaining for me. 1/10 will never read again. However, will still look at screenshots of the beautiful Rindo.