Vaguely (or explicitly) dangerous for one reason or another (because, again, otome), they are also all superhuman in one way or another. She's the narrative frame that shows off the cast of male characters, and both individually, and with regards to the dynamics between them, they were all wonderful.
She's a little profile picture in the bottom corner of the dialogue box for the most part. The protagonist did occasionally stray to the point where she irritated me with her completely over-the-top virginal naivete, but in a game like this you're not really there for the protagonist. I became very quickly invested in each of the characters, delighted at each new character reveal, and enjoyed the various twists and turns that the plot took. With that being said, Code: Realize is written beautifully, with the perfect balance between tension and humour, and I wasn't able to put it down. Related reading: The ten best visual novels to have on your Nintendo Switch Far from being an issue, however, the painterly quality of so much of the art makes the static imagery seem appropriate and the story moves at a rapid enough pace that it never allows the art to become mundane. In fact, sitting here now I can't actually remember if the character models are even animated. Code: Realize is more modest in that regard. Technologies such as Live2D has allowed even modest budget visual novels to create detailed, animated character models, and when you get up to what the big end of town is now doing, Spike Chunsoft's remake of Steins Gate last year really blurred the boundaries between visual novel and anime. We've seen in many recent visual novels that there has been a concentrated effort to introduce more movement and energy into them. Whenever a romantic key scene comes up, the accompanying art is breathtaking. Backgrounds are rich in detail, and each of the boys are just perfect. Otomate visual novels are, arguably, the most beautifully drawn of all, and even in the context of the output of that company, Code: Realize is a particularly beautiful game. The interpretations of these characters are loose enough that Otomate isn't beholden to them beyond broad personality strokes, but at the same time it's quite clearly those characters in a romantic mashup that really lets you pick your favourite.
Another character, Herlock Sholmès, shows up latter and is a genius detective (incidentally, while the name is an obvious play on Sherlock Holmes and quite clearly designed to circumnavigate rights issues, Herlock is actually a literary character in his own right as a frequent opponent to Lupin in the Maurice Leblanc novels, so that wasn't Otomate's doing).Īs a literature nerd, this is the kind of character mash-up that amuses me, just as The Avengers or Smash Bros is a lot of fun to comic book fans and Nintendo enthusiasts respectively. Frankenstein is a scientist that likes to dabble with things he probably shouldn't, and Van Helsing is a deeply knowledgeable demon hunter. Lupin is the dashing thief, while Impey is the engineer desperate to get to the moon. One of the most instantly enjoyable things about Code: Realize is that it pulls most of its characters from the world of classical literature, and bases the personalities of each loosely on their literature personas. If he's not, however, then surely some of these names are: Impey Barbicane, Victor Frankenstein, Armand Van Helsing.
Lupin may or may not be a recognisable name.
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