![]() She, instead of being the antagonist, is a friend and admirer of Zen, and helps him and the RFA bust her company producer/CEO/what have you for their misdeeds. We keep the plot the same, but instead of turning Echo Girl into some weird temptress who tries to ruin innocent men’s careers by false rape accusations, we just have her company falsely accuse one of Zen’s productions of plagiarizing one of her songs. Hey, Cheritz writers: what the absolute fuck?!Īnyone want my idea on how to do a plot like this, without being a lazy misogynist? Here it is: Honestly, there’s already a ton of misogyny in the game, but this is just disgusting and I can’t deal with the fact that this happens within the game! And, even worse, within the game’s narrative, anyone who is upset at this development is just an “anti” and a disloyal fan who doesn’t know the “real” Zen. It’s lazy, it’s trite, it’s misogynistic, and it’s just plain disrespectful to rape survivours. ![]() Having Echo Girl falsely accuse Zen of raping her for some hackneyed attempt at vengeance is awful and deeply upsetting. Here’s the thing: false rape accusations are so fucking rare and the fact that Cheritz writers immediately jumped to that is so awful and I can’t believe that someone actually thought that this was an okay plot point to stick with. It’s like someone at Cheritz legitimate thought: "Hm, what could be the best way to make Echo Girl look like the villain that we want her to look? I know! Have her falsely accuse Zen of raping her! That’ll do it!“ I mean, come on! You read that right: the big plot here is that Zen gets falsely accused of sexual harassment/assault! I shit you not! So then the whole thing becomes about disproving it and it’s just deeply uncomfortable. See, what happens is, when Echo Girl hits on him, Zen rejects her (because he’s caught feelings for you, the player). She gets mad and vows revenge and, by about the end of day 8, this happens: One of the biggest things in Zen’s route is the whole plot with Echo Girl, a pop star who’s got a big crush on him and is a huge fan of his. There are two really huge things with Zen’s route that are the biggest issues, and we’ll start with this: ![]() There were so many ways that his route could’ve been done well and that I would’ve loved!īut dear God in Heaven, did Cheritz muck everything up! Here we go… Character wise, he’s exactly my type: kind, friendly, helpful, passionate about his job. Just before I go in and utterly decimate Cheritz for the way everything was written, let me start my saying that Zen is my favourite character in the game. So you can imagine how much I have to say about this route and everything that happens in Zen’s route. Mystic Messenger is not only one of my favourite otome games, it also has the honour of being the very first otome game I ever played, two years ago, and started my otome hyperfixation.
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