[Otome] Starstruck Love Toma Route + Game Review.

My new family is full of hot pop stars!?
Introducing a free love game for girls involving pop stars, brothers and yandere!
The kind, obliging brother, the forceful brother with a big ego, and the no-holds-barred, hot-and-cold childhood friend enter into an all-out battle for possession, with you as the prize!

Please refrain from reading this review you do not want to read nothing but negative ranting because this story OMG... When I first downloaded this game, they never said it was a full on yandere game I am glad they put it in their description now because wth this game. But trust me it isn't the yandere part that drove me to the edge. 

 Read ahead if you want to see what I went through. 

::START OF REVIEW::

So they let you choose between 4 guys but basically you play through 2 routes of 2 guys and from there you choose your favorite. ALL BEING YANDERE. (；￣Д￣）

Let me correct this, Shion is the typical yandere who approaches nice but his creeper status is very extreme ex. staring at you when you sleep and molesting your face. Gentle I don't know about that...

Toma, who I choose (and regret) because he seem to be more of the Tsun looking type BUT NOPE. His looks is good but oh god his character I want to smack him. I'll get into details when I write their route out.

Haha Ryo, he's the MR RAPIST, pompous yeah right. Lol they didn't give a description to Ryusei, which is ok because he's the random I've been watching you all this time so be my gf type. All with a Yandere flavor added...

Alright enough introduction, let's begin. This story is about your parents dying and you have to pay off left over debts. Your childhood friend's father decides to help you by inviting you to live with his family and making you into the next superstar so you can pay it off. So basically you become his adoptive daughter and now you will live with the 3 brothers.

I am playing through Shion & Toma route. Choosing Toma (because I thought it would be a safer choice for me hahahaha.) Shion is the one to quickly welcome the heroine as part of the family being the big bro he is. Toma however who was the closest to the heroine when they were young, is trying to avoid her at all costs because of man issues. Ryo however had moves of his own treating her like any other woman wants to already molest her. Such a nice welcoming family don't you think?

Oh but you have a really cool butler who you should take note of right now because he is the only "sane" guy in this story with words of wisdom.

So the story goes as the heroine tries to be BFFs with Toma like she was in the past and he's all being a bag full of angst and ignoring her because he's like...

Lol for their typo, but you get the point. Saying that though the main heroine is all ???. GIRL do you not know what he means. (apparently not) but because of all this Toma angst, she always relies on Shion as her big brother to listen to all her problems. However she doesn't really talk about Toma outloudly to Shion and is all like, wahh Big Bro understands me and internally is all weh why is Toma ignoring me. *rolls eyes*

So as time goes, Mr. Kujo warns her pretty early on that she should be careful of the brothers. ESPECIALLY Shion but she's like what, he's my big bro <3 <3 <3 and ignores that.  (¬､¬)

As time goes on I started to care less and less about the heroine because her attitude was very irritating. She ends up getting along with a co worker Karen who is all raburabu toward Toma and she also meets Ryusei finally who lol not much about him. I know this was going to go bad soon. And of course one day at work heroine gets pushed off the stairs after she works with Toma.

GEE I wonder who did that. Of course heroine would never figure that out. 

And because of this incident she went home to rest and of course she would go to Shion to talk about her troubles.

He shows his Yan face because he was trying to think of who was the one to push heroine off the stairs. It's nice to be protective and all but yeah... heroine of course is still like ??? because she doesn't know any better. When she leaves his room heading back to her own room... She gets snatched into a room, guess who?

Yup, Ryo the rapist. He questions her why she always comes out of Shion's room every night and sometimes don't come out at all sometimes. Implying they are doing naughty things and heroine gets all upset as this jerkface makes his moves on her. And of course Shion is at the door to save heroine finally breaking away when he opens the door. In my mind at this time I'm like ok I know this is double route but wth where is Toma in all of this? And Ryo GTFO no one is going for you, why are you even here. ヽ(#`Д´)ﾉ

And she returns to Shion's room and he tries to ask her what Ryo did to her. She doesn't say much since they are all family. Shion suggests her to stay over and he can watch over her. Of course she's like <3 <3 <3 Big bro won't do anything bad to me! and agrees. (bias)

Uh huh, it's exactly what he said. As she slept he started to caress her face and get all creeper when she is asleep. Of course she wouldn't wake up because all girls are deep sleepers. （；￣д￣）

Finally when the time she gets to confront Toma finally, she walks into his room and he's bare saying his line again. Saying she should just stay away because she would be broken if she keeps going at what she's doing.

And when he's in yan mode, he's all licking and kissing her in a trance, but of course when he does so Heroine doesn't cry unlike how she does when Ryo harassed her. Because it's Toma so there must be a reason. (obviously the best reason wth)

Regardless of all the warnings she gets, she pursues to chase after the friendship that was there in the past, and of course as things get further in the story the Shion and Toma began having brother conflicts.

 Basically on a car ride home with Mr. Kujo with Toma and Heroine after they finished their job. Shion stops the car and invites himself in, but Toma one ups him by kissing her when he left the car at his stop. After all of this Mr. Kujo once again warns Heroine she needs to be careful of them for her own sake. AND then she goes off on Kujo telling him to basically buzz off because he doesn't know them as she does. LOL good going heroine, I don't care about you anymore, how dare you tell Kujo off when he's being nice and warning you all the time for your own good. You're here to pay off your debt not to be an annoyance to the family omg. (which she is jeez) Σ(▼□▼メ)

 And then during one of the family dinners, Rapist makes his moves on her again.

NO. GO AWAY. NO ONE WANTS YOU. I don't like the heroine but omg would you just get out of the route fffff. And this time around Toma cockblocks him. ヽ(#`Д´)ﾉ

But in return Toma gets into rage mode after seeing Ryo molest her. Tossing her into the car and driving home. He violently shoves her on the bed and approaches her to wanting to "cleanse her with his mouth" after a bit of confrontation, he stops at it and just lets her rest as he just sits in the corner.
uh ok? heroine is an idiot and of course is like ???

 (/ﾟДﾟ)/

After this incident Toma is more supportive to her when they are working and heroine is reaching to the point where she feels oh, we can be childhood bffs again?! and pursues him more. And every time the heroine overworks when she hurt herself Toma knows. And when he knows he goes into I'll cure everything with my tongue phase. (.-.)

Finally the time came where he was being nice to the heroine but she's like yeah, can you stay with me like when we were young? And he's like nope, it's not like that anymore, things changed. He gets all rough with her and tells her that things are completely different now and they can never go back to what they were. (ok thanks) Then she falls asleep after he lets her go. While she fell asleep she gets a phone call from Shion and Toma answers it.

 *facepalm*

 I hope you remember what you said Toma.... This relationship is so messed up. 

The next morning she wakes up and goes to work like normally and Shion gives her a call saying they need to meet up because it's been too long since they spoke together in person. Of course she agrees. And meets with him afterwards, he speaks to her like normally because it's been a long time since they talked in person. (to a yan I guess it's been too long...)

He hugs her and asks her to do him a favor. Which was to take a photo with her. The Heroine was like I was thinking he'd ask something lewd to herself. REALLY now, why would he do that, I don't even know why is she even thinking of that even though she is all <3 <3 <3 at big bro. This girl I really don't even... o(-`д´- ｡)

On one of the star night gathering. Heroine is dressed all nice and everyone is there.

Ryusei makes his appearance again, I'm pretty sure he appears more in Ryo/Ryusei route but through Shion/Toma route I really didn't care for this guy who randomly appeared here and there. Ryo makes a stupid sleezy comment and then heroine's dress gets all spilled on by a drink.

It didn't take too long before Toma pulls her into the back room. He starts licking/kissing her all over. She is ok with it because she "trusts him". (´Д｀)

So it's ok for him to lick you clean??? Lol is he a cat? And of course during this part Shion walks in on them. (；￣Д￣）

She's finally went wth about Shion's reaction but too dumb to not understand what he meant by what he said. Even after this Shion never really made a negative attempt to her. Except she always keep getting bad things happening to her the more she got further in showbiz. She got a cut on her arm and Kujo tells her to tend it but she's like I can't!!

Why don't you ever listen to Kujo  o(╥﹏╥)o

But he does his best to adjust to her weh and cover her wound so she can be all rar responsible. But having Toma find out that she's hiding the wound, so he can be all cat like to her again. She keeps insisting to stay over with Toma like bff still after the incident and well. Toma is holding back all his feels except his tongue so ok.

Later Shion takes heroine on a secret date which heroine which rekindles their awkwardness from earlier. So big bro is still big bro to her... (ok? the double route is so weird when you don't go for the other side.)

Here comes the plot climax, sigh, so the stupid Karen who was all yay you can help me get Toma right?! finally takes action to ask her to bring them to a date. (and of course I already know that she was the one to shove her off the stairs because of her jealousy. Her passive aggressive words through the game is a big giveaway but our heroine is too dense to get it.)

Of course heroine regrets this later because she secretly dokidoki for Toma and didn't want to be bffs after all. But learns to late because she's an idiot. So with Karen, Toma and Ryusei it was like a double date dinner. Heroine got jealous of Karen being all <3 <3 <3 around Toma, but toma is like wtf most of the time. He only agreed to coming out was because of heroine asking him.

Ryusei made his way to get the heroine to step outside and confessed to her. 

Sorry who were you again? Is how I felt when he asked her this. I mean you only appeared a few times and did absolutely nothing interesting. What? (´･_･`)

She denies him because she doesn't want a relationship, when they go back she gets upset at Karen all <3 at Toma, Ryusei tries to make moves on her, Toma sees and drags her out.

She confronts him getting into the incident in the car where he starts to attack her. She finally fights back for once somewhat and injured him, but he's in trance mode so he doesn't stop.

It's confirmed he is a cat. He licks his own wound lol... (._.)

Nothing happens of course because he's a bag of angst trying to resist and the girl is an idiot. So his last words to her was, Don't ever invite me out again. This causes the heroine to be all ??? again and wonder why can't they just be like used to. (at this point I really don't care anymore lol)

So even so after that, she wants to figure out why they became the way they are now, and she just wants his support. Toma says to her that he knows about her and she can't hide things from her. So he licks off her injury x how many times now?

And of course finally after this Karen shows her true colors and attempts to kill the heroine in the back room by having heavy things crush her. I don't know who I want to backhand slap harder, Karen who was annoying from the very start to the end, or the heroine for being such an idiot and going in shock that Karen hated her all this time. (」゜ロ゜)」

So Karen is also a yandere who fell for a yandere aw how cute. Ugh, after this incident heroine blames herself for Karen acting that way because she thinks it was probably her fault in the end for her to act like that. Karen loses her showbiz job and disappears, heroine gets told by Toji (the father of the 3 brothers) saying the heroine did nothing wrong.

After this incident she had to rest at home and get tended by Kujo. Who had to even wash her back for her while closing his eyes. (he's a true gentleman and no weird interest in her good god.) (TεT)

But of course when he was washing her back as she was bare, Toma walks in and sees this. Upsetting him and she gets confronted by him afterwards.

 Basically the heroine told him off so that makes him avoid her from now on. She didn't understand her own feelings to him and Toma didn't want to continue this wishy washy feelings game going on.

Right after, Shion confesses his feelings toward the heroine after this but she rejects him because she's in love with Toma. She finally realizes what she really feels for Toma and wants to tell him. (haha after all that crap really?) Shion is supportive finally and tells her to rest assure he won't hold it against her even tho he's hurt. He'll stay as her big bro from now on.

And to the point where she wants to finally talk to Toma and express her true feelings, he's avoiding her all over and she couldn't get a hang of him. She started to have creeper stalker presents and notes.
Then one day poof she gets kidnapped.

 Of course it was all planned by her. And heroine finally realizes she was really bad news. (hahahaha) but of course what makes this scenario better is that this kidnapper is just some random SUPER fan of the heroine. ( ・◇・)？

Way to get a girlfriend bro. Serious WTH game, you really went with a stupid scenario for a yandere game. I don't even. Really if the kidnapper was one of the other characters in the game I'd understand more because of yandere personality. Even Toma snapping and locking her up would make more sense than some random weirdo who doesn't have a girlfriend locking her up because Karen is all bitter faced that Toma doesn't love her. (you're just a plothole woman) 

Ugh, this whole part was a big drag because it's just chapter of this random guy being weird to the girl and at the end finally Toma will come and save her. (；¬д¬)

And of course even though when Toma rescues her he can't be with her. EVEN after she confesses because he'll hurt her. He blames himself for what happened to her earlier but dude did you know that if you didn't reject her or avoid her it wouldn't happen. You want to do it again because what you'll be more worse than the guy? TIP get professional help seriously. WTH the things he said what is your problem boy.

He hasn't done anything to really hurt her, only licking her like a cat and angst in the corner all the time because he has a urge he needs to hold back. (just do it with her already seriously ugh)

She tells him that she trusts him not to hurt her because of him being Toma. And if he wanted to do so, he should have never resisted in the first place all those times. (Which is true) So they end up together in the good ending.

In the end he blab blab about the usual stuff and she shuts him up by kissing him. (The only way to stop Yandere obviously lol) And he's like fffff watch I'll get you back later. Just you wait! I'm going to look forward to it~ <3

... So that's the good ending. They end up together after all the stupidity that is their relationship. I mean seriously did they have to go back and forth so many times in order to figure out what they feel for each other?

Toma had this thing for her all along but won't confess except lick her. She doesn't understand her feelings until the climax where she tells him off on accident. This equation I don't even understand.

RANT AHEAD

The Heroine is the worse by far I've seen, I really disliked her by the end of the story, her stupid in between decisions and being so dumb except when she snaps at someone being nice to her. Really, is it not obvious when a guy is literally all over you? Her whole want to be friends with Karen thing was dumb too, she said she hated you, you won't ever be friends, you shouldn't even be shocked she set you up in the end. Also the stupid let's be like how things used to be, really irritates me, don't you take what people say seriously? Apparently not when she constantly ignores WORDS OF WISDOM from Kujo and WARNINGS from the guys. Instead she would weep by herself and get all confused at the critical moments. What is in there girl? Not a brain for sure. I don't know whether she is worse or the one from Forbidden Love is.

Toma, really I wanted to like you but what the heck. I'm going to ignore your stupid bad ending (bad ending he saves her like usual and then tries to kill with a knife when they are back at home lololol) and judge you from your good ending. This whole weird avoiding thing when you said yourself you rather break her yourself thing just didn't make sense. If you want to make her yours just do it, don't say it and then disappear off to the emo angsty world because you don't have the balls to do what you say. You hurt her even more by just letting her be her stupid self. He could've just asked her out and stop thinking he'll hurt her but nope for intense purpose it needed to be a dragged out scenario. And for some reason I didn't realize how many times he attacked her until I wrote the review, seriously that tongue boy, why are you doing that all the time, skin shouldn't taste that good lol.

Shion, his parts were really choppy because of the double route, selecting Toma makes it like Heroine had feelings for Shion but had feelings for Toma more. So ultimately she choose between the two having Shion step away like a good person. (if he's yandere I actually don't see this happening often but it was nice to see him back off at the end. I know he's really crazy in his own route tho so not many points toward him on that hahaha...)

This game felt like a drag before half way point, by the time I keep hearing heroine trying to bff everyone and Toma. And how she ??? at very obvious moments made me flip a table. I didn't care for her most of the game and Toma lost my interest once he started to wishywashy with his actions and started to avoid her thinking that protects her. BE A MAN JEEZ.

::END OF REVIEW::

My questions after playing this game though is Toji. (Who is father of the 3 brothers.) How in the world did you have 3 messed up sons but you seem dead normal? Maybe he's a yandere himself secretly OR the mother was a yandere hence why she isn't alive anymore... I don't know, I'm so confused lol.

Playing through this game was a cause of my hiatus again from mobile otome games after I passed all the ones I was playing. I just can't stand really bad written ones, but I must try to finish a route when I start one. (Trust me the other games I did play turned out better, this was just the rotten egg.)

I don't prefer yanderes but I can deal with it if it's written well. This story wasn't written with yandere in mind correctly. I've played a few other otome games with a better story for the yandere types. This was just a big jumble of issues trying to be dark but not. The kidnapping at the end was the worse way to climax the story, some random guy, no thanks. And even when rescued if bad ending lol it won't end up well for the heroine which made no sense if just comes out of no where without a build up.

In my opinion it was an experience but I never want to play this game again. The art is really pretty which was the biggest attraction to me. That script though, ugh, I can't even explain all the parts I was so sick of in the review itself. But it may appeal to others but this is my opinion so I apologize if anyone actually liked this game.

And thanks to anyone who really read through that rant lol... I think I gave up half way trying to explain my mixed emotions haha.

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