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| There's harm in harmony?! |
Genre: VN.
Developer/publisher: Licobits.
Release date: 22-01-2026
Alright I decided to just support Licobits by buying their next game
because the premise is interesting and to figure out Miyabi's grand plan
but I hoped there were no doves involved!
Didn't even start any new games last few weeks and just catched up with some mangas.
The kdrama I started ended up being a bust, this short game break may've
helped since as release closed in I got excited?
Disclaimer: This is purely my own opinion and it could be different from yours
this is not meant to be some kind of all-truth, just an opinion that came from playing this.
If you don't like what you're reading then close the tab, move on and just idk play it yourself.
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Pro's
- Decent enough plot, not stellar but its crafted well.
- Most LI's are likable and the heroine was great esp in Miyabi's route.
- Gorgeous art and the music fit the mood.
- The romance is really cute but it can feel secondary.
Grey area
- Some convenient writing.
Con's
- Many a bad end, I'm fine with some but I think there were too much.
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Unlogical is licobits second game which is made by the staff from amnesia and collar x malice.
Art is gorgeous and its likely Hanamura Mai's best work, the music was great as well
as it fit the tone and mood of the scenes very well.
System wise its mostly standard VN stuff, it felt like they wanted to do more
with it but ultimately couldn't. Timed choices were rare as was the terminal gimmick.
Each route had one best end and an absurd end, as well as a bunch of bad endings.
The default font was better than in Uta-Chro FD, it was easy on my grandma eyes.
[Story]
Continueing were the demo ended; Kanna ends up working together
with Miyabi as an operator along side the various angel AI's in the VR game.
They hosts all sorts of games which can eliminate players based on their choices.
The line between reality and game is really thin. As the VR game is still in beta bugs are rampant.
Miyabi made up all sort of strange rules which can make people paranoid
he's also capable of changing these rules on the fly which makes him unpredictable.
There are some parts of the story that are a bit convenient and there's some pacing issues.
Though its important to remember the participants of the game sans heroine
are there of their own free will. Felt like she was roped into it on accident.
As for the heroine... hmm I thought she held her own pretty well! she was able to look Miyabi straight into the eyes and tell him it.
However I do think she was sticking her nose where it didn't belong
but I liked her rebelliousness. Honestly Miyabi had all the right to change the rules
which made it even more interesting. Either way I thought she was great
but also about as insufferable as Miyabi heh maybe they're just meant to be!
sorry I am a Kanna&Miyabi shipper.
Love me a heroine and a LI who call eachother baka's. 😂
If there's a love interest that is similar to Miyabi... then it would be Alvaro Garay.
Never thought i'd be reminded of Wand of Fortune in the year of our lord 2k26.
YES I'm making this comparison because let's be real no one but the heroine can handle him!
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The common route was 4 chapters long which leads to a character route that's 5 chapters.
In terms of romance... they definitely became closer over the course of the story.
Whatever the route I always thought the romance was cute.
The game's CeroC and there's nothing too wild but i'm surprised
it wasn't just straight up CeroD especially with its themes.
Its overall slowpaced, I found that it took awhile to get going
and the story doesn't reach its full potential till the character route.
I found myself to be most invested in Miyabi and Ran or Kai.
I was curious about Yuri or Soichi I just didn't reach the same level of interest as the others.
Soichi's route was a bit more interesting than Yuri who I thought had the weakest
but even then their route had an okay story just for them.
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My first play took me 15ish hours, repeat plays will be half that time.
Route should be around 6-8 hours. It will depend on your reading speed so faster
readers will finish quicker. Doing all routes in the game took me 50 hours.
I'd generally describe Miyabi as toxic but in the anti-social sense and at first
I was like I wouldn't date him but near the end of the route hell yes!
Maybe I am weird but I like Miyabi more than Yori or Yang.
Somehow I always enjoy the interactions he has with Kanna.
Though in his eyes our dear heroine is a hopeless fool. I guess I am too...
for hoping he atleast has a good reason for being who he is and deserves to be happy.
(Tho I suspected Miyabi to be a fan of stuff like Danganronpa or gen urobutcher. 💀)
Half of my first play was blind, since when I started there was no guide yet.
I ended up stepping on one landmine in the common route, so if you just
want to enjoy the story I will recommend a guide because its a real minefield.
Unless... you enjoy playing minesweeper I guess. Playing blind you'll just hit
a bad end sooner or later. I collected all bad ends but I regret doing some of Kai's.
There's 37 in total and not all of them are bad, some of them are well written
but there's some NOPE in there. Thankfully you only need to do the best
and absurd ends to complete the gallery. The only exception
to this is Miyabi cuz he has two bad ends with a CG.
I do not dislike Unlogical having a bunch of bad ends, perhaps its because I expected it
so I am not let down or bewildered there being so many like with honey vibes.😅
The game has lots of popular seiyuu, even side characters.
The poster boy is voiced by a fairly new seiyuu with very little roles in otome games
I like it when they use new seiyuus and Ootsuka Takeo's performance for Miyabi was stellar.
I also liked Ran's voice actor a lot in this game, Toshiyuki Toyonaga.
Mostly everyone else did a good job as well like they always do, the above two stood out to me.
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Overall Unlogical was definitely an interesting otome game, however
I found it to be a bit rough around the edges. The story was pretty decent
and the romance was cute! though its not really till the routes that I could see
the romance start to blossom. I found that they love to foreshadow things
but don't go to deep into it and often is a bit convenient with wrapping it up.
The times I was annoyed by this was at the end of Soichi's route as well as Ran.
However I was always learning knew things so I don't think it was that bad?
I figured there was a time and place for the real truth behind it so I forgave some of it.
I am a bit sad that I wasn't able to enjoy Ran's route as much as I'd liked?
japan seems to love him but a part of me died in a certain scene IYKYK.
On the other hand I absolutely loved Miyabi's route and can't shut up about him.😄
It may vary whether a route is good since they're character focused, there
were times I had no idea what was going on, some of the games
characters were forced to play could be absurd to say the least.
Routes were unique and never quite the same because they all explore it differently.
Unlogical is a fairly dark game, but it knew when to be light so it didn't overtake
in either of these aspects which may be why I was able to like it as much as I did.
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I'd still recommend it to those who enjoyed other games from the same writer
such as Collar x Malice with a setting like period cube because that is the only
other otome game that comes to my mind really. If you don't like those
or dislike elimination games i'd probably not recommend un:logical to you.
I loved the characters and the interactions between them all
and the story wasn't bad, it took advantage of its setting.
I don't have many complaints, the heroine was mostly good though I wish she had
a sprite in the corner but she did show up sometimes in other characters POV.
I do think most of the LI's feel like vanilla icecream and then there's Miyabi
who's vanilla dipped in dark chocolate. As he is a bit different from the usual.
9/10
Playing this blind... might be hell but there are always guides for the lost and confused.
Honestly while playing this otome I realized what fun is a game if there's no stakes or
its struggle removed. Like okay if you just want the story use a guide.
If you miss older visual novels where choices matter and you have
to pay attention then Unlogical is honestly pretty great.
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TL;DR
All in all pretty good, decent story with some cute romance woven into it and the game
didn't feel like it was too short, it was quite voluminous, Most of the bad ends I saw
were well written and some others were just failure ends. Idk what's there to hate really.
Life's not meant to be straight asphalt afterall. Its okay if there are bumps in the road.
Unlogical may not be for everyone but I did think the dev team
did their very best in crafting this game up. If it got a FD
I would definitely buy it for Miyabi or a route for Mitsuki or Kohaku.
I think this is my favorite Licobits game so far!
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My play order: Yuri > Kai > Soichi > Ran > Miyabi>Addendum.
There are route restrictions but only for Miyabi its possible to pursue him
from your second playthrough! I personally saved his route for last.
Recommended order:
Yuri > Soichi > Kai > Ran > Miyabi> Addendum.
Apparently this was the official recommended order??? so I didn't even stray that much
and this order goes from least spoilers to most. Kai cleared up a lot I was curious about
but Yuri was rather self-contained and glossed over things explained elsewhere.
Soichi has some leads but that's about it. I still think maybe switch Kai and Soichi but that up to you.
Character rambles after the jump, tho its just commentary, I tried to keep
it light on spoilers but I still wrote about the characters, I avoid most plot.
I will also only share mostly two of my favorite CG's per route.
If you want no spoilers at all just stop reading here, its just
senile grandma rambles beyond this point anyways.
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