While the trope of “The Chosen One” is obviously pretty common across all kinds of media, games and otherwise, making Kazuha the in-game equivalent of a goddess gives her character a bit of a Mary Sue feeling.Īt the same time, though, her suitors seem mostly like bland, interchangeable hunks. However, even if I were the target demographic, I think I’d still have some major problems with the way the whole game is presented.įor starters, you find out pretty early on that Kazuha has been programmed into the game as an “Almighty”, which means that everyone she comes across desperately wants to win her over.
It’s very clearly not aiming to win over someone like me. Now, as a straight male, it’s admittedly a little difficult for me to get into the proper headspace for this game. Or, more specifically, it’s all about helping Kazuha decide which of seven eligible in-game rivals/allies/suitors she wants to choose as a romantic partner. Where SOA used its setting to treat players to a fairly straightforward single-player action game - albeit one with all kinds of MMORPG trappings - Period Cube is an otome visual novel, which means the focus here is all about character development and relationships. However, even if the two games start in the same place, they quickly diverge along very different paths. In other words, it’s not too far from the premise behind Sword Art Online (or.
Shortly after going into world, she discovers that dying in the game means that dying in real life, and it’s not far from there to the realization that the only way to being successful in what you’re trying to do is by beating the game. Period Cube ~Shackles of Amadeus~ has a somewhat familiar trope at its core: you’re playing as Kazuha, a 16-year-old girl trapped inside an MMORPG called Arcadia as she tries to find her older brother.
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