My throat hurts, and my nose is all stuffy. I feel the flu coming on, so if I don’t post this now I probably won’t be able to for the next couple of days. I just finished Alicia’s route on Blue Roses Yousei to Aoi Hitomi no Senshitachi
The final boss was the same one they told you you’d be fighting in the first hour, the evil fairy Grendain. Grendain’s motivation: human hatred feeds phantoms. Even if you kill me, a new evil fairy will just be born. Alicia: Yah whatever, tell it to someone who cares *slash* The end. That’s pretty much all there is to the story, since it’s pretty clear that this is Roche’s story (the other protagonist’s), and Alicia was probably just added at the last minute to give the game a bit of variety.
I know this because 1. Everyone talks non-stop about Roche towards the end of the game, even though he doesn’t appear at all. 2. It turns out he’s the son of the hero Londario who supposedly passed away 17 years ago, while Alicia is a relative nobody and 3. I started Roche’s route now and it seems far more “natural” and “logical” than Alicia’s. Latrice belongs to him like she’s never belonged to anyone else, Claire is his best buddy right from the start and Jack shows up right away and lets him join the team.
Roche is an obnoxious twerp though, just as I thought he would be. If I’d started with his route first there’s no way I would have been able to finish this game. I didn’t get to carry anything over to his route, but things are going faster this time because I’m more confident than I was before. In Alicia’s route, I tried at all times to limit the number of enemy teams I was fighting to one at a time, while hanging on tight to my healing items and magic, but this time I’m going all out. I’m not sure I have the stamina to finish Roche’s route as well, but I’ll give it my best shot.
It appears you’ll only get the “full” story after you play both routes, and there are a few things I want to know. First off, what’s up with Berry? He’s my favorite party member, but he knows too much about certain things. And he’s the only Blue Roses member apart from Jack to not have blue eyes. While there’s an explanation for Jack’s lack, no one has commented about Berry’s green eyes yet. It doesn’t seem like he’s a noble either. He’s hiding something for sure.
I also want to know what happened to Charlotte and Hamilton, Londario’s lackeys who almost killed me so many times. They just up and disappeared after a certain point in time, when it turned out they were phantoms that had taken human form. This little point is dropped on the player and then never brought up again. But how? Why? And who else could be a phantom in disguise? Hmm, Berrrrrryyy?
Oh, and there’s the whole issue of a new evil fairy rising up even if Grendain is killed. The final route will involve solving this problem once and for all so that humans can live in peace. I’m going to look into finding spoilers online/a youtube video of the true ending, but if I don’t then I’ll finish Roche’s route and tell you about it.
And now my head is really starting to hurt, so I’m going to quit here.
