(𝐕𝐚� 𝐮𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝)

Okaaaaaaay, I'm not sure where to start. I guess maybe with my overall thoughts and then the thing that confused me the most, that being continuity, then my closing thoughts on the game and series. Obviously be sure to get the patch, and I played with the fan translation. Took me nearly 77 hours to complete, but I'm a slow reader.

So this sequel is actually incredible, though if I told you I loved it the whole way through I would be very much so lying, I will speak on this more at the end. I originally gave a seemingly mixed review of the first game, while also singing its praises, as I think the main character had a lot of issues that ended up being resolved in a beautiful way, and that beauty only continued to blossom further into this new sequel. This game is split between one large route, and 9 different "Afterstories" of varying length (Technically 8 but theres a mini one), although the main route has specific scenes depending on which character you pick between Ikuko, Rei, and Touka, but the main story ends the same way.

I really love parallel worlds stories, my favorite anime being Steins Gate can attest to that, so anytime this idea is explored I'm instantly hooked in. The Story taking place on the same island, but with the new law missing and reverted back to the old law, as well as Junnosuke of this Parallel World seemingly having joined on the side of the SS in favor of enforcing the old law. He basically switches minds with the Junnosuke or "Seitei" of this alternate world, but alongside him switching so does Rei, Touka, and Ikuko: The SS's Big 3, from the original worldline. The Story basically revolves around them trying to get back to their world, with the main antagonists being the BoaF (Omg so close to BoFa, so close to greatness).

(𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲)

Okay I think maybe I am just really really stupid, but I was utterly confused on the continuity, especially when you have 5 routes to play from the start, I couldn't find any discussions on this online, so I'll put them down here as I understood them.

Main Route, Ikuko, Rei, Touka, and Asane routes all follow the Fumino Route from the 1st game, minus Fumino and Jun's close relationship. They all require you to play and finish the main route to experience, or Asane's case one of the 3 SS girls being finished.

Hinami, Misaki, and Nanase routes follow their original route endings from Nukitashi 1 exactly.

Fumino's Route follows Fuminos Route from 1st game exactly (Then blocked until main route is finished), then progresses after main route until the final chapter (Blocked until all routes are completed), then true ending. I recommend just waiting till last to do it.

Apparently Sassy Susuko's Sussy Sa-Su-Scenario, alongside (I think?) additional Hinami content was not included in english release, seemingly no way to play it. Very sad :(...

No Schubert route... I'm crying... I wanted Junnosuke to expand upon his database by prolapsing his anus... I'm more sad about this than Susuko.

(𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫)

I don't really know honestly, I played completely out of order, I did Main -> Touka -> Asane -> Mizuhiki (Main Afterstory) -> Rei -> Ikuko -> Nanase -> Misaki -> Hinami -> Fumino. Just play in the order you want to, I don't think it matters as their stories don't really aid one another or are blocked without proper progression.

(𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧� : 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮� 𝐡𝐭𝐬 - 𝐍𝐮𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝟐 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬)

Adding this in later but I don't know where to put this comment, but I think Junnosuke's salmon shirt was genuinely really cool, and I was sad nobody but Mizuhiki understood how cool it was.

Anyways, so H Scenes are heavily upgraded, they explore a lot of different scenarios. Some were very okay, and some were amazing, but I love the variety. Nanase, Asane, Fumino, Hinami, and Rei had some excellent scenes especially imo, but it's all up to personal preference. Rei's route, her 1st H scene, the only H scene in the main route, was really hard to sit through though, a genuine warning. Not a huge fan of the H Scenes being so heavily distributed at the end as like, man I can only nut so much in so little time come on.

The slice of life scenarios are also very varied and the banter is even better than the first game, and I had fun with most of them except the several date scenes, which always make my skin crawl in rom coms. To be honest overall I had very high expectations. The story itself is as ridiculous as always, but turned up several notches. But once I finished the main route, my heart started to sink as I got into the afterstories for each character.

Some endings had main characters left as a single line foot note, often many not even mentioned. Even an ending just described some as "making lots of money" or along those lines and I just went "Eeeeh?... Okay? And???" I didn't really like Junnosuke's development in the original 3 routes, so them reusing them for Misaki, Hinami, and Nanase had me like "Huuuh?..." despite Nanase's route being a major upgrade. His feelings for the original main cast grew so much during the main route of Nukitashi 2, and we aren't gunna use that? I know they would have to rewrite their confession and all but like, maaan... never got to see messy haired Ikuko H scenes... never got to witness the Intravaginal Bucket Brigade... never got to see Schubert get pegged... okay that last one come on I can't be the only one.

This is me imposing my own personal wants, not the studios vision and I fully understand that. But I will be straight up, I don't like the winning or "best girl" concept that rom coms have, despite me being obsessed with rom coms to an unhealthy degree. I love all of these characters dearly, each route showcases Juns capacity to love each of them, their love is obviously shown in every route, and seeing characters having to stifle their feelings or be left heartbroken makes me feel bad about each ending.

I'm adding this in later to add, I did think some of the endings weren't bad, Nanase, Asane, and Rei's were nice enough, Toukas and Ikuko's I felt like were the most shellshock, and Hinami and Misakis were okay.

Another point I'd like to add, while I think we have a more developed junnosuke overall, I think they made him denser in Nukitashi 2, as if to directly combat the heroines being more open about their feelings. Like Nanase levels.

I don't really think this train of thought is that crazy, considering how varying and different the characters and their ideologies are, so I was just really really surprised that all of the endings are so traditional. I know probably the majority prefer that but idk. Ikuko during her route even stated this exact concept while discussing eroge with Jun, but then went yeah NAH shortly after and I was crushed. I originally planned on just ending this review with a massive goku saying OKAY, NOW DRAW THEM ALL GETTING A HAPPY ENDING TOGETHER.

That was until I saw the finale. The previous routes I enjoyed the afterstories, up till the endings which left me disappointed, but the finale of Fumino's route is about as close as I think we will get to it. The finale despite my previous complaints was really good, with that final scene and discussion I teared up a lot, as a journey which took 145 hours in total I cannot recommend it enough. Overall I loved my time with Nukitashi as a whole, It didn't end exactly how I wanted it to, but it was an amazing journey either way.

Thank you, Qruppo...

... and get pregnant, you BETCH.

(𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧� : 𝐄𝐧𝐝)