Cure Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

[Geri Cutcher]

Ishould have seen the warning signs when I googled it and a top hit was from the Kusoge of the Year wiki (kusoge: lit. Shit game). But no, I brushed it off, people submit everything to the kusoge of the year awards. A nomination means nothing. How wrong I was.

Then comes the kicker, the company that developed the game, Dimple, filed for bankruptcy 4 months after the release of the game. So it comes as no surprise that they were probably in no position to develop let alone release a whole game which they did anyway.

So of course people would be interested in how bad the game could possibly be, now knowing all of these facts. Simply put, bad enough that I actually fell sick after a whole weekend of playing this in order to complete it.

They all spend the following days searching the surroundings and looking for clues to find their way back. Luckily for them, the Labyrinth is a world where stuff from Earth just casually gets dumped everywhere so they are able to survive on packaged bread, fruit, and even packaged meat from the supermarket.

Dark Kazuya for some reason puts off meeting his original self and threatens Yaeko, saying that Kazuya is so nice that he might actually sacrifice himself for everyone if she tells him about Dark Kazuya. She then spends several days deliberating over what to do.

Then they literally throw her into a pit of Zero and are basically like ok now do your thing. Bitch WHAT? They literally sentenced her to death with absolutely no explanation.

When they get back, Candy begs Yaeko to absorb the Zero (AKA sacrifice herself). Chocola desperately tries to protect Yaeko and tells her to ignore Candy but without any other option, Yaeko relents and agrees. Chocola gets angry, again, and just leaves Yaeko behind. ????????

In 2 lines, Yaeko breaks up with Kouichi and everyone is happy. Then suddenly Candy appears in her world with a Chocola who has been freshly turned human by Aphrodite. He confesses his feelings for Yaeko and they kiss.

Yaeko loses her memories of the Labyrinth but retains a feeling of forgetfulness of something important to her. As she wakes up from a dream under the legendary fir tree, Chocola appears in front of her and introduces himself. She tries to introduce herself back but he tells her he knows who she is.

He tells her that he has been working on something to kill the Zero and that unlike everyone else, him and Sui had originally planned to come to the Labyrinth, so they have means to go home. However they had not anticipated for Kazuya to become incomplete so they need to deal with that first.

The following day, as if it were the plan all along, all the Zero in the fucking Labyrinth gather and attack the group. Dark Kazuya says that Terumasa is a problem and targets him but Yaeko protects him, with her um, very strong tennis racquet. They defeat Kazuya and Terumasa opens up a portal back to their world. Kouichi approaches Yaeko and confirms her feelings for Terumasa and apparently everything is okay between them now.

For some reason when they return, everyone has their memories wiped, except for, plot twist Terumasa. Yae sees Terumasa holding the Zero-killing virus one day and suddenly, memories come flooding back to her and she immediately confesses her feeling for Terumasa and then they kiss.

On top of that, now that he one-sidedly decided that Yaeko belongs to him, he saves Kouichi from the Zero just so she can break up with him. Afterward, Sui and Terumasa show up with the completed Zero-killing virus, and somehow it also has the ability to cure Kouichi of all the damage from the Zero. Sure. Whatever.

They end up wiping all the Zero out in the Labyrinth and just before they head back, Dark Kazuya forces Yaeko to break up with Kouichi as she agreed. When Kouichi tries to argue that Dark Kazuya is just guilting her to be with him, he just tells him that Kouichi did the exact same thing. When they go back, apparently Yaeko does actually have feelings for the Dark Kazuya even though he acts like a bag of dicks to her?????? Okay whatever.

Afterward, Sui and Terumasa show up with the completed Zero-killing virus and they all start destroying all the Zero in the Labyrinth. Kouichi shows up merged with Zero and they coincidentally run out of Zero-killing virus, so Kazuya goes to fight the Kouichi-Zero all on his own.

Dark Kazuya is now living as Kazuya and everyone avoids him despite being super popular before. Yaeko breaks up with Kouichi since she can no longer lie to herself and meets Dark Kazuya under the fir tree. She forces another confession out of him and they kiss.

Instead of leaving the temple immediately, Yaeko stays behind in the temple with Kazuya. While waiting for Candy to come back with some inevitable method to solve the Zero crises, Yaeko nurses Aphrodite who has become increasingly weakened by the Zero.

Through the power of high school girls wanting to make their romances come true, the school is unable to cut the fir tree down. Yaeko runs into Aphrodite, Candy and Chocola, and he says that now that he recovered his power he can open portals whenever he wants even if the tree is eventually cut down. He also says that as long as he has the memories of the happiness of them being together then even if they someday part, he can keep going on.

At least with Hanayoi Romanesque, there were still relationships and developments that I found intriguing. With Loveroot Zero, there are more questions than answers and the answers are not necessary satisfactory ones either. The plot contradicts itself at every turn and to say the world building is paper thin would be an understatement of a lifetime. Important plot points are completely ignored, there is absolutely no explanation for half of the occurrences and some of the characters appear only to help the plot move along.

Throughout the game there are unlockable CGs and scenes which only serve to act as filler to develop the relationships between the characters, except they have no impact whatsoever on the final plot. For example, there is an item which unlocks a romantic scene between Yaeko and whoever she gifts it to which results in a passionate kiss. However this is never mentioned again nor does it affect the story in any way. For a girl with a boyfriend to kiss some other dude, how can that have absolutely no impact on the story?!

When you trigger an event through exploration, you get one of three results: item discovery, battle or nothing. If you get an item discovery or battle event, it leads to a random item drop of one of two types: equipment or event item. Equipment are items which increase character stats and help in battles, while event items can trigger events with characters. Some event items are specific to certain characters, may give CGs and some event items are necessary conditions for some routes. There are a total of 44 equipment items and 22 event items. However, recall that obtaining any of this is random. So there is only method to obtain what you want, through nonstop reloading.

I personally spent more than 8+ hours just nonstop reloading to get a majority of the items to unlock the events, which again, by far most also do not affect the story. All just so I could get the CGs. It was infinitely worse when I had to get the items which were actual route unlock requirements. The item I needed was 1/66 potential items.

After completing all the true ends, it unlocks a new special tab, which gives a ridiculous extra story about who is more of a suitable partner for Yaeko. The story content itself is not that bad and it also unlocks several CGs.

To me it's about dealing with being in love with someone you can't have or is having trouble letting go of them. Desperation, impulses, anger. That feeling when you still want someone but you're fighting it. Desperatly saying "Kiss me kiss me kiss me." Expressing how you feel chained and trapped by that feeling "You nail me to the floor and push my guts all inside out". And then also desperately going against it "Get it out get it out get your fucking voice out of my head. I never wanted this [suffering, pain, rejection?]". I love this song so much. I'm currently trying to get over someone and this song soothes me.

This song describes a situation many of us have found ourselves in- getting caught up in a relationship with someone you have no actual attraction to, and the repulsion you feel at being forced to kiss someone who disgusts rather than arouses you. The forcefulness of the other person's grasp is really well displayed here. "I never wanted any of this, I wish you were dead"... sums up the feelings perfectly.

I think that it is about a guy who was/is still in love with a girl who he is no longer dating, and the memories of their kissing is driving him mad with lust and he's trying to renounce the memories.

As a couple of you noted, Robert Smith says it's about "the sickness of lust". Which is awesome, because it allows you to fit the song's meaning into your own life. But I think that the sickness of lust in "The Kiss" is specifically molestation. "Kiss me, kiss me...", "tongue like poison", and "love me, love me..." refers to the way victims are groomed to allow it. You nail me to the floor and push my guts all inside out" ought to be self-explanatory at this point, but Smith does something clever here. While grammatically speaking, the repetitive "get it out"s belong to the line, "Get your fucking voice out of my head", they way they are so painfully produced indicates emotionally they belong to the previous lines detailing the anal rape. As a survivor of molestation, just one time thank every deity, that spoke loudly and clearly to me on my very first listen, back in the 80's.

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