"You will never need to simulate a relationship again after witnessing this atrocity!"
The first game in the Kokoro series stars self-proclaimed "pretty average guy" Player-kun as he attends Sakura Blossom Academy and tries to get the pantsu of his student aid buddy, Mokuyoubi.
The game can be downloaded and played for free on Game Jolt here
(NSFW warning).
The page for the sequel, Kokoro Baka Monogatari, can be found here.
"I guess that's why they call them tropes, huh?":
- Abhorrent Admirer: Emo-kun to Player-kun except in the Happy End.
- Bland-Name Product: Averted. Captain Crunch is explicitly mentioned throughout the game.
- Cast of Snowflakes: Each character is visually distinct from each other, including their clothes, height, and faces.
- Color Motif: Pink, to represent romance, love, and sex; The color of the menus along with the Sakura Blossom Cherry Blossom Festival, which features plenty of cherry blossom trees.
- Content Warning: One appears every time upon start-up with a sped-up voice-over that goes back to normal at the end.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: In a cosmic way. A character suddenly combusts after squirting mustard from a bottle on someone.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Moku-chan, who is completely black and white save for her hair ribbons and underwear.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Sakura Blossom Cherry Blossom Festival.
- Diabolus ex Machina: Player suddenly catches fire for no explained reason.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Invoked by Sensei-sensei, who threatens to murder his students and their families if they don't pass their exams.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- Up until the Sakura Blossom Cherry Blossom Festival, the game is entirely linear and none of the choices the game presents to the player change the story. It's only until the Sakura Blossom Cherry Blossom Festival that suddenly every choice the game presents will lead to one of five endings. In the sequel, every choice throughout the game changes the story. There are also three separate routes early on in the game where the player follows one of three characters.
- Moku-chan is much nicer in this game compared to how she is in the sequel.
- Flowery Insult: Sensei-sensei calls Emo-kun a "cock slap". This sticks particularly with Player-kun.
- Gainax Ending: One of the Bad Ends where Player dies from spontaneous combustion.
- Hypocritical Humor: Moku-chan calls Player-kun blind jokingly when he asks if anyone is sitting with her at lunch. Player-kun then calls her blind jokingly when she asks what he's eating and causes her to tear up and call him immature and childish for making fun of the less-abled. Subverted when Moku goes back to being cheerful and admits that she likes making fun of the less-abled.
- Incest Subtext: Moku-chan seems to have a thing for her older brother, Emo-kun.
- Interrupted Intimacy: As soon as Player whips out his dick in front of Moku, Clamp, an "inexplicable kawaii entity", crashes through her roof.
- It Makes As Much Sense In Context: Vegeta appears as the officiant at a wedding.
- Multiple Endings:
- Happy End: Player-kun realizes that he's gay and marries Emo-kun.
- Neutral End: Player-kun, Moku-chan, Emo-kun, and Largo-senpai watch fireworks.
- Bad Ends: Either Moku-chan falls in love with Largo-senpai, Player-kun gets stoned to death, or Player-kun burns to death.
- Only a Flesh Wound: Emo-kun burns half of his face while straightening his hair and yet is able to calmly drive himself to a hospital and get it fixed in what couldn't be more than an hour.
- Ordinary High-School Student: Player-kun.
- Running Gag: There's a few of them.
- Player-kun bringing up puberty.
- Player-kun not being gay.
- Captain Crunch cereal making Player-kun spontaneously defecate.
- Emo-kun being called/thought of as a "cock slap".
- Shout-Out:
- Player-kun thinks to himself "Saved by the Bell ™" after the school bell for Sakura Blossom Academy rings.
- Cap'n Crunch cereal is mentioned multiple times.
- Spanner in the Works: Conversed by Player-kun, who thinks that Emo-kun will ruin his plan of getting Moku-chan's underwear just by him being her brother. Subverted when Emo-kun invites him over to his and Moku-chan's house, thus helping his plan.
- Sudden Downer Ending: All three Bad Ends (see Multiple Endings above), which all have little-to-no foreshadowing and happen in the last minute or so of their respective route.
- The Cameo: See It Makes As Much Sense In Context above.
- Their First Time: Subverted between Player and Moku; See Interrupted Intimacy above.
- Too Dumb to Live: Downplayed. While the act of a student exposing their genitalia at a public high school festival isn't grounds for killing them, it makes sense that doing so would upset the people around them.
- What the Hell, Player?: The game gives the player a lengthy scolding if they decide to have Player expose his genitals at the Sakura Blossom Cherry Blossom Festival.
- You Have Researched Breathing: Invoked by class B-52, the purpose of which is to teach students how to learn.
