If the other characters are bland, the protagonist is downright unlikeable. Add in the complete lack of rationale behind why the base plot itself occurs and how the heck it ever gets resolved (I mean, my goodness, a quick glance around the internet shows that even Cross Channel’s fans don’t try to explain Cross Channel’s story) and you have a thoroughly unenjoyable mix. Though there are character features, plot devices and scenes that might be considered interesting scattered here and there, the visual novel spends so little time on them that their overall influence is homeopathic.
#Clannad movie summarise the show full#
It wouldn’t be so bad if the text you were rehashing was meaningful but Cross Channel would probably still be complete with only five percent of the full word count, and even at that length I would hesitate to recommend it because the stories themselves are so bland.
On top of that, except for their conclusions the second routes are almost exactly the same as the first and the skip button simply refuses to work because there’s probably a single line change in the whole scene. Start off distant from the protagonist –> Decide they actually kind of like him in a day or two (never mind the fact that their initial opinion is based off of knowing him for an extended period of time) –> Trip to the beach (wish I was kidding) –> Sex scene –> Fin.
Ignoring the first routes (because most of the background is explained in the latter ones anyway and the former seem to only exist to have an excuse for the inclusion of sex scenes), each heroine reacts to the protagonist in more or less the same way: In fact, I think the only reason that was included as a plot device was so that the visual novel would have an excuse for failing to justify the vast majority of the characters’ actions or thought patterns (or at least the ones that are significant to the plot).īeyond being relatively bland, the cast has a penchant for changing their attitudes on a whim solely to suit the purposes of the story. It sounds good on paper but every single character is a Japanese media stereotype and very little more, that is to say that they’re all pretty much normal as far as anime and visual novels go (and as far as real life goes for many of them). Perhaps I should begin by saying that the synopsis does a poor job of explaining what Cross Channel is all about, partially because it tries to avoid spoiling what the “completely changed world” is all about and partially because I still don’t think the “students that would be less likely to adapt to society” sticks even by the very end of the game. I don’t even know where to start with this one…as I mentioned earlier, I have an overwhelming desire to just say it’s bad and move on.
After a failed summer vacation with other members of the school’s broadcasting club, Kurosu Taichi and some of the other club members return to the city, only to find that the world had completely changed.” “Gunjo Academy is a facility designed to gather and isolate those students who got a high score on an adaptation exam (Scoring high on this exam indicates that the student is less likely to be able to adapt to society) mandated by the government. I cannot justify devoting time to summarising the plot, so this is from VNDB: Without giving too much away, Cross Channel is a terrible visual novel for a number of reasons that I’ll try to elaborate on further down the page, and more than for any other production I have no clue whatsoever why people claim to have enjoyed it.
Considering the number of visual novels out there that’s a pretty prestigious position, so I felt that I needed to experience the story in full to do justice to any review I planned to write. Having said that, the only thing stopping me from describing Cross Channel as absolute mind-numbing garbage and leaving it at that (and indeed, the only thing that stopped me from dropping it within the first few hours) is the fact that it sits at rank 20 on VNDB. When it comes to writing reviews you can’t just say something is bad, good or anywhere in between without backing up your opinions.
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