Additionally, the voice cast for this game, including the protagonist, all fit their roles surprisingly well. From the generic happy-feeling bouncy tracks to the downright creepy songs towards the end of the series, there is a song for every mood. For an OVERDRIVE piece, this much is expected, and they delivered. I just wish they had written it slightly differently to avoid the feelings of déjá vu I was having.īesides, if the Balborans really wanted to kill Stryker Zero, they’d just let Jack do the cooking.Ĭho Dengeki Stryker has a total of ten insert songs, and the physical copy of the game being released later this year by MangaGamer has a CD with those songs on it, as well as 40 BGMs. In short, Cho Dengeki Stryker does what the original Dengeki Stryker did, and does it better and for twice as long. There is enough drama, romance, action, and comedy to go around. It could easily be turned into a “Superhero tries to live a day-to-day normal life while fighting the big bad guy of the week” anime, and people would gobble it up.
I’m not saying that the story is terrible. These two scenes are the only ones that are out of place in the entire story, and I wish more had been done to smoothly integrate them in the story. The choices are very obvious if you are aiming to court a specific heroine, but when you do so, you finish the story, and then get a “oh by the way here you go” H-Scene. Probably the worst parts of the story were the essentially tacked on H-Scenes in the Steel Saga. Ultimately, a sizable chunk of Cho is characters having realizations that you’ve known since three routes ago, characters you’ve already met being reintroduced, and many of the action scenes, especially early on, are recycled and can become tedious to read again. It must be completed as well before being able to access the Light Saga and true ending of the game, and I would suggest reading it after completing the Steel Saga, so that you aren’t reading essentially the same thing three times in succession. The fourth route that Cho introduces is akin to a story that one would find on a fandisk, and is a general “true love” story, complete with H-scenes of its own, as well as some insight on the background of previously minor characters. Punch first, ask questions while punching. However, a previously minor character comes to the forefront, and Cho introduces a new heroine in the form of Clie, who is most regards is quite similar to Yamato in personality, which leads to some very interesting and oftentimes comical conversations. Additionally, those who have read the original Dengeki Stryker will also notice that in the Steel and Light Sagas, a lot of characters they’ve already met previously (in different playthroughs of the game, which you MUST complete before being able to play these routes) make reappearances here, some for the better, and some for the “will you just shut up and go away” worst. This does mean that there is a lot of story you will need to reread again, and since in the original Dengeki Stryker the Zero Saga was a standalone story with a very weak ending, it’s not the most fun thing to begin with. Three of the four new endings branch off from the Zero Saga’s neutral end. Ĭreated by OVERDRIVE and released in English on Maby MangaGamer, Cho Dengeki Stryker offers readers four additional endings, bringing the total number of endings between it and Dengeki Stryker to seven. Warning: This review is for the expansion of the Dengeki Stryker Visual Novel and may contain spoilers for the original Dengeki Stryker. While the story does follow a very generic pattern and can be easy to guess at times, OVERDRIVE’s keen attention to virtually everything, as exemplified through the top-notch voice cast and animated cut-scenes, make Cho Dengeki Stryker a title that deserves to be played. In the superhero Visual Novel sub-genre where a vast majority of superheroes are “Get that Girl!” Magical Girls, Cho Dengeki Stryker is a breath of fresh air to an otherwise pretty bland sub-genre.
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