Collar X Malice Review

<p>Sony&&num;8217&semi;s PS Vita is dying a very slow death&comma; which is sad&comma; the little handheld is an amazing console that really never took off as it should have&period; I know that Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s mighty 3DS is very hard to topple&comma; but at least Sony gave it a go and gave gamers a console that can hold some very interesting titles&period; Idea Factory was kind enough to release a very intriguing and unique title&comma; <em>Collar X Malice<&sol;em>&comma; in these waning days of the system&period; For some reason&comma; the most interesting titles are visual novels&comma; which the Vita handles quite well&period; For those who don&&num;8217&semi;t know what a visual novel is&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s basically an interactive comic book where you get to make some pivotal decisions and basically read everything&period; The voice overs are in Japanese so you don&&num;8217&semi;t get to phone your way in on this one&comma; you have to read the subtitles or you won&&num;8217&semi;t know what is going on&comma; trust me it&&num;8217&semi;s a very interesting tale&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m going to be somewhat vague with the story because that is what really sells this game to me&period;  Shinjuku is a crime ridden city&comma; and an organization named Adonis is terrorizing its citizens&period; They released a video warning the inhabitants of the city of X-Day and showed four police officers bound to a chair&period; Time passed and another video was released&comma; this time four shots rang out and one body was left sitting bound to a chair&comma; the other four chairs were empty&period; The police horrified at what happened never recovered the three other bodies&period; Politicians decided that the Shinjuku Quarantine Act would be the best course of action for everyone&&num;8217&semi;s safety&period; The politicians also decided to rid the city of their gun control and sword laws&comma; every citizen over the age of 20 was given a firearm for self-defense&period; The catch was the fact that the ammo and weapons were coded to the individual they were given to&comma; so if you shot your gun the police would know it was you and where the bullet went&period; You play as Ichika Hoshino a green police officer in the city and you find yourself kidnapped by Adonis&period; Once you&&num;8217&semi;re rescued from a terrible fate you find that you have a collar attached to you that monitors your every action&period; Now the game really begins&comma; you must find out what Adonis wants with you while not letting them know what you are doing&period; Did I mention the collar has a lethal dose of poison waiting to be injected into your neck&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;127836" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-127836" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-127836" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;27234257&sol;2017-03-07&lowbar;152759&lowbar;A&lowbar;1024x1024&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-127836" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Collar X Malice<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Aksys Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The developer of this title made sure to help the player recognize each main character&period; They are all quirky and have their own personalities that really make you want to continue pressing the X button to see what they say next&period; You will also be clamoring to slowly peel away all the mysteries this game holds&period; As you interact and build relationships with the other main characters you could seriously mess up your friendship with that character&period; Every now and then you are given the option to answer in one of two ways to the supporting cast&period; When you decide you can either endear them to you or make them dislike you more&period; The awesome&comma; yet annoying this about this mechanic is that you are given very important decisions with little to no knowledge of the personality of the supporting character you are talking to&period; I know for a fact that I irritated quite a few people the first few chapters because I was just answering how I would answer in real life and not weighing how it may affect who I was speaking to&period; This made it fun and I&&num;8217&semi;m sure I will replay it to make sure that everyone likes me&comma; just like in real life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;127871" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-127871" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-127871" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;30001703&sol;QEfu4w47Jf8&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"362" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-127871" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Collar X Malice<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Aksys Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I enjoyed this title&comma; even though I am starting to get burned out on visual novels on the Vita&period; I long for some more first-party support and real third-party support&period; Idea Factory did a great job with this title&comma; it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t put out haphazardly and you can see that they actually cared about the title even if they knew it was going to a system at the end&period; I commend them for that&period; Gamers who love heavily story driven game with lots of twists&comma; turns and mysteries they need to pick this title up&period; I have always enjoyed a good mystery&comma; Batman and Sherlock Holmes are my heroes&comma; so getting to play through one that is very detailed and keeps you guessing is a joy to me&period; For gamers who like fast paced action games or platformers this probably isn&&num;8217&semi;t the game for you and you should look elsewhere for a Vita title&period; Anime and mystery fans though need to give <em>Collar X Malice<&sol;em> a shot&comma; you won&&num;8217&semi;t regret it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>A Playstation Vita review copy of Collar X Malice was provided by Aksys Games for the purpose of this review&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;