139 thoughts on “To Heart 2 XRated

  1. Finished. The MC was pretty annoying for the most part. I had seen oblivious guy but it must be the worst. We don’t have any explanations for his problem with the girls (trauma from Tamaki?).

    If i must rank the girls from first to last : Sasara > Tamaki > Yuki > Karin > Manaka > Twin > Lucy > Konami > Yuma

    Good game overall. A little too long for certain routes i thought.

    1. Doubt you will read it at this point but yes, the problem with girls is sort of badly translated since it’s less a phobia or dislike and more that he tends to be unable to be articulated and strong-willed when facing most girls,especially headstrong ones. And most clues suggest that it’s basically just subconcious aftereffects from Tamaki basically treating him and the little brother as her underlings/slavesthrough their childhood. The gamemostly shows this too by having him being close to the more accomodating girls like Konomi and the Class Press, while the more annoying ones or harsh ones ussually begin with them running all over him, or him just slowly learning about them.

  2. for me it would be:
    Manaka > Konomi > Yuki > Older Twin > Ruuko > Sasara > Tamaki > Younger Twin > Yuma = Karin
    The best girl of the game unfortunately is not conquerable and is Maryan

  3. I am having trouble getting the game to run. When it opens there is a blank screen with only a leaf turning and moving across the screen when the mouse is clicked. eventually an image shows but still no text and only the leaf moving to different points on the screen. I have things set the computer to Japanese locale and installed the patch but it isn’t working. Any advice how to get the game to work properly?

  4. @kipcat
    I suggest you move the window a bit. The cutscene seems to be bugged for me and to drag the window around causes it to refresh. If that does not work I suggest you to try redownloading/installing the game.

    Good Luck

  5. This review contains SPOILERS!

    Overall it was a waste of time. The only thing that made it relatively good was Sasara’s route, BUT NOT ALL OF IT. There were times when playing this that I was just like, \Fuck it. I’m done.\, but here I am, writing this comment/review.

    I played a lot of VN’s in the past and I have to say that compared to many others, the characters in this on are bland. Being nice when it’s convenient(Karin route especially), characters and motives so stupid it makes me throw my keyboard out the window(Sasara route for example where she despises love so much that she can’t eat home made food, but showing affection and wanting to be loved and actually loving the MC? I call bull on that one. That was an unneeded detail.), and most of all, no damn continuation to the story.

    Tamaki route was a damn dissapointment. I mean, aren’t visual novels supposed to offer more than your averange romantic show? Their fucking lives dating, for god’s sake, that’s what I want to see. Feeling attached to a character for what they are, not an idealized version of it made to match the MC. Because this is what this VN deos, match every girl to the MC, making them lose some of their main characteristics as they did so just to not go anywhere with it.

    Don’t get me wrong, I love characters changing their views on things, but this VN didn’t go anywhere with it, that’s what gets to me. It’s frustrating to the max. There was so much potential in this, so much good that could have been done, but what do we get? A damn protagonist that is afraid of girls but completely changes his personality when he is about to have sex with one, and characters that have no story to them.

    Sure, we do get the story of how they come to be together and all that, but what the fuck hapens next? We saw the character change, but to what? This just leaves unnecesary suspense and a feeling for whating more at the end of a route and to be honest, I don’t think I was so dissapointed in a VN this much before.

    It shows that it could be something great through good story telling in some parts, but other occasions it is so dull and bland that I can’t stand it. It feels like digging through some pile of rubbish to find something worthwile.

    To me, the only reason I’m glad I read this is because of Sasara’s route. That route had everything, or almost everything done right, even with a MC like this. There was character interactions, far greater than any of the other routes. Just think about having your girlfriend meet your friends. It;s an interesting ideea and more so to actually spend time like this, see the interactions and all that. The second thing that was best done was the internal conflict with the characters. Something Komaki’s route fails to deliver. The fight with her parents and all that, this made this route enjoyable, not a goddamn forest fire bullshit.

    But Lucy’s route was enjoyable too, because of the internal conflict and all that, but it got annying twards the end. The end was good, but the road until then, meh.

    So, over all, I would recommend this to people that are satisfied with poor story progression and a majority of weak characters.

    Dissapointment to the max.

    Even BunnyBlack had me hooked better than this, and this comes from a guy that usually skips the H scenes.

    1. Would agree to this one in similar words.
      This VN started interesting, but as it progress it made me click through tons of increasingly banal text, and made a lot of sarcastic laugh in situations that designers thought supposed to be “romantic”.

      I’ve played VN’s five times shorter but with five times more impact (and even without voiceovers). Making many main characters/routes didn’t help either since it achieved nothing but dilute them.

      And seriously, all this “uncomfortable with girls” main characters was kind on usual VN level first, but by the end it was used so much, it was made me cringe. Was this VN made in market for masochistic people with extreme self-esteem issues or what?

      Shame because art was kind of good and you can see amount of work put there – but it just didn’t mesh together (and writer skill was clearly lacking, man, that alien story, OMG).

      1. BTW I liked Karin’s route most, probably because it was most banal and therefore actually was affected least by lack of writer skill.

  6. Amazing game, well made , have done two routes so far. Sasara-senpai’s route is so frustrating at some point…just want to punch takakun in the face… nice game anyway, hope you’ll enjoy it as much as i do 🙂

  7. Yeah, and that’s what ‘kuuki-kei'(lit. like air) is all about. And what’s so good about that? It’s kinda like the feeling of a breeze. There cannot be further explanations; it’s just that ‘it’s good (more that just good, twas actually rather wonderful)’ and that’s how I (and probably most of those who enjoyed the game) feel. So it’s just the matter of how you feel, it’s good then it’s good, what the HECK is it all about? then it’s no good.

  8. Sasara’s route was good and bad in my opnion. The conflict with her parents was good and all but Yuuji trying to take her from MC and the bittersweet ending left a bad taste in my mouth.
    Anyway i’ll try Tama-nee next but after Sasara’s \bad\ ending i don’t really have much hope for this.

  9. Anyone else having problems with audio skipping or cutting out from time to time? I tried switching from 60 FPS to 30 FPS but this does nothing. I’m not sure what the cause is it may be just the fact I’m running program across my network. I know its not corrupted audio cause I can load a save and the audio doesn’t do it again at same spot. Also I don’t remember it doing it on some the routes.

  10. Yeah it doesn’t have audio issues of the PC that its on. So it has to be cause I’m running it cross network have to look into if there a way to fix.

  11. I found a forum explaining it may be cause of CPU on source hitting high cap and causing stuttering and after looking found my laptop is set to power save mode and switching it to high performance has fixed my issue.

  12. Could someone give me a hint what tools do I need to open *.PAK files of this game – let’s say I want to extract some graphic or music files for my personal, non-commercial use only.

  13. Aren’t konomi and the twins just graduated from middle school? How could they be allowed in the h-scenes?

  14. I am a noob at installing games like this, and the thing i have this issue with the game. After i installed the game and let it run i get a message that says [fnt,font24.fdO] is there something i messed up. I would really appreciate your help guys.

          1. All my settings are to JP(Japan), but I have the same issue. The game is unplayable like this and I have as-of-yet found no workaround for it.
            All text is blank with the floating petal indicating where the text would be (I know this because I started playing this with the Japanese version but my Japanese is too poor for text-heavy gaming).
            If anyone knows a viable fix for this, it would be appreciated.

  15. after extracting the game and patch, putting the files into the folder and patching. running the game gives me alot of japanese font and [f0052.bmp], please help

  16. When i use the english patch and move it to the same file, and run the ToHeart2New.exe the game runs but their is no text

  17. I unpacked this, copied over the english patch files and ran the patch. What I ended up with was the text not showing up. Scrolling down I noticed a couple of people had the same issue. It took me a minute to realize that the problem was I was a bit too impatient. After running the batch file to patch the game it seemed to me to be finished so I just closed the windows. The problem was that it wasn’t finished and was just still working on it. It doesn’t show any progress while it’s doing it’s thing so I just thought it was finished and closed the window.

    If you are having this no text font problem or still see the ToHeart2New.exe then all you have to do is just start the process over and wait for it to finish. When it’s done it will give you an option to press any key and then the window will close on it’s own.

    It worked just fine for me after that.

    1. Holy shit, you’re a lifesaver. I couldn’t figure out what i was doing wrong until i read your post. Thanks!

    1. Your antivirus probably quarantined the file. Add it to exceptions. Start the game using ToHeart2New.exe. Disable Overlay in the options.

  18. Running flawlessly on Windows 7 64-bit.

    Download the game, patch it using the patch provided, and open via ToHeart2New.exe. Disable overlay on Settings. Using compatibility mode for Windows XP may also help.

  19. Not sure why no one mentions this, but if the game is running super slow. Like whenever the screen transitions and you’re waiting forever, go to System Setting > Effect Speed > And pick Instantaneous or Fast. I was wondering why is this old porn game running worse than modern AAA games, lmao.

  20. does anyone know how to properly copy in the english patch? im not used to downloading visual novels this way and i wanna know how i can do it

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