Era of Samurai: Code of Love Reviews
4/5 rating based on 55 reviews. Read all reviews for Era of Samurai: Code of Love for iPhone.
Era of Samurai: Code of Love is free iOS app published by Voltage inc.
If you buy something, you should always be able to keep it.
Nemoisboss
My phone’s battery died so I had to get a replacement. All of the other games were restored just fine, thank god, partly because I managed to get the transfer id in time and also just because the game restored it when I got my new phone. This one did not. It was a waste of money.
Nope.
mnlghtmaiden
I’ve played Hakuoki, and after playing it...sorry, none of this really is that great. Not to mention the images really don’t compete. Especially when you compare the price (Hakuoki is an app as well ?) for overall experience and cg’s. But not a fave, stopped midroute (fave character was Okita, figured I’d try it).
Not meant to be Hakuoki
LadyGooGoo75
... and thank heavens for that! Don’t get me wrong - Hakuoki is beyond awesome. But I don’t always want to feel emotionally exhausted when playing a route! For Pete’s sake, I pretty much needed a support group after watching the anime series! Anyway, this app is cute, and lets the player giggle over the romance rather than dread the moment it all falls apart. This is my second favorite Voltage app (Star Crossed Myth is my fave.)
Well..what a dummist heroine it is
blue8ird82
The story line is not bad...but heroine..ah...She doesn’t have brain?! for god’s sake, she is out of my taste! I’m already buying some coin(yes about 16$)and now I’m mentally slap myself now. There’s got to be another way to build a plot!! Seriously!!
An often serialized historical theme/story in Japan
YukariOro
Have only read the prologue so far, and as a long time Voltage fan, I enjoyed that, tho the guys appeal less than usual to me, artwork wise. (I have, however, bought the first story to play through at my leisure.) The uninformed complaints about this story being a copy or rip-off or unoriginal confused me, especially after comparing the opening of one mentioned Otome, Destined for Love, to this one. The story/game they are insisting is the original and was stolen from? It's not any more original than Code of Love, and the historically based story and characters can hardly be called stolen. (Their ignorance and unreasonably lowered scores is part of why I am giving 5 stars myself.) The compared games don't even closely begin the same at all, one is in portrait mode, while Code of Love is in landscape. Code starts off with the heroine in a clinic doctoring patients, while Destined begins with the heroine waking up in an unfamiliar room that is being invaded by attackers. Similar events do play out, because both fictional stories are based around actual historical events, but the events do not play out exactly the same. Similar =/= same. Even the artwork isn't even remotely the same except for sharing a 1860s setting in Kyoto, Japan and similar Otome art style. I think the real confusion some reviewers are having is that they fail to realize that the Shinsengumi are an oft repeated theme in Japanese entertainment and has been for well over a hundred years now. The Shinsengumi are serialized like the Cowboys and Indians in the United States, the Shinsengumi's tragic theme was and has been repeated again and again in various genres of entertainment, to this very day. As for the complaint that names are the same for most of the characters in the similar games, that is because these are actual historical characters who have been largely fictionalized for entertainment purposes. These heroes actually lived and died, many tragically. They were real people, and some of them were actually less than heroic in reality. However, this is a fictionalized romantic Otome game, it's not a true representation of history, but a fictionalized and sanitized version made for our enjoyment. So please, reviewers, before you go falsely and erroneously accusing Voltage of stealing a story or characters or being unoriginal, learn about the culture and true history first. Spoiler: please don't read further if you hate or want to avoid spoilers. The best Western comparison to the Shinsengumi I can think of would be the Texan heroes who fell with the Alamo. Both are themes and a loss which has been replayed often in their country of origin's movies and other media. Fact is, the Shinsengumi lost their war. Many Shinsengumi were killed or executed during or at the end of that war. Therefore, to unrealistically expect any tales involving the Shinsengumi to have happy endings, is to be ignorant of their true place in history. (Although a part of me hopes they managed to squeeze one or two happy endings in this game, since this is fiction and I want the characters I fall in love with to keep living and loving the heroine.)
I'm disappointed
Melbrook00
All they did was slightly change the story and made the characters look less attractive. This is a disappointment just get the original.
The Game
Tiff_1211
I have the original Hakouki. I feel that that one should be read/played first because it includes a lot of background on the Shinsengumi, the characters, the cities, and the villains. If you wanted a game like Hakouki you should have made a new one!!!! The original is amazing, art amazing and the music used really added to it. I felt like the heroin.
The story's are changed and it's a good change
MsYuKnowWhoitis
Though the concept seems unoriginal the story's themselves are much different. I enjoyed th prologue and will now buy hijikatas story.
Love ❤️ as always
Doggie.babii
The music in this game is fantastic, very well done Voltage! And the storyline is interesting, can't wait for the future releases! (: I'm not too familiar with the historical references made within the stories or with the other games mentioned by reviewers but honestly I don't care either way. Voltage Inc. always makes games that are easy to follow along with and to navigate. I did play Destined to Love and was quite bothered by the interface, it's not entirely focused on the stories and is more like Voltage's Party apps. I would much rather stick with this one. The combination of the music, characters, art, and storyline makes it a wonderful app. Another job well done ??