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My recommended play order:
Impey ➔ Van Helsing ➔ Victor ➔ Saint-Germain ➔ Lupin
Character routes:
Notes:
You need to play through all four character routes to unlock Lupin’s route.
If you are on your second playthrough go to Path of Genesis on the title screen and choose chapter 8 of the heroine’s story to start the character route you want right away. It’s not recommended to do so if you want to plat the game because you need to complete the glossary. Start at chapter 1 for every character and follow this guide. The glossary trophy should unlock once you’ve finished all routes. If you want to be extra sure select all possible choices in each chapter before you continue with the right one.
The glossary trophy’s the only trophy that can be a bit tricky. Most trophies unlock naturally by playing all chapters and reaching the character’s true end. After completing the game go to Memory Trunk on the title screen and select Extra to see short stories for all characters. If the CG completion trophy doesn’t unlock by itself after doing so look through the event gallery and view the very last picture on the last page (it’s an extra CG for completing the gallery).
Short comment on the game:
I’m not a big fan of Otomate’s games because they like to put quantity over quality that’s why I remained sceptical over Code: Realize even after hearing so many good things about it. In the end it was a surprisingly good game with likeable/amusing characters and a pretty badass heroine. The whole steampunk setting and overall storyline are very well done. It is, however, not perfect, mainly because it comes with pacing issues and some things just don’t make any sense. There are also a lot of typos in the English version especially in the later chapters…
But that doesn’t prevent Code: Realize from being one of the best Otome Game’s I’ve played so far. It’s definitely worth your time!
Hey there ! I’ve started Code Realize and I was just wondering, do the choices you make before starting any of the routes affect the outcome of each route? For example, if I didn’t choose Impey for one of the teaching lessons will it have an effect on his route? Thank you!
The choices in the common route (heroine’s story) only affect which character route you enter after chapter 8 and not the character route itself or its ending. For example if you want to do Impey’s route you have to pick choices like ‘I’ll accompany Impey’, ‘Check on Impey’,…
Once you have entered a character route it can happen that you get locked into the true end or normal end if you pick the wrong choices. I had that issue with Saint-Germain’s route (I was unable to get the normal end) and it took a while to figure out what I did wrong.
Amazing! Thanks for all the time put into this! Who’s your fav guy? I hope you are planning on getting Norn9 too^^ I’m so glad we keep getting more otoges!
Thx, I’m happy if something I’ve worked on proves to be useful. At least I hope it his haha
I had to check a Japanese guide to get all endings because I messed up a few times but writing the guide while playing the game was fun!
Hmm…going by personality and design I’d say Victor. Some of his reactions were very cute (esp the one in the extra story).
But the route I enjoyed the most was Van Helsing’s. That one hit me really hard ahaha…
My overall fav chars of the game are Cardia and Dora-chan/Delly tho. It’s rare to see a heroine who doesn’t disappoint or annoy me. Cardia was surprisingly badass!
I’ve Norn9 on pre order! Mainly to support Aksys Games but I’m also curious about the game itself. I hope it’s worth reading.
I’d like to see some of Karin Entertainment games making it over but it’ll probably never happen. I got all excited about XSEED hinting at an Eikoku Tantei Mysteria localization last year and then they gave up on it…..
OMG yes! Delly-chan and Cardia are just adorable! I really like Cardia as a heroine, which is one of the best things about this game. I’m tired of self-insert, timid characters. Cardia is timid but at least she gives her all and isn’t afraid to speak her mind! ^^
I can’t wait to start Van’s. After the whole “battle” with Delly, I felt so sad. The feels just attacked me. So I’m pretty pumped for his-just sad that he doesn’t get a kiss CG:(
Wow! Does that mean you played this in Japanese and used their guide? Still, pretty impressive!!
Victor is just so cute and the kind of guy I’d go for in real life too lol and it seems he’s shouldering a lot. His voice actor is great too!
YAY!!! Same here! So excited to be getting new games to support. I want otomes to do well. Stinks that Sony couldn’t be bothered to advertise their vita properly since it won’t be being manufactured anymore…but at least we can import them and it doesn’t matter!
Karin would be an awesome choice! I thought maybe Shinobi Koi would be good too since Hakuoki was so huge here, or maybe Beast Master and Prince.
Sorry for the late reply >.<
I'm currently playing Norn9 and think its heroines are very well done as well. Koharu's the only heroine where you think 'how stupid and naive can someone be?!' but I still like her bc there's an actual reason why she's like that. Much better than the typical self-insert heroines even though she shares some traits with them.
I hope you liked Van's route as much as I did. Overall all routes were great in their own way same with the chars of the game!
Nah, I only played Code: Realize in English but a Japanese guide still helps a lot if you know what the choices mean.
Kakihara did a great job at voicing Victor but I'm a bit fed up with hearing his voice atm. I don't dislike his voice but I played Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly and Himitsu no Oyayubi-hime before Code: Realize and he's in all 3 of them (and sounds exactly the same). I'm actually glad he isn't in Norn9 ahaha…
At least there's still one more otome game coming out in English soon (Ozmafia) even if it's not really a good one imo. It has one of the worst heroines I've ever seen…
Lol dont worry! I ususally forget to respnd sometimes.
OOO still good to know!
I hope so too! But he’s such a badass I think I will love his route!
Still impressiv!
Hm, I can see where you’re coming from. Kakihara doesn’t really vary his voice since he’s perf for certain roles. Have you played Soukai Buccaneers? He actually did veru well as the tsundere guy and his voice was pretty diff.
Ouch, sucks about Ozmafia. When is that supposed to come out?
Oh, I thought you’d be done with Van’s route by now ahaha. Not much time to play?
I own Soukai Buccaneers but have only played the beginning so far. Kakihara’s char’s even one my fav guys but I can’t remember the sound of this voice. Well, I still plan to play through it someday…there are just too many other games to play orz
No release date for Ozmafia yet but it’s 89% translated. I’m sure MangaGamer will announce it soon.
Unfortunately, my professors banded together to release the worst mountain of assignments and tests this month lol. I hope to finish the game soon though because it’s so muc h fun!
OOOOO you should play it and let us know what you think! I still had some trouble understanding the main story of the game lol cuz my Japanese is prtty bad andI don’t have much vocab related to pirates and pubs.
OOOO 89% almost there!
I see, I hope you find some free time despite all the work >.<
I can try writing a short impression about the game once I've played through it but that's all. I'm scared that I get something wrong bc my Japanese still isn't good enough to understand 100%. That's why I won't write detailed reviews/summaries.
Did no one write about Soukai Buccaneers?
Same lol we both have a lot to do hahaha
I haven’t seen anything regarding Soukai lol so that’s why I was so confused about some things.
Oh, seems like no one really cared about Soukai then. I wonder if the other two games from Petit Reve will get more attention when they are out.
Same:) And yeah, the game didn’t feel like it “stood out” but I guess the fact that you could romance Pirates and Navy soldiers was interesting!
Oh ok, thank you! Yeah, I thought that might be the case…I guess I’ll be doing Impey first since I’ve been picking him most often when the training choices and such come up.
Other choices in the common route do matter as well but I’m not sure how important each of them is. I haven’t tried choosing something at random to see on which route I’ll end up in.
The best thing to do is: be nice to the guy you want and agree with his opinion, think about which choices could be fitting for him and don’t show any interest in other characters if a choice for them comes up. At least that works most of the time.
Sorry to bother you, not sure if I’m being really stupid or something but I can’t unlock the trophy for the glossary. I’ve gone through all the routes 2x now and chose all options. Do you have a list of the glossary entries so I can see what I’m missing? Sorry about that!
Did you also choose all options in the common route and let the scenes play you haven’t seen yet? I had the same problem and skipped through all routes again but it turned out that I missed something in the common route. Once Lupin’s route’s open there are a few new choices in the common route which come with glossary words.
I have the complete glossary list in the game and could take screenshot/make a list but I don’t know where you get them.
Sorry abouot that! I did as you suggested. Forgot to choose go with Lupin in the 1st chapter. Thank you ver much!!!
That’s great! Congratz on getting the plat! Pretty sure that was your last trophy.
XD Thanks!!! And yep!
I nominated you for the One Lovely Blog!
oh, sorry. Totally didn’t see this comment. idk what the One Lovely Blog is but I’ll look into it and fill it out. Thank you for the nomination!
Your welcome sorry I forgot to include a link earlier:https://leafydream.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/one-lovely-blog-award-do-it-says-kurosama238/
Hi, I got my platinum but strangely in my title menu I can’t unlock the glossary, do you this same issue?what am I missing?
It should be the last point in the title menu (directly under Path of Genesis), at least that’s how it is for me. I can open it just fine.
I can’t really tell why it doesn’t work for you. You have 100% in the game so it doesn’t make any sense that it’s not there.
If you want to check the glossary entries you can still do that with loading a save or selecting a chapter and open the menu with triangle.
I never go to thank you for this guide, helped me get the Plat!
That’s good to hear. Congratz on getting the plat! I hope you enjoyed the game~