There's also the mysterious bunny girl Kasumi, who plays a much more significant role this time around, as a key part of a world-saving plan and possible link to Takeru's old life. As you read your way through the reams of text, you'll sometimes get the option to choose a dialogue response, or a particular action, with your choice often aligning you with a particular character. Much like the previous entries in the series, Muv-Luv Alternative is a visual novel, so sitting back and enjoying the story is pretty much the entire point. However, it's not all fun and games, and Muv-Luv Alternative really does have a much darker and depressing tone than its predecessors, especially in the latter half of the game. Each has their own over-the-top personality, and there's rarely a dull moment in the daily life of Squad 207, whether it's Class Rep and Ayamine's constant quarrelling, acting as an awkward first aid dummy for Mikoto, or discovering quite how far Ayamine will go for some yakisoba. There's serious squad leader 'Class Rep' Chizuru, purple-haired pseudo-aristocrat Meiya, cutesy elite sniper Tama, and silent enigma Ayamine - as well as survival skills extraordinaire, Mikoto (who was a guy in the original Muv-Luv Extra's universe, but is now very much a woman).
Because technically this game marks the third time Takeru has woken in his bedroom to a world turned upside down, his memories of Muv-Luv Extra, where the mysterious Meiya gatecrashed his normal, happy-go-lucky high school student life, are just as important to the story as those of his military training from the second game.Īs a result of his obsessive game-playing in the first game, Muv-Luv Extra, Takeru has a bit of a unique mech driving style.Īll the familiar faces from the previous games are back for Alternative too, becoming your fellow squad mates in the military academy. Not only is Takeru basically reliving all the key events that took place in Muv-Luv Unlimited, and trying to change them for the better to get an edge over the BETA, but there's also a heck of a lot of references and memories from the first Muv-Luv game thrown in too. Now, through some strange events that aren't immediately clear, he's travelled back in time to try and take on the BETA once more - only this time, Takeru has a brand new game plan, and two years of military training under his belt.Īs eccentric as she may be, Yuuko will become a valuable ally in your mission, as the only person aware of your time-travelling situation - and the only person with enough power to make things happen.Īs it's the last part of the trilogy, we really cannot stress how important it is to play through the previous games, Muv-Luv Extra and Muv-Luv Unlimited, first, as Muv-Luv Alternative really does follow on from them. Except things didn't quite go to plan, and the dreaded BETA won the war, forcing humanity to flee from Earth. A little over two years ago (during the events of Muv-Luv Unlimited), he found himself in the exact same situation, waking in a war-torn world and training to take on the BETA as a mech-driving 'surface pilot' with the rest of his squad. Yet none of this surprises Takeru in the slightest - in fact, it's all eerily familiar. To top it all off, what was once his school is now a high-security military base, tasked with defending the remainder of humanity from an alien scourge known as the BETA - and Takeru is their latest recruit. Heading outside, he finds himself in what appears to be the dilapidated wasteland of his former neighbourhood, with the remnants of a huge mech-like robot crashed out in next door's garden. And neither is there a mysterious purple-haired lady sharing his bed either (unlike the first game - and if you haven't played it yet, it's probably worth reading that review first). Waking up in his room, something feels more than a little off when his childhood friend and makeshift alarm clock Sumika doesn't make her usual morning call. Muv-Luv Alternative opens with the strangest sense of deja vu for teen protagonist Takeru.
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