I just finished Kasumi’s route, and I’m not impressed. Extremely underwhelming, and the fight scenes weren’t that impressive. I liked Shiro’s fights with Bey, but Ren’s fights were pretty anti-climatic. The “final boss” didn’t even appear, and it’s like they solved everything before getting to the climax, at the cost of a bunch of deaths of other characters. The scenes that were supposed to be emotional did nothing for me, and the ending wasn’t even satisfying. Even at the final showdown, I could only yawn. It feels like the game is literally telling you you could have done much, much better if you went with someone else. I’m really hoping this is the worst route.
Kasumi is my least favorite of the 4 girls, so I’m glad that I can still hope for a good route with the others. But yeah, talk about the childhood friend getting the short end of the stick. Kasumi wasn’t even the focus of her route most of the time. It feels like Kei and Shirou got more screentime than her. The romantic development wasn’t even good to make up for the anti-climatic “climax.” I guess Dies Irae is the type of game where the romantic moments happen in the H-scenes because the plot has no time for it. Isn’t it fun how childhood friends are either the true route, or the lame exposition/”starter”/unimpressive-should-be-done-first route?
Next up is Kei, and I hope her route is better because I actually like her. As of this moment, she is my favorite heroine. Long black hair + uniform + sword = hnnnnnnng. Oh yeah, the music is absolutely wonderful. Whenever I got to a fight scene, I just had to leave the game running in the background and browse the internet while listening to the amazingly grandiose battle BGM. The art is also really good, with a few odd exceptions that have strange anatomy. But the chuuni fight scene CGs are beautiful and the lighting and cel-shading are great.
カレーまみれ勇者の冒険 Curry Chronicles 
May 15, 2013 at 05:08
Kasumi’s route is just a starter route for introducing some characters and their motivations (mainly Valeria), foreshadowing plot elements that will come up later, and the representation of Ren refusing to fully commit to leaving his normal life.
So yes, it’s pretty unimpressive because it needs to dampen down the content a bit for later routes and pretty much is just there to give you some required information for later routes.
The only good thing about it is the route itself is not pretty long, I guess.
May 15, 2013 at 14:23
Well, good to know that the later routes will be better.
July 17, 2013 at 08:27
awsomecurry I have question: You played PSP ver or PC? and if PC then did it have H-CG? I ask becouse i almost complete Acta est Fabula, then i need to get Amantes amentes, if I known how other routes end.
July 17, 2013 at 10:39
PC version is the exact same as the PSP version, so no ero.