Infinite Stratos 2: Love and Purge

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Infinite Stratos 2: Love and Purge is a branching narrative visual novel where your choices shape relationships and endings. Playing as Ichika Orimura, you navigate academy life and conversations that adjust your "Braveheart Points" based on dialogue options. Higher scores unlock different conclusions, balancing social interactions and strategic decision-making. A separate communication mode adds minigames where you perform massages on female characters to boost points. Success depends on timing and technique, with outcomes affecting your progress. The story continues after the first game’s "World Purge" arc, blending school life with sci-fi elements from the source material. The game’s multiple endings and relationship mechanics drive replayability, with player decisions directly altering the story. Community feedback highlights the character development and interactive gameplay, though some criticize the Vita port’s control quirks. With a Metacritic score of 8.2, it appeals to fans of visual novels with branching paths. Available on PS3 and PS Vita, it offers a self-contained single-player experience that leans into its anime roots without demanding prior knowledge. Touchscreen support on Vita makes the massage minigames more intuitive, though not essential to the core story.