Winter’s Wish: Spirits of Edo – Ohtaro’s route and CG guide
Spirits of Edo provides players with six eligible bachelors to choose from, including Ohtaro, the dog-like barker at your local entertainment tent. If you want to romance Ohtaro, then you have to know how to say the right things so that he falls in love with you. Then, of course, there is the all-important Affection or Sorrow ending choice.
Ohtaro’s route is the last route you should try to complete. Getting the Affection ending for Kuga and then Tomonari is required before you will unlock Ohtaro’s chapter. While you only need to finish these two routes before starting Ohtaro’s, we recommend you also complete Tojo, Kinji, and Yoichi’s routes before to avoid spoilers, and to get the most out of this chapter.
Your choices during the common route don’t affect who’s route you will end up on, so feel free to speak to people in any order you like. The only decision that matters in this first part is the choice to join the Entertainment District. Once you do this you will be locked into choosing between Kinji and Ohtaro’s route.
Ohtaro’s Route: Entertainment District choices
Here are all the choices that raise your affection with Ohtaro in the Entertainment District route.
- What’s your choice?
- Take another card - Kinji
- Don’t take it - Ohtaro
- Kinji drew even closer and began staring into my face.
- Look at Kinji - Kinji
- Tell him the truth - No change
- Kinji whispered casually. After I heard that I thought about it before I gave my opinion.
- Circle around - Kinji
- Chase away the volunteer police - No change
- At the words whispered against my ear I …
- Stay like this for a while - No change
- Lean away - Ohtaro
- Is there something… anything that I can do?
- Reason with the Nekomata Boy - Kinji
- Stop him by force - Ohtaro
If you want to play Ohtaro’s route you need to make every choice that raises his affection. You can choose either option if there isn’t one specifically for Ohtaro, as long as Ohtaro’s affection is higher than Kinji’s.
Ohtaro’s Route options
There are a lot of options that will lead to alternate bad endings or lock you into the Affection ending that will want to avoid to reach the Sorrow ending. Here are the choices you have to make in order to get the Affection or Sorrow ending for Ohtaro.
- Right. That’s because…
- They both became blightfall - Affection/Sorrow ending
- They were tricked by blightfall - Alternate ending
- (W-What should I do…? Maybe I should simply choose the person whose story I want to hear the most…?)
- Here you can choose any story you like. Each person will tell a different story that doesn't affect the overall route.
- What do you think? Do you want me to regain my heart…?
- I want you to regain it - No change
- I don’t want you to regain it - Ohtaro
- After thinking about it for a little I answered.
- Because it’s a different tool - Ohtaro
- Because you’re human - No change
- There’s no need to let people like that live. You feel the same way don’t you?
- … - Affection/Sorrow ending
- Of course not - Affection ending
- (I don’t think that I could get a clear answer on my own even if I tried…)
- Tell him - No change
- Don’t tell him - Ohtaro
- Would you really be able to take full responsibility and kill me yourself…?
- I can’t do something like that - Affection/Sorrow ending
- Of course - Affection ending
- Just… What are you thinking…?
- I don’t know - Ohtaro
- I was scared - No change
The next few options will lead to the Affection and Sorrow endings if you have selected those options so far. To achieve either ending you must have suitably high affection with Tomonari in order to reach them instead of the Low Affection ending. It is important to create a save here so that you can see both endings.
Here are the choices for the two main route endings:
- But if I reject Ohtaro here then we would never be able to understand each other. It would undoubtedly end with us parting ways forever… *you will only see this option if you have made the correct choices until this point.)
- Take his hand - Sorrow ending
- Don’t take his hand - Affection ending
- If you choose don’t take his hand OR you made affection options until this point you will go straight to this choice.
- Hit Ohtaro - Affection ending
- Hug Ohtaro - Affection ending
