Extraterrestrial invaders have come to take over Earth, and only an elite force of "magical girls" that have been infused with alien superpowers can stop them.
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i think if i pushed through this entire game, i'd blow my brains out after. brutal to the point where i can't even make jokes about it
This review contains spoilers
(she dead on my end til I aegis)
I will forever be a Dead End Aegis defender.
A lot of people will see its tags and immediately pass it off as yet another fucked up nukige, in the vein of Maggot Baits and Euphoria. They'd be pretty right.
But it's so much more than that.
There isn't really anything I can say on the cosmic horror aspects (or the dystopian setting & its critique of capitalism) that hasn't already been said by people considerably more literate than I. What I do know is that some of the psychological horror aspects pack a powerful punch. Certain scenes ended up making me cry. I originally pirated this game, by the way, but it fucked me up so hardcore that I decided to buy it on gog to actually finish it. It took me two days to complete, which I think is a sign I may be more mentally ill than I thought.
Dead End Aegis is, at its core, under all the tentacle rape, a game about survival. If cosmic horror, the military-industrial complex, sci fi, yuri and magical girls being tormented is your thing, I'd give it a play.
I will forever be a Dead End Aegis defender.
A lot of people will see its tags and immediately pass it off as yet another fucked up nukige, in the vein of Maggot Baits and Euphoria. They'd be pretty right.
But it's so much more than that.
There isn't really anything I can say on the cosmic horror aspects (or the dystopian setting & its critique of capitalism) that hasn't already been said by people considerably more literate than I. What I do know is that some of the psychological horror aspects pack a powerful punch. Certain scenes ended up making me cry. I originally pirated this game, by the way, but it fucked me up so hardcore that I decided to buy it on gog to actually finish it. It took me two days to complete, which I think is a sign I may be more mentally ill than I thought.
Dead End Aegis is, at its core, under all the tentacle rape, a game about survival. If cosmic horror, the military-industrial complex, sci fi, yuri and magical girls being tormented is your thing, I'd give it a play.
Rape End Aegis
This is a regular nukige which is entirely made up of rape content, and when I mean rape content I mean gargantuan amounts. This is in the same special genre of games that clockup pushes out which have extremely intriguing scenarios surrounding hyper fetish content, it's completely normal to not engage with this type of media but there's definitely a lot of creativity to come up with scenarios that outrape each other
I think what sets DEA apart from clockup titles is that clockup actually engages a lot with scat and gore content while DEA is mainly focused on rape, but it doubles the stress of reading it by attaching humiliation to it, all the content up to End 1 has the central theme of absolute embarrassment, you see the MC's vanity and self-righteousness completely collapse one rape after another, being reduced to a literal human semen toilet
Anyways, my honest thoughts are End 1 is extremely self indulgent to read and I found everything related to the forced impregnation to the "Grand One"/"Little One" plot extremely exhaustive, there's an entire part where Nana's boyfriend Satoru comes back and betrays her and it was the most lousily hamfisted thing ever, after the August attack reducing the MC's power and making her a designated cum dumpster was difficult to read not because it was disgusting but moreso because it was just yet another contrived scenario to completely destroy the MC's will, it felt like the writing was cyclic and it was the 26th time she was being reduced to a sex toy for the purposes of being gang raped (that's just what the VN is I can't really complain)
End 2 has 1/500th the rape (just 2 scenes) and deals with the politics of moon residents asking for independence and housing 1.2 million citizens on mars and it was fine, I'm glad it didn't stretch as disgustingly as End 1 did which I can't emphasis how much I hated reading End 1 so it was so much better to read about what was happening outside the Cathedral, it's probably the only optimistic piece of writing in the VN where the main cast survives and even though End 2 in it's entirety is anticlimactic it's still short and "sweet"
Pros!!! (HOW?)
+ Within it's own contrived rape scenario, the character writing for the MC is pretty interesting, they keep her tethered to her self-righteous attitude and keep the dial up and down just enough to not completely break her
+ The story is definitely very interesting with some decent reveals, although much of the contributions to the pacing are made by the absolute rape cage the Cathedral is but there's still general intrigue that keeps everything connected and gives the plot a sense of direction
+ The 3 main characters are extremely enjoyable and had not only distinct personalities but very well written chemistry
+ Illyusha
+ The fact that you can play soltaire in the extras menu on top of the fucking hentai CGs
That's all I have to say about Rape End Aegis, this is the type of content you engage with when you want to read something extremely taboo with very difficult to consume but interesting writing on the subject matter
This is a regular nukige which is entirely made up of rape content, and when I mean rape content I mean gargantuan amounts. This is in the same special genre of games that clockup pushes out which have extremely intriguing scenarios surrounding hyper fetish content, it's completely normal to not engage with this type of media but there's definitely a lot of creativity to come up with scenarios that outrape each other
I think what sets DEA apart from clockup titles is that clockup actually engages a lot with scat and gore content while DEA is mainly focused on rape, but it doubles the stress of reading it by attaching humiliation to it, all the content up to End 1 has the central theme of absolute embarrassment, you see the MC's vanity and self-righteousness completely collapse one rape after another, being reduced to a literal human semen toilet
Anyways, my honest thoughts are End 1 is extremely self indulgent to read and I found everything related to the forced impregnation to the "Grand One"/"Little One" plot extremely exhaustive, there's an entire part where Nana's boyfriend Satoru comes back and betrays her and it was the most lousily hamfisted thing ever, after the August attack reducing the MC's power and making her a designated cum dumpster was difficult to read not because it was disgusting but moreso because it was just yet another contrived scenario to completely destroy the MC's will, it felt like the writing was cyclic and it was the 26th time she was being reduced to a sex toy for the purposes of being gang raped (that's just what the VN is I can't really complain)
End 2 has 1/500th the rape (just 2 scenes) and deals with the politics of moon residents asking for independence and housing 1.2 million citizens on mars and it was fine, I'm glad it didn't stretch as disgustingly as End 1 did which I can't emphasis how much I hated reading End 1 so it was so much better to read about what was happening outside the Cathedral, it's probably the only optimistic piece of writing in the VN where the main cast survives and even though End 2 in it's entirety is anticlimactic it's still short and "sweet"
Pros!!! (HOW?)
+ Within it's own contrived rape scenario, the character writing for the MC is pretty interesting, they keep her tethered to her self-righteous attitude and keep the dial up and down just enough to not completely break her
+ The story is definitely very interesting with some decent reveals, although much of the contributions to the pacing are made by the absolute rape cage the Cathedral is but there's still general intrigue that keeps everything connected and gives the plot a sense of direction
+ The 3 main characters are extremely enjoyable and had not only distinct personalities but very well written chemistry
+ Illyusha
+ The fact that you can play soltaire in the extras menu on top of the fucking hentai CGs
That's all I have to say about Rape End Aegis, this is the type of content you engage with when you want to read something extremely taboo with very difficult to consume but interesting writing on the subject matter
This was a rough experience. There's a legitimately fascinating fantasy dark sci-fi storyline but the sexual content almost never ends and does become horrendously repetitive.
god this is a fucked up read
aliens are set on invading the earth, the military finds out that if the fuse aliens to the womb, women can get magical girl, sailor-moon ass super powers, problem is that they get stronger if the alien gets stimulated which creates this fucked up contentment and apathy towards sexual assault on the ship. its not played off in this male power fantasy way either, all the women on the ship are clearly mentally ill and the ships commander is losing subordinates left and right without knowing how. the media is only vaguely following along but the women can't abandon their posts because they're 'the heroes' so they're effectively imprisoned
there are a billion great little twists, the writing is far better than it should be and it has one of the most boring 'we ran out of money' endings i've seen in a while. they just fucking explain the cool shit and let you watch the boring shit later. dumb magical girl bullshit. man. so sad. i only bothered reading the fleshed out ending. i'm good yknow
aliens are set on invading the earth, the military finds out that if the fuse aliens to the womb, women can get magical girl, sailor-moon ass super powers, problem is that they get stronger if the alien gets stimulated which creates this fucked up contentment and apathy towards sexual assault on the ship. its not played off in this male power fantasy way either, all the women on the ship are clearly mentally ill and the ships commander is losing subordinates left and right without knowing how. the media is only vaguely following along but the women can't abandon their posts because they're 'the heroes' so they're effectively imprisoned
there are a billion great little twists, the writing is far better than it should be and it has one of the most boring 'we ran out of money' endings i've seen in a while. they just fucking explain the cool shit and let you watch the boring shit later. dumb magical girl bullshit. man. so sad. i only bothered reading the fleshed out ending. i'm good yknow
This game definitely deserves deeper analysis than what I'm gonna say on backloggd.com but I will say some things. First off, this is an extremely dense game in terms of what subject matter it chooses to focus on. I don't mean just the stuff you'd put in a trigger warning, at one point it starts using the term military-industrial complex regularly and there's this part where it shows capitalism as something that is worshipped like a deity, again in a very direct way. I've seen people say that some anime and games have anti-capitalist messaging if you look a bit harder but this one is extremely direct, the fucking motto of Earth's military is "Mankind will consume you". It isn't just about anti-militarism and anti-capitalism, those are some of the most blatant themes but it has a ton more. Extremely thematically dense game. I also like how surprisingly dynamic the plot is, there were multiple unexpected shifts and I greatly appreciate when a story does that.