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CallingGestalt finished Rance II: Rebellious Maidens
The more involved plot and characters kinda makes me get some of the charm of the series (even if it's still fucked up), but God Damn is the gameplay dogshit for even a primordial dungeon crawler (FF 1-2 + DQ 1-3 had come out by this point).

3 days ago


CallingGestalt reviewed Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel
Impressive that this feels so close to an episode of the show in its structure, but also it doesn't feel like it's really fits at all with in the story. Basically, it's exactly what you might expect the Evangelion VN to be like.

4 days ago



CallingGestalt completed Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel
Impressive that this feels so close to an episode of the show in its structure, but also it doesn't feel like it's really fits at all with in the story. Basically, it's exactly what you might expect the Evangelion VN to be like.

4 days ago


4 days ago


CallingGestalt finished Moonshine
Feeling like you've been recognized and have a place in the world makes me cry. The fact that this crunchy little game exists and has what it has means so much to me.
Moonshine isn't an expansive VN detailing all the experiences and facets of being a trans women, but it treats being a trans women so naturally that they too are people who have their own lives.
And the fact that this is said in a little window over real photos for backgrounds with crunchy voice clips and music that loops after a few seconds says a lot. It says that the people who made this wanted to impart this message, even if it wasn't in the most high scale production. Sometimes the smaller lines you have with someone on an average day are what leave the most impact.

6 days ago


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CallingGestalt completed Rance: Hikari Quest
This was like playing Ys 1 but fucked up.
Playing a game from before a lot of genres and their mechanics were codified is such a unique experience. The combat and dungeon crawling is extremely limited and is kinda just kinda a glaze on top of a point and click adventure game, but it's interesting that it's there and sort works at all. The adventure game is about what you'd expect of having a lot of runaround for singular items to continue.
With that all said, this is an H-game where the sexual content is not hidden in nooks and crannies. Maybe it's a bit interesting to see this kinda of stuff integrated into the game instead of purely a reward at the end of specific routes and scenes, but also idk if I could stomach this game at all if it was more complex and involved. Even in its first entry, Rance is an H-game that is pretty bad in what the main character does. Though the CGs are single images with a short bit of dialogue, there are plenty of scenes of sexual assault and other explicit images. Like, yeah, this was a hentai game made in the 80s. Probably one of the more interesting ways this integrated is that the combos of how you fuck your partner Sill gives you your different magic spells. Something something gameplay story integration. The epilogue scene of Rance and Sill needing to bounce as soon as they find out that having sex with the princess means they have to get married and they leave an entire tub full of GOLD (which Rance mentions hurts to bath in) was also funny and makes me fearful that the comedy and writing of the larger series might actually be good.

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