knights college ? or should I say college of sucking mean DICK hahahahahaha up top fellas

back to the furry shenanigans you know whats up boys another furry porn VN with lots of different things that would make our creator God Almighty BAWL thank you . that being said im lazy I don't want to find the disclaimer rn so what you're gonna get is THIS IS A FURRY GAY 18+ NSFW PORN VN IF THE MERE THOUGHT OF IT MAKES YOU CRY PLEASE GET AWAY

hi deranged people who decided to remain here this is a very special case for me to talk about because this game completely got my entire adhd hyperfocus for some reason unbeknownst to even me it actually ended up being a pretty competent furry vn and even vn in general whats happening did furries get good

so long story short knights college is about believe it or not a guy who gets accepted into a knights college I know shocker and there he's gonna do lots of stuff like training to become a big strong and beefy knight meet lots of people from around the country and make new friends who are definitely not gonna partake in any nsfw cg down the line

(for the nasty freaks in the audience if you somehow are interested in this the base game you get has NOT the nsfw scenes probably for distribution issues and you can download a patch from kaiju official website after you download the game and apply it to get the juicy juice contents youre welcome)

main character argo comes from a family of fishermen so most of the introductory arc is actually spent trying to understand why a nobody like him got in a prestigious college where no more than like 20 people a year get in AND with a letter of recommendation no less and maybe if there's time left also suck dick

see knights college has a really weird thing called good worldbuilding during the entire game and its pretty insane to me how they manage to make a really vivid idea of how this fantasy country is made up painting some decent socio-cultural landscapes historical events and people's beliefs and traditions and more . this is not to say that this fucking game is the new echo which is not but the way they manage to make this college that could be timeless and floating in the air actually have a really interesting place and time through some little worldbuilding elements its just a blast to see honestly

that being said the premise is really simple you get to be some time in this knights college for a runtime of like 15 hours and while you're in there the main mechanic is to just bond and progress with your fellow classmates through the usage of cards

now if you ask me what cards are they're single handedly the best visual novel mechanic I've ever seen in visual novels in their entirety which is honestly a lot to say about a game like this and what they are is kiiiiiiind of branching choices but not really actually let's call them either just conversation topics or places to go OR branching choices too yeah . so how this works is that through conversation and interactions with various characters some cards will show up in front of argo and they're gonna be added to his deck of possible choices in his future interaction for example if I'm doing a chapter and theres a lock in one of the different dialogue choices that means that it's behind a card that I don't have yet so going on with the game and doing some more interactions I get the card for “hug” then if I want I can replay the previous chapters and see if that's the card that was to be used in that segment and if its possible the lock unlocks and you can choose the “hug” option which ends up with a sex scene with you and grantly congrats !!!!! the system is better understood if you play it but it's basically just a more organic and interesting way to make sure that you have loads of choices but also a pretty linear progression that means that you can have branching stuff but it usually comes later having followed the first singular route for each chapter again this is super stupid but also the greatest visual novel mechanic ever its unbelievable and its also a way more interesting way to interact with the story than just phrases because every single card has a visual stimulus that redirects a concept or a meaning to a thing without having to explain exactly what you're gonna do and while maybe some choices end up being less obvious than others they're a few and sparse and even if you pick the wrong path they're usually at the end of the chapter which means that you can just boot it up again and skip all the way there with possibly zero throwback

this is a reminder to talk about the cards later

what's pretty interesting about these cards its that they're fully dietetic which means that they actually exist in-universe and argo can actually see them in front of him and pick a choice as a consequence . while this may be explained in the beginning of the game as a mechanic it actually has relevance for the story because as a matter of fact since the pseudo medieval knights college ambience wasn't enough the authors decided to give each and every one of the fellas in the boyband a mental power called EP which is just some no copyright way to say ESP what that means is that characters have powers or potential to develop powers and the knights college is just an institution to help them develop that power and use it in their knightly duties

unfortunately the EP frame has just the added value to give the game a few narrative expedients and being an all around fun worldbuilding element to fuck around with BUT its less explored than I actually wanted it to be since most of the students have their EP still dormant it means that you're gonna see like 3 or 4 types of EP counting argo which is honestly such a shame you have this really interesting narrative element added to the mix and you do absolutely nothing with it apart for a consensual non consensual sex scene ????? prophetic

apart from this general backdrop of worldbuilding groundwork the way the story is presented and explored has a clear SoL way of progressing its just something happens with X lesson / event then you can talk to people and then you can get in bath with people rinse and repeat and throughout the different chapters you're gonna get to know some interesting guys in the gang but before getting to the almighty sex

art direction is insane in this one so for context most of the visual novel out there are made in renpy and the ui all looks samey to an extent but the creator(s) of this one went to the extent to make it with unity (which in hindsight had to be made outside of renpy because of the entire card collection gist) and its so fucking good it's literally one of the most gorgeous furry vns I've seen out there in terms of general art design

for starters the portraits of each character are amazing literally gorgeous character design BUT this can be something deeply personal that maybe somebody else would not like but where this really shines is in the way the ui is seamlessly introduced in the whole interface which at first felt really intrusive since it takes a lot of space but I slowly began to like it more and more due to the fact that characters don't have expressions in their full bodies BUT there's a little window in the left corner that gives room for some side profile expression illustrations which is honestly such a fun addendum to the whole user interface and one that has the benefit of being super effective and immediately recognisable (I don't even remember if character names are quoted in the textbox when they speak because the expressions make a damn clear proof to who's talking) and yknow this doesn't really take away the fact that the ui is a big janky and most of the time taking like ⅓ of the whole screen but you just learn to love it more and more due to how much work was put into it to make it this valuable . and for those who are asking the backgrounds are like stock pictures with those like pixelated filters to make them unrecognisable if you have ever read any kind of low budget visual novel yknow what I'm talking about also just think about fata morgana

as I was saying most of the story elements revolve around interacting with your fellow classmates and get to know their each and every kink sorry I meant quirk anyway the cast consists of grantly who is PRESENTLY my favorite guy of the bunch people who know me know that I'm moronsexual to a pathological level I love me some big beefy stupid man whose only thoughts going through their mind is training eating and fucking bitches (im bitches) so umh yeah hes insane I love him so much grant if youre reading this I'm overdue for a creampie then we have oscar who's the little twink of the crew intelligent and shy gets a lot of attention for being submissive and breedable then you have professor dick sorry didedick sorry dedick sorry diederich who's the daddy of the bunch former pirate and current professor of the knights college with a heavy presence both in personality and in underwear terms love him very much and love his relationship with argo then you got theo who's the biggest red flag of the entire game noble guy with an arrogance bigger than his cock hates argo and wants him to die off a cliff or something he's a blast and he's deeeeefinitely not gonna have any kind of redemption arc

more or less these are the most important ones of the bunch because the others usually feel underdeveloped or they're just added for narrative effects orrrr just blatant porn scenes

while I definitely feel like paul has some interesting story elements going for him he's unfortunately left underdeveloped after his chapter because of the very little chapter count and how long they last (this game is like 10 hrs or 15 hrs if you jacking off) which is pretty damn short for a story with so much meat on the grill then you have julius which is also kinda hot not gonna lie again love me a beefy buff man who's overconfident and stupid as shit then celio sensei is an interesting character because he just has this weird cliffhanger on his identity just to fall super flat which is very in link with the vibes of the game but apart from that he's like stern teacher trope the end you can't even fuck him then you got the 2 dragons which are suuuuper underdeveloped but the college dragon is a pretty fun guy because he's socially anxious and shit (I relate) and the other dragon is in the himbo category so yknow what I think and hermann has a foot fetish

while this is definitely not the most ambitious visual novel I've ever read I was pleasantly surprised by the different events that take place in the game and the quality of the writing which is honestly pretty good I love how simple and soft the social interactions are slowly getting to know your classmates go to class have someone to get in the public bath with I just like how the story is presented and the major focus on the slice of life part of things

the last part gets kind of freaky and actually has the SPOILERish intent to give theo that redemption arc we were all waiting for and recontextualising the entire card mechanic because youre gonna have to go through past events (that are unlocked as you finish the game with the bad ending) and have the ability to change fate and shit like that that was BOMB I loved that final arc and how they handled theo actually getting his trauma behind and moving on and being friends with argo and shit that was actually a damn good enemies to friends to fwb if you ask me

only thing that I really didn't fawn over was that epilogue which in itself is seeking to give you conclusive acts with each and every one of the characters but the thing is most of them really do take like 3 minutes each to complete and while i definitely liked seeing the game giving me some closure to the relationships made throughout in the game most of them are either really superficial or without a conclusion and just a few of them actually hint to some kind of romantic development even if argo basically fucked with more than half of the cast but yeah they had to conclude the game this way if they wanted to make an epilogue for each guy I guess

again this really was elevated with the writing which was so straightforward and engaging probably one of the best one I've seen in the genre it gets straight to the point and has a huge focus of what characters say and their use of words instead of being overly descriptive for no reason and this also meant that the soft porn conversation got my dick pushing on my pants not gonna lie the way they handle erotic convos is insane I was literally going crazy the writers know . what's . up the quality of the eroticism is not only better than other furry vns but even +18 vns in general don't @ me they usually get to the porn scenes and say always the same things but knights college actually has the recipe for good porn scripts apparently

and this leads to the very much needed porn scenes that are the cherry on the top of the entire experience for as much as I'm concerned and while some of them could be hit and miss depending on what characters you like and what gets you going but ALL of them are gorgeously animated beautifully rendered astoundingly sensual literally popped their puthy off with this one but of course I got my favorites in the band which are the julius closet scene since I got a crush on him and a kink for getting caught then the grant scene because im in love with him and the thermae was possibly one of the greatest set for this scene I lost so much cum on this one and THEN the ultimate cg set which is the one where theo gets DICKED . THE FUCK . DOWN by argo like the shifted power status where theo was usually on the top of argo due to social status and physical prowess to him getting pushed into submission by him was so fucking hot I was gonna go fucking crazy im not joking as I was saying the writing in this one is something else entirely this was the scene where I realised that theo was a hottie no actually that was the deserted island bath scene but this was like the last nail in the coffin and also made me realise that argo is hot and I want to be dominated by him a man can have dreams I'm still fateful to grantly tho

so basically the thing is if you're a gay furry this is definitely a work of art in every way shape or form it can fall flat in some moments but overall for such a short runtime it has lots of contents and an engaging “gameplay loop” to explore its story and routes the end I loved it

grantly my number is 392***

yet another furry vn from this developer and what I'm gonna say is this I can't wait for them to actually add some meat to the story (this is a pilot and theres not much of a plotline or anything it's just to showcase world and characters) because this thing about recontextualising pokemon designs to be full on furries who may or may not interact in sexual ways in a tavern with the surrounding worldbuilding of fata morgana is something that I need to experience for a possible me time in the future please continue this fucking VN since now you finished dragon island because I need me some incineroar on arcanine action

yeah this is another case of me being an industrial quantity consumer of furry gay porn vns and if some pervert read that deers and deckards review this is basically a spin off of that other vn where the focus is completely shifted on another couple of a doggy protag who was nameless when this was released but in the current deers and deckards builds he's called bosco and that's what I called him in the vn

so what happens is that youre co workers with this guy and also fwb with this guys which means that as soon AS you get a thermae date with him yknow whats up

it's pretty useless to tell you how the events evolve because it's basically just glorified porn cgs as always the plotline here is just a setup for the subsequent sex scenes that are gonna develop and nothing else

that being said as monotonous as they can be the characters are pretty alright the writing is still pretty fine and I really wanted a porn cg with the hyena because im very much attracted to him but he got zero action no actually theres a 3 lines peeking sex scene with him but its not really a cg so that doesn't count

as always the developer(s) got some bomb cgs and while theres only 3 at least more than half are a hit and just because I don't like tentacle porn never did never will the true route sex is incredibly well done and masterclass in drawing and can be even used for more than one jerk off session !!! youre welcome

so yeah whatever this ain't worth mentioning but if you like the developer this is a nice addition to their multiverse of cock and for the runtime of it you can get at least some sexual stimuli if this is your shit

it isn't really explained in the itch io page as much as ive seen but I think the game is done so im gonna put completed bye bye

once upon a time I was marathoning zelda then something absolutely terrible happened… I forgor

so I came back to the original plan and decided to play this gem love this game absolutely an incredible experience in the franchise now if only twilight princess and like 10 others weren't real this couldve been a great contender for the best zelda ever apart from some shit game design decisions if i have a saying in this

ive tried to play this game like 10 times and for some reason I always ended up getting my saves wiped I literally have no idea what's up with me and some games that keep on deleting their save files on me like it's happened roughly 30 times with TITS and I still cannot go back to it because im so damn scared which is a real issue since I want to play trails from zero / azure whatever their name is

for as much as I'm aware l between twilight princess and this one its probably a good opinion to say that this is definitely the fan favorite one of the bunch and also with a big margin . lich rally shook the gamecubes scrawny ass when this released im not gonna lie

so the legend of zelda black flag takes a huge detour from what came before which was umhhhhh ????? ok anyway taking a huge detour from ocarina and majora this new “timeline” (zelda timeline are dumb don't talk to me) sees the hero of wind living in a world completely surrounded by water LITERALLY 90% of the map is panthalassa I have no idea how this people can live a life of their own this way but it could be islandophobic of me to say that

the main little incipit is probably the sweetest part of the game you get to know your sister and your granny some of the other townspeople that count to like 5 people total and living that sweet sweet isolated life until a bitch gets abducted by a giant bird and then you follow her and then you save her and then she's a girl called dazel which is a very suspicious name and then you make friends with her crew and then she says bye hoe I'm a pirate and I love scissoring and then link decides to follow her for some reason which could or could not be related to your sis being suddenly abducted by the sexy lord of dark ganondorf but im not particularly sure because I was too fucking occupied with the first dungeon which was also a STEALTH . FUCKING . DUNGEON who the FUCK decides to open a game with a stealth segment you have to be kidding me im still trying to get accustomed to the controls here and you push me into a this mess youre joking who's the director I wanna talk with the director

this is the premise the end along the way youre gonna meet a talking boat who could or could not be a daddy and get acquainted to the most wonderful part of the game: sailing !!!!! I don't like it

I mean its not that I don't liiiiiike it and they actually make a huge effort in the HD re release to make me like it MORE since theres a “fast travel” option which doesn't necessarily mean I'm actually gonna enjoy the ride BUT at least I don't have to think about where the fucking wind is blowing and its like 2 times the normal speed so I can work with that , my issue will probably fall in the realm of the mmmmm too adhd inducing for me like most of the time when you're sailing youre just gonna sit there and do nothing sometimes the game spices it up putting an enemy in the water which only makes me more keen to just leave him there and change direction who the fuck likes boat battles who the fuck likes BOATS and the sea is mostly empty apart from like a island each square which doesn't amount to much if you ask me but this is me nitpicking because it gets way more tiring later

I gotta say windfall island is possibly my favorite part of the game because its just so comfy there's a lot of stuff to so and it's one of 3 islands that actually have some people living in it I wanna see the birth rates of this population because was its gonna be a blast and here you're ACTUALLY gonna get into the groove of the game with the opened map the unending sea the dread of your sister getting @;£#ed by ganondorf and the envy because you want that to be you and for the most part it develops as a normal the legend of zelda experience minus the sea

most of the dungeons are fine the forest dungeon is fine and the rito dungeon is fine they are both fine I gotta say the fucking vibes are unmatched though literally jawdropping atmosphere in both and the items are pretty good for the most part I don't particularly enjoy using the little magic wand THAT much but they actually managed to recreate the feeling I had with the ocarina pretty closely even though the ocarina is way way way better

the story actually flows pretty fine and the actual narrative is always just hidden by these dungeon to dungeon little segments that add a lot to the lore of the game and the general vibe they were going for it is really superficial level nothing too grand but for a zelda game targeted for minors it's as good as it can get probably my only issue is that they rely too much on the ocarina of time linking lore while the main story beats are pretty straightforward which isnt an issue per se but I definitely wanted sumn more for the story apart from the inevitable link to the previous greatest game in the canon

i do really believe that the land gameplay is probably one of the greatest in the series toon link has this really wobbly but firm feel to it that it just feels really good to play as and when you add the fact that the combat is super satisfying and the items are all pretty great you get one of the most complete games for sure what really made me regret this whole idea is that the sea gameplay is abysmal im not a huge fan of boats in gaming in general so that probably hindered my enjoyment by a damn lot that being said the heart pieces are treated like shit in this one literally could not believe they went from the incredible reward of majoras mask to just treasure hunting which is definitely in tune with the whole pirate vibe but cmon is little challenge room across the map the best you can do and what's really weird is that I didnt really mind the sailing until SUDDENLY the game asked me to get 8 triforce pieces around the map and at that point I just wanted to kms

in a way the post-hyrule arc is my least favourite part of the game because you get 2 more dungeons that have a bomb gimmick of controlling your partner(s) to solve puzzle but its SUCH . A . SLOG they're not really that bad but going back and forth from links and the partners consciousness really killed my flow and I Don't think the dungeons were designed as well as the earlier ones in the game but the real issue is that youre gonna get to TRAVEL . ACROSS THE LAND . TO GET TRIFORCE PIECES girlie ion honestly sailing was fine for me until then but going over and over again around the same hollow map gets tiring after a whole ESPECIALLY when you have no idea where the fuck these pieces are and also in the GC og version was worse so I wouldve defo NEVER finished this game in the original rest assured

as a concept its not really that bad because again its thematically and mechanically in line with the whole premise but the execution is just a slog to go through FORTUNATELY THO the last dungeon was a great payoff not my fav one but it was good better than other last dungeons in the series that's for sure and the final boss was pretty fucking weird if I gotta say so myself

oh and the music is goated as always TLOZ just can't miss yknow thats what it is ughhhhhh am I missing something here oh yeah the zelda here isn't my favorite zelda in the series neither is ganondorf and the rito look like shit im so glad they entirely furry fied them later in the series as they shouldve

masterpiece with a lot of questionable design decision but still manages to be another fucking BOP in this series of absolutely unbelievable games thank you everybody next time its probably gonna be skyward sword let's see what's popping

we are so back to the gay furry porn VN agenda now you know me I was in a point of my life last month when I finished all pornographic video game content so as soon as that happens I always turn to the stuff that really gets me going which is furries since they usually have the most thicc content and being a furry widens my horizons so much I love mental illnesses and paraphilias /j

so I played another game from the same developer which was really just a little experiment it was really short and had just one sex CG but they had some great character designs in there (even though the story was so fucking wack I now realise why people think furries are cringe) so I really wanted to see what else they made and you had to see my surprise when I saw that they actually have this huge (kinda I think I finished all stuff in maybe 10 - 15 hours but still) VN in development with so much neat in it so NEEDED to get into it as soon as possible

so as with all games like this I'm gonna put the usual copypasta

ALERT THIS IS A GAY PORN GAME ! which means I will be talking about my private time experiences with the material and the licentious content of this game that might hurt your over religious conservative puritan homophobic beliefs or maybe you just dont want to read about what turns me on and I don't fucking care you've been advised

ok so the premise of this game is so fucking stupid the protagonist is a med college student who is invited for some days to his friends house and while he's there stuff happens and this stuff couuuuuuld be sex but I'm not really sure here

you're in this house you get the usual story VNs choices that makes you decide you have a one on one with the bestie OR his father yeah you can fuck his father in front of him even though he has a crush on you that's so fucking sick to be honest but it makes for a really erotic time so I won't be judging and it just so happens that the first part of the story is spent like this you actually get a few days at the home of the dragons (I still have no idea what deckards mean English to Italian dictionaries are really silent on this one they know my intentions) and you get to do the usual slice of life ecchi type of scenario eg. 1) oh no theres no water we should get in the shower two people at a time so we're gonna be spending less in bills and more time naked together 2) oh no siggy just LOOOOVES going around the house naked he's just so silly look at him go with his cloaca and his internal genitals 3) we should all hit the underground gym or sumn and just create situations that may or may not make me take a peak of your crotch 4) let's watch a movie together in my room with the very real possibility of me creampie ing you at the end 5) let's watch a movie together IN PUBLIC with the very real possibility of making you duck my dick during a blackout 6) lemme infodump you about a paranormal murder mystery that happened some years ago in these very lands which consisted in a cult getting their hands dir@, ty on the anNW£;×* and then kill peop#;÷ ans ravaBG× BOdiesIN THE [ ]

enchanting theres something for everybody lets just say that now this is probably the best part as I'm aware because you're gonna get to learn about these two dragons and what they're up to and their personality and shit like that its probably the most laid back moment in the entire story but also the one full of teasing which means that I had a hard on throughout the entirety of the prologue trying to get as soon as possible to the porn CGs so I could jerk off which is always a fun time while this is definitely not the strongest incipit i have gotten from these types of visual novels its pretty good to actually get you going with your dick out and shit . most of the little character interaction actually add to the erotic flair that the game is enshrouded in but most of it is gonna be spent trying to romance one of the two guys in the house

now most of the choices (as much as I know) have a little meter that say like “ooooooh siggy like that choice here's a +1” but I'm pretty sure they don't mean anything because the choices are almost always scripted so even though the other guy has 0 affection you can still make him plow your ass

so let's explore the 3 main possibilities of the game which get really intricate for absolutely no fucking reason but we'll get there:

depravity #1 sigurd is your all time bestie who is deeeeefinitely not in love with you and it so happens that he's your college mate so he was like yeah come to my house a few days surely lust isnt gonna play a big thing in the story line pal he's chaotic and ADHD big and dumb cheerful and sweet and as you all know i got a knack for this kind of guys which meant that he was defo right up my alley entirely he probably was and is my favorite romance out of the two but its pretty interesting so whats really fun though is that you can get a sex scene with either one of the guys before actually choosing one of the two and i think i replayed siggys one like 100 times because that creampie CG is iconic

depravity #2 since same age romance is something we dont usually like you get the choice to actually get in a relationship with the roommates dad which is in it of itself absolutely fucking crazy but hes a nice guy he actually has that depressed 40 - 50s dad attitude which gets me going and is all around a nice guy even though yeah as much as a character can be well written in a furry gay VN but hes fun he has no wife around hes absolutely hunky he can be a good top AND a good bottom and he will look after you love the man hi sigurd im single i dont like his debut CG as much as sigurds one so theres that wait what was their names sigurd and sigmund ? yeah ,,, i think

depravity #3 if you actually cannot decide which one of the two is your cup of tea the developer makes the really clever decision to give you a route where both of them become your boyfriends which is in it of itself alright since its a cool polyamory triple until you realise one of them is actually the dad of your other boyfriend and they also got to fuck you singularly OR at the same time which is also pretty insane if you ask me but ,,, this is fiction so who the fuck cares about morals amirite yall … i still think some of the interactions are pretty weird even though the author puts his entire puthy out trying to make this triforce relationship work and it kinda succeeds but like … youre the cumhole of both a dad and his son at the same time it would either be your wet dream or a really strange family meeting , mating ?

so little excursus before we press forward in this incredibly witty writing we are gonna think about whats surrounding this epopee which is the art so incredibly enough the art in this game is absolutely gorgeous every single character is well drawn and even though it goes without saying that you HAVE to like furry art to enjoy it ; this is definitely some of that good good stuff and personally i think this is one of the better portraits ive seen in the furry VNs media together with like arches or something along those line ANYWAY were not gonna talk about the BG because theyre definitely stock photos but every character is looking scrumptious as hell and for my personal liking siggy is definitely up my alley like dumb big beefy jock dragon with white hair and beard and some incredible abs yeah i want a piece of THAT , sigmund is definitely a choice while i still like daddies hes more on the bigger side of daddies which i do enjoy nonetheless and maybe the one that really made me kind of like ??? is the protagonist which apparently is a deer but hes less of a deer in design as ive seen in the media but hes good looking anyway

addendums are the deers dad and the horse professor which are hot as shit but more on that later

so a huge part of the game is obviously unlocking CGs and fapping and this game gives you a damn huge amount to work with which is always a good thing theres a lot of competent illustrations here and there and the professionalism of the artist comes through but it comes down to what you personally like , im a fan of most of the CGs here and there the sigmund first sex the 3some yada yada but the siggy first sex and before class sex are definitely along my fav ones of the bunch could fap to them till i die honestly i just find siggy to be a sex bomb so thats what really appealed to me maybe the next guy on the line is gonna think the sigmund CGs were goated which is fine yknow

the main story goes pretty smoothly you get to date one of the two deckards and spend some time with them and most of the time youre gonna encounter either some cute exchanges which may or may not escalate into sex scenes and then you can put the auto on for some good ol beating the meat so theres not really much to talk about apart from that the stories are relatively different from one another and you can get to know the boys better until its time to wrap things up with a cliffhanger because this game is yet UNFINISHED grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

whats really fun is that for some reason if you pick to date the two fellas at the same time yeah youre gonna have a lot of SoL and a lot of sex as always but at one point they willd decide to go to a resort island for the holidays and this is where the (side) story actually takes a pretty wild turn if you ask me . at the end of the 3way route you will begin the resort arc immediately which is the gang being hosted by leopold something a rich buff model tiger (?) who enjoys tending to his resort making drinks for his clients going around half naked and sucking dick

while at first this totes felt like another excuse for a fanservice sex filled arc for some no reason whatsoever the writing starts hinting at a paranormal mysterious activity mind controlling people to have tons of sex and molesting the fellas so that this parasite like being can spread and make horny even more people to get even more cum out of them to get even more people pregnant and spread its genome LISTEN it gets wild which was something that i was NOT expecting ??? the game had these weird moments when it would turn into paranormal activity gossip infodump but that was mainly because the main character is into the occult and shit but i was not expecting to get into full galactic horror narrative honestly echo did something irreversible to furry VNs i can tell you that much . so as it happens you get some SoL moments with your boyfriends and leopold until sigmund gets mysteriously abducted in the middle of the night and you have to look for clues around the island and rescue your dad (the protagonists dead who for some reason got added to the whole crew and that also gets a full on CGs sex scenes where he gets consensual non consensually fucked which is always a wonderful thing to portray in media but hes not that important until later whatever) and siggys dad

so the story shifts in tone completely and gets into mystery thriller territory you get into this dungeon where you have to look for you dad and if you get it wrong youre either fucked in the ass by purple humanoid gummy beings OR get fucked in the ass by your professor who also got into this mess honestly a FUCKFEST whats really important is that you get to your dad you save him somehow get back have more sex the end zzzzzzzz mimimi

for some reason this arc has a shit ton of tentacle porn and im not really a fan of that but maybe its the cup of tea of somebody else in the audience so i wont judge what really left me absolutely shocked was the sheer AMOUNT of them . lich rally half of this games CGs have some sort of tentacles or shit like that like umhhhhhhhhh what happened to vanilla sex what happened to creampies i have no idea

i mean whatever this resort trip thing was sure a surprise ì because i wouldve never expected it wouldve come to something like this but wow did i not enjoy the amound of tentacles i was seeing on screen but anyway it gets better later

if you do these main quest + main side quest theres a lot of extra stories that are unlocked that retell some events here and there or shed some light to stuff that happened or have just plain and simple porn CGs for some more jacking off . highlights were definitely the ones where leopold gets FUCKED in the ass by the horse professor that also happened to be on that island and wow hes so fucking hot i cannot even begin to tell you how much i was edging throughout that storyline waiting for the sex scene hes literally the hottest character in the entire game and only gets 2 FULL CGs illegal honestly illegal ; security ? then you get the other side story which is instead what happens after that which is leopold/hypnos fucking him with tentacles and impregnating him so that he gets hypnos genome in him so that he can birth ? the purple goos ? from his urethra ? girlie ion . moving on please

theres a strange one where they are trapped in the world of hypnos which is just a what if everybody got infected and its LICH RALLY a looping scene where you get a bunch of reused CGs assets for some more jerking material because everybodys gone crazy and wants to fuck apparently thats teh reality of it and the looping stuff gave me flashbacks of me you and her ong

then you got another side story with other side characters who get married apparently good for them then you got another side story with siggy in a dystopic future (very hot outfit) getting frisky with his dad lets not explore this phrase any longer and then you get another one which i honestly dont remember rn so thats the most youre gonna get out of me about this other side story OH ACTUALLY I REMEMBER it was actually an AU where only protag and sigmund get on the resort island with yet another tentacle porn CG thats why i dont remember

so that was a fun one probably one of the most complete furry VNs ive read till now which is honestly not saying much but the characters are pretty funny even though stereotyped as hell and while it isnt certainly the most incredibly written work of art its pretty serviceable for a game that is trying to be SoL / mystery / porn CG set and such AND its also still in development so we are gonna get more content sometime in the future i want WANT to see siggys mom asap that cliffhanger killed me

good shit lost a lot of liters of cum the minigame where the tiger gets fucked by the ghosts or boss was fun hes hot professor hercules im free on saturday i find really weird that they only use pre to say precum like who says pre it doesnt sound right to me and this is also yet another moment of me becoming this sites laughing stock

(played until version 2.91 which is again something that is useful only to me rn)

I still can't play persona 3 reload which means I'm actually gonna kms some time from now because wow am I gonna go crazy if I can't play that game soon lawd

so what happened is that my mind went mmmmm okay you can't really play p3r you should just finish that “the answer playthrough ™” you had going on , biggest mistake of my life possibly worst 30 hours of my entire being and trust me I had and have rough times

mind you the answer is the canonic epilogue of the persona 3 experience you get the final stretch of the game where people are actually coping with the loss of *+;£&×]”> and for that reason you actually get some insight on the aftermath of that event playing in the shoes of cunty apathetic robot aegis who all of the sudden gets the power of the former main character while he watches all this when the dormitory becomes a close space in which the only date possible on the calendar is March 31th which is pretty funny cause this year its gonna be Easter I love gregorian calendar and also the only possible way to understand what's happening is another android with a siscon that comes out from a hole in the ground and just starts talking about killing everybody to save aegis I just love sisterhood <3

so yeah at this point they just get some answers out of her and the TLDR is theres a huge abyss under the dormitory she's doesn't know anything apart from destruction and for some reason she's related to aegis and has a persona and at this point anxiety kicks in . is the abyss gonna be … tartarus v02 ? and the answer is not only is the abyss of dick sucked gonna be worse than OG tartarus its gonna be even more boring way harsher incredibly unbalanced for the sake of making the game harder and padding for play time and with bosses that seemingly have elution 3000 so that you're really gonna love grinding for those 5 minutes cutscenes in total

see the thing is this the answer is advertised as being a harder mode of the original persona 3 and that means that you're gonna have NO persona compendium whatsoever the enemies are gonna FUCK . YOU . UP . and the only thing you can do for them to not ride you condom less is grinding levels over levels and personas over personas until you can have a chance to do an all out attacks to bosses way out of your league

I don't really mind an harder challenge but I don't think that all these handicaps actually make for a fun ride altogether you can be the best tactician of the world and still do 10 dmg all out attacks so what's actually the point of this if the only real solution is grinding

for the most part the cutscenes are really interesting and make for some great insight to each character even though the real meat of the narrative is gonna be encountered at the end of the game but to be honest at this point it's not really worth it to grind 5 hours for 5 minutes cutscenes

apart from the duck taped gameplay the themes of coping with grief and moving on really resonated with me it's something that accompanies each and every one of us and somehow the characters in this game all had to cope with some type of loss in their lives and try to overcome it together . for as much as I liked this stuff I guess its pretty underdeveloped throughout the little you're gonna see of each character is so fucking good and then the escalation of this incredible thematic approach is a BATTLE ROYALE ??? you're fucking with me rn

metis is a nice addition to a cast of mentally troubled teens but she's also less developed than I wanted her to be theres a lot of great great scenes with her mainly the fucking crying fit that unfortunately hit way less than they should be due to how messy this storyline was developed and while many of you are not gonna be with me on this one . I really enjoy yukaris characterisation here not only did they not ruin the character for me but they even enhanced her image in my mind making her skyrocket in the pantheon of persona characters

stories and characters resonate with people for different reasons and in different times of their lives and I really understand yukaris pov in this one she's just trying so hard to convince herself that she absolutely overcame her grief even though as soon as the possibility presents itself for the loss to come back she's gonna do everything in her power to accomplish that . humans have a lot of ugly feelings and while you can try to suppress them in situations of great stress or when the things you value are at stake they're gonna vomit the worst onto others to get what they want

yeah she's a bitch in this epilogue and so what if you had the ability to make someone you care about come back and had other people just move on without looking back would you actually have the tenacity to do so ? think about that and then conclude your opinion on the answers yukari

or maybe im reading too much into this and she's actually just a fucking bitch but who am I to judge she's still hot as shit !!!!!

that being said the final stretch of the game is insanely good a huge part of me is trying to stop myself to say this but I want to be fucked by the final boss im sorryyyyyyyyyyy bestiality kink shamers look away I also wanted to fuck a lot of colossi in shadow of the colossus so I'm too far from God already

goated storyline goated ending I would rather watch cutscenes online than actually playing this again and I advice for all of you to just watch that 2hr and a half cutscene compilation instead of playing this because everybody who said this is bad is right but I'm too in love with p3 to shit on in so seethe and cope

door kun memes are funny sometimes

disclaimer boys and girls and enbys I watched hazbin hotel and helluva boss as of late and what happened is that now angel dust singing poison is STUCK on repeat im literally gonna go fucking crazy also hi lucifer do you need a cumdump

so its not really a surprise that gust has this thing called godsent vision that lets them pump masterpiece after masterpiece out in the open and im really glad to be one of the 150 people on this site that actually gives a fuck about atelier as a series because wow this can possibly end up being a contender for one of my favorite videogame series of all times they just never ever miss its so weird how do they do that what drugs are they using in their headquarters i really need to know because im a university student i need some of that asap

all my fans (5 people considering my pookie) are well aware that atelier ayesha was a game that i really enjoyed coming straight off from rorona and seeing that the atelier formula was kept basically intact apart from some gamechangers here and there to spice the formula up a bit and of course i ended up loving ayesha serving the most cunt out of the entire atelier cast right below ryza

again ayesha was a pretty traditional atelier experience but this time with some incredible focus on intricate and emotional story beats that i felt retrospectively missing from ryza going back to the arland trilogy (totori has some heavy story beats but i gotta replay it to have a full opinion on in because of the shibuya incident aka my pc exploding) that to say that from the dusk trilogy onward the series probably will take a different direction narratively and in the good way for the most part

now escha and logy takes that premise and shatters it to the ground no more compelling storytelling just a lot of workload under capitalist consumerism trying to revert the world of dusk to a planet where you can actually live in wow this sounds like climate change how about that for you my little alchemists having to deal with the huge bs of the 2020s

so this is probably my one and only complaint about this game while the world of dusk is basically falling fucking APART the pacing of this game decides to take a chill maybe too chill approach at fetch quests little discovery and oh the so endearing power of somewhat sibling ish type of love that's edging right into the romance esque territory mh who said TITS if you know what I mean

now im not completely against this type of narrative stuff hell basically every single installment before ayesha was just character driven plot wise most of the time so it's not like I don't enjoy having some laid back tete a tete between two weird teenagers who waltz around words to convey the eros that feel for each other and fail REMARKABLY to the point that they prefer doing some scavenging or delivering or shit instead of talking about their feelings

all this to say that the pace wasn't really my thing it was way too uneven for my adhd ass and while the addictive nature of atelier was right up my alley the way the narrative is presented was always making me reluctant to continue this game which is probably the only reason why this won't get a full score because EVERYTHING ELSE is beautiful absolutely FUCKING beautiful

now escha and logy has this really weird structure where time limits are present but not really because what happens is that every 4 months you get an assignment like in rorona but the solution for the assignment is already present as soon as you start the term which means that you're gonna complete the main task in < than 10 days and youre gonna be left with like 100 days of playing with your hole and thats it

so you can ideally say time limits are nooooooot an issue in here since most of the time either the completion for the main task is instant or in the case of the final stretch youre gonna have so much fucking time left that you're gonna have to skip all the remaining 150ish days to see the finale because theres gonna be nothing left to do

now now now I like the fact that time limits aren't an issue anymore nobody likes to work on a time limit haha RIGHT ? but this weird segmented nature of the game probably added to the fact that I wasn't really feeling the groundwork for the story which to be honest is not even explored that much you got a decaying world which could present so many different topics scenarios and dramas and youre left with these 2 going like wow I wonder what another great day of work will bring us ????? tough shit

it's not like optimistic people should kts oorrrrr that I didnt enjoy the lesser focus on the literal global warming buuuuut yeah I wanted some more spicy stuff to happen storywise apart from let's wake up do our job wait for someone to assess the situation in some part of the world explore that part of the world come back and realise that the world is actually dying wow shocker but we don't care lemme just create a blimp instead because I want to explore some ruins which are in floating in the air which are conveniently called laputa wait what do you mean they're not called laputa

whatever this can all be summarized in poor pacing mid story great worldbuilding great characters great characters interactions great characters designs did I say characters ok characters that I want to FUCK

so this is called atelier escha and logy which means that escha is the only protagonist and you can't choose anybody else to play because that's what's happened since every single atelier game till now and it's gonna be like this forever no MAN can take the lead i hope this is clear now escha my widdle sweet oh how much I wuv you wow so escha is a blast she's quirky she's hilarious she's shy she's emotional she's cheerful she does what's best for others yada yada I love atelier girls AND she has probably my favorite design in all existence if shallistera wasn't a thing I think the dusk trilogy have character designs that are definitely up my alley plus hidari is a fucking genius you can't miss with the OG lord

escha is the absolutely driving force of the entire game she's so fucking charismatic it's such a weird decision for the developers to actually include a m …. m . sorry im gonna vomit a m a n n … m.. ok into the cast and particularly into the other leading role of the game now logyyyyyyy mmmmmmmmm I'm conflicted I like the guy i don't have strong feelings about him im more on the daddy side of things but I sent a pic of him to my bestie and she replied with a 30 lines mex with all the things she wants him to do to her so he's definitely a ladies man case closed AND while I dont particularly want to give him head I do LOVE the interactions between and escha they're so sweeeeeeeeeeet oh my god I love them every single interaction they have in this stupid game Is just so heartwarming so pure and so emotionally charged that it made me feel like a voyeur more than once get a room you two

so what happened is that my complaints on the story completely vanished as soon as I got to know this two this IS a character driven game and when I tell you these kids must have scoliosis due to the sheer weight of holding the entirety of the game on their shoulders because of their luuuuuuscious charismatic and full of life 2way lead UGH while I really am angry to admit this but half of the game charm is seeing this two interact with each other and with other people it's atelier what do you want me to say and I honestly cannot think of this game only with one protagonist in mind they're a pair they should go together never break them apart they will have separation anxiety and panic attacks

so yeah goated protagonists I love them a lot but I love ESCHA more I chose escha I want escha and only escha in my playthrough im so sorry logy but I don't make the rules

now while I think the character roster of ayesha was strongER the developers were intelligent enough to bring back fan favorites such as cunt server willbell queen of lesbians witch from birth jester by choice absolutely enchanting me even to this day I love her sosososososo much she's so special she's literally hilarious and this installment probably made me even more in love with her even though I miss her y'know zack zack scissors with former protagonist ayesha now vagrant drug dealer and nationally wanted criminal bless her heart

some more qu33rs make a comeback marion is the new head of chimney sweep division with her little slave linca coming along they're charming not my favorite character from xenodusk ep 1 but an interesting duo nonetheless and their interactions with escha and logy are absolutely priceless linca actually has a good outfit in this one who would've known and she's still sporting a 3kg cunt in there so brave

PowerPoint slideshow treatment for the other queers in the band im not a fan of awin I don't care for him I don't understand his gist and how he ended up being called big bro kitty eyes by escha when 1 that should be me and 2 all he does the entire day is jerking some machinery off / reyfer had a good start I was half thirsting for him I love some pseudo narcissistic over confident dumbass with muscles instead of brains but he's just too stupid for my liking still some of his events are so dumb to make me laugh my ass of so he has a spot in the gang / threia is completely neutral to me which is a shame because the ara are onee san were strong in her lost opportunity boo hoo / katla is an ANGEL and whoever dares to touch her it's gonna have to first go over ME it's not like I liked her that much in the beginning but she's so charming so fucking bad at her job which she should just quit to be a stand up comedian because wow she's hilarious what the hell also i don't understand if she's russian / lucille is fiiiiiiiiine I guess most of her events are interesting she has a nice personality I like her not in a sexual way because she's way underage but I do enjoy her company she's fun I like the girl / micie … exists , I guess … good for him

so verdict NOT as good as ayeshas cast but I learnt to enjoy each and everyone of these weirdos… apart from threia and micie i dont know their deal but it has to be said for clarity purposes that I did not put them in my party not even once which meant that the friendship level was like below zero and therefore i didnt unlock the real kiki spilling tea sis drama queen events . do i care ? no

wow umh watching hazbin hotel made me really rude im sorry

forgot to say nio also makes a return and I already loved her in ayesha and i ended up loving her MORE in escha she's just soooooo cute sososososo cute umh and thats it

supporting cast is also fine the bartender and solles dad fuck solle is definitely gay i can feel it in me also he's funny as shit i relate to him being . him clone is literally lobotomised which is something that I'm striving to be this year and harry is the guy with the diamond stick up his ass from ayesha but I kid you not i realized it was THAT harry at roughly 20 minutes from the end of the game im so embarrassed rn

so as we all know some things are spiced up from one installments to the other and this game brings to the plates a lot of different stuff like the task grid thing completion = bonus whatever absolutely ripped from rorona herself which somehow also aid a random system completely ripped from totori bits and pieces here and there from other atelier but the skeleton is here task on tasks requests time limit ranks theres something for everybody

now everything else is completely different and or new and i gotta say the alchemy system in this game is probably one of my favorite one in my entire series the way you can completely exploit the different skills to make overpowered items is sooooo fun i would be there making items for hours non stop that being said making items is veeeeeeeey slow due to the fact that every time you make something you gotta choose the ingredients trying to avoid the high quality ones because you definitely don't want to use the 130 quality gold wax thing to make a piss jar then you have to add them or not if you're freaky and start using skills one after the other and if youre experimenting with stuff and combinations it's gonna take a while then when you're done with that you're gonna load the properties and at that point you also gotta make sure that you don't put a frame compress on a fucking non usable item it's a shitshow and I LOVE IT

all this can be said for making weapons too I love life

field work is mainly the same to ayesha I don't remember if field events were a thing too but yeah theres field events a lot of different parts of the world to explore lucky me they decided to make items restockable so I don't have to lose my mind and traversing all these different places is always fun and getting a shit TON of items is better than any carnal activity I've partaken in: none

combat is similar but better and now you have the ability to bring 6 people in battle which ends up being more chaotic than not but also super fucking fun and adds a lot of strategising yada yada attacks skulls supports super attacks zzzzzz mimimi not a lot to say when atelier battle system is already perfect imho

for as much as i love ayesha this game completely obliterates that games maps even though ayesha maybe has better maps artistically but these ones are just a technical wonder after ayesha and in general the art direction really got better all around you can see how they managed to realise what to actually make with the godsent illustrations of hidari making more polished character models and arguably every single part of the planet looks surprisingly polished and detailed lots and lots of different locations even though a bit undermined by the mute sepia thing (I get it the world is dying and shit can I have more brilliant colors now)

hub worlds cool I prefer ayeshas detailed world map the days you spend doing stuff can be better distributed alchemy is good imbuing is good homunculi home delivery is good tasks areeeeeee there ranks are there too and combat and gathering is perfect and the whole gameplay loop is great moving on

art direction as always is jawdropping hidari taking the lead in character design and CGs is always a fucking blast theres some really cool scenes out there and most of them have homoeroticism I know who you are then the music is STILL absolutely incredible but I prefer ayesha more sorryyyyyy uwu there are a lot of banger tho man

yknow I'm tired I should sleep everything is good it's atelier so it's fucking good only complaint maybe the final year was a bit of a stretch because I didn't even need that long to beat the final boss I wasn't joking when I said I was left with like 150+ days left and had to skip all of them by 15 days at a time or something bitch maybe I hate this game

the final boss took a while to bring down because apparently sending feathers with 9+ turns each to kill you is a thing that's legal in jrpgs nowadays and i still dont know whats flameus deal

at the end of everything I got the good ending for escha and I for the life of me did not want to replay as logy because I hate men and I was also done with the game so I just watched the true ending on youtube and cried my eyes out (not really) suck this gust and lemme just say wow what a fucking game this is definitely some of the highlights of the entire series and im glad I got these two hotties trying to work for whats really important: giving sweets to furry creatures

ATELIER SHALLIE IM COMIIIIIIIIIIIING

you know me hot and sexy marathoning 30 series at the same time because the god of gaming bestowed upon me the holy gift of adhd so that i would be able to pop my pussy off with all these games at the same time and it kind of is a damn surprise that i even manage to successfully complete at least some games all around maybe im not as bad as my impostor syndrome makes me believe

so gamefags told me ys 1 and 2 were absolutely necessary to play ys origin and that if i actually played it before the first duology all my family would be murderously killed so for all the people reading this who have no idea if ass one and two are actually essential to play this game i say yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees and noooooooooooooooooooooo theres some really good callbacks or callforwards ? this is a prequel so i have no idea but it was nice to see some recurring places items and plot elements completely recontextualised to the point that they felt like nothing more than cameos . theres some degree of story ties that you can make between this game and the others but at their core theyre basically two different beasts I DO ACTUALLY recommend playing ys chronicles first just because some of the stuff youre gonna see here are probably gonna hit harder if you know whats gonna happen in those games but again its not necessary and youre not gonna miss anything in particular if you decide to just start with this one (which wouldnt be something id judge you for because the bumpy dumpy installments are what they are)

so ys origin takes place a lot of time before ys 1 and 2 which means that adol was still not even an embryo that being said you can choose between 2 + 1 protagonists aka yunica hugo and ??? and all of them have different play styles and story beats and shit so the real question here is UMHHHHHHH is it actually worth it to play all the routes ??? i mean if you really want to i guess it IS necessary to understand the entirety of the story because the last playthrough is actually the canon one as much as i know which means that if you play only the yunica one for example you wont see the beefy hot man doing his shit and all but you can still get a self contained story nonetheless

but whatever youre gonna do i dont care because i did play all three of these fucking routes because this game is ADDICTING . AS . SHIT

ys origin actually has a pretty different action rpg gameplay from the ys duology which means that this is gonna get more hack and slashy than it previously was now theres not any bumb system or whatever but some button mashy and skill using and shit and tachycardia . not too bad . now for some reason though they actually mustve laced this game with some drugs because wow the fast paced gameplay is so fucking intoxicating theres a lot to the fighting system the attacks are super fast the skills actually add a lot to the quality of the movements and attacking and whatever and also a super attack mode theres something for everybody lets just say that

and again the fact that all three characters have some different playstyles mean that the replayability is off the roof ………. kinda

see the main gimmick of the game is just ascending this fucking tower and for every single set of stories youre gonna get some different biomes like idk theres the normal one the water one the fire one the sand one (which is the worst one dont get me started) theres something for everybody now the thing is that youre gonna do this for all three of the characters going through the same floors and watching the same kind of events over and over and over which isnt really too much of a problem for me who played nier replicant three times for all the endings but i guess it can actually be detrimental to somebody else

the enemies are the same the events are the same even the way you progress through the floors are the same most of the time even though there may be some events were you have to get a different item and shit but that just stops there like idk hugo is less of a fast paced guy because he likes to stick magic poles up his ass so he needs dragon claws to walk on the sandy passages and shit or like the fact that yunica just uses her harmonica to stop the devil's room music and instead hugo decides to SMASH the fucking pipes with an hammer insane

this is probably my main issue with this game since the gameplay is absolutely stellar the leveling progression is super satisfying the bosses (for once in ys) are good like really good so much so that they reused them 3 times and the tower is an intricate and interesting place to explore with lots of different loots nooks and crannies to get some new equipments or skill upgrades in and thats probably what drew me in so quickly

also its pretty funny cause i cant really say anything anymore about the gameplay my soliloquy ends here like thats basically it that's what you're gonna do in the game period . its not really that complicated but in its simplicity it gets you going and going and the way the routes dont last that long you can actually get a lot out of 8 or like 10 hours each playthrough

that being said the story is also pretty simple it has a good enough premise for whats gonna happen in ys 1 and 2 goddesses vanish the research team is looking for them a tower ascended from the decaying earth yada yada you already know this shit from ys chronicles so personally my favorite one is yunicas route which is such an heartbreaking beginning to this “trilogy” of stories and shes honestly such an amazing protagonist im in love in her and her interactions with the goddesses never failed to make me emotional her backstory is the one that resonated the most with me and since it was also the very first route of the bunch ive played its nuance obviously hit more then the next 2 routes and the fact that shes never gonna come back in any ys game cause they take place after like 700 years which means she's been under 3 feet of dirt for all this time is gonna drive me insane dont talk to me yunica my sweet baby I love you please be my gf

while i definitely enjoy hugos route i dont think hes my favorite character of the bunch and the rude cute boy with trauma isnt a trope im fond of so he definitely didnt tickle any part of my body BUT his story made me realise how much of a girlboss epona is she just skyrocketed to my favorite character top lisr like its nothing shes incredible absolutely jawdropping character development i kinda hated her in yunicas route but she just ended up being so much more than a nosy bitch AND hugos route is a huge introduction to the storyline that the game is gonna follow on the claws route which is probably not only the most complete and satisfying route of the bunch but is also the one that actually finishes in a way that really makes the entire 3 plays worth it and that final boss is INCREDIBLE

plus hes hot and his backstory is probably the most beautiful one of the bunch because umh I cant get into spoiler territory but its reaaaaaaaaaaaally heart-rending to see the lengths he went to protect what was important for him like when the main twist came in my mind exploded and I was a mess truly a mess im so sorry for the FBI people in my pc to see what happened to me

whatever only downside is that the other side characters are pretty monotonous and uneventful like theres the yunica love interest the hugo love interest some cunty cunty cunt huh magician a girlboss who probably scissors with the magician and a gay priest and thats the extent of the characters I remember if there's somebody else in here OH THE TWINK WHO UPGRADES YOUR WEAPONS yeah he's dope I guess but the goddesses really ended up serving the most cunt in the entire cast so the 2 measures are balanced and they're probably the most complex and sad characters of the bunch so OF COURSE i was gonna fall in love with them im not dumb also feena I still have my engagement ring with me please be my wife

last but not least the art direction reminded me of trails in the sky which is a game I replayed 10 times and never finished so that brought up some Afgh4nistan war flashbacks but that being said the art direction is pretty good the character portraits are portraiting and the ost IS FUCKING BOOMING UGHHHHHH WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY PUT IN THIS also the mirror ice palace somehow ended up being my favorite place in TWO games because of the incredible work of art that is the ost called dreaming im not joking whoever composed that shit deserves a kiss ON their mouths RIGHT now

I'm gonna skip this or else I'm gonna start embedding ost videos on here and never finishing the review so bye

i have surprisingly very little to say about this game after how much i enjoyed it but sometimes a feel good game requires no introduction to be made . godtier action rpg really good mystery type of story with a lot of interesting hints to what happens in the original ys and traversing the same places of those games was a joy and mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i guess if youre crazy you can also extend this game to 30 hours or something so theres that

so umh this is probably the game that hooked me and made me realise that ys is actually good or better that ys CAN be good sometimes so im gonna continue this venture until i get to lacrimosa because i REALLY wanna play lacrimosa nothing is gonna stop me

play this game theres yunica . the end

hi kishgal im single and if you want im currently stretching my hole you know what that means

why the fuck did they have to make me cry at the end of yunicas route wow and BY THE WAY the fact that the final pose reah and feena make is the cover art of ys 2 is gonna keep me up at night

I fucking love music wow and I'm writing this while watching sanremo so you know im crazy

some part of me really wanted to enjoy this game way more than I actually did its probably one of the most artistically pleasing mechanically deep genre bending queer narrative driven puzzle adventure ever created and also probably a super slog to go through PLEASE DONT DOX ME YET PLEASE WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT

so I'm famously known nationally as a hater of puzzle games because my IQ is so below the average that I have to look up solutions after solutions to actually get the façade of a bump-less experience throughout . now puzzles in this one are not the worst shit ever because of the main mechanic being not only super interesting and ever shifting but also characterised by puzzle segments that are not super long (but sometimes could get really trying and repetitive) and not super difficult (once you understand the secret formula) and still I ended up kind of hating those parts after a while the game makes a lot of effort to shuffle things up a bit but I'm not the target audience for this type of gameplay

now the main gimmick is pretty fun !!! since youre a bard most of the stuff youre gonna do ingame is sing so most of if not the entirety of the puzzles are gonna be about you matching notes with the cues that are gonna come out of nowhere USUALLY since the developers are so fuccking intelligent thay they managed to bend this simple premise to new heights with some of the most forward thinking use of a simplistic gameplay mechanic to the point that it could rival undertale and the little bullet hell heart literally at first I thought this was gonna be a rhythm game but a part of me is super glad that is is absolutely fucking NOT a rhythm game at all for some reason you should be using the analog stick to match the notes but what these developers end up doing with it is absolutely insane

so yeah for this stuff I actually did enjoy going through the game because they just kept reinventing the main mechanic every 30 minutes and for that I'm genuinely so impressed I have no idea how they did that SURE sometimes the sing circle isn't really the most comfortable way of expressing the design philosophy the developers were aiming for but it comes real close its janky yes but also a damn blast throughout thats definitely one thing that kept me interested till the end of the game

again while this should be a praise sometimes it hindered the experience in some ways because of the puzzle segments I wish these parts were either streamlined or integrated better because they're whole areas of JUST puzzles that honestly made me go insane sometimes its not like they're hard or anything most of them are pretty easy but it's just that why would you put puzzle pieces in a narrative driven game if the reason is to make me more engaged in the game rest assured that you're doing the exact opposite ong which is basically what happened when chicory went full puzzle and to this day I still can't finish it for the life of me because wow do I hate puzzle segments

the narrative driven moments are definitely some of the best parts of the game but NOT ALWAYS the pirates arc was boring as shit the beginning of the game was really slow and I actually began to be enthralled by this whole experience when the game decided to go full majoras mask and until then I actually played this sporadically throughout the months because wow is this game slow and boring sometimes wow please don't kill me

it's not like it's inherently bad and I think if it weren't for my mind numbing adhd I wouldve probably enjoyed this laid back experience way more than I did but there's some really weird pacing throughout where either nothing really happens and you're left with countless and countless of boring dialogue or everything happens all at once - wait isn't this the title of that movie

I'm not against laid back experiences I'm so much in love with night in the woods my heart could explode and what really sets them apart is that wandersong while having basically the same structure fails to make me care for anything happening in the world or any single character appearing on screen

most of the events of the game arent moving until you actually get at least ⅓ in which isn't a lot for a 10 something hours game but it can be detrimental to the pacing nonetheless and the characters are either one trick ponies that are used for some kind of interesting dialogue interactions but then they're just taken out if the entire picture which makes me just not care for any of them UNTIL miriam comes in and im gonna talk about her plenty in a second and at that point i start caring for everything in this game all of the sudden

so yeah these are my main issues here puzzles i hate puzzles one note characters (they're not bad they're just how do you say usa e getta in english mmmmm disposable ??? yeah something like that like they're used for a single joke and then killed off screen . not cool man) and the story takes a lot to digest

it could also very well be that I wasn't in a particularly good moment that's also an interesting point of discussion

moving on the art direction is absolutely flawless now lemme just address the elephant in the room I'm not a huge fan of the art style………. but they managed to make me love it WOW the characters are incredibly well designed and diverse theres a lot of variety in the sceneries youre going to traverse in this pilgrimage the vivid colors are trying to make you wake up while you're snoozing theres a lot of expressions for the bard even though he's basically a mannequin the pop up book aesthetic has a lot of charm and while YES I don't like it it doesn't necessarily mean that I didnt find it super intriguing and gorgeous I can not like something but also praise it like I do with giottos painting they have that lobotomised use of perspective that would make everyone go crazy but you have to still understand that that was the blueprint of the art we had in the renaissance and so forward

that being said for a game with huge emphasis on music it's pretty weird how the songs can range from soothing to anonymous to epic to bopping to basically whatever they could make on a soundboard and they did a good job my only complaint is that there's a lot of good songs here and there like the ghost chant or something that get outright RUINED with the player-controlled bard noises which is probably a result of me being ass at this game but I don't think most of the time the bards singing actually has some good impact on the tunes in the background that you're gonna emulate does that make sense is that rude to say

the music is still godlike though I hope the die hard fans of this game arent already releasing my IP on the dark web hitmen pages because wow I still need to play a lot of shit please wait at least a few more years ok umh ……. at least persona 3 reload

so yeah art direction and sound design top notch we get it moving on im sleepy

some of the thematic elements of the story deeeeefinitely hit real close with stuff like inadequacy and depression which was something that I was NOT expecting for this game to dab into because it started out as this incredible positive journey of saving the world and living life at the fullest yada yada and shit like that until it actually is NOT and the game starts throwing a lot of deep shit at you like themes of loss and grief themes of not being good enough or not being worthy enough friendship and betrayal and existentialism and idealism if you had seen my fucking face when I realised the sheer variety of stuff the game explores I probably would've been munchs the scream

I do not think this should be overlooked most of the dialogues in the game can be taken as jokes and sometimes they really are but if you dig deeper you can see how sensitive the writing is to the themes its trying to convey and I swear some of them do hit . like . a . truck . some scenes of the game are forever printed on my eyelids and I not even bleach would be able to wash them away

the main trio is probably the main focus of the game and its in their interaction that all of that gorgeous luscious writing starts flowing abundantly and lemme be clear I did not care for the bard or any of them in the beginning but wow I ended up loving all of them so dearly

for some reason I think it's fitting how the bard starts as such a blank character until it actually grows a spine and some balls to confront injustices enemies and while literally the end of the world . he's definitely not my favorite one in the game and i would've preferred a more interesting approach to the protagonist BUT the way his character changed from this dilly dallying carefree bard to an idealistic mid-apocalyptic dummie is probably the best character development I couldve asked for in a game like this

I gotta give the developers an Oscar for creating my most hated character in the entire world now Audrey is a fucking pain I tried and tried to like her I cried for her I pained listening to her but she was MADE to be hated and they succeeded if I were there I wouldve showed shibuya a real incident

now

drums

my baby

my wife

my beloved

miriam

most of the reasons why I actually ended up enjoying the game as much as I did even despite all the problems I talked about can be summarized in: miriam

shes a grumpy little witch serious impatient and hates the bards attitude towards a more positive demeanour and at first I thought she was gonna be another one of those characters just falling in the background but she sure as hell became the most important character of the story for me

most of the game she just closes off from the entire world and doesn't really think about opening up to others in any way shape or form but slowly she begins to sweeten to the bards presence and starts sharing a bond that could be called friendship

while I definitely don't think this is the most convoluted character writing in the entire world I relate to her to a personal level and I think she's possibly one of the sweetest 2d beings I got to know till now just thinking about all the cute interactions she exchanged with the bard is making my heart warmer not even talking about the trauma dump or the finale literally words can't express how much I love this stupid fucking bitch I'm in love with her I want to adopt her and I want her to be happy for the rest of her life im not joking

i won't go into too much detail but miriam is special miriam deserves the world and miriam is the best character in the game bar none and if you wonder if you should play this game just do it for miriam im crazy for her

she got an inferiority complex and copes with anger issues she feels like an outsider and is scared of friendship and emotional intimacy she's just like me frfr

what got me was that the real reason saphy sent miriam on a quest to save the world and told the bard to go with her is simply because she wanted her granddaughter to make a friend before the world ended

point is I could talk about miriam forever so lets just

wandersong is perfect but also flawed it's interesting and boring it has a lot of great ideas and weird execution incredible characters and monotonous ones its such a fucking dilemma how they managed to either make me go crazy cry tear my hair out or

oh

forgot to say

cried like a fucking bitch too this game got me if you played the games you know the miriam scenes I'm talking about literally could not see the screens through the years . embarrassing

I was saying

or bore me to no end irritate me and make me regret all my life decisions

but maybe that's fine I slowly started to be seduced by this game it started to seduce me and it delivered

still conflicted to no end but I'm glad I got to play this miriam you're a part of me I will never forget you

gg it has homosexual yeti monsters fucking raw

ys chronicles encore kind of goated but also really damn flawed I'm conflicted

hi im once again marathoning an entire series for the purpose to play a single game in that same series but I do love going in chronological order when there's some kind of story or lore involved and all of this just to play lacrimosa of dana but whatever im enjoying this run

so ys 2 what can I say its basically ys 1 part 2 with all the same praises and gripes that I had with the very first one I think as a remake this is absolutely gorgeous I've seen videos of the original installment and lemme tell you I wouldve NOT played ys 1 + 2 if the only available one wouldve been the fucking turbografx whatever version so im actually glad they polished the OG king to this extent to make a really old and dated vidya kinda modern it has that charm of a low budget rpgmaker game I don't know I really like this

so umh as I was saying this shit is the same the combat is the same bump into enemies and see them explode before your eyes get some items and equipments yada yada BUT !!! they spiced things up with new spells (even though the actual combat spell is only the fireball one but its so fucking fun to use for no actual reason) and in general there's a lot of different useful and or interesting spells to use like the light spell or the morph one theres something for everybody (furries) let's just say that

and yknow the main issue I had with the first one kind of vanished because for some reason in ys 1 the leveling stopped right at level 10 so that I wouldnt be able to grind my way to the bosses which actually made the bosses HARDER because why the fuck would you not make me grind for levels to make the bosses easier thats like the main rpg philosophy fuck you falcom

anyhow this game is not the case you can level up stupidly fast by targeting strong enemies in the solomon shrine and the game kiiiiiiind of becomes easier but its still ys so the bosses are still tough as shit if you don't know what you're doing or you're getting all the danmaku balls in your face and stuff

mind you it gets more unbearable as you go but it's still pretty accessible if you want to grind a little bit more in the longrun that being said the gameplay department got better but at the same time the map and dungeon designs got so much fucking worse now why would you put as the very first dungeon of the game a cave with so many different exits like I'm not gonna rage quit this fucking game ASAP literally lost so much time in there I was getting crazy now not gonna talk badly about the volcano or the sewers they're fine BUT THE SOLOMON SHRINE ???????? you must be joking screens and screens of labyrinth where you have to go from one point to the opposite one and then back again for the story to progress I don't wanna see that shit anymore in my entire life love to see it

so yeah this is what mainly confused me about this stuff there's a lot of innovations in this new installment for better or for worse the combat is tighter and you get more than one fucking item at a time theres a lot of “customization” (practically it's like X item needs to be equipped in Y situation) with a ton and I say A TON of different items but then youre left with these weird game design decision and youre like mmmmm okay

gotta say the story completely blew me away the story of the first installment was simple and it was good it had a nice little mystery element in it and this is the game that actually answers all the questions you couldve had in the first game kind of like higurashi/umineko question/answer arcs you feel me some different plot twists here and there that made me tear my hair out and a more interesting conflict and villain than the one we had in ys 1 and feena and reah in this one are stellar I love them I almost cried in the ending ALMOST don't get me started

unfortunately most of the characters still feel one note and uneventful I only remember the main trio and thats basically it Keith was actually a nice pal and lilia was l my little sweet angel I loved her so much she meant the world to me in the first 10 minutes of the game and then I completely ignored her bye

soooooo I don't know guys its still the same praises I gave ys 1 nice presentation for a remake of a game so fucking old the ost is bombing absolutely timeless and pumping in my ears like its ** pumping in my *** the combat is still pretty fun and with the new additions it's even more enjoyable I have no idea what the fuck they smoked in the falcom headquarters because those map designs should be illegal and punishable yada yada whatever I don't care anymore I just want to move on to ys origin thank you these 2 games were good but now I can move on to installments that hopefully won't take the soul out of me thanks see you soon

I want WANT feena you don't get me

you might be asking yourself “falco umhhhhh that's not … that's not a 4.5 game right there” ok and you know what shut the fuck up I'm the only one with the universal jurisdiction to say if a game should deserve this high a praise and i can tell you with absolute honesty that ive never had such an experience in gaming industry that stimulated every single sense of my body and brain in more than one way possible and just for that this deserves to be in the top of everything i love about videogames fun gameplay lovely art and music and gay sex cue the usual disclaimer

ALERT THIS IS A GAY PORN GAME ! which means I will be talking about my private time experiences with the material and the licentious content of this game that might hurt your over religious conservative puritan homophobic beliefs or maybe you just dont want to read about what turns me on and I don't fucking care you've been advised

paradiso guardian was a project that i saw roaming around during the last years and i was pretty sure nothing wouldve come out of it i thought it was just a cute experiment that would never see the light of day well im happy to say that team level something released this gem of a game just so that i would look like a fool and also jerk off

those who know me in the audience are well aware that symphony of the night is one of my favorite games ever created in this world absolutely such an incredible work of art that i will never get tired of playing and replaying literally it has everything a masterpiece has to offer and also boom sexy alucard

so then bussy guardian follows closely the example of the greatest blueprint of the metroidvania genre and aims to create a tribute for symphony of the night that could rival to one of the most influential games ever created and im glad to say that they came damn close and when you think about it without the gay porn stuff paradiso guardian is an incredibly novel concept all the aspects in this game are brimming with professionality and im glad it came out as good as it did

lead twunk lenga is a colorful angel residing in heaven which is actually getting ravished by loads and loads of demons and penetrated until the seams start to fall apart im still talking about heaven not about lenga keep up SO the guy being a sweet little guardian angel goes on a mission to actually track down the culprit of the invasion that is destroying the paradiso and to fuck him up . pretty simple but a good enough setup for whats to cum

as i was saying this is heavily inspired by sotn and i was definitely not expecting for the developers to not only follow closely almost every single element of castlevanias masterpiece but also actually managed to create an experience that feels almost if not identical to the former for starters lenga albeit quite stiffer than the blonde vampire but its still such a joy to move around and while theres not as many movement options its still pretty fun to run around the “castle” in this case

gameplay wise this is also pretty similar and competent you got the usual equipments and items with different battle styles then you got the usual skills but with a twist because you dont have to use fucking fighting games combos to activate (dont @ me i love those in sotn but im glad they didnt put it here even though theres a scroll that can activate those kind of skills but im too poor to buy it sorryyyyyyyyyyy) and some summons it's pretty varied I gotta say even If obviously derivative but it IS a tribute game

I genuinely didn't think this could be that good because since this is an hybrid porn game i 100% thought the metroidvania aspect was gonna be half jank but its so fucking GOOD for no absolute reason every single place of the castle is full of interesting monster designs some bomb ass segments a fluid gameflow and the slowmo duck ability was goated I had a lot of fun even though the game isn't that long most of it I actually completed in mayyyyyybe 5 hours ??? theres a lot of stuff to discover battle tactics to use get lost in the castle again and again and again basically every single metroidvania element is present and thriving and im here for it

for a good chunk of the game I was so impressed that they managed to recreate the sotn feeling not only in the gameplay department but also the art style which is literally so close to the sotn one it could be a dlc from that game every single sprite is moving so flawlessly monsters backgrounds castle pieces bosses everything has such a good fucking spritework that is just a joy to witness and in general I did not think the whole castle could be characterised so well even though theres like 4 different areas it's absolutely insane godlike work

and for some reason the music is also pretty grand AND emulating the neoclassic darkwave or whatever the fuck the name of sotn music genre is and BRIMMING with details it sounds like a fucking live orchestra and thats something I felt last time only in castlevania it's insane the lengths this team went to get to the players the tribute they wanted and there's a lot of different tunes that are ALL . SO . FUCKING . GOOD and my absolute favorite one of the bunch is of course club moment

do you know when that plays . exactly when lenga is getting FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED

so let's talk about the MEAT of the game right now I tried to be as safe for work as possible for straightos stumbling here but that is no more

during lengas ascent in heaven to find and fuck the big bad up theres gonna be a lot of different people trying to get in lengas way which could be some friends trying to stop him from doing something dangerous of full on enemies and what happens is that lenga is a fucking nymphomaniac and every single boss beaten is gonna get a damn huge crush on him and fucking him up as they should

so what happens is you get into a boss battle you beat the boss and lenga proceeds to slurp their meat up until they cum and go back to the headquarters of paradiso waiting for another chance to get a 1 on 1 with lenga

at this point you can get into the headquarters and offer the different men some gifts so that you're gonna strengthen their bond until you unlock some difficult challenges to replay the boss battles

want to know what happens after you beat these battles ??? that's right you get a special skill im joking yes you get a special skill but you also get a damn good fucking back to back to back

so I'll be direct I beat my meat off at least 50 times on these cgs my dick started aching after a while because I would just be beating it all the fucking time I'm not joking these CGs are incredible the different character portraits are already a damn joy to look at every single character is hunky as shit super sexy and has so much beef that would fill an entire butchery but the SEX SCEEEEENEEEES OOOOOOH THE SEX SCENES are some of the best I've ever had the pleasure to masterbate to

for starters the voice acting of this game is absolutely unbelievable every single character is not only thriving with personality but the sex scenes have so much moaning and gasping and dirty words that I ended up cumming in like 10 seconds every time absolutely insane AND the artist has a damn good understanding of what makes anime CGs so exotic theres a lot of different positions and camera angles incredible situations and masterful pornographic writing I bet every single gay guy or gay porn connoisseur would just be thriving with this game I'm not joking

so there's 4 different main guys in the pool floody is the childhood friend archetype big beefy guy cannon in hand another cannon in his pants has a really great perverted bottom / shy top dynamic with lenga and while not my favorite guy of the bunch I probably ended up enjoying his CGs set the most (probably because he's always on the giving side and I love seeing lenga take a huge fat cock and moaning maybe im biased) and in general floody is so fucking hot definitely a good time then you have the oni prince shuten who instead has the “I want him as my wife” simp dynamic which I'm not usually a huge fan of but he's pretty hot to begin with so there's a lot to love in his sets and seeing lenga actually switch was a fun time then you got vitos who instead is a demon that ends up eating lenga inside out he's also pretty great not my favorite CG set of the bunch but he's pretty hot and for that I gotta respect him and anD AND THEN MY FAVORITE BOO RADIAN UGHHHHHH so if you know me irl you know im a huge fan of daddies and radian is absolutely . fucking . hot plus the dad x son (NOT RELATED BY BLOOD !!!) dynamic here makes me so fucking horny you guys won't believe what was going through my mind during those scenes anyway again this is not my favorite CG set of the bunch but radian is the hottest guy in the entire game and the last scene with him was probably my most fapped to of the bunch so so so so gorgeous

that to say if you want a lot of jerking off material you're looking at the perfect game

now you would think lenga would stop here but he goes to the extent to fucking or get fucked by not only guest bosses that can be summoned but also the god of thunder which is among my favorite scenes of the game literally replayed also this one so many times you couldve donated 50 gallons of sperm im not joking here absolutely hot hottie hottest hunk of a thunder deity I want to be dominated by him if it's the last thing I do in this life and lenga also goes to the extend of doing a SPOILER huge fucking orgy with the entire cast AND the final boss ??? (who's also a snack unfortunately you only get one scene with him)

I love this lewd angel with my entire being I relate to him I wouldve done the same with so many hunks around me

so anyway I lost the point what did I want to say oh yeah this game is incredible absolutely fucking jawdropping I love a game that makes me stress on boss battles and makes me relieve that stress after the boss battles hand free incredible what other games does that ???

this is not a perfect game and it doesn't deserve the 4.5 rating but I'm literally the target audience for this game so if I'm not the one giving this a bloated rating who is gonna do that if even a single person reading this is gonna jerk off to this game think about me while you do that I'm gonna grow more powerful

so there's that thank you for reading another infodump about my sexual experiences foe whoevers interested I got the save files with everything unlocked and 100%ed so that you can instantly look at the gallery and jerk off im not gonna delete the game files until I'm tired of doing onanism on these CGs so yeah

umhhhhhh the end I guess see you at the next gay porn game probably coming out on top because I'm playing that rn

tragedy struck my life the other month when my pc exploded for absolutely no reason whatsoever and all the people who know me know that I basically live thanks to my laptop its become a part of me and when I tell you I had panic attacks and anxiety all the time it was getting repaired i swear I'm not lying here so whatever at least sloth made me download dragalia lost which I'm enjoying too fucking much . so long story short my pc came back and I could go back to PLAYING GAMES !!!!!!!!!! and also study for my university exams but I don't care those are my hobbies my job is playing games 24/7 ok so that being said I formatted my pc because I thought THAT was the problem like some viruses due to me watching and downloading everything gay pornography from the Internet but apparently it was a fan problem so useless now actually my pc needed some sort of cleaning because again literally loads and loads of trash BUT I saved all my game data I'm not fucking dumb and then when it was the time to get back to my sweet little baby totori and complete the game since I was really close to the last third of the game I realised that somehow save files weren't PRESENT I lost an entire day trying to find these fucking save files and they're NOWHERE TO BE FOUND ????

ok so i said fuck totori for now im not replaying all that what the actual fuck imma return on it during this marathon but god am I not gonna go through all that again rn sorry meruru you will have to wait

SOOOOOOO I NEEDED TO MOVE FORWARD in my marathon and I decided that ayesha was the way to go for now actual reason whatsoever I just really wanted to play this because ayesha looked so cute and fun and shit

so ayesha ayesha ayesha let's just say that I had a lot of different expectations for this installment but I deadass thought the dusk series would be closer to the ryza series for some reason even though they are closer to the arland series in time and space so i have no idea why I had that impression

that being said as soon as I booted up the game AND I watched the fucking intro guys . I had goosebumps I KNEW this was gonna be a damn Good Game™ from 15 seconds of that opening im not joking I think they put some drugs in there its so absolutely evoking the music is blissful and the singing is so personal and mind you that's probably my favorite part of the entire game can you even believe that

now i saw some people around in the world recommending ayesha as a very good entry point for the entire atelier series so as I'm basically an atelier connoisseur now (I finished like 4 or 5 installments) I think mmmmmmmmmm mmmmm lemme think maybe they could be right ayesha is perfectly good as a mid point either for the arland series which has the infamous “””hard”””time limit and also for the newer installments that dont have time limits and shit so yeah i guess in general this could be a good entry point yeah i get it also even though the time limit is also present but its reaaaaaaaaaaaally toned down to the point that you actually have a lot of time to do everything you need to do now umhhhhh beware that the time limit is still there I think I fucked around too damn much because I had like 1 month left to kill the final boss and I almost didn't save nio and if that happened I would've (tw/suicide) kms no joke /j

I still managed to get a …… gooooood ending ???? actually I still haven't watched the ending compilation like I do with every atelier but since I saved nio I guess its at least ONE of the good ones I got the one where ayesha follows Keith to become mmmmmm a better alchemist what was that

so anyway yeah for those wondering atelier ayesha is a good entry point for me I still think atelier ryza is the BEST entry point and definitely the installment that made me crush so hard for the entire series theres definitely no fucking reason for you to NOT start with ryza but if you for some reason can get your hands on ayesha first this is good as good as it gets for classic atelier

now since some part of me was expecting some jaw dropping innovations in this installment I was pretty let down to see that most of the game design were still the same of rorona etc NOW I love rorona (and totori but I have no proof for now since I COULDNT FUCKING FINISH IT) and that also means that I ended up loving ayesha but a part of me was like wow the exact same gameplay loop AGAIN ?????????????????

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COME THROUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

i love atelier gameplay loop I would fucking play 100 installments if they actually ever release them im not joking absolutely incredible games i cant believe that this series didn't get onto my radar thats absolutely buck wild

so first of all I gotta say something about the art direction or else I'm gonna tear my hair out . do we all agree that hidari is the most incredible character designer of the century SORRY I SAID IT literally one of the reasons why fire emblem echoes shadows of valentia is not only my favorite fire emblem (for now) but also one of the games with the most beautiful presentation I've ever played till now what the actual FUCK

when I tell you atelier ayesha art direction is fucking unmatched every single character is beautifully illustrated absolutely brimming with cute details and personality and makes up at least 50% of their character the other half being voice acting and writing its literally such a fucking powerful phenomenon love you hidari teach me some degree of your craft because I really need character design lessons ong

so umh talking game since I've been fucking around the question till now is this game good ??? very

ayesha lost his sis and has a schizophrenic episode where she sees a ghost of her sis in front of her grave and after the help of some mysterious hot old guy she goes on a spiritual peregrination to find cues of where the fuck in the world her sis is

and thats the incipit also she's a 薬師 but obviously gets immediately recontextualised into a 錬金術師 because this is called the ALCHEMIST of dusk not the fucking pharmacologist of dusk get educated

so in general you're left with a lot of freedom in the THREE YEARS (repeating that so that people know when it's time to call quits and accept the bad ending) but if you follow closely the different events that show up in the overworld and just explore leisurely youre definitely gonna get nio back pretty much again I got REAL CLOSE to the time limit due to the fact that I just love fucking around synthesising a lot and get a lot of crops but thats unfortunately something super counterproductive in classic atelier so there's that

that to say that in general the gameplay is pretty cool you got an interesting overworld (albeit smaller than the one you're gonna explore in totori but she IS the adventurer of arland you can't just compare to her) a synthesis mechanic that is pretty simple and pretty addicting at the same time (I still dont fully understand how abilities work but ok whatever I still finished the game) and I mean the gathering is always pretty cool even though getting 2 pieces of crap a ball of fur a carrot a bottle of bull sperm and some rocks will literally make you spend like 3 months im not joking here but whatever and last but not least the combat system is also cool yknow what I read a lot of people during my ignorant days of the atelier series saying shit like “oh yeah atelier ALSO have combat which is probably the weakest part of the game” so yo that guy on gamefaq I gotta say girlie you suck I have no idea if I'm actually insane but I have so much fucking fun during battle in atelier maybe I AM crazy like in particular the combat in ayesha is super cool theres the support system some more skills for the characters the area effects all the special attacks and everything else

and using items is still as fucking fun as ever

this to say that atelier combat isn't something to think of as an addendum but as an integral part of the game and has nothing to envy from other jrpgs in the industry

whatever so the gameplay is still the same if you're already a fan of atelier HEY !!! this is classic atelier probably as classic as it can get apart from like CBT time lines not being present here thank god

while I definitely did not entireeeeeely vibe with the “stick to the old formula” type of progression it has to be said that it still works wonders with the characters in this one most of them has really heart to heart moments and some fun little scenes that really make this feel like an atelier through and through so first of all I want to point out that ayesha and bell have steamy hot gay sex when the cameras aren't rolling I see what's up between these 2 I'm not fucking blind they're like the spiritual successor of the lesbianism that was going between rorona and cordelia or totori and mimi I understand now I SEE it . that to say that bell is probably my favorite character of the entire game there I said it she's so effortlessly funny incredibly well written has some bomb character design and events and probably some of them will think of her as annoying but that's only because people hate to see women winning and there's that

ayesha also has some lesbianism going on with nanaca and I enjoy the country girl x country girl dynamics yknow “let's kiss in the stinky cow farm and squeeze the milk out of tits of every king wandering across the land with your pookie and casually defeating a god of destruction” gf tumblr moodboard

mind you probably one of the reason why I even booted this game was because I really wanted to have a really deep look into the hunk of a man that is juris now juris is first and foremost probably the most beautiful man I've ever encountered in this atelier marathon and if you know me you already know that I got a thing for quiet and dangerous men because I was surrounded by this archetype growing up and as everybody knows trauma transforms into sexual desires soon enough so here we are

forreal tho he's hot but I didnt really vibe with him PERSONALLY he's fine and shit but if I gotta choose a man to simp for in this hame it's definitely Keith now remember what I said about quiet and dangerous men ok add the fact that I was surrounded during my early life by quiet dangerous and OLD men ok now you can see the pattern so since Keith deeeeeeefinitely gets into the damned daddy I was absolutely hooked on this man which is a shame that you actually get a good glimpse on his true nature at like 3 months from the end of the game but its all fun and games amirite hahahahaha now some your dick

sooooo anyway the other people is also fine regina has the heaviest cunt into he game h
but I forgot about her after like 1 year ingame linca is pretty fun and can get a mean dick if it weren't for the fact that IM on the passive side and I want MY woman to control me so the fact that linca has this really laid back servant puppy personality didn't help but she's definitely gorgeous and good in battle and has some pretty fun interactions that made me laugh my gross ASS off definitely an highlight odelia has probably the bombest design of the game just for her to be a fucking bland automaton ok whatever still am interesting character but I hoped they did something else with her apart from like hi im a living library what can I do for you beep boop master the order “sucking dick” you've just requested doesn't follow laws of asimov and then we have marion she's fine I like a girl in power but mmmmmmmm I don't know she never clicked with me I deadass left her to rot never put her in the party (odelia too fyi) and thats fine also she has bdsm sessions with linca

can I talk about nio ok hi nio exists in this game apparently and since she has some massive story implications with ayesha I thought she would be a great character and once you actually save her (if you manage to lmao noob) she's so fucking great I loved her even though I got to know her through like 3 story events because the time limit smacked my face ASAP but the little I saw of her I enjoyed a damn lot her relationship with ayesha is holy and wow she did a complete 180° rotation from the “hi im a ghost im eepy sleepy sis my list wish is to go to a death grips concert” goated

last considerations and then youre free to go they definitely did not NEED to snap so fucking hard with the monster designs theres some incredible stuff here and while they still suffer from the recolor illness there's a lot more variety to be seen in enemies instead of the arland series so thats some good shit and the fuckinf final BOSS is sO HOT IM SOREYYYYYYY IM AORRY WOW do I want a piece of thay wow honestly I didn't expect them to make me tent up but apparently they decided to put some sexy ass goat monster thing you know I fuck wjrh that AND ALSO they did it again . making a fucking masterpiece of a soundtrack out of nowhere literally all the cuts in here are pristine the battle system are battling the sad scenes are saddening the overworld themes are otherwordly and the next time I listen to that FUCKING bagpipe song is gonna be too soon i wont be here listing all of my favorite songs in the game because i would just link the entire ost at that point lmao time management and shit buuuuuuut if i gotta choose one its definitely this battle system every time I listened to this GODDAMN theme i would just get goosebumps I have no idea what kind of hands made this song but you need to be blessed by the gods im not joking here if you don't want to play the game just listen to the ost at that point its just the same level of wonder honestly

soooooo mmmmmmmmm all in all ayesha is a damn good installment I gotta remember to watch the other endings online I need a memo ok made the memo I think this is god tier atelier but every atelier is god tier atelier at this point and I gotta be a little bit critical about this series or else everything's gonna be in my top games of all times and yes maybe a part of me wanted something more~~~ but thats mainly because I ruined my entire progression by playing ryza first which is of course elements the most modern and complete installment in the series in many different ways but for what it is ??? ayesha is a delight absolutely top notch atelier with probably one of my favorite girlies in the entire series (ryza is still first don't @ me) and I have the very distinct feeling that a second playthrough will make me fall in love even deeper into this game but we'll see in the meantime stan ayesha she wants to be a kpop idol

oh also the vocal tracks are bomb

sooooooo mmmmmmm I think I'm done see you in the next atelier review which is probably gonna be escha ~and logy~ which I already booted up because atelier is a drug and an addiction but my adhd said today “nah youre gonna get distracted every 5 seconds” and I was like umhhhh ok we are NOTSSSS doing this rn

to think that i would play a game such as myst when i absolutely despise point and click adventure games because they make me skyrocket my adhd to the stars and yet i managed to finish this one maybe im stronger than i believe

sexy ANerdList recommended this to me as part of this list thanks dude

so long story short I did enjoy the game but I do have some gripes with it that could only be explained by the fact that this game is now almost 30 years old and just thinking about the state of videogames during that time is making me go insane honestly that being said its absolutely unbelievable how this haven't become lost media because I swear getting a “rom” (???) idk whats the name of the format of the game files but ok whatever that one

mind you myst is really weird I read something around this site and there was a lot of good opinions so I HAD to try it out just for emotional value do I think this game is a masterpiece ??? hard to say definitely not for me but I do believe it had some resonance in the entire gaming industry and for that I have to F pay respect BUT its also to be said that its not as enjoyable an experience nowadays as it wouldve probably been during its releasing time its like how I have a lot of respect for the beatles but I would rather shoot myself in the migraines than listen to one of their albums

I have to come clean here i didn't really understand most of the storybeats in here so there's this guy who found a book and got sucked and licked and and slurped into the world of myst that I'm pretty sure of now from that point ONWARDS my understanding of everything in the game starts to crumble they begin to push in front of me lots of books and infodumps that I for the life of me did NOTSSSS read what the actual FUCK this is definitely not an ADHD friendly game ong all the ADHDies in the room please be advised and also the “do shit and wait for animation” was a red flag and also the talking books brothers that have the tendency of saying 10 lines of dialogue in 5 minutes its such a fucking bore WOW really detrimental to the pacing ngl

so there's these two brothers who are played by real life people and I didnt want to be that close to their face but ok go on let them cook so they hate each other and are not willing to have some truce for some reason so youre inbetween two brothers trying to get out of their book prisons and to do that you have to get some more pages in different ages of myst that you can access by other books

this game has a heavy focus on books and lord knows I don't like books so yeah the story isnt really that interesting TO ME but it sure can get its point across and has a really good way of setting the general vibe and atmosphere for the game

and then this is the gameplay loop find a “portal” get in the page aka another age of myst find either a blue page or a red page or both or anything and go back put the blue/red page back into the brothers books and listen them talk and talk and talk and talk wow they never FUCKING shut up and most of the time they don't even say anything interesting just “lemme out / fuck my brother / look at my nostril” rinse and repeat the end

so yeah even the ending no spoiler leaves a lot to be desired its like ok cool you did all the puzzles and shit and now you can have a conclusion to the story ……. this is the conclusion bye and then youre literally left with nothing umh ok I guess I'll get the next part of the story in the following game(s) even though I'll probably only stop at riven I'm not sure I can take 5 more games of this kind in the series that being said I liked the story for what it is but it's definitely not the winning point of this experience it has a lot of different worldbuilding elements that I did enjoy but most of the shit here is left unexplained like why are these people trapped in books and why are you also trapped in a book now whatever

so let's talk meat of the game now because theres a LOT

now at first I gotta say I was not impressed with the graphics mind you this is a pre rendered screens kind of game which means they're gonna have hi res pics formatted into a 10 byte disk and they're gonna get all grimy and grainy and shit usual final fantasy 7 through 9 psx era kind of art direction . now at first I was not impressed I did not think the island of myst was really that gorgeous it has some pretty landscape some great monuments a nice detailed library and cool effects but there's that the trees were fucking cones the buildings all looked plasticky and the entire island just felt kind of low budget (it was probably a high effort during that time and definitely blew some people's minds im not that stupid) so this was my first impression but as soon as I got to the different eras of myst i swear theres some of the most beautifully rendered screens and effects I've ever seen to this day now im not really a huge point and click fan so I don't know the graphical advancements of stuff in this genre but wow some of the places in here were fucking beautiful literally could not believe they could get something this high detailed and gorgeous and I still have no idea how in the hell they managed to do that I have to watch a documentary of some kind because that had to take an INCREDIBLE amount of effort even for today's standard some of the graphical effects and sceneries are still jawdropping im betting

so that to say that they really did a good job in the art department and its probably way this game was so well received in the previous millennium the vibes are UNMATCHED all the different ages of myst are characterised by a very specific sound design that makes them really intriguing and about the sound design umhhhhhh I'm pretty conflicted because theres some of the most forward thinking tunes I could think of and also some of the most ear piercing sounds made from the humankind . most of the sounds dabble into the ethereal / mysterious domain theres not really music to talk about but some of these “songs” really heighten different moments in the playthrough and every time you find something they usually put this really spooky tune thats SO GOOD like not good as in “I would listen to it” good but as in “sets the tone beautifully” good

myst really plays into the spooky territory mainly because youre gonna find some really fucking scary places and then they're gonna be like “ok now solve a three X inequality problem” girlie that shits the scariest thing I've ever seen in my entire life purr

that to say myst knows what's up with setting an atmosphere every single age is characterised by some surface level degree of wonder and them the deeper you dig the scarier are the secrets that are gonna unfold now this game is not inherently “scary” horror games don't have any effect on me but it's nice to see that they actually manage to convey the feeling of “being lost in an unknown environment” kind of vibe

so uhhhhhh I guess I'll need to talk about the THING…

this game is a puzzl- shoots himself in the head no jk but everyone knows I fucking hate puzzle games and I swear yall I TRIED to play this game walthrough free but the most I managed to do was “walk” around the island of myst trying to get a clue of what to do next for like a hour so since I fucking HATE not knowing what do to in a game I decided it was time to boot up a walkthrough from like 2001 literally something ancient the page was using some god forgotten coding language literally transported back to early 2000s (do you ever think about the fact that stuff you read online could be written from people who are now dead ? I always think about this its really going to deteriorate my dissociation with myself and reality) and I could manage to complete the puzzles with this walkthrough MOST OF THE TIMES

now after finishing the game I can confidently say that without a guide I wouldve NEVER been able to finish this game these puzzles are so fucking hideous sometimes I would just solve them and be like how the FUCK was I supposed to know I was gonna translate piano keys to frequencies or like or like the voltage combination and don't get me fucking started on that SHIT FUCKING MAZEEEEEEE GRRRRRRRRR OH MY GOD

every time I was under the spell that this game came out yesterday the gameplay made me come back to reality literally could not believe this gameplay could be real in 1997 WITHOUT walkthroughs I wouldve never played games anymore in the entirety of my life

I have no idea how a person should solve this shit without any sort of guidance but I digress I know the anniversary edition has hints of some kind that could help you but I decided stupidly that the original lost media one was the greatest choice

also that maze fucking suck the developers were under some LSD type of alterate state of consciousness because theres no way in hell somebody could enjoy THAT

so umhhhhhh I wasn't the target of this game i hate puzzle games and i hate point and click games but I found some stuff that I liked and some stuff that I hated and thats what love is all about maybe I will check out either the remakes and PROBABLY I'm gonna play riven because I want to know how they'll continue to implement real life videos into a videogame with the fucking cameras and computers of 1997

why can father myst git it

mymymy we are back to the fire emblem shithole you had to see my face when i ended up enjoying shadow dragon way more than the gba counterparts in the series maybe my tastebuds are busted because this was very flawed and very good at the same time even though kind of a weird installment in the series but we love to see it nonetheless

soooooooo im playing this series completely wrong and it was time to play this wicked game from the most powerful console of the entire planet with some of the most next gen graphics and incredibly clean audio apparatus thats right the godsent nintendo ds

I wasn't expecting too much from this installment but it definitely managed to crash my expectations out of the way from most of its playtime at least

while I definitely did enjoy most of the things here I gotta address the elephant in the room rn or im gonna go crazy . unfortunately the art direction in this one is SUBPAR the character portraits have this really weird art style that is like anime ish that looks pasted upon a 3d model which is definitely not the worst thing in the world but it just looks kind of weird compared to the gorgeous spriteworks of the earlier gba titles . the overworld sprites arent too different from the usual ones and the maps kind of look good ill give them that but what really sets this game wayyyyyyyyyyy below the other ones artistically is the in-battle ugly as shit 3d models now i usually end up disabling the animations because im adhd yada yada we been there that being said i have never disabled them THIS fast literally such a fucking step down from the earlier titles theyre not ugly for the ds but they wouldve benefited with some more sprite animations (which honestly already refined incredibly well in the previous titles so might as well use them again but i digress) . fortunately enough theres some bomb tracks most of the time (the song that plays out after you seize is SOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD and epic FOR NO FUCKING REASON)

but whatever where this game lacks in art direction it more than makes up for it in the other departments

ill get this out of the way the story isnt the most intricate shit in the world prince marth got exiled and he has to take his throne again going through (and annihilating) all the other pieces of lands and thats the main gist of course theres some kind of insight on some characters and characters interactions but it doesnt get too deep than that then you add a dragon at the end and boom you get the title of the game . ideally i liked a lot of stuff here but its so damn weirdly paced theres some chapters of nothing and than chapters where stuff happens all at ones (not as bad as binding blade tho lets be real) so it definitely was kind of weird for the most part but still has some good moments if i gotta be honest

i did find most of the main characters likeable caeda is an highlight im literally in love with her and i was expecting a damsel in distress kind of archetype but when i realised shes one of the cuntiest girls in the fire emblem franchise literally cunning persuasive hot determinate gorgeous a fucking beast on the battlefield and waited 25 chapters for marth to get a clue of her undying love for the twink LITERALLY an angel i love her dont touch me i will be a dog and bark for her wag my tail roll all that for the other characters i gotta say theres SO FUCKING MANY ??? i think this is the game with the biggest character pool because each chapter they would just throw at me 2 or 3 characters like theyre trash and then be like “ok do something with them i guess” and sometimes they would just die on me and i would be like ok whatever but the reality is the best characters are the ones you get at the beginning of the game and theyre the only ones worth to actually put some work into leveling up all the other characters youll get later are just there so that you could steal a steel lance or sword from them also the fact that theres no supports is so fucking detrimental to the character development because theres literally no way in hell i should know a characters whole 3 pages essay of personality after one (1) interaction

so if you want my serious ass lineup i gotta say Cain (i want to fuck him) Abel Frey Catria Palla (i want to fuck her) Sedgar (i want to fuck him) Barst (i want to fuck him) Lena and then idk for the other units i just put Ogma Wolf sometimes Minerva sometimes Julian shit like that

now you have to know that im fucking stupid and i forgot to get merric in chapter 4 and i remembered hes in this game in like chapter 15 because suddenly the game required me to go against magic users and i was like umhhhhhhh why do i feel like im missing something and THEN i realised i FORGOT MERRIC ???????? and because of that i had to skip an entire chapter because i didnt have a strong magic user to go against the dragon guy literally ruined my entire playthrough what the hell

also i cannot stress this enough but i basically played the entire game with caeda solo shes so fucking CRAZY literally forged wing spear and she would kill anything in front of her and when i got the shield to protect her from archer weakness if i wanted i could end the game with her alone at this point so much fucking fun

so these are the characters that i used now this is definitely not as hard as binding or blazing blade but it sure has some really fucking hideous stuff like 10 reinforcements in a chapter that come out completely out of nowhere (that are usually wyverns so end up instakilling your weaker party members i MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM) a lot of janky mechanics like only marth able to visiting towns and the fact that the rescue option is completely gone this was pretty much for the detriment of the usual gameflow but i still had a lot of fucking fun (savestates required) and in general i liked this way more than the gba titles which makes me wonder why people are so rude to this installment sure its not the greatest game in the series thats shadows of valentia but i dont feel it deserves so much criticism sure i havent played the original because i dont like cock and ball torture but it was a good remake that made me experience marths story without the need to cut my veins and ballista maps made me really consider it lets just say that

im not an expert on the series nor am i the biggest fan of classic fire emblems but this was a good ride nonetheless the plethora of characters and short but challenging maps made for a really great bite sized experience with a lot of personalisation and variety maybe this was not the remake people were expecting but seeing caeda serving cunt was all i needed peace

the other day i realised that fire emblem is inspired by shogi and not chess and my brain expanded to no limits

forgot to say that I think ogma has the biggest cock in the entire cast and I also think its very homophobic for him not to show it to me

words cannot express my disappointment and simultaneously my complete awe towards this game i have no idea how to convey what I feel about this altogether buy a letter

so somehow im a big fan of blacksad SHOCKER that a media who has furries and also has my boo my baby my sweet little husband my absolutely hot as shit hung gorgeous polite dominant sexy smirnov is one of my favorite things in the world so it came to NO SURPRISE . AT ALL that as soon AS I got to know that this game was a furry noir tale I had no other possibility if not to play it for better of for worse

backbone is the name I got to know this shit with and I will call it that way till the end of my days i don't care the developers decided to change the name or got copyright struck by someone or something of a greater force I have no idea what happened but its their fault anyway backbone was a SICK name and way more thematically coherent to the matter and twists specifically of the game so this is what the name of the game is I have no idea what tails noir is kisses

you're introduced to the main character of the game which is a pussy ass smelly dirty poor private investigator who also happens to live in a dystopia futuristic kind of vancouver and after getting a case about some missing people youre gonna uncover the secrets that lay below this wicked society

bomb premise amirite ? that's basically the premise of every single noir flavoured media in existence but always has a way to get me going theres a mystery and someone grieving for this mystery and youre out there trying to solve the mystery the end

so it's a secret to no-one how this game is gonna develop = investigative based text adventure with lots of talking and less action basically the blacksad game but I actually managed to finish this one without getting either too bored or too horny

what's interesting though is that it actually has a lot of freedom in the text based part where you're free to choose from a wide array of choices that don't really entertain any different story paths but it's just for personal sake: do you want lotor to be a cunty bitchass or a rude hobo or pretend to be an actually good investigator ? as I said the game doesn't reward you for choices but it was always pretty fun to go through like 5 different choices and choosing the most deranged unhinged disgusting responses to literally childs so there's that

while there's some simile action elements they won't ask you anything else than some sneaking around and touching items everywhere so for me it was kind of hit and miss BUT I hate stealth so it was definitely a good thing that they included these segments to be the most automated stuff in the world thank you

the story is pretty simple and I wont get into too much detail for now because trust me it gets into weird territory real fast this game is short so yknow its gonna happen sooner than you expect

from a narrative standpoint I liked the textbased part and the writing was competent or funny or weird most of the time I still have some kind of issues with how most of the characters are similarly written and they kind of mish mash together maybe excluding the fox girl the madame and the driver but everyone else is gonna disappear from my mind in tops 1 week so there's that

point of argue is the fact that they paint this beautiful backdrop of a city with some great worldbuilding elements (e.g. the wall) but seldom do they really get into lore territory or actually put into writing most of the stuff youre just gonna hear mentioned or see in the backgrounds whatsoever so THAT was probably something I wanted more depth poured infodumps are a big nono but at least I want to know why things are like this

so umh that being said the most gorgeous element of the game and possibly the best part of it all is definitely the art direction I kid you not every single frame of the game could be framed and hung in an art museum and nobody would know a thing literally JADROPPING level of pixel art both in the characters character designs and animations AND in the hyper detailed massive backgrounds and structures I had a blast just running in these streets BECAUSE of this shit sure as i said the entire gameplay loop isnt the tightest experience ive ever had in my life but just walking around in this world was a blast

the pixel art is particularly great and the disco elysium type of textbox was kind of neat but what i felt was really lacking was the fact that the characters (even the main ones) dont have character portraits which made them pretty less recognizable or interesting to look at than they wouldve if they had added some kind of little portrait to the side sure this is just me nitpicking but i would die to see the arts of some of the hotties in this game theres a lot of hunks up my alley and i had no idea how they looked like apart from those spriteworks

so yeah idk thats just something i was thinking of

that to say that the art direction is probably the best thing that came out of the entire game and still feels the most coherent stuff all the way through

lets talk SPOILERS shall we

so apart from the fact that the investigative phases were weirdly paced sometimes everything happened all at ones and sometimes nothing happens for like a hour but i digress most of the game is gonna play out in this investigative type of matter like discover the first secret and then investigate another area to get another secret and then another area for a plot twist then some gunplay then some blackmail then some femme fatale then this then that it checks all the boxes in the noir bingo and THEN all of the sudden it just gets into sci fi territory which is both controversial and bold at the same time

the game just starts crumbling on itself from here not because it actually gets bad (i liked the sci fi part of the game even though it was never really explained or really expanded upon and ended way to early for any sort of development or emotional punch to work but whatever) but because it starts deconstructing every single preconception you couldve had at the beginning of the game for how the story was gonna play out , did they manage to make it some sort of cathartic story line ? not really but it was interesting to see them take such a fucking bold decision all of the sudden and while they also stated that the game was rushed and the story was left somehow unfinished or whatever the fuck they meant in that PDF file i didnt particularly hate this change of pace and realistically i was having so much fun with exploring this huge huge plot twist and story diversion

all in all the emotional finale didnt stick with me either because i just didnt end up vibing with lotor at all during the games runtime or because i just generally feel like most of the characters were underdeveloped in many different ways even though the writing is pretty competent most of the time but what i mean is 3 months from now i will remember absolutely fucking nothing about the characters in this game apart from their general outline and role in the story . so theres that

for as much as a flawed experience this is i definitely was NOT expecting this soundtrack to be so gorgeously composed theres a lot of slutty jazz lounge types of tracks alternating with some moody ambience or nerve wrecking (thus good) industrial beats and unexpectedly enough voice tracks too this game has it all and they really aided the sense of immersion and overall aesthetic the game was going for

a pity i didnt end up liking this more it had everything to make a damn good impression on me narrative driven blacksad-like noir investigative storyline and type of gameplay impressive score and art direction with ONLY furries roaming through the cities this had EVERYTHING but i can say i still took something from this nonetheless

curious to see what they got in store for the BACKBONE and i repeat BACKBONE prequel so maybe i will dabble into this weird world once again but for now i can only leave with words of wisdom from lotors fridge: Call mom.

forgot a crucial detail: lotor looks like he got dick cheese