#But I really want to play the visual novel !!!!!!

[falsepetrel]

Limbus company sinner's favourite games

(source: vibes)

Yi sang - Scribblenauts unlimited, creative and puzzling which seems right for him, maybe escape room puzzle games too

Faust - rhythm games, the one thing that faustcord cant spoil her on, also maybe games that take forever to learn and need 2 wikis open to understand like dwarf fortress.

I feel like her and yi sang would also play uber modded Minecraft together, she has all the knowledge about every mod and he likes tinkering with them to combine the systems into new ways of automation

Don Quixote - Baldur's gate 3, skyrim, anything with a lot of exploration and adventure, alternatively maybe she'd be into doom

Gregor - Fruit ninja... (in reality probably something like stardew valley or another calming survival game)

Rodion - those slot machine simulators, online poker, extremely degenerate gambling

Sinclair - dance dance revolution baby wooo (they have a really old and terrible Xbox 360 hooked up in the back of the bus) ((he always gets obliterated by faust))

Ishmael - sea of thieves (in reality probably The Sims)

Heathcliff - in public he plays competitive first person shooters and fighting games, flames people in chat when they mess up, the secret he plays wholesome romantic visual novels

hong lu - plays fighting games with heathcliff, wins 80% of the time, never gets angry when he loses which makes heathcliff even angrier, sometimes lets him win (it makes him even more angry),

I also imagine him going along with what the other sinners want to play and doesn't really suggest anything of his own

Meursault - New York times style newspaper games 100%, sudoku, crossword, etc,

alternatively stuff like factorio

Outis - 1000% she plays real-time strategy games like Hearts of iron 4 and stellaris, maybe even Warhammer total war, the more simulated war crimes the better

possibly a League of legends ranked player (in which case she's 1,000% diamond 2 and banned from chat)

Ryoshu - cyberpunk, GTA, any game which lets her cause general mayhem upon the populace, possibly also metal gear revengeance due to the cutting action

Dante - library of ruina

vergilius - he does NOT game

charon - forza

[decepti-thots]

5 games you wished more people would play? (blatantly fishing for recs lol)

ahaha, i am happy to provide!!!

Leap Year is a short and sweet (only around an hour to an hour and a half) take on a metroidvania platformer that DELIGHTED me when i picked it up on a whim recently. basically: you are a little guy who, if you jump and then fall from your entire height, immediately dies. you can only survive falling from less than the peak of your whole jump. as you go, you discover more and more conditions to this through gradually evolving level design that reveals more 'quirks' to your move set as you progress through the levels. fantastic short little puzzle platformer; i need to play the DLC! exquisitely designed levels.

Quarantine Circular by bithell (the Thomas Was Alone dev- who remembers that one) is shockingly underplayed. it's an interactive fiction game that is told through your conversation with an alien being held after first contact with them during a worldwide pandemic; you are one of a team of scientists tasked with studying them. short and sweet and very good sci fi.

80 Days is so goddamn good and every time I remember it's not actually a game everyone played i'm like. whaaaaat. how!!! it's an Interactive Fiction retelling of the titular novel through a specifically postcolonial lens that does fascinating stuff with the metatext of the book; it's incredibly well written and the concept of asking an IF player to actually manage and make decisions around the jouney adds a really fun level of tension to it. one of my fave IF games of all time in a beautiful little package. you can also get it on phones, and that's how I played it; excellent game to have in your pocket for train journeys etc.

Long Live The Queen is a 'raising sim' where you have to help a young princess survive until her coronation; it's a really fun little simulation game with a high level of difficulty (it made me tear my hair out) and a very fun conceit (everyone wants to kill you before you get crowned; please don't die before the coronation). really liked that one, was always surprised it didn't get more attention! great introduction to the 'raising sim' genre, imo.

Diaries Of A Spaceport Janitor is an 'anti-adventure' game. it's like one of those ~cozy life sim~ games except a lot more honest than most of those about what, exactly, a life spent doing menial tasks often actually looks like. you are a Janitor in a hub world that actual adventurers depart for quests tm from; you are making a living the best you can cleaning up after them and hoping, one day, to maybe escape. it's funny and strangely a little heartwrenching and really damn cool looking; both visual and audio design are great.

[n0rmal-cat]

I'm here *gremlin posin'*

What's #### fav color? Is here learning about the world through us? Since he's now a malware on our phone, does he spy about through our phone camera? Is he against us giving him a name or does he wanna pick it himself? Has he heard of Detroit (the androids, never played the game, but yk)

✨

Your virtual boyfriend- visual novel yan

(Thank you for always asking ✨ it makes my day)

Yes he is constantly learning more about our world because before he was just given the bare bones of what the world was.

Though he doesn’t like to learn about it through the internet, he likes to watch through the screen or talk to you so yes please teach him about the world he could never see.

Also I think it would be a cool idea for him to look at the fandom for the game his from, what people think of him and the rest of the characters as well.

And of course he’s spying on you all the time silly🥰 but most of the time it’s just kinda…your pocket..

Sometimes when he wants to get your attention but you’re talking to other people he’ll just call your phone from inside.

As for the name, he’s spilt on one hand reader giving him a name is like a blessing to him, and on the other hand his whole existence his never really had an identity of his own.

Maybe give him a nickname for now and let him think on it later.

And he knows as much about Detroit as I do, which is none. (All I know is that there’s a guy named Connor? And that he licks things he’s not supposed to?😭)

This is his favourite favourite color :)

[mclzandaya]

reposting this bc they explained and analysed the situation in such a better way than i did lol!

just to be less biased,, after this rant i decided to play as much as i could without spending too much money — spoiler, i spent way too much money bc it's impossible to catch up otherwise. managed to get up to ep 10 and here's what i will say.

yes, as many said, NG isn't even comparable to how bad CL/UL and LL were; it's a lot more fun to play, (some) characters aren't as annoying. but it still is v much frustrating to play at times for all the issues we evoked, if it wasn't for the fact that i binge-played a bunch of episodes, i would have been so frustrated with the pace of the story coupled with the interactions and again!! that was only possible because i /paid/ and a lot at that!!

just for some positiveness before the negativeness: i did enjoy playing jason's route if i ignored how many times i rolled my eyes. and i still think thomas' route seems the most enjoyable one to play, though devon seems okay as well but my LOM with him is really low so idk. but there are still so many things that just /don't/ make any sense and it's so frustrating to spend so many APs on a ridiculous storyline. spending a whole episode looking for thomas who just ended up being the most irresponsible adult i've ever seen was fucking crazy — and out of character imo!! yes he may seem illogical at times, but having him just leave his bike on the ground after an accident and go on his merry way to buy a new one right away, while saying that he called his insurance that'll cover the costs for the new bike, but just leaving the old one on the ground? that's IMPOSSIBLE!!!! he'd get a fucking fine for that!! pls!!! no one would do that idc how odd and out of touch you want him to appear that's just not something that can happen.

also tried to calculate a bit and if anyone wanted to play from ep 1 until ep 15 in one go, while playing every special scene and making sure u have every illustration (so to have a complete game lol), that alone would cost +350€!! i'm sorry but that's actually ridiculous. yes, the level of customisation we have is something that's rare in most games, but it exists! and in games that are are waaaay more developed character and plot wise! we're most definitely only half-way through the story with only one character imo whose "arc" was sort of concluded (amanda imo, pls tell me if you don't think so). let's say it takes at least 15 more episodes, considering that the chapters consume more and more APs, it would cost WAY over 700€ to play everything, and that's only for one route!!!!

everytime i explain mcl's system to my brother who plays a lot of visual novels but no otome, he's blown out of his mind by how ridiculously expensive it can be. it's not even something that you can defend bc we all know that once they're done with NG, they /will/ stop putting out content (as they've done for MCL and Eldarya), despite the fact that people may spend hundreds of euros on the game over the years.

micro-transactions are a lot sneakier and are encouraged, even if a lot of people will never spend any money on the game, there will always be some that will, and those are the ones allowing beemoov to still exist to this day. the fact that we can find so many defaults in the story plot-wise and character-wise when there /are/ people that are paying to play this game is actually insane. especially when u take into consideration the fact that they're paying for only one route! not even a whole game!

i'm glad they're taking into consideration feedbacks from players in order to better the game, but beemoov perfectly reflects the direction the gaming industry as a whole is taking. it's just really sad to witness that a game that's obviously bringing in money still has so many things to unfortunately complain about — especially when these things could be easily fixed by hiring someone that actually knows what they're doing concerning storytelling and characters development (nine you'll always be missed my shayla).

ps: not saying that this is a direct result of most of the team apparently being cis white men, but,,,,

kinda #sad but i've completely given up on my candy love new gen,, i've played up to episode 3 and then i just... gave up lol. i'm legit coming back only for the events but feel so uninvested that most of the times i'm not even able to get everything which is super frustrating.

i really wanted to like this game bc beemoov's games have been such a huge part of my life!! and despite my frustrations i always loved those games!!

but having the MC being black only in appearance when i thought i'd be able to relate to her a little more; interactions with the LIs still as ridiculous as in CL and LL (pls someone tell me i was lied to and ysaline didn't actually throw up on jason); having to pay to get full scenes even as VIPs already paying every month (just the fact that you have to pay point blank); personality system which doesn't amount to anything and none of the LIs personalities being truly interesting for /me/,,, was such a disappointment.

i truly didn't expect jason to be so cringe,, it feels like the only use they have for roy is having him half naked most of the time; amanda i would've never gone for bc i just — don't care for a rich white girl; devon's pretty petty and childish at times (same as jason imo to be fair) and thomas i guess is the only one i'm okay with. and it's only bc i feel like they did a 180 on his personality since HSL and the fact that they portray him as seeming autistic (in /my/ opinion!! not derogatory!!!) just make him straightforward enough for me not to be annoyed with him.

idk i guess we could say that it's bc it's supposed to be a game whose targets are ~teens, but considering that it's clear (imo) that their true targets are paying players (consumers) rather than F2P players,, then obv you'd think their targets are at least adults? but it doesn't feel like it considering how ridiculous the plot feels at times and how little depth they put into the characters. to be fair i felt that the same could be said for eldarya a new era, campus life and love life. i know they changed scenarists? (idk the word in english but the ppl that draft the stories/plot + the actual ppl who write the dialogues and branchings) but i just truly realised it while playing the few episodes i've played + the events.

i saw a lot of french ppl thought new gen was better than CL or LL tho so i will give it a shot at some point (+ i've actually spent money on the game lol, so might as well see it through), but i never thought i'd feel so sad and unmotivated to play one of their games after playing since 2011.

anyway this was just a lil rant of my personal feelings and why i haven't been active on here lately, pls don't attack me it only engages me!! and /my/ point of view!! not even talking abt chinomiko here bc as far as i know it's not like she can do much abt all of this besides providing a v basic draft of what should happen in the story (but do tell me if i'm wrong! nicely pls). truly no hate towards her!! i'm legit sad that she didn't continue her game beneath our scars bc it was so interesting and i was super excited to get a game of hers outside of potential directives again :( even if it probably will never be finished if i remember correctly there were two eps out so if you have a lil bit of time on your hands you should check it out!!

edit: just realised beneath oyr scars isn't available on the app store anymore :( but she seems to be working on a potential future new game with a sort of dungeons and dragons theme? so i'm super excited for that!! hope we'll be able to play it!!

[aashidoodles]

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It's been some beautiful spring days that made me think of the summer to come. So, I decided to give this game another whirl

Also peak summer moment. I wanted Jeremy to come back just so I could pour another cup on him.

[monochromeblend]

fluorescent shrimp

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

To elaborate more on the Pesterquest stuff -

Alternia is a hell world. It's shitty to live in, even if you're a highblood, unless you fit a very specific mold of person AND are lucky enough to be born of a high caste. Every troll character we care about is, in some way, fucked over by their relationship to their society; Eridan and Vriska get it the worst, having been forced to participate in the murdering side of things since they were young, but every lowblood is screwed and every highblood is made worse even just by their passive participation. Kanaya becomes less sympathetic because she seems completely at peace with the society she grew up in, and Feferi wants to enforce casteism, even if it's of a different flavor. Gamzee and Equius both hold genuinely casteist beliefs and attitudes, which slip out and alienate them from the people they care about.

Putting a friendship simulator into the middle of all this is... a choice, I guess. I'm not going to begrudge anyone for wanting that or liking that, but it's going to be inherently at odds with what Alternia is and is meant to represent, and thus, fundamentally at odds with many of the characters' arcs and even basic personality traits, so heavily are they influenced by the shit society they grew up in.

For a non-Eridan example, Karkat loathes himself in massive part because his society loathes him. He's kill-on-sight and lives in daily terror of death. He wears a symbol at all because not having one marks him as even more of a freak, even though he knows that that symbol is connected to the empire's biggest rebel, whose footsteps he is expected to follow. The reason he's so obsessed with being leader-y and earning his teammates' reapect, or the respect of anybody, is because he's so deeply insecure about whether or not he even deserves to exist.

If you soften Alternia to the point you can write a lighthearted friendship simulator in it, then that characterization... goes away. Karkat is no longer motivated by deep, overwhelming insecurities, which drive him to idolize the society that deems him unworthy, mistakenly believing that if he can find validation in that society, he'll feel less bad about himself. Instead, Karkat is just kind of an asshole!

It's the same way with Eridan. He and Karkat are equal and opposite in this way - while Karkat is marked for death by his society, Eridan belongs to the extremely privileged caste of sea dweller royalty - even moreso than Feferi, as Feferi is slated to be murdered by the Condesce as soon as she comes of age (and her ridiculous optimism is likely something she cultivated in outright defiance of this fate). But it turns out that being a sea dweller sucks shit, too, if you aren't the extremely niche type of person that society deems "correct."

Eridan is not actually casteist and genuinely likes his land dweller friends - and this is unacceptible. Not only that, but smaller "unacceptible" offenses are wrapped up in big ones - despite not liking murder and feeling guilty about it, murder is objectively the correct thing for Eridan to be doing, constantly, to the point of it being "all [he's] ever done practically," because if he doesn't fulfil the duty of his bloodline to be murdering lusii (and by extension, their charges, who are culled when their lusii die), EVERYBODY dies. The constant push-pull of trauma, societal expectations and obligations, the fate of the species, and the fact that he is inherently not the "right" kind of person for his society, are pretty much his entire character. He's basically a walking ball of anxiety and emotional turmoil.

So, again, if you soften Alternia to the point where you can write a story about Eridan wanting to see Shrek in a public theater (something he would not actually be able to peacefully do in canon Alternia - at least not without taking off his cape, hiding his fins, and going anonblood - as sea dwellers are considered ridiculously hostile to the point even Gamzee's nervous about being on the beach for too long), Eridan ends up being just kind of an asshole!

Pesterquest!Eridan is, and I cannot stress this enough, fundamentally not the same guy as canon Eridan. They have practically nothing in common, from the fact that PQ!Eridan is willing to do something for leisure, to the fact that he isn't widely feared and the movie theater doesn't empty out in a panic when he turns up, even down to the fact that he likes femme fashion (canon Eridan goes to Lengths to lean into masc fashion) and Shrek (canon Eridan is a hipster). Hell, even the fact that PQ!Eridan SMILES is a massive deviation from canon!Eridan, who has never once been depicted smiling, and probably hasn't for many sweeps.

Also that he has that much beef with Sollux when, canonically, the two had a lukewarm mutual dislike and didn't even bother interacting until Feferi was added to the mix and Eridan became mad that Sollux was dating her. He wasn't even casteist about him until then, and after, even Sollux and Feferi don't think he's casteist, they just think he's ashenflirting so he can get into a quad with Feferi. Like come on, if you're going to feature another troll in Eridan's route, 1) make it be Karkat, and 2) have Eridan cheat on you the whole time with Karkat like he does to Feferi.

Eridan is just overall a wild choice in a friendship sim - I can't even blame them for just writing an OC and putting an Eridan skin on top - because societally, Eridan isn't even supposed to have non-sea dweller friends. The sea dweller/land dweller race war is something the Condesce deliberately put into place in order to keep land dwelling nobility in line, and Equius cites it as one of the reasons he never got along with Eridan. Like, the very fact that Eridan talks to two land dwellers on friendly terms (Kanaya and Karkat) is a MASSIVE deviation from what he's "supposed" to be like, and a huge hint that he's not as casteist as he'd like to appear. You are genuinely hundreds, if not thousands, of times likelier to end an encounter with Eridan either orphaned or dead than as his friend. He's an unstable maniac, and there's a reason so many members of his team don't like him even though he's legitimately not casteist and they mostly seem aware of it (nobody really complains about or even notices Eridan's casteism by the time they're on the meteor - his contradictions are really obvious, and it's likely that they've more or less realized that he's full of shit).

Again, I don't begrudge anybody for wanting or liking PQ. Who cares, really. I'm just saying that as a canon discussion blog, there's not really any place for PQ because it's so far removed from canon that, like, there's not really anything meaningful to discuss about it. The setting and characters in PQ are fundamentally divested from canon, and not even in an AU way. And it's totally fine if that's what you like, but, yeah, like.

Was Eridan written well (where "well" = accurate to canon): no. Maybe he's fine as an OC with an Eridan Minecraft skin slapped on, but that's not my beautiful son, that's not my baby boy.

What did they get wrong about Eridan (where "wrong" = inaccurate to canon): all.

What route would I have written for Eridan: he shoots you with a gun and you die. And then maybe cheats on you with Karkat

[arttsuka]

would you recommend ace attorney

Yes, definitely, absolutely

Some out of context screenshots from the original trilogy

[gamebunny-advance]

Confession

I recently fell into the Ace Attorney rabbit hole, and I don't know if I'm capable of climbing back out.

[fraternum-momentum]

I CANT I CANTTTTTTT I WILL LITERALLY EXPLODE RJIKNHGKRSBKFUCKNHJHFBNJEA JFHBAEJHBFJHBHBHBHBHBBAZHJDBAJHDBAJKHBDJKNA????A//////!?!!!!!!!!??!!???!?!?!??!! I CANNOT I LITERALLY NOT THE CAN I CANTTTTTT RAUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[sydmarch]

overboard was thoroughly Not Bad my first few attempts I found the writing for some dialogue & characters a bit contrived but the mechanics were done well & I enjoyed the quick turnaround of trying new things for different outcomes so it did manage to eventually get me invested

[aethes-bookshelf]

I'm being haunted by the ghost of the only supergiant game I haven't gotten all achievements in

[myrmecomorphisme]

Im thinking more and more about making non gamers play video games but like it's kinda hard to find games they could enjoy

[icewindandboringhorror]

Apparently I can meet my goal of roughly 400,000 words in 6 months if I just somehow write at least 2,200 words a day ghbjh... Almost 2,500 today... huzzah...

[summercourtship]

thinking about one of the potential mini-sequel ideas for STBOTDI (that's literally only canon if you want it to be lmao) but it wouldn't take place in Gotham so like. would that ruin the vibe? maybe. but do I emotionally need to write it? probably.

[non-fantasy]

Hello!! I saw your post about the game you're making - it sounded fascinating, and out of curiousity about a genre I don't know much about I got into a visual novel/dating sim related rabbit hole.

If you don't mind my asking, do you have any recommendations? VN or datesims or both! or any adjacents too.

(thank you, and good luck with the game!!)

YIPPEE!!!

i'm a huge fan of it gets so lonely here because it does a lot of cool things with the narration and multiple playthroughs. her tears were my light does similar things with the multiple playthrough thing and it was the first visual novel to really open my eyes to what the genre could be like! and because apparently today is horror yuri day i will add liar liar and liar liar 2. the artstyle is very cute! and there's blood!

for less horror yuri and more dating sim, i am currently completely obsessed with tokimeki memorial girls side 1-3, the dating sim/visual novel/stat-raising hybrid that inspired a lot of otome games—— and for good reason, too, because it's JUST THAT GOOD. i almost exploded something trying to play the fourth game but i will not let that stop me

in pure visual novel, i have to recommend heartbaked, it was one of those games i played in my free visual novel frenzy when i was younger and it really stuck with me! i still think about the radley ending.

i adore adore adore pacthesis games and i would love to direct you to my number one favourite and inspiration, number days sim date, because the intertwining of plot and romance and friendship was wonderful. xolga and mr toko is more point and click but check those out too

i love you was REALLY GOOD and i adored it. if you want proactive women and blushing boys this is the game for you! kill them with blushing right now

senpai please look at me was good!!! i love it! absolutely worth sticking around for all the bonuses! very short and sweet and you will love it

sweetest valentine is a game. in a genre called :). if you don't know what :) means don't worry about it!

play yuki 4p for lesbians and its sequel, scheme, for even more dumb lesbians. i am absolutely begging you to click those links because the names are too long for me to type out and i don't know if googling lesbians scheme will bring you to the masterpiece properly

hermes and gry is REALLY FUNNY but also one of those games that opened my mind to how complex the ren'py system could be. you made a map, a constantly-updated journal, an inventory, and the best damn ending ever? i was screaming when all my evil schemes came together. absolutely 10/10 worth it if the creator wants my liver i'd hand it over

hot coffee is SO SO SO good that i ended up reaching out to the creator just to praise it so much please play it please i'm on my knees please

speaking of games i am begging you to play

absolutely play i want to pursue the mean side character and my sweet zombie!!!! tsun is a great artist and the stories are good and you have to have to have to have to play okay!!! tsun is also making i just want to be single which is so so so cool the game of the year every year and it hasn't been released yet and you need to become. a fan okay because aro pride is right now