#HtLaL

[dreamtydraw]

Gasp! Dreamty! I never thought you’d recommend your little fishy commit such a heinous crime like piracy!! How could you!

I’m just kidding, looks like I’ll have to check out some cracked versions of Fictif for ios, pray I find a trustworthy source and don’t destroy my phones code

Also about htlal, I would love to hear you ramble about it cause I love hearing you ramble about anything in general, but because you say it’s bad I won’t force you to if you don’t wanna talk about something you dislike. Really appreciate the propaganda for the good Fictif stories though, like there’s fantasy romance and monster romance? Sign me up baby!!

-🐟

Pirating greedy company is moral, Fuck dorian app, pirate the arcana and fictif ( if you have ios use modyolo )

Well at first i wanted to writte about the racism in htal but i think this post made by a latino says all that is needed about that matter.

Read the other post and come back later to this one.

Glad the propaganda worked cause this game ? It’s bad.

On top of the fact that the game was clearly written with a fem protagonist in mind, this game was written WITH A DUMB FUCK PROTAGONIST IN MIND. i’m talking real idiot, huge idiot, jump in the pile of red flag idiot. My favorite route was sergio, not because it was good but because mc was facing the most untrustworthy human on earth AND KEPT DOING WHAT HE ASKED-

THIS MAN IS A SHADY LAWER WITH BAD METHODS WHO WANTS MONEY AND WANT YOU TO SELL YOUR GRANDMA’S + IS CLEARLY LINKED TO THE MURDER OF YOU GRANDMA-

Mc find evidence after evidence that the guy is shady and brush it off. At one point mc find a picture of them as a teenage paired with a picture of him with a heart glued on some random shit and they go ask him about it. Dude said «��oh euh yeah your grandma made this cause she wanted to pair us » AND MC END WITH THAT. NO QUESTION AS TO WHY THIS DUDE STILL HAVE THIS ??? OR EVEN IF IT’S LEGIT FACT NO-

Anyway this is why the fake ending where sergio poison mc in the pool as my canon ending. Simply because it would make sense for his character. He fell in love with mc, got obsses about them, but in the end he always planned to make rhem dissapear for their inheritance so…. Bybyeeeee~

Anyway, monster manor is better.

[lordiavolo]

Ok

[lordiavolo22]

@labetalol why you need to play this game.

He may look like a kindly gent, but this villain hides his true identity behind lies and falsehoods. Can you work out his true intentions before it’s too late?

[adventures-in-re]

its definitely a work in progress but im gonna go ahead and share the link to the folder of love letters/postcards/official digital merch i've collected for the arcana/fictif so far for preservation. some folders are empty right now but i'll update it as i collect more stuff.

shoutsout to rubinaitoart for the arcana love letters and mothacabra for scans of the postcards and sage's love letter!

[hotchocolatelovesyou]

All of them suck, leave me alone

[blanketorghost]

Now that FictIf and The Arcana have been bought out by Dorian, I feel the need to remind y'all as the only person who's spoken out about this but;

Heir To Love And Lies is an extremely racist story to its core.

The love inrerests are either harmful stereotypes or key players on the violence and corruption here in Colombia.

Even if Nathalie has a Colombian father, she has failed to accurately represent the country, the spanglish abhorrent and the treatment of rural Colombia is one of the worst I've seen.

The MC is a white saviour stereotype and is such an awful character whom barely cares about the town; especially when their decisions will affect the livelihoods of workers.

Chava and his whole family are a huge stereotype of low income workers and farmers in the perifery. Their relationship with the drug cartel was unnecessary and insulting— especially when Colombian people already struggle with discrimination about being poor coca and marijuana farmers.

Sergio is literally the epitome of everything wrong with Colombia and shouldn't be romantisized as a love interest— especially as he is related to an assasination which happen in Colombia on the daily .

Val is part of the most corrupt, homophobic and racist institutions and attempting to make her a love interest makes me want to barf as an lgbt Colombian. Especially when I receive news on the daily of lgbt people getting abused by police. I'm glad her route never got released.

The whole story glorifies the foreign colonization of Colombia's economy; which have affected our country gravely— even leaving entire regions of ours in extreme poverty.

'La Dama Roja' is such an awfully constructed character; both character design and story-wise. Her dress is mexican right out of the bat. Her whole character crumbles apart once you actually learn about Colombian politics and culture.

The whole story is a complete regression for Colombian representation and a slap on the face for me, and many other latino users whom have shared their concerns privately to me. It perpetrates so many harmful stereotypes and completely misunderstands the intricacies of Colombia and its people. It ignores our pleas for positive rep after being thrown and dragged through the mud as a druggie country for upwards of fourty years and refuses to acknowledge that Colombia is more than just drugs and coffee.

If you want 'good' Colombian representation, you are much better off watching Encanto in spite of its issues.

If you want Colombian rep that is more mature leaning I would recommend;

Los Viajes Del Viento for a culturally accurate depiction of the north of Colombia

Señorita María: La Falda De La Montaña for a documentary about being lgbtq+ trans in rural Colombia

Los Colores De La Montaña for a depiction of how the drug war has affected innocent farmers in rural Colombia

These are all critically acclaimed movies that all tackle living in the small towns that HTLAL is supposed to be based upon and do a much better job at it.

Also, I've said this many times but I think it's worth mentioning that if you want a more in-depth representation of all the issues HTLAL fails to tackle respectfully, y'all should read The Rebellion of The Rats by Fernando Soto Aparicio

[chaotic-kitty]

Approximately, for every female LI there’s two male LI’s…..

There is a total of 9 potential female LI’s, 17 male LI’s & 2 Nonbinary LI’s

Female LI Featured Stories- 3

Female Specific Routes- 4

Female Stand-alone Stories- 1

Male LI Featured Stories- 4

Male Specific Routes- 9

Male Stand-alone Stories- 7

Nonbinary LI Featured Stories- 1

It is really hard to keep on believing the devs of fictif when they say that they’re not only inclusive but that there’s not enough interest in female characters/routes. 1) that’s a lie. 2) it’s a bit hard for your audience to be interested and invested in female LI’s if you don’t give them a chance! It’s kinda obvious that the devs don’t really give a damn about non male characters. And I get that it takes a lot of time and effort to make these stories, but by saying Celia was only gonna get 7 chapters from the start, shows you didn’t want her to succeed. You cut Tess’s route than blamed the fandom for lack of interest. Val doesn’t even have her route yet. Elise was overshadowed by Sawyer. And all the other female LI’s that are featured in the other stories had more male LI’s to compete with. And don’t even get me started on the Echos Of Warmth story. This honesty makes me worried for the future on Anisa🥺

The only story that has a good balance of characters and screen time is FTLOG but the majority of that story is stuck behind a pay wall. And even after unlocking all of the scenes, it still felt a little rushed.

Just do better guys, it’s not that hard!

[thearcanagame]

All good stories come to an end.

[lilmxindica]

I like to put my friends through hell listening to me be down bad for chava cerilla

[dreamtydraw]

Hello from the Fishbowl!

Oh I’m so glad you and plant anon agree with me on my vn red flags/icks! Like I said a lot of the red flags and icks I tend to have are really subjective so I get that some people will love what I kinda hate but it’s nice to see I’m not alone on stuff :)

Also, is it bad that I kinda wanna hear more about Heir to Love and Lie? I’ve never played any Fictif games but this sounds like some hot gossip I want in on, tell me more about how bad of a game it is lol. From an outsider perspective I think it’s kinda funny how it’s like “Yes the Fictif app has a bunch of great and fun stories with a ton of good content- NO DONT LOOK AT THAT STORY ITS HIDEOUS-” I know the stories are probably made by different teams so it makes sense that there’s differences in quality but still

Last Legacy and now Roadkill have peaked my interest since I’ve seen you talk about it here (I had never heard of Fictif at all before) but I’ve been a little hesitant to give the games a try because they’re mobile games and frankly I’m not the biggest fan of playing vn style games on mobile, I used to all the time but the grinding for stuff like story keys just to get content that may or may not be good kinda grated on me so I stopped and haven’t looked back. But idk maybe I’ll decide to give Fictif a chance when I have the time, your love for the games are definitely convincing me to give it a shot :)

Also I hope you get better soon and you’re not sick with anything too serious! Take care of yourself!

-🐟

( ok i’ll do proganda about the good game of fictif ask me about htlal on another ask )

Ok so i’ll start by saying that you should def play roadkil, last legacy and monster manor on the fictif app, WITH A CRACKED VERSION! If you have an Android play with a mod app and you won’t have to pay for the special choice ( you still have to wait for keys tho but it’s manageable) I personally use Modyolo. With the mod there is no grind, you just wait for your keys to regenerate to play the chapters.

Why you should play last legacy ? Last legacy is a really well written fantasy romance made by queers, for queers with good queers characters. The narrative is limited but realize that fans of this game haven’t had update in 2 years and we all still love this, that how good the game is for us. What I really appreciate is the approach of the romance, the well-written worldbuilding, and the interesting plot and evolution of the li throughout the story + bonus points the art is really pretty + the music is awesome

This is an otome where you feel the passion of the dev because of all the details and care they put into the characters. It sad that we’ll never get an ending but just because it’s my second favorite otome after Our life i really recomand.

Now another wonderful story on the app is Monster manor. It’s a reviseted tale of beauty and the beast where mc is a reparator that come helps the resident of the manor to fix the place and also fix their issue. Again it’s very well written and although you can get subtile subtext on romance this one is very axed on exploring the character's mental health and their story of self-improvement. ALSO IT HAS A CANON TRANS DRAGON CREATURE WHO’S THE SWEETEST I LOVE HIM HE’S SO WHOLESOME-

Bonus the music is so good i even added it on my spotify- and good art

Monster Manor is one of those stories that leave a very specific feeling in you. I don't know how to describe it but it just has a lot of wholesomeness and character going troughs sad but relatable problems that you see get better and makes you happy that they're healing.

now.... my guilty pleasure.... Roadkil !

THE BROMANCE OF THIS GAME IS SO GOOD I swear

Objectively: This game feels like a wild mess of fan fiction with random scenario after scenario and cliché horror moments, but oh man the ambiance. The best trio of Li, they are close friends, and in the 3 routes the group is just such an amazing friend group. The characters are lovely and it's like reading a bad yet good wattpad fanfic : well written ? no ? But the ideas ? good !

Like i said, this game is based on cliché of horror movies but also on american culture ( which I learned trought this game lol ). It has longer chapters than the other two games (except Tess but Tess got hit by the sexism of a greedy company that wants shirtless men in dating sim to attract gurls ) BUT they all shine.

Poe's route had me ugly crying in the end, Howie's ending is AWFULL but I had a great time, Tess is actually a superbe F Li even whith the dev having to cut her short and ruin her ending, she shine very britgh in the other routes and her own ( for ex she's the one with a shotgun and the one that won you and howie a teddy bear )

I really need more people to play roadkill because it's an underated banger in my opinion and it has many great scenes in the mess of scenarios ( the intro is really good for ecxemple )

Like, when I say not all game needs to be well written? That's what I'm talking about, this one is a hot delightful mess

ANYWAY! My rambling was long but I hope it was interessing !

[lordiavolo]

DOES ANYONE IN THIS FANDOM WANT TO EXPLAIN THIS LINE OR CAN. IS SHE LYING. IS SHE TELLING THE TRUTH ...????????

[fictifgames]

Have you met Uncle Sam in Heir To Love And Lies?

[adventures-in-re]

thanks to very kind soul name of rubinaitoart i now have all of the arcana love letter pdfs yippee!

if anyone has any last legacy ones (beside felix since I have his already) or any of the roadkill, tatw, or htlal letters and would be willing to share them with me, i am still lookin for those

the part of me that wants to collect all the arcana/fictif love letter pdfs for preservation purposes vs the part of me that doesnt want to give dorian any money: FIGHT

[sunnywithachanceofdoom]

I don’t even like this sleazeball that much but look at this shit 😂

[blanketorghost]

This is just fucking infuriating.

I... I can’t even speak at how insulted, hurt and grossed out htlal made me as a Colombian person. And the messages I keep getting from fellow latinos who shared the same outrage this story brought.

@fictifgames Please never touch my country ever again.

[gaming]

Fancy a coffee? Good thing you just inherited a coffee plantation then! But you also inherited quite a mystery… and, of course, some love interests that might make your head spin!

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