Turns out, all they want for the holidays is....
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Via Querxes' Tube of You channel, another wholesome winter image.
(Complete with Festivus pole?)
(Complete with Festivus pole?)
And look who popped over to celebrate today!
I'm not altogether certain if 2024 can't end fast enough, or if 2025 is a year to watch out for.
But for tonight, how about we toast our survival?
But for tonight, how about we toast our survival?
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Well, it's festival week...
...again...
...again...
I can't really blame a temporal loop for the delay in posting. 
That said, it seemed a bit remiss of me to not post here on Valentine's Day -- after all, the tagline for the game was "Will you write the way into her heart?"
It's actually quite easy to get a perfect poetry score at this point. 
Well, hopefully MEDdMI got her ice cream, and we can all enjoy something I found after the day: a sort-of-wishful-sequel-hook fan vid that takes some of those hints at a greater virtual world -- and uses them to make someyhing just like the base game (in that it starts wholesome and adds dollops of puzzles and spoopiness to the anime-styled confection).
There are more videos to share, as it turns out. February was a busy month for DDLC fandom, which only makes sense, after all.
But for now, a belated Valentine's Day Special:
That said, it seemed a bit remiss of me to not post here on Valentine's Day -- after all, the tagline for the game was "Will you write the way into her heart?"
Well, hopefully MEDdMI got her ice cream, and we can all enjoy something I found after the day: a sort-of-wishful-sequel-hook fan vid that takes some of those hints at a greater virtual world -- and uses them to make someyhing just like the base game (in that it starts wholesome and adds dollops of puzzles and spoopiness to the anime-styled confection).
There are more videos to share, as it turns out. February was a busy month for DDLC fandom, which only makes sense, after all.
But for now, a belated Valentine's Day Special:
There's something new going on in gaming. I've alluded to it elsewhere on the Allspark board, but the short of it that a new virtual-waifu-maintenance game came out, and it turns out to lead to a whole exploration of dark secrets with characters not being entirely as first advertised.
Which, though it's not a visual novel, has drawn the inevitable comparisons, of course. (And as Monika After Story is in the other aforementioned category, the comparisons grow a bit stronger.)
I'm not sure if it will require a new thread or not, but there's already some mods and an interview that may clarify things... or not.
Which, though it's not a visual novel, has drawn the inevitable comparisons, of course. (And as Monika After Story is in the other aforementioned category, the comparisons grow a bit stronger.)
I'm not sure if it will require a new thread or not, but there's already some mods and an interview that may clarify things... or not.
I can honestly say that I did not see this development coming....
On a tangent, I've been thinking about trying out Slay the Princess. Psychological horror game with a misleading lady. Just waiting for a sale on Switch.
As it so happened, Vannamelon played that game as well, though I've not watched her playthrough video of it.
This is shaping up to be a busy and unpredictable year. Who could have thought, when Dan Salvato first decided to subvert the trope of "cute girls doing cute things", that some of the very fandom that wanted to free these characters from their digital confines are now seeking escape from our reality into the more superficially comforting virtual spaces? "So my waifu thinks that the oven is for storing power tools, at least I only have to deal with a lack of Cinamorolls in the market...."
Natsuki: "Wait, who even does that?"
Vanna presents another game session with Ghost Yuri.
I'm still not sure what exactly is going on, or why. Though I have a feeling it may be linked to both 2024 channel business and the New Game on Steam....
I'm still not sure what exactly is going on, or why. Though I have a feeling it may be linked to both 2024 channel business and the New Game on Steam....
So, Hestiacos has been doing more analysis videos of late, and as she's liked to do cosplay regarding this game of ours, it was perhaps inevitable that she would turn an analytical (third?) eye to the material.
First, a discussion of the anime and VN tropes -- although arguably one could argue that DDLC has become something of a new trope codifier. As I mentioned in the KS thread, North American gaming audiences may now be a bit jaded, and expect fourth wall breaks or bloody-rampaging waifu as a matter of course if they see any anime-styled romance. Then again, Purist Mod and Blue Skies exist. But while the fact that they are mods to DDLC (making it play out as a straight-up dating simulator) does show that there remains a market for wholesome (and some fans do want happy endings for the characters), I stand by my earlier assertion that the game would likely not have done nearly as well if Blue Skies had been the base version.
First, a discussion of the anime and VN tropes -- although arguably one could argue that DDLC has become something of a new trope codifier. As I mentioned in the KS thread, North American gaming audiences may now be a bit jaded, and expect fourth wall breaks or bloody-rampaging waifu as a matter of course if they see any anime-styled romance. Then again, Purist Mod and Blue Skies exist. But while the fact that they are mods to DDLC (making it play out as a straight-up dating simulator) does show that there remains a market for wholesome (and some fans do want happy endings for the characters), I stand by my earlier assertion that the game would likely not have done nearly as well if Blue Skies had been the base version.
Some online buddies have been raving about how good this game is, so I got impatient and bought it. Digital full price for the Pristine Cut was just under $20, later I saw a physical version but that one's $45 (with OST download and stickers, but still).
Haven't uncovered everything, but this game is GOOD. So many different ways things can go, all with almost monochrome drawings and text. There's enough humor among the gore and horror that I'm not dreading what happens next like I was with DDLC. Anyway. I'll likely have more thoughts on it when I unlock all the routes.
I read up about the game on TV Tropes, and it sounded a bit reminiscent of The Stanley Parable (where even what sort of game you are playing will depend on your choices and how much trust you have in a very unreliable narrator).
Speaking of which....
(Also, I noticed that Random Encounters was quick to make a musical about the game. I posted their MiSide musical in that game's thread recently....)
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