at any rate there seems to be a lot of overlap with romcoms which is a genre that i like a lot, i definitely have a hit and miss rate but that goes for all types of eroge lol, in the end i have different priorities and wants than the target demographic for these games

honestly im not sure i fully grasp the nuances of the term, like it feels like people will use it to refer to anything from "substanceless fluff" to "the protagonist is a violent murderer but the art is cute"

i do think that the challenge for any charage is if they can make the routes interesting, particularly after the protagonist and the heroine get together

there's a lot of games that are perfectly decent up to that point that turn into total slogs afterwards, the only thing left is fucking

"not the audience for moege"

this is a declaration of war 😠

cant remember how english dialogue is supposed to sound anymore 😔

junk food is cheap and addictive, companies will upsell the shit out of anything they can convince people is healthy, a lot of people on welfare are disabled or don't have the time and resources to prepare nutritious homemade meals three times a day

but laws codify one as a health beverage and one as junk food because they don't want to step on farmer's toes

i'm not sure there's any good actions to take here lol

sweetened beverage bans kinda bother me because, like, orange juice and coca cola have roughly the same amount of sugar by volume, and around the same micronutrients if you dont count the ascorbic acid they add to the former

i assumed that the gimmick of last cavalier was that the protagonist was crossdressing but apparently its actually that he has to use a tuberculosis sword because he cant absorb energy through his pussy like a normal person

hate it when eroge is just school in disguise

curious what exactly the sales numbers for doujin hrpg localizations are, on dlsite itself games regularly have sales numbers in the tens of thousands, it's hard for me to imagine that the vast majority of steam releases can match that

da capo 1 kinda sucks ass but at least it has two imouto routes by a guy who i think is writing nonbinary maid robot yuri now

at least three of these are for returning characters and because of the game's structure (it branches off into multiple common routes within the first 10 minutes) they didn't need to remake the whole game like they did for the console port of dc1

still fascinated at how the console rerelease of dc2 adds 6 goddamn new routes

actually come to think of it f/go is probably way longer than LiL, probably a fairer comparison than any of the aforementioned games because they have more similar release strategies, soshage don't seem to enter the discussion though lol

honestly for vns the main roadblock isn't the text writing as much as the voice acting, kodaka's works and rance are lucky in that respect because no one expects them to have full va

not sure but that sounds likely, rance 10 is at kind of a disadvantage being developed by a relatively small team with only two writers, if you just keep throwing writers at your project it wouldn't be hard to surpass it in terms of sheer volume

iirc the writer takes pride in having written the longest game script of all time, unfortunately the game he surpassed was rance 10 which is unforgivable

hes also kind of an asshole

also yes they did really make a game about saving boys from horrible fates where one of the love interests is hougan, apparently no branch of koei is safe from total fucking dweebs

cv: tenjou utena btw

started harukanaru toki no naka de 3 without realizing that it's the one otome game where the protagonist is more popular than any of the love interests

the us education system taught me that you actually have a divine moral imperative to kill people for the purpose of stealing their property

realizing how much of hatsuyuki sakura is just riffing on one

admittedly this goes for...every eroge released in the past 30 years to some extent lmao, after i realized that fucking nasu was copping from maeda i learned to accept it

very Important game

significantly less infuriating to read though

felt the inspiration to play mio's route in one and i didnt realize that it's literally like 30 minutes long, i finally understand why people say this game didnt age well