MoneyMan181

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DoL puts you in impossible situations, and it's up to you (the PC) to either charm your attackers into a false sense of security and then strike, just beat the fuck out of them, or just become a plaything. You can avoid rape entirely if you're smart. Think of it as a lewd version of 'Kenshi', the whole game is pretty much asking you the question of 'how far would you go to make ends meet'. Steal, Sell your body, or work honestly. It's all up to you.
I can understand that, it just makes me very uncomfortable when it's sexual in nature. Some part of my brain can justify Kenshi's slavery and skin peeling machines, but it can't justify raping some random innocent person off the street. I dunno, it's weird.
For Lust Attacks you gotta use them to get better at them/Use Flaunt to make enemies Horny so they're weaker to lust attacks. Also, using Restore Energy skills (obviously). I had a build where Karryn literally could not lose, even if I didn't use any Restore Energy skills lmfaoo The game has a high skill ceiling, but it's incredibly rewarding.
Weird, that's basically what I've been doing. I'll have to open the game up and try to give it another go to see what's up with that.

Also there should be more variation for sex if Karryn is a sadist don't @ me.
Honestly, games like this are a product of their time. It's really starting to show its age, most people are looking into more interactive games nowadays, just look at Steam and you can tell what the majority are wanting in hentai. I don't know, to me this project should have been wrapped up when Flash ended.
Big disagree. This is like saying books will ever go out of style. Sure other genres are more flashy and interactive, but text-based things will always have a place, even if more niche. I don't think there's a problem with games like this, just the decisions people make when working on them. The reason why they're not often done and can be easily fucked up is... well writing is hard. Really hard. It's already difficult to write something compelling and/or appealing in the first place but to also write things in a way that can actually get people's rocks off? Let's just say there's a reason most of the games on this site are boring messes. So when you make your entire game based around just this one thing, it gets even more egregious. You can't rely on gameplay or art anymore to help lighten the load.

But to compensate for that, you can get way more in-depth with the actual... depth of things. You can flesh out your characters all you want, you can describe environments with no restrictions whatsoever, get as intricate with the plot as you want, etc. If you're good enough, there's no end to the things you can do when it comes to story-telling. If you create good and meaningful choices for the player to make, I believe that's all the interactivity you need. It's a double-edged sword, really. You're essentially just placing all your eggs in one basket and praying that that's good enough to work. It's a lot more fickle with adult games, but people will usually flock to good writing even if the experience is light on actual porn or has things they're not super into. Because at the end of the day most games can be boiled down to their story and the choices you make, whether that be story or gameplay ones.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
 

Tau_Iota

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Weird, that's basically what I've been doing. I'll have to open the game up and try to give it another go to see what's up with that.

Also there should be more variation for sex if Karryn is a sadist don't @ me.
You have to pay attention to your leveling too, every floor increases your level cap. So after a certain point, you can only get so powerful on floor 1/2. Another noob trap is not knowing that, and trying to power level on floor one. Then you have all of these passives making enemy attacks that much more effective on you when you finally move to the next level. So basically you're pulling up with some early game stats with some mid-game/even late-game debuffs that kinda doom you from the start.

Also I'm not big on the whole "Step on me" thing but yeah it does feel like the idea of a super sadistic route for Karryn was there, and then kinda dropped at some point. Which is a shame, not for me, but for everyone else.
 
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This is the main reason I can't get into the game and how I'm baffled everybody loves it so much. I can stomach the "wow I don't want this but it feels good" rape, but not the "kicking crying and screaming" kind of rape which that game does the latter it seems like.

I'm going to be put on a watch list for saying that but oh well.
I was under the impression that people like it for the lulz. That's certainly what I get out of it. It's so utterly absurd that it becomes a bit silly.

That and I can pretty strongly relate to the whole "so depressed/traumatized that nothing feels real anymore" thing, but that's just me.
 

MOONLIT HYSTERIA

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It's so utterly absurd that it becomes a bit silly.

That and I can pretty strongly relate to the whole "so depressed/traumatized that nothing feels real anymore" thing, but that's just me.
That's kinda the point of DoL. If you look deeper into what the town is all about it's got social and political commentary to the nines, except everything and their mother wants to fuck you. Education is highly valued and will net you more jobs where you won't have to steal or become a prostitute. Refuse to take part of the insanity yourself and become an outcast by your peers.

It's also important to note when your character becomes traumatized the truths of the world are being revealed to them, the therapist just makes you docile enough to be presentable. Human minds can't understand the eldritch horrors on the other side or how depraved people actually are.

It's satire at it's finest.

[SPOILER START]
Throughout playing the game, if you explore enough you'll start piecing together what the tiny harbor town is underneath. The criminals get aprhodisiacs and pump it everywhere. They also ship and sell it on the docks, sell it to the rich, and you can even help a Love interest on the farm to start selling it yourself. The town is famous for being loose on morals, and people from across the sea come there to partake in the hedonism. Your education is influenced to be lewd, and your classmates think your weird for not being that way either.

The rich dominate everything, partaking in their darkest fantasies while exploiting those on the lower totem pole. Crime lords sell people like cattle, while trying to not step on the others toes. Corrupt cops abusing their power by making defending yourself with pepper spray illegal. The orphanage you grew up in is nothing more than a front, your caregiver uses every single one of you for financial gain.
[SPOILER END]
 
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Fizel

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I can't be the only one to think the set looks like if a roman legionary fucked a samurai.
No. No you are not. That's what I was thinking too, and it does perfectly describe it.



Also anyone got the hotfix version? Or is the main page one updated to that?
 

Tau_Iota

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Says the oblivion NPC
See my signature, criminal scum. Or alternatively if you're a man of culture as well,

But in seriousness, idk it's just blegh. It's uninspired and takes the most mundane qualities from both sides. The most flair to it is a couple of olive branches and the color red. Idk maybe chalk it up to personal preference, but if you're going to mash together two different culture's infantries then let more of their cultures show too. Maybe don't make the shield a Germanic one, give it some real Legionary scutum shape and style. If you're going with a more Grecian helm, give it the Roman flavor not the Macedonian one.

It's a very confused design, with clear inspirations from Greece, Rome, Japan, and Germanic Tribes. It's just very... confused. That isn't to say I don't like what they were going for, any mishmash of any of the above is bound to look cool. But keep it focused, this lacks focus entirely. And now that I'm really looking at it... is he also wearing a gambeson?? o_O Not to mention that he has leather pauldrons and bracers, but brass/bronze greaves? Like I understand having your chest be brass/bronze and your extremities being leather, but what is going on there?? And at first I was like, "Oh wait, that makes sense. You have a tall shield, so in a shield wall your shins are still good." But wrong! The shield is too short, and he's already crouching a bit.

Idk, it just makes my brain unhappy to look at basically. Not to knock DCL though, they still draw way better than I ever could lol
 

archdude

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Guys, is there a way to see a sources for this game? I think that foothill statue sequence is bugged, cause i can't see some dreams at all.
 

Quintilus

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Guys, is there a way to see a sources for this game? I think that foothill statue sequence is bugged, cause i can't see some dreams at all.
Yes, all code is in
main folder/resources/app/everything with js extension.
But it minified aka mangled into a single blob of code and plain text.
 

archdude

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Yes, all code is in
main folder/resources/app/everything with js extension.
But it minified aka mangled into a single blob of code and plain text.
Thx for hint, i may look there, but i think i already figured out that i had to be female to see the scene i wanted.
 
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