VN - Others - Completed - Female Strait [Final] [Nounai Kanojo]

Josou Kaikyou is a complicated to explain VN***, where you can interpret a message of tolerance, and a simple "you like who you like", but what's presented goes beyond that significantly. This is not done in a familiar way (using correctness, platitudes, "western values") because "they" have no problems playing around with preconceptions (stereotype prejudice), and applying them to "trap" characters when needed, while removing them from romance at convenient junctures. To simplify things, they are catering to a specific taste, promoting it, and you could also argue they are opening the door for greater reader acceptance (this type of fiction). With that said, if you don't want to see 2 "Pee-Pees" in close proximity by default, there's nothing here (or anywhere else) to convince you otherwise.

Positive:
- Lots to think about - It's not intellectual reward, or wisdom in the form of life lessons, and entertainment that shapes individual values is incredibly rare. The point is breaking preconceptions, by making you aware of them. Exemplifying: The protagonist ("virgin loser", as they put it) has no problem talking to someone who looks like a beautiful woman, because he rationalizes (knows) it's a man. What's stopping him from doing that (talking casually) with a "real woman"? It's stuff like that, inner and outer barriers to being yourself, and do what you want to do.

- Voice acting - I don't have any other way to put it, "they doubled down on the sexy". The (female) V.As are really selling forbidden, immoral, temptation, and the dialogue on the H-scenes is "dangerous". The entire situation becomes discordant (personal), and that is supposed to be analogous to the concept of "trap". Scale of effect and reader sexuality aside, they went the extra mile in this parameter, and you get quality performances.

- Comedy/ SoL - Both are satisfying, and constantly agreeable (nice read). As you might expect the best parts are "trap related", and when you are about to forget that there are no women in this VN, they remember you. Loudly. After that, there's traditional dynamics associated with archetypes/roles (tsundere, onee-san, miko, indecisive protagonist), and more importantly, established backstories and connections, that end up impressing when considering VN duration.

Negative:
- Mostly nitpicking, or lack of resources - But the supernatural seems to be at odds with their message. It took a very specific (and forceful) scenario to have the characters accept their desires, and i don't like the mindset that claims a relationship with a "trap" to be pointless (it's the decline of birth rates in Japan, why start a family with someone who can't give you a family?). Import people, that's an endless resource. The bottomline is: Even this kind of "progressive work" is still shackled by the the very preconceptions that it tries to shatter.

Score: 7.5/10. If we are talking (my own) recent reads, this is one of the best VNs i can remember, and a rewarding experience that can give you some perspective, and get you to think objectively about some of the things that really matter. Anymore than that seems unlikely, but the previous statement is already meaningful. Highly recommended if you like "Trap heroines", or if you want to "give them a go". If that's not the case don't bother, "you like what you like", goes both ways.

*** It starts immediately with the definition of "Japanese trap", and crossdressing combined with gender identity, within the established setting. Then the supernatural leans a bit to a message of transgenderism... Look this up - 男の娘 -, and work from there if you want to know more.

Version: Final

This game is average in every sense of the word. The art is good but basic, the characters and their interactions are boring and cliche, the sexual stuff actually has good variety and the story is too long and painfully mediocre.

Apart from the fact that this game tries to attract more niche players, it has nothing much going for it.

It's way to much story telling for an ero game. The first scene happens after around 40min-1:30.

If the story was at least interesting but it's bad, - realy bad and it's just teasing over and over again for way too long.

The moment you hit the juicy parts you've either skipped trough the dialogue or are bored beyond anything to actually read through it.

Everyone else left after the first actual choice.

It would rather watch 2302132013 ugly bastard hentais than to play this even another minute.

Certainly a masterpiece of "trap" games, - the game is an actual trap.

draws: good.

characters: well done and cute.

story: a bit too long but good.

scenes (erotic ones): really hot.

conclussion: im gonna start for the story. is like really long to read and also i find myself several times skiping the dialogues, no because is bad is just too long. so if you are ok with that, the rest is good to go. the cuteness of the characters is aluring and the relation with them is well done.

this game deserve your time and money.

Looks great for when it was made and it has one of the most niche fetishes. We need more m preg content just in general. One of my the few eroge that I have been waiting to get translated .happy it finally happened and happy I found this site.

The game isn't bad by any means but it isn't a piece of holy light. The sexual dialogue is quite over the top and the game has a habit of repeating the clear fact that they're traps, this can get tiring after some time. The art is average and by that I mean: There are some problems with body realism here and there but nothing bad enough to make me cease playing. The plot relating a god isn't really that important, being mostly used as Exposition Ex Machina to save the relationships and, obviously, as a major plot device to deliver the endings.

The characters themselves aren't great (on the sense of being well-made) but they aren't shit. The main character could be seen as an exception due to how Shinji-like he is when running from himself but I don't find it to be bad, sure, it is annoying as hell since anyone with a hint of confidence wouldn't last that long on the Shinji stage of life but, when taking into account who is our MC, it becomes obvious that anything different would feel... Unnatural.

With everything out of the way, I shall add one - very important - question: How does biology works in that world? I'll leave it for you to understand why I'm asking this, either by reading the game or by reading about the game.

3/5