VN Ren'Py Healslut [v0.99c] [Davie Zwei]

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gregers

gregers

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It was only after playing it that I learned from some comment on here about the dev's original plans for the ("real life") MC to be struggling with body dysmorphia and finding an outlet through the game to realising they were trans (or something like that, anyway, fuzzy on the details).

I didn't know any of that when playing this the first time, which meant a lot of what happened to the MC didn't really land. As a player, I'm trying to help the MC get back to his own reality and reclaim his own body, but in the original pitch that body was never the right one for them, so I'm more or less playing against the dev's intentions.
 
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gregers said:
It was only after playing it that I learned from some comment on here about the dev's original plans for the ("real life") MC to be struggling with body dysmorphia and finding an outlet through the game to realising they were trans (or something like that, anyway, fuzzy on the details).

I didn't know any of that when playing this the first time, which meant a lot of what happened to the MC didn't really land. As a player, I'm trying to help the MC get back to his own reality and reclaim his own body, but in the original pitch that body was never the right one for them, so I'm more or less playing against the dev's intentions.
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There are a lot of MtF transformation games that have those elements in them. Either I didn't notice them before or it's a relatively newer phenomena. I personally find the inclusion of storylines involving therapists and the like to sour an otherwise entertaining gender bender story. Those sorts of elements make the game feel less like smut produced for the consumer's enjoyment and more like a theraputic outlet for the author.

Like, I get that it's a big part of transitioning in real-life, but I don't think a show like Ranma 1/2 would have been as successful as it was if the protagonist had to speak with their therapist at the end of every episode.
 
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4.30 star(s) 131 Votes