This reminded me of something I wanted to ask, wasn't it Yasu that recently received a message about "not trusting her"? And I suppose the her would be Sekai? (I think it was when she was talking to the emissary of pegasus, or whatever its name was).
Yasu did mention "she's lying":
Well, yes, but what has Sekai been lying about even? Giving in? Cause if that's the case, all supernatural beings with the exception of Wires have been saying the same thing.
Molly, maybe? But any of the Sekais actually being Sekai seems doubtful. The White Dress Sekai has a messed up face as well:
Reminder to not get your copy from F95 as to my recollection it's a shit ass MTL and they fucked the fonts up unless they miraculously fixed it not long ago.
That part about him finding someone that does had always flew under my radar and I'm now scared.
I don't see any recs for My Maid Dreams of Electric Sheep which is a relatively new VN but my god the animations are some of the best i've seen from Koikatu. A bit grindy but that story, atmosphere and animations just make it feel worth imo.
Agreed for Electric Sheep, the animations made me feel like a caveman discovering fire when I compared it to most of the stuff I tried in the same style.
What’s the hype of Last Sovereign about? I quit by the time I recruited the sister because the game is just too unforgiving and requires the players to follow a guide to the dot. Started over 3 times by then, once because I didn’t kill the early enemies which caused my characters to be too weak, second time to strip the early characters off their equipment since the enemies were still way too strong and money making opportunities too limited to waste it on something that turns out to be the ‘wrong’ thing, third time because I recruited the sister after defeating enemies in the cave and house. It’s mandatory to know about every single detail in advance and follow a predetermined order you won’t know about until you failed and ought to repeat the last 45 minutes.
It is perhaps Sierra's only real shortcoming as a dev imo, her games are strict, complicated and filled with traps to trip up cheating, but if you can force your way past that or carefully work your way around the traps, the stories are really quite solid. I found the most straightforward way to cheat around 99% of the combat bullshit was to use the rpgmakersaveedit.exe to add bonus stats to any combat characters, it certainly took care of the worst of the difficulty, the rest was just carefully reading the guide to allocate the right points during the major events. It's not for everyone though, you've gotta put the work in to get to the story unfortunately.
The hype, as you asked, is twofold imo: The gameworld and story heavily changes based on your decisions (which are by themselves very complex and far-reaching as months and years go by), and the story itself which is very interesting.
If I remember correctly she has deployed two anti-cheating mechanisms, one in the form of a level you aren't supposed to get to (since there is no grinding in this game), and the other around a character that you wouldn't be able to beat/or able to beat in x turns... It turned out not being that convoluted, but one should look for it in the guide just in case. Also I personally find this anti-cheating silly in regard to single-player games, but what can you do...
Oh no, there's a bunch more, i remember having to account for more than two things when i last was playing it, i stopped playing after the goddess of magic was rescued and Simon was teleported somewhere so i expect there to be even more now. Pretty sure the wiki has a page listing all the cheating traps.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die. Is dying even possible inside the resets? It would be great if we had Akira remembering something from previous cycles, cause so far Maya falls into that gray area between nothing dying in the resets, and the ever old question about memories from between cycles being stored or not.
I considered about adding to it that she might be User4 but thought that might be to much.
I love this story but it also confuses the hell outa me. I sure hope in the end most things are clear.
We’re built different.
