That VNDB link basically sums it up. A horror story where the catalyst is familiar people acting in unfamiliar ways. Sensei is not acting like the Sensei the girls know, for example. Not sure about the name part.
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He's said he does it because it he likes it and it makes the names easier to remember.
None of their last names strike me as having any obvious significance and he's said not to worry about the kanji in the names because he's not good enough with kanji to do anything clever with them.
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"Easier to remember" is why nearly every character Stan Lee created has the same letter starting both names.
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What's this people were mentioning about purity routes? Is that some post-end content Selebus has planned?
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Dark routes and Purity routes. Those are the end-game contents Selebus has planned for each main girl (not side girls), though they will be developed years from now when the game is much more complete. Judging by the names, the former routes might be LSD nightmares that end with miserable girls; purity routes would probably guarantee a happy ending for each girl
Just speculation though; we will only know in the future.
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So....from the point of view of the people Sam Beckett saved, Quantum Leap was a Denpa series?
Oh boy!
Whereas, having so many characters' names result in the initials, "L.L."--probably not as good!
It might be happier, but I doubt it will be truly happy.Dark routes and Purity routes. Those are the end-game contents Selebus has planned for each main girl (not side girls), though they will be developed years from now when the game is much more complete. Judging by the names, the former routes might be LSD nightmares that end with miserable girls; purity routes would probably guarantee a happy ending for each girl
Not really
It's been said before, but this is more plot with hentai than hentai with plot. Unlike hentai games, the sex is not the focus of this game, the story is. SOMA is actually an entirely different kind of horror. Where SOMA goes for the jump scares and other standard horror tactics, this game goes for the psychological horror, which can sometimes be worse in intensity depending on the person playing. This game is most definitely not for everyone.
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Very much untrue, SOMA is primarily about existential horror and forcing the player to commit atrocities (though there are some jump-scares these are not the main part of it). There even is a game-play option to turn off death from enemies.
Very much recommend it, one of the best horror games out there.
All of those are more standard horror whereas Denpa focuses more on the psychological. As we've seen in the 'happy' scenes, for example. There's maybe one scene, the first, that fits standard horror as well, but the rest all focus on the psychological horror. This is what sets LiL horror elements, and Denpa elements in general, apart from something like Five Nights At Freddy's or SOMA horror elements. SOMA is more of a fight or flight inducing horror as is Five Nights, but LiL is not, it messes with you in a gradually increasing manner that will make you question things, but won't necessarily induce a fight or flight response.
Glad you gave it a try at least, but I definitely don't blame you. I grew up playing all different types of horror games, and this is one of very few which actually kept me from getting any sleep at one point. If you do decide to play it again, make sure you brace yourself for the "Bluejay" event. Some of the previous ones gave me nightmares, but I couldn't sleep after seeing that one.
The file date for 18.0 Part 2 is 8-3-2021 That is the current version in this thread. This is the 30th, so there should be at least one update since then if not two.
Yes it says 14th on Patreon, but I downloaded it from this thread long before that.
Sometimes updates don't work being broken up into parts 1 and 2. I don't know for sure, but this wouldn't be the first time Selebus has given 1, double-sized, update in a month rather than 2.
He generally releases new updates on the first and 15th of every month, so it wouldn't surprise me if 0.19.0 released on patreon tomorrow.
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The latest update was leaked here on the 3rd. It officially went public on the 14th.
Most of the time, new content is released twice a month. When the dev needs to take some time to attend to personal matters (which has happened exactly twice, with this month being one of them), or when the nature of the content works better as a single mega-update, we get one a month instead.
Next two updates are scheduled for 9/1 and 10/1 for patrons, official public release 9/15 and 10/15 for those updates. Yes, I fully expect they'll be leaked here well before those dates, but the dev isn't going to schedule around leaked dates, nor should anyone realistically expect him to.
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I'm talking about the public version
BTW, I recommend you don't pirate games from Selebus, as he works hard to make this game. Also, he's moving homes, so he took a two-week break this month.The same thing many of the uploaders on closed trackers say.. a long with many other pirate communities. You're encouraged to financially support a piece of work/project that you enjoy and appreciate. It isn't an ironic statement.
You get it for free two weeks later - if you like the game you should give Selebus that much respect at least.
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Is that mainly it? Does anyone else have any insight as to what is really happening?
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You're correct, but let me add on.
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That's pretty much it. I think Maya said that sometimes new people got transferred, but don't stay for long, meaning they don't carry over to the next iteration. That's the first time they had such a big class.