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"The body moves on its own if a person is aroused enough." Hence Yumi likely, at least, physically found what happened arousing in the moment. If anything, I wouldn't doubt that's a big reason it affected her so much. Subconsciously liking something you know you should abhor, has to be a mindfuck. Perhaps it even awakened something in her, again, based off 'Neon Heart':
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One can't really help what they end up finding attractive.

"The first one actually terrified some people, hence why we got questions about the horror element and if it is skippable", Interesting, I had assumed people were just less, well, tolerable of this kind of stuff at some point. What exactly was terrifying about the previous version?

Yeah the Maya stuff is just a theory so far. More data is needed.

Imma just say, I see Yumi's backstory a lot like Io does:
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And leave it at that. I feel like I've been awfully venomous the past few days, and I at least think Yumi has some excuse for her actions, and has at least grown some. Just not nearly enough, and I rather not drown in my own poison, lmao.
Oh, she definitely did even if she hated it on an emotional level.

It is a mix of factors really. Some people with a lower horror tolerance went in, possibly, thinking that this was just another one of those other Koikatsu games that are so common here only to find out that it not only leans heavily into the story compared to practically everything else, but were treated to what was quite literally a textbook jumpscare. Not in the FNAF sense where something jumps in your face to trigger a fight or flight response, but in the sense that it was so sudden and without warning within the game that it was coming at that point. It was also the single most intense and best executed horror element scene in the entire game and it still is even if it lost some of its impact.

We definitely need more on Maya, but I suppose we'll get that soon enough, when she gets an update to her story.
So, random, anyone else find this a little hilarious?:
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Ami and Touka rarely ever converse, and this is apparently what happens when they do.
Well, I know which two girls I'd want to be in the same room with and I don't mean for their bodies. Not gonna lie, that conversation made me snicker a bit. Putting the rich girl with barely any experience on the spot like that, well played.

I just find this site a couple days ago and I was reading old replies and stuff while playing the game and so...
I was waiting to reach the last update for me to start posting here and bring in my own theories and that kind of things but man, I just watched "Lavender's Green" and... cmon, this game is so fucking depressing.
Somehow I was waiting that when Selebus would finally reach the end of the game we could get like a "happy ending" or something, but after reading this I don't even know if I want to keep reading this...

I mean, til this point, the game has been enough sad with all of the Sensei being raped by his sister in law, then all the drama in his life, all the drama in the girls life, all the shitty things happening, but now I think that this is too much; despite some stuff that I didn't like, somehow I used to thought about Sensei like a good guy, just... with a lot of traumas and too little perception about the world he is in (or even who he really is), and I still kinda think he's trully not bad (For all I saw he usually says that he doesn't care, that he is a bad person, and then proceed to do the exact opposite thing) but this is just so hurtful for me, and now I can't stop crying :(
He was never a good guy nor was he written to be, he's one of the worst characters morally speaking. He's not pure evil, but he is nowhere near good. As for a good ending, well, endings are far off from where the game is at, like multiple years of development away, and truly good endings are extremely rare in the genre this game belongs to, so that's very likely not going to happen, though there could be endings that are more light hearted. I'm gonna have to put it out there that we aren't even at the darkest point in the game yet, though. You probably would be better off finding another based on what you said.

Hm. LiL Berserk Egg?:
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Let's HOPE that's the only reference to Berserk in this Reset, or we might all need a break.

I can suddenly relate to the Shapeshifter:
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Oh...oh no, I think we may have underestimated where Sel is going with this story. Well, I made my bed, gotta lie in it now, I'm in this one to the end, too far in to stop.
 

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Oh...oh no, I think we may have underestimated where Sel is going with this story. Well, I made my bed, gotta lie in it now, I'm in this one to the end, too far in to stop.
Oh, I actually kind of figured something like, well, "Berserk" might happen since the Trinity 'Hell is Empty' Happy Event:
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Just not this soon...

I'm hoping there won't be a "Casca".. albeit, I can't say I'd be surprised. There's been hints:
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And I think we all know who would fit that role the best. For some reason though, I'm a little worried about Makoto in particular. Not entirely sure why.
 
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Oh, I actually kind of figured something like, well, "Berserk" might happen since the Trinity 'Hell is Empty' Happy Event:
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Just not this soon...

I'm hoping there won't be a "Casca".. albeit, I can't say I'd be surprised. There's been hints:
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And I think we all know who would fit that role the best. For some reason though, I'm a little worried about Makoto in particular. Not entirely sure why.
If he's making Berserk references, and he quite clearly is, I would have to assume that he's going the Casca route unless there's some sort of technical limit that stops him. Having worked in the studio, I can basically confirm there is no such limit, at least not a limit big enough to stop that.

Casca was probably one of the most disturbing parts of Berserk, so I could very easily see something like that in LiL. If this wasn't a Denpa game, I would have severe doubts, but something like the Casca thing is well within the Denpa genre. I do hope the feint of heart have gotten the warning message by the time this comes to pass because that stuff was seriously messed up in Berserk. There's a reason that character is the way she is after. There's also potential for him to go...worse. If he manages that, I will be very impressed, horrified, but impressed.
 
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Oh, I actually kind of figured something like, well, "Berserk" might happen since the Trinity 'Hell is Empty' Happy Event:
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Just not this soon...

I'm hoping there won't be a "Casca".. albeit, I can't say I'd be surprised. There's been hints:
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And I think we all know who would fit that role the best. For some reason though, I'm a little worried about Makoto in particular. Not entirely sure why.
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Assuming that Sensei's role is as "Guts". I wouldn't be surprised if his role is actually as "Griffith". Especially after that 'Frankencense and Myrrh' Yasu event:
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Although there's a few characters I can also see playing that role: Ami, Ayane, Maya, Nodoka, Sekai, The Shapeshifter, Yasu, etc.

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Oh, I actually kind of figured something like, well, "Berserk" might happen since the Trinity 'Hell is Empty' Happy Event:
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Just not this soon...

I'm hoping there won't be a "Casca".. albeit, I can't say I'd be surprised. There's been hints:
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And I think we all know who would fit that role the best. For some reason though, I'm a little worried about Makoto in particular. Not entirely sure why.
I'm not really familiar with Berserk, are we talking about "death" bad or "endless torture" bad?
 

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I'm not really familiar with Berserk, are we talking about "death" bad or "endless torture" bad?
Well, probably the most famous/infamous part of "Berserk" involved: Betrayal, Cuckolding, Dismemberment, Fetus Corruption (?), Human Devourment, Mass Murder, Mindbreaking, Ritual Sacrificing, Sexual Violation, etc, all around the same time. It's known as "The Eclipse" if you want to know more.

So, yeah, things might get a little Callous.
 
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Alright im dead serious when i say that if sel even DARES to hint about making that one traumatizing berserk scene.. i will literally skip the entire update and download a finished save file just to not see it.

im not a coward or soft or anything like that. in fact berserk was one of my first and favorite and still my favorite manga.

But that scene really made me feel things at the time.
 

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Either we're getting a reset, or they let Yasu handle the decorations. *ba dum tis*

You might be misinterpreting the 4, though. This is the 4th Halloween update, thus Halloween 4. That would be accurate regardless of whether the reset happens before or after.

The chapter 1 conclusion was Reset > Christmas Party > Cliffhanger (school collapse) > end of Chapter 1 card.
 
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Well, probably the most famous/infamous part of "Berserk" involved: Betrayal, Cuckolding, Dismemberment, Human devourment, Fetus Corruption (?), Mass Murder, Mindbreaking, Ritual Sacrificing, Sexual Violation, etc, all around the same time. It's known as "The Eclipse" if you want to know more.

So, yeah, things might get a little Callous.
I mean, Akira DID miss his deadline, so...
 
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The chapter 1 conclusion was Reset > Christmas Party > Cliffhanger (school collapse) > end of Chapter 1 card.
Actually, the first Christmas Party ends in Chapter 2. Chapter 1's 'Changing of Seasons' is the last event in Chapter 1, which ends with Sensei and Maya holding hands on the roof before the end card appears, and leads into Chapter 2's first event:
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The School collapsed 6 events (plus 2 lust events) later in 'Fireworks, Chicken, and the Innate Fear of Death'.
 

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I suppose we are about to find out how serious this game's warnings really are. For better or worse.
I mean... I don't doubt that something very horrible is going to happen, but I also feel like people really overrate Hope's warning. Hope did next to nothing for nearly three chapters. I feel like if Hope really wanted Sensei to take whatever he's meant to take he would have taken drastic measures much sooner. My personal guess is that "something bad" will be slightly darker than what we've seen so far to gradually shift the tone of the story towards darker stuff for the future chapters.
Also, since there are 35 heroine routes at the end of the story, I think we can probably expect all the girls to be alive and well by the end of the story.
 

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Honestly, i've been quietly watching you guys talk about the serious consequences that will come if Akira doesn't take what he has no right to or whatever it was but for me i feel like Hope is just fucking desperate and is lashing out with threats he can't follow up, all bluff, all bark and no bite, Akira has survived almost 3 chapters now with Hope trying shit and he's gotten no where of consequence... if you imagine that threat made out of fear, out of panic with Pareidolia's season coming and Hope's power/influence waning, it does kind of turn into a bit of soggy lettuce.

I'm not at all saying my hunch is right, it's just a hunch, but i've just never felt that threat had any weight behind it. I've spent more time just thinking about what it is he's suppose to be taking than whatever the 'consequences' would be if he didn't do it.

I dunno, i often find myself looking at this game/story from a meta perspective, what's the point of Hope's threat in the story? What can he really do if the only real consequences are Akira just gets fully reset, that'd make for a pretty game. Maybe he get's locked in a box and tortured... boring. Maybe he gets tormented by having his girls taken away somehow... ok... then what? Like, from a narrative perspective, Hope is pretty limited in what he can actually threaten Akira with given the game is already forced to remain somewhat consistently the same if Selly doesn't want to risk his income, if shit goes far too weird far too fast then a lot of people are going to either lose interest or feel ripped off for all the time they put in.

I'm kinda rambling here, i enjoy reading the theories but i ultimately have little energy for any that deviate too far from 'shit will pretty much stay the same with some measure of progression' and so i don't put any weight on Hope's threats.
 
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