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The game can invoke nice feelings though, like Akira actually trying to comfort Wakana with no ulterior motive, like an actual friend.
Weird that that moment was allowed to happen without some existential fuckery or anything malicious happening.
Weird that that moment was allowed to happen without some existential fuckery or anything malicious happening.
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YET. You forgot to say yet.
Shhhhhhh.
I think the thing that keeps me coming back to this weird lil' game is exactly those visceral reactions. Whether they're positive (that Wakana scene, or the one with Osako), protective (many of them), appalled (Stomachache), or furious (again, many), LiL has made me care and respond over and over again. Astonishing, given that I don't even like the protagonist very much.
Can't say the gods in particular have ever gotten that reaction from me, though — I'm still not convinced they're not aspects of Akira's own f#$#ed-up mind, and to be honest when they show up, my main reaction is a groan of annoyance.
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Some things to add to the Maya memory stuff.
In "Rascal doesn't dream of Bunny girl senpai" anime, the MCs little sister loses her memory for two years and becomes a almost complete different person, and when she finally becomes her former self, it has a huge impact on her brother, who got used to her new self.
In "Farming life in another world" anime, a vampire says he has to erase most of his memories every 200 years, so he won't go insane.
Most importantly in LiL itself, Maya compares the tampering with the girls memories as "only one hard drive the whole household is using", "so it's expected to get full rather fast", "and some data has to be removed", or i guess get compressed.
That neither Sel nor Maya as a character, brought that idea up for her/herself is quiet interesting.
She should have had an "Oh wait" moment then and there.
In "Rascal doesn't dream of Bunny girl senpai" anime, the MCs little sister loses her memory for two years and becomes a almost complete different person, and when she finally becomes her former self, it has a huge impact on her brother, who got used to her new self.
In "Farming life in another world" anime, a vampire says he has to erase most of his memories every 200 years, so he won't go insane.
Most importantly in LiL itself, Maya compares the tampering with the girls memories as "only one hard drive the whole household is using", "so it's expected to get full rather fast", "and some data has to be removed", or i guess get compressed.
That neither Sel nor Maya as a character, brought that idea up for her/herself is quiet interesting.
She should have had an "Oh wait" moment then and there.
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I agree that the supposedly unavoidable effect of repeating timelines on one's mentality seemingly evades Maya, even if some past resets didn't last over 6 months. Regardless, I'd say trying to use her strangely unwavering mental state to question how valid her memory is or the accurate length of the cycled time and would be futile. This part I feel like is intentionally romanticized, portraying Maya as the most unfortunate girl with the undying heart so strong that she would stubbornly wait beyond centuries to hopefully see her loved one again.
One can argue that this alone wouldn't really explain how her mentality survived when she should've gone insane, but I think this is also highly dependent on how the first loop started, how much Maya knew, or even what exactly Maya was even at that given point. So if it's up to me, before the most crucial part of this game is cleared up, for the time being I believe that this is merely a part of her character's side profiling and is effectively exaggeration on Sel's part.
Besides, there is no real or possible investigation on how many years worth of memories one can hold without going insane. The best argument anyone can bring up is "Oh I watched an anime about this once that talked about this subject in depth so it is definitely a better source material than whatever light novel your read". To me that's just people throwing questionable arguments at each other when instead it all comes down the dev's creative license and nothing more.
As for how valid her memories are with this emerging mental issue, I think the fact that all past resets being extremely repetitive helps her spot bigger anomalies that never appeared before, and Ami working as a maid isn't a small change at all (in fact it was prompted by Sensei so arguably this might be a ripple of real Sensei returning to his body).
That sounds like her last words before she got reset, so it makes sense. Other than that, iirc it has always been a mixture of Maya avoiding time-based questions and white lying to Sensei to conceal information if she ever said something in the past being a blur to her.
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Akira is regaining control on his live. The problem is that he is an awful person, who should not have control on anything
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Nah send them a save that almost has everything they want, maybe miss one scene but also turn on a cheater flag
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Yes, and yes. Though his actions of late have tended away from the truly awful aspects of his character* — the scenes with Osako and Wakana being prime examples.
And also, since we know the Dark Whatsit is just around the corner, that control is probably an illusion, a fake carrot dangled to be snatched away.
*Pedophilia and hebephilia aside.
update on my second play-through
after 89 hours, I feel empty, she has me by the neck,heart is broken,"gods" are trying to end me at every turn, I wish she did not make me feel the way she does,I feel empty, also why did the season change right in the middle of summer?
after 89 hours, I feel empty, she has me by the neck,heart is broken,"gods" are trying to end me at every turn, I wish she did not make me feel the way she does,I feel empty, also why did the season change right in the middle of summer?
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This is what I imagine DeSkel's theory notes look like.
*takes off dunce cap*
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either a funny troll by Sel, or you are lightyears ahead of us and we need you to teach us, Sensei
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In the middle of summer? You get two summers, two winters, two summers, spring iirc
ho-ly shit. I have this personal fanfiction about Nodoka that we'll get to see her figuring everything out, and breaking entirely. Like the gods would eventually be like "you know, what? you want to know? fine" - and what she discovers makes her wish she didn't before completely imploding.
Will this happen? probably not. But it would be so cool if that revelation would be in terms with finding out the gods were actually trying to protecting them from something worse. Regardless, I hope we finally understand what Yasu meant with that revelation, and who it was from that the well had almost dried up (Maybe Wires? Since Tsuneyo went away just as the message started - could also had been someone in the Himawari's group since the conclusion was to try to protect Akira, which resulted in nothing).
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Thats not even compareable. The maki event is standalone and useless/disgusting for those who are not into anal, refusing it wouldnt change any part of the story, it would just disable one scene (or prevent unlocking a repeatable scene, dunno, avoided her since the forced anal scene)
Ayane on the other hand is a core charakter and sex with her impacts multiple chara storylines including the main story. What you want is a different game, what i want is avoiding anal...