- Nov 22, 2021
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One loved it so much he declared he liked it more than Subahibi despite the immense social cost that came with that (lol). He's in the process of writing a massive, artful post which I will share when he is done. He would have finished by now but he hated 0.45 and didn't want to write with seethe in his heart. (By the way, by Japanese VN readers I mean bilingual Westerners often living in Japan who mainly read Japanese VNs. Basically the opposite of WEG gamers who found LiL on itch.io and played it as their first VN. Unsurprisingly, Japanese people don't know English very well and are not interested in English-only VNs.)
One is fascinated by the denpa/plot but has a strong revulsion for all the slice of life. He considers LiL a valuable experience and is glad it was forced upon him but has little enthusiasm from the heart for it as a result. One interesting thing in his evaluation is that he hates the so-called "hivemind" of the heroines in how they are all drawn to Sensei and talk about his dick. It was comments like this that made me start thinking about the possibility of an 'actual' hivemind or 'actual' brainwashing going on of some sort, as one theory among many, which lately has gained weight due to all this rabies stuff.
One is mixed in that, let's say, he likes 50% of characters but dislikes the other 50% of characters, such that he enjoys the game and every scene with Niki etc etc but immediately wants to shoot his brains out for any scene with Miku. He is strongly a proponent that the cast should have been halved, and it's due to him that I came up with the concept of "favorite character RNG" which is the idea that one's LiL experience greatly depends on the pseudorandom chance of how much they like each member of the cast. If you like 5 and dislike 15 you're in for a bad time, if you like 15 and dislike 5 it'll be better, etc etc. He also wrote a very long essay of constructive criticism for Selebus but tossed it into the trash after determining Selebus was not someone who listens fairly to criticism (lol).
There is also a highly intellectual person who doesn't read many VNs who started not due to me brokering points but simply because they have a keen insight for literature and noticed from my screenshots the game was something special. He by far has responded to LiL the best and made it his mission for all his close friends and family to play the game. If Selebus knew this person he would probably be overjoyed, there really is no better model of a player: someone who solves puzzles entirely on their own no matter how many hours it takes, someone who sincerely considers the writing specifically to be among America's greatest (he humorously has called LiL 'the latest great American novel' or something), someone who shills the game, etc etc. Sadly, he will hear of him only indirectly in this post.
Overall not so bad considering how tough the crowd was.
