This is my very first VN and my first porn game. I originally came here for a good fap but I found so much more. I was completely not expecting something like this.. something this good. Saying the writing is amazing would be an understatement. I find myself caring for each and every one of these characters, so much so that I think about them and their actions/future actions when I am not playing the game. There are many other parts that get me thinking while not playing as well.. certain phrases, certain scenes that are very impactful in more than just a 'game' level. I look forward to playing this like I look forward to reading my favorite book series, it really means a lot to me. Thank you Selebus for creating something that has the power to affect me even when I am away from it.
This is my review, but I thought I'd put it here as well cause this really does mean a lot to me. Thanks again Sel
Oh yeah... I'll be waiting (impatiently) for the merch. Can't wait to sport some LiL gear!
Yeah, this isn't really a porn game so much as it is a game with the occasional porn. I think we all came into it for that at first to at least some extent, though some like myself don't really care if it is a porn game or just a game with porn. I don't think anyone was expecting it to be this good, that's likely because of the usual quality here on F95, but it blew any expectations we had clear out of the water. I find myself caring for the girls as well, so much so that I actively dread things that could hurt any of them even if it gets me another girl, even if it gets me best girl Rin. The things that get me thinking outside the game aren't the events in it, but what could come next. Some of us like to theorize here on the thread and we can come up with some pretty interesting possibilities.
I've come to dislike Ami more and more as the game kept progressing. At this point I'm fairly positive that her obsession and affection with Sensei is in part due to her obsession and love with her Father and Sensei is just the obvious stand-in male of the family as of now. Which admittedly makes this whole thing a bit weirder for me since I'm beginning to think that Ami and her "Daddy" shared quite an *intimate* relationship prior to their accident. I don't know, just speculating on my part. Also I hope this doesn't sound like I'm disliking the game as a whole, that couldn't be any farther from the truth, if anything I WANT to uncover more about the Arakawas as the story goes on if the Dev decides to go a little in-depth with that side of the story. I fucking adore this game and how easily a loveable character for me went to be one I absolutely dislike now.
I don't dislike her, I feel both fear of her increasingly yandere tendencies and concern for her. She needs help and fast or this is likely to get ugly. I think she did have some level of forbidden affection toward Sensei before all this, but the thing with her parents might have amplified it as a sort of coping mechanism. Then, when that amplified forbidden love is seemingly on the edge of going unrequited, she snapped and is now treading a very dangerous path for every character in the game, herself included. They may have just been especially close without crossing the line and there's no sign they were already actively engaging in the forbidden, so I'm not quite ready to support that possibility. In fact, her actions at the beginning suggest they were not doing anything they shouldn't be.
At first, I did not as I saw her as a needlessly aggressive bully, which I have real life experience with on the same side as Futaba, not in Yumi's position. But as the game has progressed, I've come to realize that she isn't as bad as a typical bully, she just doesn't know how to not be that way.
Her bullying Futaba isn't malicious at all, but is actually an agressive form of trying to push Futaba in the right direction, pushing her to be better. She's trying to get Futaba to rise above her tormentor and become stronger for it. It's kind of 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' kind of approach. I don't agree with her method, but I support that goal.
Her hostility toward player Sensei is also warranted given what happens early in her story, so I won't fault her for that, and she's also a bit of a tsundere, which you can see in the Christmas events. Her 'gift' is actually kind of cute, I expected blatant insults. She's been tsun this entire time and she's finally going dere for a bit.
I don't think Ami's unhealthy attachment to Sensei comes from a sexually abusive relationship with her late father. I think it's more likely, with Sensei being her only remaining family and also being the one who saved her from the downward spiral she was swept up in after her parents' passing, that she emotionally latched onto Sensei as a source of comfort, safety, peace, and a ton of other things. She is scared of a life without Sensei because he represents the last of her family, a memory of her parents, a protective figure who keeps her safe, and a partner to provide for and give her purpose in life. And losing that figure in her life would be absolutely terrifying. She'd be completely lost without him. That's why every other woman is a threat to her. They threaten her world. They threaten her purpose. They threaten everything she has clung onto to make it through life since her parents passed away.
No, no, not sexual abuse from her parents, that's not what he's saying at all. She was actually rather close with them both as well as old Sensei. With as close as she was to them, she felt the loss on an extreme level and with old Sensei being the only one left, her attachment subconsciously transferred to him and doubled what was already there. She was likely already closer than usual with old Sensei, but that loss amplified her attachment to old Sensei to incestuous levels. That's what we're saying on that.
I'm afraid you are correct on her fearing the loss of player Sensei, but not why. She isn't afraid because he's the last of her family, but becausehe's the last person with which she has a stronger than normal emotional attachment. She saw him getting closer to other girls and, because she was already attached closer than is normal, she sees them as a threat to that attachment.
This is a typical yandere trait, anyone who gets close or takes time away from said yandere and the love interest of said yandere is a threat. She fell into this sickness because of the loss coupled with the already overly close attachment she had to player Sensei that was further amplified by that loss. She likely also fell into incestuous levels of attachment as a result of the other girls as well.
Yumi is one of my favorites lol She has some of the best dialogue and, goddamn, I just wanna give her something to smile about. She's had such a rough life. I just want to help her and show her that she's not worthless like she thinks she is.
She's still my least favorite, but she is growing on me.
My speculation comes from a sex scene you have with her involving a maid outfit and a slip of the tongue on her part which results in Sensei initially getting confused at the revelation. I'm sure you know which one. Again, I'm not saying it's anything concrete and I never really mentioned anything implying something abusive between her and her Father but yeah.
Yep, she's definitely using him as a stand-in or at least was in that instance. It could have been an isolated incident, though, where she simply slipped into thinking of them.
That's exactly what I meant, Ami and her Father having something romantic prior to his death. Not that there was any abuse going on. Her calling you "Daddy" when you've already assigned yourself a nickname for her to call you (assuming you didn't try typing Daddy, which that in itself is also a whole other reason why I found this kinda weird seeing as she wasn't even comfortable about that nickname in the first place) kinda gives you that impression. Hell I doubt there was any kind of relationship and Ami was just crazy about her Father, which is why I said prior that Sensei was likely the stand-in male for her obsessions and other incestuous fantasies and thinks of her Father when committing sexual acts with Sensei from time to time. I'm under the impression that Makoto could be that way too, wouldn't put it past her either.
I don't think so, look at how she reacts early on to potentially incestuous moments compared to how she acts now. While I agree they were close, I don't think she had crossed any lines with anyone, which explains why she doesn't react favorably toward potentially incestuous moments at first.
I think she mentally crossed that line when she realized the one family she had left, who she was dangerously close to an incest level relationship already with due to being closer to both her parents and old Sensei, was going to be taken by another girl if she didn't. She herself was against it until it was her only option. Then she acted on it in that first scene and crossed the line fully, something old Sensei might not have allowed to happen, but player Sensei did.