marvel of technical mastery for vn would be ,,out of touch'', perfect pitch would be definitely upgrade compared to lil on technical level but not an insane one, also no amount of technical excellence can compensate writing anyway, If I would want to play games that are better on technical level, I wouldn't be searching them among vn's in first place. but that's just my opinion ofcourse
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No, I mean like the general idea the male reader has of "big dick" = women falling over someone. While the opposite is certainly true concerning a tiny dick, the big dick idea doesn't really apply in real life as it does in fantasy.A bit weird to have something like that on my screen to be honest
I don't really see its appeal.
Considering what happened to Miku...yeah it better stay in fantasy
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The technical side of lil certainly does not shine, but the level of elaboration of the world and the quality of the text are at an unattainable level. I read a lot of projects (more than hundred), but nowhere was there anything even close to this.
I stopped perceiving the game as a porn game a long time ago - it’s just a very interesting series that comes out once a month, and in which there are piquant scenes. Hope we will see end of the story, and nothing will stop Sel from finishin it.
I stopped perceiving the game as a porn game a long time ago - it’s just a very interesting series that comes out once a month, and in which there are piquant scenes. Hope we will see end of the story, and nothing will stop Sel from finishin it.
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You suggested almost every one of the games that I would — except for MIST. Great, Stephen King-y horror/adventure, fun characters and character development, and not particularly grindy — compared to LiL.
true, I tried searching for something similar among regular books or other media, but I just cant find anything that satisfies similar itch. like how do you even describe style of lil writing? arthouse?
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I assume something like "Molly's mother killed herself when she discovered that Molly's dad is fucking Molly, and then Molly's other relatives quickly sent her to japan"
Or, with a fewer words, domestic violence. She wouldn't be the first
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As a deconstruction of the genre, it's worked pretty well as a horror element in recent updates
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"truly spoken like a tiny-dick-having whiny little bitch who can't satisfy women the way they really crave to - having their orifices vigorously and brutally destroyed by a french baguette sized meat rod. pathetic." - Pareidolia, R.I.P.
(it's cool bro, he was just a scape goat, he did it for your own good, you see)
true, its not proper ass fucking unless your dick is big enough to turn intestines around it like Italian pasta
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I'm not too sure how good the official english translation by Vertical is (even though I've had the first volume of Owari sitting on my desk for 3 years-) but reading Kizu in my native language's edition was just as good if not better than the anime, minus the incredible visuals that come with the Kizu trilogy
so I'd also recommand checking out the light novels if anyone is looking for reading material
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I mean, I'm supposedly a goth chick by the thread lore, not a futanari goth chick... so yeah
no dick to speak of.Pareidolia our one true bro, may you rest in concerned sleep at the bottom of the wishing well.
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He could be our true bro if he had complied with the request upon returning Prime
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It was then that Oshino Meme presented Araragi with a choice: "you can be healed apart from eachother, or be forever broken (scarred) together."
And with that choice, concludes the story (monogatari) of a/my/our scar (kizu). Kizu is such a masterpiece.
That one scene, to me, touches on the core of what Monogatari is. And I think that's also why "Kyoto" hit so hard to me. If I can empathize with Sekai to some extent, if her story becomes complex, then it becomes uncomfortable. Monogatari is all about uncomfortable edges to everything, and Sekai/Pareidolia/Nodoka (blatant villains until just recently) all moving in that direction could do a lot of good to LiL's quality.
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Since we are now officially 45% through Chapter 4, I can say Sel really turned Chapter 4 around. Because the first couple of updates in chapter 4 were less than stellar.
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That assumes he could do it, or even that he was the one that did it. It was never certain and now even less so.
On a previous talk, he advises Akira to not open his eyes until it is done. Now, here's my question, if Akira had sex with Maya prior to this wouldn't he have erased himself regardless? As it happened so many times before, according to Maya? So why does a god even have to be involved in this?
It could be that Pareidolia knew it would happen and instead made sure that it would be Maya that would erase herself, rather than erasing Akira. Just after it's done, he muses about who would even take credit for it.
Furthermore, Pareidolia says that anyone that could bring Maya back wasn't there then. Were they sleeping? Did he hit them over the head with a frying pan? Also, if he didn't erase Maya (he only does it from inside Kaori's body), was a god always peotecting Maya from being erased when she had sex with Akira (instead erasing him?).
lots of questions.
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We can only make guesses, this theme tied up with speculations and shizotheories. I can build an answer on one of them.
1. Maya is a shrine maiden of an old god (named with letter "T"), and from the very beginning she served her god faithfully.
At some point she falls in love with Akira (who is most likely also part of the dynasty of deities) and stops believing in her god.
The old god dies, since gods in whom people do not believe cannot exist.
2. A bunch of new false gods appear and replace each other. At some point they decide to resurrect the old god, the details are not important now. Some condition must be done for the resurrection of the old god - for example, impregnate everyone or climb to the top of the hill of naked bodies, doesnot matter now.
3. The current iteration of Akira is different from previous ones - and apparently, it is best suited to fulfill this condition.
It is impossible to return Maya back to her god, especially considering the “real sensei”, she will only get in the way.
Accordingly, the easiest way - to erase her.
yeah I agree with Noob Gamer, Out of Touch is fairly mid imo in both writing and gameplay: it's too verbose, all the drama feels contrived, and the whole thing seems to be centered around the power of friendship
American Psycho is an excellent novel that scratches the exact same itch
Suba Hibi is decent too if you want a VNIn terms of VNs, LiL is inspired by Suba Hibi so that's the closest you'll get
Some other recommendations of games that people haven't mentioned, none of these would be on par with actual novels in terms of writing quality but they don't suffer from engrish, are entertaining as hell, and have fleshed-out stories that are not mere excuses for porn (although the games are certainly porn-heavy):
- Eternum: it's about a hyper-realistic VRMMO, really high production quality
- Ripples: imo the best execution of a certain sci-fi subgenre on this site
- Pale Carnations: hard to summarize - just read the synposis. it's S-tier in terms of how realistic the characters feel - they are very fleshed out
- Artemis: hard to explain without spoiling it but it's fantastic
the dev clearly puts a ridiculous amount of effort into itAnd some games that are just porn-focused fun, no grand plot or anything
- Twisted Memories: a man who lived a pathetic life dies and goes back in time to when he was a teen and maintain/develop the relationships he had neglected when he was younger (aka fucks everyone in a 100km radius xD but it's pretty legit)
- Stormside: you're given a position in a college as being an enforcer of this weird new program, the backstory is pretty dumb but it's basically an excuse to have complete control over the girls and e.g. you get to decide how to punish them, whether you are nice/mean, whether you honor your promises to them, etc. it's got nice branching paths (i.e. meaningful choices) and decent amount of consensual-sex-slave content
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