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Bingoogus

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Yeah i get it but i use "despair porn" more as an expression than at his litteral sense. To me it mean that they are so much drama and despair that you're surrounded by it and you enjoy that very much.
To me this is too much but if we can see a light at the end of the tunnel, it's okay to endure that
Anyways i want to be clear that i understand that porn isn't the main goal here and i'm more than okay with it.
Buddy, i'm telling ya to run, pleeeeease run... i am a heroin addict who has ruined his life watching a young kid about to shoot up for the first time and i'm begging him to stop, pleading, pleeease just trust me... don't do it... you don't want to live like we do... you still have hope in your eyes...
 

DeSkel15

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Hey i'm new to this game, so i've a couple of question if some kind fellow could answer me.
How much of a harem this game is? Can the MC will have to romance every girl? Because for me Harem don't go well with romance and we have a romance tag so i'm curious.
I don't know what to expect of this game so far but i wanna avoid spoiler if possible so i don't know how to approach this.
I don't mind romancing multiple girl but i will prefer i could choose who and keep that to a minimum. Yeah maybe this game isn't for me or maybe it is i dunno that why i'm asking .

Thanks you in advance : )
Firstly:
I think from now on, I'm just going to say "This game is like a mental illness simulator. The Horror and Religion tags are there for a reason." Then leave it at that, lmao.

Maybe add these images as examples:
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That should sum up the experience just fine.
Secondly:
This game is far more about how fucked up "love" can be, than about being romantic or even nice to others. Hence the name. Plenty of laughs, smiles, tears, and trauma to go around.

Besides a few exceptions, only the milfs and maybe the very young are optional for the MC's Harem/can avoid his cock, for now. "Harem" in this game is more about sex than romance, and consent, happiness, and mental stability aren't necessary.

Yeah i get it but i use "despair porn" more as an expression than at his litteral sense. To me it mean that they are so much drama and despair that you're surrounded by it and you enjoy that very much.
To me this is too much but if we can see a light at the end of the tunnel, it's okay to endure that
Anyways i want to be clear that i understand that porn isn't the main goal here and i'm more than okay with it.
Whether anyone will actually end up with a happy ending, also remains to be seen. Some characters may not even be able to be happy if others aren't suffering. Some characters may not even make it to the end.
 

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Yeah i get it but i use "despair porn" more as an expression than at his litteral sense. To me it mean that they are so much drama and despair that you're surrounded by it and you enjoy that very much.
To me this is too much but if we can see a light at the end of the tunnel, it's okay to endure that
Anyways i want to be clear that i understand that porn isn't the main goal here and i'm more than okay with it.
Game is mostly light-hearted teenage girls. Some disturbing scenes that hard to make sense if they are real or not. And some drama.

Problem with drama is, characters are well written so you actually care for them. It is 90% sunshine and 10% sadness and despair. But that 10% hits hard.

I recommend play this game for 1-2 hours and decide yourself if it is your cup of coffee. Dev made the first few hours disturbing as possible to warn the players what type of game this is.

If you play enough to see a particular kissing scene and still want to continue, welcome aboard.

PS: Use autoVN mod to bypass sandbox part of the game.
 
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Talishan

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Yeah i get it but i use "despair porn" more as an expression than at his litteral sense. To me it mean that they are so much drama and despair that you're surrounded by it and you enjoy that very much.
To me this is too much but if we can see a light at the end of the tunnel, it's okay to endure that
Anyways i want to be clear that i understand that porn isn't the main goal here and i'm more than okay with it.
I don't know why anyone else plays this, but I am several updates behind because I only play this when my depression and psychosis kicks in. I used to watch the most fucked up horror movies I could, preferably ones with bad endings (not the porn game kind). Now I exclusively play this. I need something where bad shit happens to undeserving people so that I can shift my weird self depreciating thoughts onto fictional characters and keep myself functional and prevent self destructive behaviors. This game particularly meshes well with me because all of the trippy shit you see is a slightly worse version of the shit I hallucinate when my depression is active. I enjoy the good moments in the game, but that just makes the bad moments all the more effective at controlling my depression.
 

TheGoodPastor

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i don't like to be forced to be with a girl i'm not interested AND more importantly i'm into romance and like i said, romance doesn't go well with harem
Yeah I get that, but since you're asking about the romance I figured I should warn what kind of game it is haha as far as romance goes it's not like, a harem harem. The MC keeps all his relationships private (as best he can) so they're mostly quite contained and have their own romantic moments and shit. Since you brought it up though I love Grisaia lol

I wouldn't call it "despair porn" like you said a bit later, even with the story having some really dark and miserable moments at the moment there's a lot of funny/cute ones and things even during the darker periods of the game to break things up - and like I said we're gonna end up with monogamous purity routes for each girl eventually. But the despair there is hits hard.

Honestly you should just play for a few hours like Pedro said and see if you're steered off or or hooked. There's a couple of early events that will set the tone and by the time you get to them you'll most likely have a solid idea of whether or not you want to keep playing and those events will either get you hooked or turn you off completely. LiL is a really unique game and there's not really any VN I can point to and say "it's like that" for reference.
 
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rebel836

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I don't mind a bit of drama and a long game, i might even enjoy it. For reference, one of my favourite VN is grisaia, so if you know a thing or two about it, you can understand where i'm from. (if not i can't recommend enough this VN but it's not harem at all ). Seem to me that each girl can have a pretty different tone or ambiance related but i suppose you're forced to stick to it because of that god. I'm a bit curious but at the same time, i know that i don't like harem for two main reason: i don't like to be forced to be with a girl i'm not interested AND more importantly i'm into romance and like i said, romance doesn't go well with harem
Anyways, thanks for the explanation, it confirm what the other have hinted.
Just for my own curiosity, why doesn't romance go with harem?
 
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jclark1337

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I don't mind a bit of drama and a long game, i might even enjoy it. For reference, one of my favourite VN is grisaia, so if you know a thing or two about it, you can understand where i'm from. (if not i can't recommend enough this VN but it's not harem at all ). Seem to me that each girl can have a pretty different tone or ambiance related but i suppose you're forced to stick to it because of that god. I'm a bit curious but at the same time, i know that i don't like harem for two main reason: i don't like to be forced to be with a girl i'm not interested AND more importantly i'm into romance and like i said, romance doesn't go well with harem
Anyways, thanks for the explanation, it confirm what the other have hinted.
Psst. There is a Grisaia cameo in the game btw

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Based Grisaia poster, Michiru best girl
Yeah I get that, but since you're asking about the romance I figured I should warn what kind of game it is haha as far as romance goes it's not like, a harem harem. The MC keeps all his relationships private (as best he can) so they're mostly quite contained and have their own romantic moments and shit. Since you brought it up though I love Grisaia lol

I wouldn't call it "despair porn" like you said a bit later, even with the story having some really dark and miserable moments at the moment there's a lot of funny/cute ones and things even during the darker periods of the game to break things up - and like I said we're gonna end up with monogamous purity routes for each girl eventually. But the despair there is hits hard.

Honestly you should just play for a few hours like Pedro said and see if you're steered off or or hooked. There's a couple of early events that will set the tone and by the time you get to them you'll most likely have a solid idea of whether or not you want to keep playing and those events will either get you hooked or turn you off completely. LiL is a really unique game and there's not really any VN I can point to and say "it's like that" for reference.
I like to think of it as the game forces you to learn to care about the characters you normally wouldn't. The romance is undeniably there, just wrapped up in a very twisted package and in a way that causes you to struggle to self-insert into the MC considering the morally dubious circumstances. That said, it's still a riveting and compelling story all the same and you can still have favorites.
 
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Visadsa

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Is the game actually going to be wrapped up in 5 years? I read this was supposed to be a 10 year long story
 

TheGoodPastor

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Is the game actually going to be wrapped up in 5 years? I read this was supposed to be a 10 year long story
Well, it's already been going for just over 5 years and we just passed the 0.50 mark so seems about right

I wouldn't be surprised if Sel stretched it out longer though lol
 
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So at this point do you guys consider Paradolia a friend or a foe? I can't seem to get a read on this guy. So far he's been the nicest of the gods, but that doesn't say much. I really like him for some reason though. I would love to be his hommie.
 
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So at this point do you guys consider Paradolia a friend or a foe? I can't seem to get a read on this guy. So far he's been the nicest of the gods, but that doesn't say much. I really like him for some reason though. I would love to be his hommie.
While i certainly wouldn't consider any of the three to be Akira's 'friends', i'd probably put pareidolia as the closest to an ally he has among them. Honestly, aside from the whole maya prime thing, (and also molly ig but that's long since water under the bridge) he hasn't really done anything to directly harm Akira, and last reset definitely made it seem as though he really was playing the villain to force Akira to act. We'll just have to wait and see what future Yumi events bring now that he's found himself a new host though. (He's also my personal favourite of the three purely because he's pretty funny at times)
 
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