The reason i enjoy LiL is the subject matter, you just can't get this kind of story outside of places like this, normies would react with extreme rhetorical violence. Now don't get me wrong, i love porn games too, but the one thing i craved for years was adult stories, true adult stories, for adults, where normal shit like sex doesn't just fade to a black screen or skip to after.
Now, all of us are complete fucking nerds, so i've no doubt some of you are virgins, but even then, we all know sex is a normal part of being an adult, and as adults, we can enjoy fiction without having to be concerned with moral implications of consuming it. I want to read stories about fucked up people and fucked up situations, not because i'm fucked up (i am) but because it's the one kind of thing you can't find in the mainstream pile, you have to find the hidden nooks and crannies to find content like LiL. I'm not a teenager, haven't been for almost two decades, and i just want to consume content appropriate for my age, that is, everything, and not have censors tell me no.
LiL has plenty of sex in it, but almost none of it is hot, but it exists and is normalized within the story, i appreciate that fact, it has a story to tell and it doesn't fade to black cause of censorship. Reading a story about the cycle of childhood sexual abuse mixed with mindfuckery is exactly the kind of fucked up stuff i wished existed before i found this site.
First of all, ow my already weak mentality and heart. Second, I really do have to agree, I really love stories about testing the limits of humanity and how far are people willing to go, it only makes them shine better when they do come out the other side cleaner than they started. You think with so many shows and movies out right now, there'll be at least a decent amount covering it but not really; it's hard to bring those topics to light and personally, I think the more forbidden and harder to discuss about should be hidden in the dark corners of the internet. With more censors than ever and more corporations buying out creativity and draining it out in droves, I think it's nice in a fucked up sort of way to find creavity in the darkness of humanity, and to be able to discuss with fairly likeminded people like everyone here (you're all surprising great and not fucked up people), I certainly didn't expect to find it in a porn game of all places to be honest with the rest of you.
Piracy aside, I think a lot of the problems come from who Selebus is as a person (or what he turned into). Let's examine the puzzles, for instance.
TLDR is: Piracy or not, were I to join the discord and publish my trigger guides a couple hours after release (or ever), I'd be banned. The real issue is Selebus himself.
Let it be known that I've examined puzzles specifically. Way more can be said about other systems and behaviors from the dev - but you guys can extrapolate from what I wrote.
Tbh, this made me want to try The Last Sovereign more than ever and you made me honestly want to have another go at it again blind to see if I can get into it, if you got any more games to advertise I would love to know.
In other words, you really summed up my problems with Selebus as a person and with his work, really have nothing more to say about the guy that hasn't been said here already in this forum.
Stomache was earned, that scene just wasn't...
I think that summarized what was wrong with yuki's events in a nice bow honestly imo.
Stomache is central to Io's character, we understood what illed her after numerous of updates as we got know her, and people liked her for weaknesses and her weirdness so when stomache happened and not only confirmed what we expected but forced us to be in the same role as their captors, everything went crumbling down, so did we; but Yuki's events were written out of nowhere from the story's perspective, it felt all so artificial, it feel fake, like I get it, you wanted to create tension, a dark moment and stain in yuki's history and force the story into a direction that you needed it to go, you need an event like that and break yuki to her lowest's point but there wasn't any buildup, it was overblown with all cruelity that it made it more ridiculous than emotional gut wrenching.
With Stomache I couldn't play the game or come back to this forum for weeks, that fucking two choice prompt broke me, with yuki, I said to ask myself "really?"
Again as this game is in a work in progress and the event is still new in everyones' minds, this issue could be explained or addressed or not that big in the grand scheme of things, but as of rn, the event disappoints me.
