IfSheisntaVirgnShesTrash
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- Jan 15, 2024
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I’ve been spending the past month or so digging into the rise of the NTR genre how it started, and what has made people so accepting of it within the last 10 to 15 years, when circles like ELF were seriously financially hurt for exploring this subgenre or making heroines non-virgins. Obviously, through my research, I’ve come across this game and made many other discoveries, but to stay on the topic of this game it completely made me have to redefine and relook at how I view love and relationships. And that’s groundbreaking coming from me, someone who’s sacrificed his entire life out of pride.
In the simplest way possible, the entire game is a fight between the impure and the pure as what you believe in as its underlying message, and it constantly beats you over the head with it. Someone said earlier in this thread that the game was full of “Japanisms,” which made it unbelievable in a sense but that’s exactly what the entire game is fighting against. The traditional “Japanisms” that say if a heroine isn’t pure, then she isn’t worth loving, and that once she’s tainted, she’s worthless.
I firmly believe this visual novel is one of the most important VNs to ever exist not even because the content is profoundly deep, but because it challenged an ideal and forced those who have certain beliefs to rethink what is love to you and how do you value it? Especially at the time of this game’s release, when hardcore otaku moe culture ruled, and if an artist even hinted at a heroine not being a virgin, he’d lose his career.
If this game were to release now when we live in the era of the whore I have not a single doubt it would win awards. I don’t want to ramble, but in case someone isn’t quite understanding what I’m talking about, I went through almost 10 years’ worth of comments on this game and came across a review where someone said, “The people who need to receive the message most from this game will never give it a chance.” I think that line sums up pretty well not only the reason behind why ELF failed but also this entire genre. I have so many jumbled, complicated thoughts about this game that would take forever to piece together, but I’ll just say this, this game was truly before it's time in every sense of the phrase. If a game or piece of art can make you as a person stop in your REAL life and think "wait is what im doing right" "have I been making a mistake", then in my opinion it is ground breaking.
In the simplest way possible, the entire game is a fight between the impure and the pure as what you believe in as its underlying message, and it constantly beats you over the head with it. Someone said earlier in this thread that the game was full of “Japanisms,” which made it unbelievable in a sense but that’s exactly what the entire game is fighting against. The traditional “Japanisms” that say if a heroine isn’t pure, then she isn’t worth loving, and that once she’s tainted, she’s worthless.
I firmly believe this visual novel is one of the most important VNs to ever exist not even because the content is profoundly deep, but because it challenged an ideal and forced those who have certain beliefs to rethink what is love to you and how do you value it? Especially at the time of this game’s release, when hardcore otaku moe culture ruled, and if an artist even hinted at a heroine not being a virgin, he’d lose his career.
If this game were to release now when we live in the era of the whore I have not a single doubt it would win awards. I don’t want to ramble, but in case someone isn’t quite understanding what I’m talking about, I went through almost 10 years’ worth of comments on this game and came across a review where someone said, “The people who need to receive the message most from this game will never give it a chance.” I think that line sums up pretty well not only the reason behind why ELF failed but also this entire genre. I have so many jumbled, complicated thoughts about this game that would take forever to piece together, but I’ll just say this, this game was truly before it's time in every sense of the phrase. If a game or piece of art can make you as a person stop in your REAL life and think "wait is what im doing right" "have I been making a mistake", then in my opinion it is ground breaking.
