- Oct 8, 2024
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A little bit flattering and also a little bit creepy that you take the time to note everything I say. Also partly wrong but I'll leave you to your hobby.
- Mar 9, 2020
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I can't lie, you fooled me too. I thought you and Trix agreed on most things in Nephilim.
- Jul 25, 2017
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it's not hard to notice actually. When over the last few weeks you and Trix has been saying the same things on repeat almost like you are the same person. I even felt this way , I just never said shit to see if my guess was right
- Apr 1, 2024
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This story is has an interesting concept behind it and the early chapters were good but I don't really get it now. The MC just seems to run from place to place doing whatever anyone asks him to, without question or complaint and all the (many, many lis) all seem to have basically the same personality. They all seem like fairly generic lovestruck teenagers whose main difference is they want to be different things when they grow up. Eliza is a little better, she at least has some colour at this point because of her parents and being a vampire etc. But the rest, even if the story says they're older and more experienced don't act like it. Pearl and Kira, for example, don't act like they are used to command, and the fairy ... sylph? doesn't act like she's been around and seen a lot. Maybe it's just me. Oh and what kind of sailing ship can operate with only two people on board??
- Mar 9, 2020
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All great points. MC is a very reactive hero but a poor proactive one. The ship thing with Pearl in the latest update confused me because they were given a ship that would need a full crew and I think it was only so that Buu could re-use the Pearl sitting on the side of the boat render we've seen countless times.
I don't know. It started out strong but it feels like the dev lost interest, or changed his mind and wants to tell a story about pirates instead or ... something.
- Mar 9, 2020
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I definitely don't think the dev lost interest. The big problem seems to be it going in a direction that a lot of the people here aren't sure about or vehemently disagree with. I don't know Buu's Patreon situation, if they feel similar, or what, but updates are pretty frequent and it's definitely trying to tell some kind of story. That said, I'm just pirating this so my opinion isn't exactly worth much.
Yeah, me too but with so many devs that need support it seems kinda silly to start supporting something in the hope that the dev will change direction. I just don't understand what happened between the early chapters, which were mostly really solid, and now.
- May 6, 2023
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I'd be happy to read a story just about Eliza. I'm not interested in the pirates much, but that is just me, I'm not BUU. I have followed a lot of VNs where the dev just went with the crowd and everyone of them has ended up abandoned. BUU has a story to tell and he is sticking to it, so I'm I'm willing to give him leeway to get where he wants to go with his story.
That's cool I just hope he gets somewhere soon because the last several updates don't feel like they're going anywhere - just sticking in new Lis who are mostly pretty generic and who don't feel important to the story yet and new side quests that don't feel related to the original story.
- Jul 26, 2023
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Completely agree. Buu is doing it his way, I remember in the early days, when it first started, a number of people were complaining about Eliza and the overload and he responded with she's not going anywhere, this is my story and I have a plan for how it works. Now, 2 years later, he is still staying true to his vision and not getting swayed by the loudest and most persistent voices. Kudos.
And he gives us players the option to avoid the girls we want to. Sure the dialogue can get frustrating with girls if you are not on their path, but if he starts adding all the variables and pathing to make more sense on the girls you've avoided then we will not be getting monthly updates, so I have learned to just ignore it and keep moving with the story.
That won't keep working though, even if you ignore it for now. I played a game called Mech Command ( I think, something like that) that was a harem game but you got to choose which girl(s) you were with but at the end they were all there, and talking like they were all your Lis and arguing over which one was your favorite - even though I only ever did anything with one of them. So not only was it increasingly annoying as the game wore on but it killed the ending as well.
- May 6, 2023
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Was that Mech Academy? I loved that one. Choosing one girl at the end is fine with me. Harem is fine too. There are two problems with harem games. One, they either get too many LIs to the point its ridiculous and I just lose interest. Two, when I am devoted to one character like Eliza, I don't get enough of her.
Its a catch 22 for devs. No matter what they do someone won't be happy.
- Apr 1, 2024
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Yeah the issue is there just becomes TOO MANY LI's at a point. Harem games should have a pretty strict range of around 5-6 as a maximum amount I understand people want to appeal to every kind of archetype but lets be real, if theres a goth girl, a freckled redhead, a typical blonde, and a edgy/tomboy brunette, majority of people are covered. If people also kept the body types to a mostly realistic level and stop giving the models the equivalent of 5 BBLs and 20 Boobjobs it also would be alot better lol. I dont mind thick, I enjoy it, but man, alot of harem games go buck wild with the proportions that the characters just kind of look like they're mutated. (which then brings more characters to appeal to the polar opposite types instead of being in a happy middle)
Nephilim in particular:
Nephilim's definitely stuck with way too many LI's already, I like Kira & Pearl they haven't had any content in a long time and I'm sure its gonna loop into the King and Tarons whole ordeal, as MC is getting a new potential powerful ally. This update was good (aside from MC getting dicked on by a sailor, kinda strange to me if im being honest. Hoping its just because he ran for 3 hours across an ocean is the only actual reason she held up a fight lol.) but of course it introduces yet another LI (POSSIBLY Two), on top of all the priors. Eliza's fantastic but then again, wheres Ninja girl? She appeared, was hoping for a rekindle, and poof, gone for a long time. I definitely understand both sides of the argument for that reason lol. I enjoy Eliza but I've been teased so much with Rin(?) especially being in the area & all, where she go!? Its been so long! Most of the other LI's are weird to me too like Alice looked as if she aged 40 years, the cousin somehow had a massive makeover and looks like a mini-Eliza (pre-hair cut) now, and the barmaid is top tier. But in reality, we didn't really need any of those additions either lol.
Eliza, Alice, Yuuup, Ninja girl, Kira & pearl, Little Witch, Amelia & mom could have probably been enough tbh lol. (sorry I realized I cant even remember most of their names, even the fey that I adore LMAO)
Granted I'm not taking away from Buu he's got his thing and I respect it, but just generally this is a hole harem games go down. All the bases were practically covered and with plenty of diversity to be enough, but now we're fighting for 15 different scenes, with 15 different girls, while also trying to progress a story forward ontop of it. I gotta hand it to Buu though his update speed is crazy compared to most at least. I wait months for somethings to get a 30 minute update, Nephilim is droppin like every 2 weeks or so.
Not here to talk about that one so I'll just say that it was mostly ok but toward the end the conversations got increasingly silly while they argued, and got jealous and debated which was my favorite when I was only with one of them - ever.
- Sep 20, 2018
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I think it's even worse than that. When Eliza and Alice have their little expository chat about how multiple wives/mistresses are the norm for human men, they both make it clear they don't *like* that double-standard. They accept it because they're powerless to change it. The MC, however, could change that if he wanted to, simply by picking a single wife and not sleeping around.
Sadly, the game has less than zero interested in a non-harem route, so the MC will drool over every woman he meets right up until the instant we press the 'reject button' at the start of each lewd scene. IMHO, rather than reassuring us that the MC's skirt-chasing is harmless, the whole sequence makes him look like even more of a tone-deaf hedonist - particularly when he is actually pursuing obvious-main-girl-but-perpetual-damsel Eliza. Or it does for me anyway (despite rejecting Eliza). YMMV.
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Oh, I did friendzone Eliza. There's no change, other than skipping a few lewd scenes. She's still constantly rubbing her naked body against his and he's always eager to see her... right up until it's time to rush off without her.
- Mar 9, 2020
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I think it all comes down to follow through. If you're gonna do harem + solo routes, you should probably take the time to make the story coherent on both routes (dialogue changes, etc). Big harems work when the plot is shallow (Grandma's house, and that's not a stab at it, just an example). Harems with lots of LIs don't work when you're trying to also tell epic stories because 99% of the time, those stories are epic due to characters and large casts struggle to focus on characterization.
My personal preference in regards to harems actually works with Nephilim. I think it makes sense for MCs with demi-god style powers (anime isekai protagonists) to have harems. It doesn't work for me as well when it's just 18-yr old Eric sitting in his room, not working, banging his family, the neighbors, the teacher, half the class, and everyone's okay with it.
Probably ranting at this point so I'll just say that I personally think Nephilim's lewd-able cast is way too large for the story I think it's trying to tell. Alice isn't even on the banner art when the game launches...it's Luna, Eliza, MC, Kira, and Pearl. Should we ditch Alice? Probably not, childhood friend is trope for a reason. Should we ditch Kelly and her mom? Probably. Time will tell if the cast grows even larger or if we're starting to plateau.
My personal preference in regards to harems actually works with Nephilim. I think it makes sense for MCs with demi-god style powers (anime isekai protagonists) to have harems. It doesn't work for me as well when it's just 18-yr old Eric sitting in his room, not working, banging his family, the neighbors, the teacher, half the class, and everyone's okay with it.
Probably ranting at this point so I'll just say that I personally think Nephilim's lewd-able cast is way too large for the story I think it's trying to tell. Alice isn't even on the banner art when the game launches...it's Luna, Eliza, MC, Kira, and Pearl. Should we ditch Alice? Probably not, childhood friend is trope for a reason. Should we ditch Kelly and her mom? Probably. Time will tell if the cast grows even larger or if we're starting to plateau.