FiN was a Brutal deception.
The kind of deception that turned me into actively hating anything related to it.
So much so, that I think that anything related to that Author and his game should never be discussed with decent company, should always stay in the dens of depravity and abuse that that thread has devolved into.
And to think I had it on my signature as a recommended game. I still feel close to vomit to even think about it.
Peace
I almost never read the thread. I read it very early on when people want to get rid of Nikki, lol.
Nikki was my favorite part of the early games, the other characters early on, not so much.
So when i read many posts complaining about Nikki, I realized it's probably not something that I would enjoy reading, so I rarely ever read it.
and tags like rape, sexual harassment, and blackmail don't inspire confidence. And no, I don't care if those are optional. If you can be as evil or as good as you want
It's not optional in the sense that it's part of the choices. The option is not even there.
You have to go out of your way to install it to even have those options presented.
The first time i played it, i didn't even know those were an option. There is a "taboo patch" but i didn't know the patch was dark paths, i thought it was the usual incest renaming and reaging and i initially skipped it for some time.
I think that regular version eventually became a patreon version that is called Friends Indeed.
If you only do patreon instead of f95zone download, you got Friends Indeed. Not only are those options aren't there, you can't even install Taboo Patch on the Patreon Version.
You need to restart from the beginning with the taboo patch on it to even get those options activated.
The first time i installed the patch out of curiousity, I found the installation process to be tedious cuz what I had is a different version with saves already there.
Simply copypasting the patch didn't work. The options doesn't appear even after i put the patch in the game folder.
I had to download the different version and then replay it from the beginning to even activated that patch. It was honestly a really tedious process, at least for me.
I don't really know which MC is self-insert and which isn't cuz unless it's something like Our Red String or Mass Effect where the choices actually do bring about various consequences, I mostly play from a third-party perspective.
There are very few games like that which gives the player differing consequences of choices. On those games, I look forward to see what are the effect of the choices I, personally as a player made. But most of the games I just see how the story unfold as if it's a TV show.
So in most games, the MC is not where I pay attention to.
This is even more true in AVN than other entertainment medium cuz most AVN games are simply "choose your own love interest path (if not harem)".
It's the characters in that world that matters to me. And the world itself if it differs from our world.
Like Deluca Family is quite fleshed out after the addition of Codex to it's Steam release. So that's memorable.
I care more to see the stories in the Deluca world like how Luna's story with Mysterious Six would unfold.
The MC themselves are always secondary to me.
Neon Ghost is a good storyteller.
I would put him above DPC when he wrote Acting Lesson. Acting Lesson is great but it's great cuz of the drama. Neon Ghost can tell human stories and say it with brevity. I still remember the rollercoaster of emotion I felt when i first read Nikki telling her story early on. "Oh my god, that is so bad, that suck" was my reaction.
I had similar reaction when I read Risa's story this chapter.
The characters backstory prior to the game is really rooted in reality, in that you can see it happening to people IRL, and you might even be able to see it happening to people around you.
I would say he's great even. Cuz he understands development cycle limitation, pretty brief with the way he write his story events, and doesn't waste time rendering things that aren't necesary (so many AVN devs waste time on unnecessary renders). Like Classy Lemon, he's a great at managing scope.
If mrsilverlust has a talent on writing hot dialogues, Evakiss has a talent on interweaving choices and consequences, and Classy Lemon has a talent on making every chapter feels like a complete TV episode with clear open-middle-end, then neon ghost has a talent on writing backstories of it's characters in a way that is human.
it's good i really like it.
I would still read a non-sexual neon ghost story.
Is it my favorite game? no but it's up there.
