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Hello, Melancholy Marionette

I just finished playing Solipsism Reigns and I really enjoyed it. And now I can’t get it out of my mind, I just love Kuro so much. I know they’re all Kuros but I feel like I prefer certain kuros over other Kuros, but I'd say my favorites are detective route Kuro and doll maker Kuro.

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I like that the detective route Kuro, despite having a high yandere level, he still listens to the protagonist and doesn’t read her mind. And perhaps due to the sprite, he looks more confident than the rest. I like the bad ending where he gouged her eyes so the protagonist won’t look at others and only look at him alone, it’s just so fitting for a yandere. But the bad ending that leaves the most impression is when the protagonist got captured by Topper, even with her mind broken, she feels something when snow touches her, I assume it reminds her of Kuro’s icy touch. Truth be told, I actually like Farro as well, haha. I like this route for its creepiness and the ??? route best. As for the doll maker Kuro, I just feel so sorry for him :( ‘Fixing the dolls’ was a coping mechanism for all the things he had encountered, and the scene when his sanity returned and he repeatedly hit his head against the wall broke my heart… 

I think my least favorite Kuro is the mage route Kuro, I am terrified of him. Out of all the bad endings, I think his are the most violent. I know yanderes are violent and illogical but it seems he finds pleasure in torturing for no reason as opposed to being too overbearing that they kill their love interest. Sometimes I wonder if I can handle a yandere boyfriend IRL, I think yeah perhaps, as long as I don’t look at other guys or don’t upset him I should be fine. However, this mage route changed my mind. The protagonist only asked for his suggestion for which direction to go, didn’t trigger him or anything, and he went full psycho T[]T. But really, I don’t hate him, if anything it’s because of him that I have a deeper impression of this VN and discovered more yanderes. But yeah, I still prefer other Kuros over him (I don’t want to die so easily, haha).

Oh, I have a question regarding Isaac, I want to know what his ideal ‘weapon’ is like? It seems he wants to erase the original’s personality completely, so I wonder what his perfect ‘weapon’ is like.

Finally, thank you so much for creating this game! I really, really like it. I hope you’ll continue to make more games with yandere guys in the future :D Have a nice day!

Sorry for my suuuuper duper slow reply >.< I've not really been online the past couple of months due to personal reasons, but I'm back now.

I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed playing through SR, especially with it being my oldest game now because every time I look back at it and how much I've learned since then, all I can see are its faults x3

I don't blame you for preferring certain Kuros because even I  have my favourites over others, haha. Dollmaker wound up stealing my heart somehow, largely due to Tim's incredible performance!

Interestingly, your favourite routes were my favourite routes to write! I guess it kinda shows in the game that I had less interest in the themes of the other routes (especially the student one >.<) haha.

I certainly wouldn't advise having a yandere boyfriend IRL for your own safety >.< I adore yandere characters in games and stuff, but any kind of abuse like that in reality is just never fun :( And if you ever do find yourself in such a relationship, you need to tread really carefully and try to do what's best for your own health and wellbeing rather than get sucking into something that's gonna ruin your life.

Thank you so much for taking the time to play through it all and leave such a lovely comment :3 I really appreciate it! And I will absolutely be making more games with yandere guys in the future :D I've kinda made it my mission to always have at least 1 yandere dude of some kind in every game I make :3

Sorry again that my reply is so slow >.< If you end up playing my other games, I hope you enjoy them as much as SR ^-^

SPOILERS

Regarding Isaac, he pretty much just wanted a weapon that would do exactly as he commands. He didn't really want any hint of the original's personality to remain because he knew that would make her too difficult to control. He wanted to extract all the strength, love, and power from MC and Shiro's relationship and focus it into weapon form. I realise it's not something that makes a whole lot of sense xD But that particular concept was inspired by a French film I saw many years ago called Martyrs.

It's a little difficult to explain, but basically, in the film, this cult-like group captures and tortures young girls until they reach a state of transcendence and witness glimpses of the afterlife. The group is trying to discover what comes after. So that's sort of where the idea came from that torture = means to achieving an end in terms of changing someone's mental abilities. In Martyrs, the girls transcend and can see the afterlife before passing, in SR, the pain and suffering is extracted from each experiment and put into OG MC to essentially give her superpowers.

I guess a lot of folks might say it's crappy/lazy writing xD But I personally enjoy reading/watching stuff like that even if it is a little far-fetched, so I wanted to include it x3