Dude why you pissed lmao?? Like Jasmine said, that choice wasn’t even in the OG demo, it was added specifically in the updated one cuz players asked for an illusionary choice. Literally in the devlogs, go check if you don’t believe it. The whole point was to give some exposition, it shows how her powers are limited, like yeah she’s technically called a god, but only cuz she created the painting. She’s using her powers for the first time, it’s not supposed to be god-tier right away. Do you draw like a pro the first time?
And about the item options, a vase? a kitchen knife? Be serious. Which college student even has a random vase in their dorm lol The story clearly sets up the items she's spent actual time with/has experience, like the scalpel and the injection with Shyloh. They were even shown at the start of the story, so it makes sense they'd come back. Pulling out a knife or vase outta nowhere would just feel super random.
Also like... why would you want to use that stuff? No matter what you pick, you’re still OP with all those pixies around. Even if you summon a machine gun or whatever (??), okay cool you wiped them out, now what? The game’s a dark romance, not Doom Eternal. The whole point of the pixies switching up is so we get those yandere vibes. If they didn’t go crazy, then what’s even the genre?? And if they do and you just nuke them right after, congrats you just finished the game (And if you come back with “oh I’d just romance Shyloh instead”, but then what? There’s literally no opposing force in the story anymore, no tension, no stakes, just a flatline. That’s boring af. Dark romance needs drama. You can’t have a fire story without conflict.)
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There’s actually an option in the game that explains it, like when the pixies attack (idk what they were exactly, but I remember there being flamethrower, gun options and stuff). But the thing is, MC doesn’t know how to make that shit. She’s not familiar with it. And like, what average person is? She can only create stuff she already knows, stuff she’s worked with IRL. You might have played the game on skip mode or sth ngl.
Oh, you really set yourself up for this one. Let’s dismantle this nonsense piece by piece.
"Review bombing? Quite an assumption, there; I have better things to do with my time."
Oh, so you’re totally not review bombing, but somehow you keep leaving 1-star reviews specifically on games that include LGBT+ content? Yeah, that’s review bombing, my dude. If it walks like a bad-faith troll and talks like a bad-faith troll… well, you get the idea.
"Well done completely ignoring anything I actually posted and screeching 'bigotry' because you can't handle anyone not agreeing with nonsense.
Ah yes, the classic "I'm being oppressed because people are calling me out." Nobody’s “screeching.” Your words speak for themselves. You’ve said pansexuality is “imaginary,” that biromantic asexuality is just a “low sex drive,” and that queer people have no place in VNs. That’s bigotry, not a “difference of opinion.”
"You do realize many gay, bi, and trans folk don't agree with any of it and call it out, (don't like the 'queer' label, either) as I've said?"
Sure, some LGBT+ people don’t like the word "queer," but many do. You don’t get to cherry-pick a few conservative LGBT+ voices and pretend they speak for everyone. That’s like finding a single woman who hates feminism and saying she speaks for all women. That’s not how this works.
"The otome (a Japanese word) genre of VNs always referred to a female protagonist with male love interests, until some Westerners 7+ years ago decided it meant something entirely different."
Except… nope. Japanese devs have been making customizable otome games for years—games that allow gender choice, nonbinary MCs, and even female love interests. Are you gonna tell Idea Factory, Koei Tecmo, and Voltage that they’re wrong about their own genre? Go ahead, I’ll wait.
"The whole 'Westerners know better than people from the country of origin' is working out real well for Ubisoft, isn't it?"
First off, Ubisoft? A company that’s French and known for its AAA corporate greed? What does that have to do with indie otome games? Oh right, nothing.
"What next; gonna tell me that Bara is something other than M/M relationships, aimed at men? You'd be wrong on that front, too."
Literally nobody brought up Bara. You dragged that into the conversation for no reason. Are you just throwing around VN terms to sound smart? Because it’s not working.
Bonus Round: Stop Saying "Sweetie," "Honey," or Any Other Condescending Pet Name.
If your argument relies on belittling people’s ages to make yourself seem smarter, you don’t have a real argument. It doesn’t make you sound wise, it makes you sound insecure and desperate to act superior.
You're way off. Otome games just need a female-identifying protagonist (she/her or she/they), including customizable ones—end of story. Check out the Otome Jam 2024 page if you need a reality check.
But let’s be real, based on your previous comments, your 1-star reviews aren’t about game quality. They’re just you throwing a fit over LGBT+ inclusivity. You’ve called pansexuality "imaginary," dismissed biromantic asexuality as just "low sex drive," and acted like queer people have no place in VNs. Not to mention whining about diversity like it’s some evil "American politics" thing.
If a game isn’t your thing, cool, move on. But review-bombing games just because it dares to acknowledge queer people? That’s not a critique, that’s just straight-up bigotry.