… well now you’re just spoiling us(and by us i mean me) xd but i am very excited by this news <3
arina
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firstly its truly an amazing game and for now itll be the only not otome/amare game i have saved here on itch.io and considering i have a bit over 200 of those here it should say quite a bit but the way you let us grow closer to myrddin to grow fond of him to learn who he is as a person is just so well done and so enjoyable and im just really looking forward to more (bonus points bc some of the advice was genuinely good and with the listen part it got me to talk about something i really need to deal with so yeah kudos for that)
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ok i need to write this down instead of just monologuing in my head im freeing myrddin and i want to deal with few of the points book entity brought up that i considered most important-
firstly the argument of not acting by emotions and like no? i will be acting by emotions? like i will be using reason too but telling me to abandon emotions is just… yeah i dont feel like im in a position that requires cold logic and nothing else
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secondly the manipulation and the question is myrddin manipulating us… probably? to some degree? how big of a degree i obviously cannot say but i cant exactly blame him for doing his best to not loose the first chance of freedom in gods know how long and if he is manipulating us he is frankly not the best at it sure some of the worldview questions building trust and affection sharing things that would be considered vulnerable perhaps faking the interferences and other stuff that i either forgot or did not think of are really things myrddin planned then yeah they’re good but quite frankly myrddin is not… conventionally likable? his personality and interests are not very suited to the whole scheme ofc some of it could be explained as not being perfect and therefore more human but a different personality would’ve worked much better or at least would’ve been much more likely to work all that is to say i believe myrddin when he says that he wants to stay true to himself and quite frankly that kinda makes me okayish with the manipulation bc if he created a whole personality for it id be much less eager to do it (id still do it but the point stands id say (also is this opinion influenced by me being an otome/amare player and being pissed off about yanderes which fake their whole personalities sometimes even change the way they look just bc they think it’ll work better? probably xd but i cannot be mad that he sometime steers the conversation or amplifies stuff so that we’re more likely to help him gain freedom )) <- i might’ve lost the point i was trying to make so in short if all he cared about was freedom he’d create a personality perfect for his “scheme” and adjust it accordingly to our responses which very much did not happen
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thirdly i just think he deserves freedom as anyone does? and i have yet to hear any actual argument as for why he should not have it
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fourthly it talks about imitation like its some kind of sin?? we all learn by imitation and for someone who learned only by books? its not that easy being a person when your only guidelines are books plus at the end of the day everything is inspired by something or is a different take on something and so on and so forth did myrddin teach himself how to be human by imitation and is his power in some way imitation sure and i see nothing wrong with that
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fifthly it showed us what i assume was a extreme self harm or even suicide attempt?? and acted like pushing him to that point in search of freedom somehow means he shouldnt be freed????? like did i misunderstand something bc i genuinely cannot get what the point of showing us this was
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and lastly i am very much petty and the whole talk about myrddin being imperfect, being a failure, being defective pisses me off there was no talk about myrddin being dangerous and stuff just oh he had a purpose and still isnt what he was supposed to be and that just sounds like all those parents that imagine their children’s whole life before they’re even born and then get pissed off when the child is an actual person
quite frankly i think if the book appeared at the very beginning or close to it id free him out of spite (and once again i have yet to hear any actual reason for myrddin to not be freed)
ok im certainly interested in where this’ll go hikaru is a character that’s for sure and itll be amusing to see him deal with experiencing feelings tm (tho i will not be getting over you getting him to shave he looked so good with a beard ;^;) dog seems fun too and i hope we’ll see him often even mother seems much more complex than you’d expect from her introduction and poor daichi i hope we dont see him again for his own sake
as for feedback
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firstly you can only pick up the whisk if its text is on screen so if you accidentally pick up the spoon and get matcha on it after clicking the whisk you will not be picking up the whisk till you put matcha in the bowl (did this happen to me multiple times? nooo definitely not i was definitely not trying to pick up the whisk from every position while the spoon full of matcha was waiting for me) not a big issue but perhaps making it possible for the whisk to be picked up whenever would help fools like me xd
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secondly and more importantly if you try to kick daichi and exception occurs its one that can be deal with by clicking ignore but yeah definitely something that needs to be fixed
your character designs are top tier that’s for sure they all feel very… how to say it… defined? like they have a lot of personality? like even the two guys(?) even though they were they simplest ones :> as for the lis i already like lialeb tho the closet scene was quite something as for reficoul he started of kinda creepy with the wide open eyes stare but he’s pretty cute when you actually talk to him^^ (also creator(s) stop judging me in reficouls route please and thank you xd)
well this certainly didnt go the way i expected it too xd
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tho i am quite curious what mc actually looks like (and what the other mermaids in the shelter looked like tho that's less interesting) i mean its probably quite gruesome but still is it like melted human stump? but if that was the case crawling around would be really painful so perhaps healed melted human stump??firstly just know that while i appreciate more info i hope you didnt feel pressured to post it secondly oh dear that's somehow even worse than lack of time
but yeah that being said I hope you and the remaining parts of your team will be able to finish this game one day and yeah cant blame you for choosing the security making paid game brings xd
i wish i could see the complete game but i do get it i mean sometimes i have trouble finding time and motivation to play games so i cannot imagine how much time and effort creating one takes i hope you'll have both time and motivation to finish it one day but till then i hope you'll simply find some time for yourself <3
absolutely loved the game our friend group as chaotic af and it was beautiful the lis and their stories were great the mc was a riot and ngl i laughed quite a few times (prof eddie and vincent interactions were my fav) tho i must say i am kinda crying bc i cannot date bia or julie :'> but still loved this game so much <3
you get it!!! and yeah the unrestricted internet access as a child was a fun thing ngl tho for me it wasnt yan sim but creeoypasta fics which were often wayyy to graphic xd (ah ill never forget that one jason the toymaker fic where he put a toy mouse in some guy's mouth and made it explode it was fun stuff for a 12 years old to read ngl xd) tho those guys at least were created on their own and almost all of them had reason why they're like that so they weren't empty shells
oh i absolutely love ray tho it is a pity we cant get good ending after learning he gets powers from people he kills (especially considering he was literally raised like that it wasnt exactly his choice and i think mc had the right to know that) as for nulla i have yet to do his route so cant say (i did septem and have not opened the game since ^^;) as for my example keith and tenebris from duality which has the very interesting concept of the player being able to get a bad ending by making keith or tenebris get even more yandere than they already are plus they both have personalities and interests outside of mc and both have good reasons to be as yandere as they are tenebris bc of his genreal heatred of humanity bc fae and the fact that very few humans dont run they moment they learn about him so he is not loosing mc and keith who grew up with tenebris and is therefore desintised to violence and death plus they fact that so many lovers left him already and he is desperate to have and keep a lover
also ngl i love that we're writing an entire essay on yanderes uner your update post xd
ok prepare for a bit of a rant bc i have opinions about yanderes in vns
otome/amare vns are my favourite kind of games and so atp i have played a lot of them (really as of rn i have 200 games saved on itchio and again those are only the ones i saved) so ive been seeing the rise of popularity of yandere otome/amare vns and i love me a yandere i really do they can be so much fun but i've seen so many games where the yandere li(s) dont exist outside of mc where their entire personality is loving/being obsessed with mc where they dont really have any hobbies any beliefs and lines and often any relationships so while you might hear people displeased that heath now exists as a person and not simply a yandere know that you've definitely made the right choice bc if giving a character personality makes them stop being a yandere then fuck them being a yandere i'll take a person over an empty obsessive shell any day
all that being said im defnitely looking forward to more of this game :>
ok i absolutely love it here
ash is a delight i love our banter and the vibes are immaculate there's just a perfect mix of something tired oh so tired but still normal and the undeniable creepiness plus for onece the whole memory issue seems interesting and not annoying :>
im defnitely looking forward to more <3
ok im loving it here and damn full va in demo? bold move tho the fact that the li i was most interested in is the most suspicious one feels like a betrayal... at least our bestie is a delight i love her already and would absolutely drop the all the troublesome men to date her xd
but yeah im definitely looking forward to more :>
Ok quite frankly i do not know or at very least i cannot think of enough words to express even in small part how much i love this game already
honestly i should just make a screenshot off all the screenshots and comments about said screenshots i sent to the group chat but that isnt really an option (bc there's too many of em) so i shall simply try my best
first the characters! (most of em at least)
amelia? delightful so very passionate and so very herself she has been put in my baby category and i would kill anyone who makes her feel bad or gods forbid hurts her (those old dressmakers would have it coming)
harkan? adorable and adorably terrified of the chaos tho mostly of people actually caring he has also been put in my baby category although his place there is not nearly as strong as amelia's (still love him i just love amelia even more)
emmelyn? she did not have a single line but i loved her still so much character in that one
deavon? cannot shut up and good for him and his desire for chaos and perchant for sharing informations he really shouldn't make him quite delightful
lysette? an icon a queen we stan lysette she has great respect for her lord and isnt scared of mc and treats her like a person plus she's lots of fun :>
oscar? one of the contenders for my fav character for this game my man has opinions and they are strong ones which is very valid of him plus he loved mc and he's hillarious so really how can you not love him
narrator? the other contender for my fav character from this game so many opinions so much great commentary and a kindred spirit too their narration really was so fun to read
aldric? tbh i dont really have any strong emotions about him as of now but we shall see
really characters alone would be enogh but this game had so much amazing humour (most of the times brought by amelia's work or simply her character) so many delightful interactions but also so many soft and adorable moments i enjoyed the story so much and im greatly looking forwards to learning more about all of them seeing the story progress and ofc seeing harkan's and amelia's romance and this game shall now join the list of my all time favourites ^^
but really it was such an enjoyable time and 2h pretty well spent if i say so myself^^