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wow i adored every second of this super delightful work! yui is just sooooo fucking good in this and by good i mean AWESOME! im a huge fan of the "entirely misguided person with the wrong idea tries to fix the other person by doing what they think is right" trope (its really funny how this is the second vn ive read featuring an unhygenic parasocial blue glasses girl longing for escapism doing exactly that) but yui is just completely unbelievable here. not unbelievable as in unrealistic (very much the opposite especially when she described herself as "exempt from most of humanitys collective activities" ooough) just that the levels of absolutely delusional entitlement this girl possesses could power an entire city grid its genuinely so impressive how she manages to convince herself shes carrying out this incredible noble mission for her goddess all the while acting like a total incel creep! and i like that meadow though sympathetic is also not without fault or guile just like yui she is in fact a freak and uses her in much the same way yui does with her looking past who she is at someone who just isnt there anymore. just like yui meadow is alone in her life and even more afraid of rejection and abandonment than she is desperate to be with her even after everything goes to shit. theres also a sort of tragic irony in how even after her "consensual rebirth" into a girls body meadow still cant be seen for who she really is in her very last moments. speaking of goddd what a killer ending i thought i knew where everything in this was going but that completely floored me (well i did think there was no fucking way this itadakimasu girls name was actually yui lmao) now thats a fucking crazy toxic yuri ending !! maybe its the thing of two selves in one body and trying to free the one you love from it and the pill overdose suicide and the last second magical wish granting that makes you scream NO but it really brought to mind obsession lol. thank you for the wonderful meal i had a great time wiggling your cute sprites around while reading

really delightful read miyuu and chinatsu are so much fun to watch as the "no this time FOR SURE" optimism of their rekindled relationship abrades back into the same old shit again (though they cant help but be together anyways) the aesthetic of the game works surprisingly well too i like the retro nostalgia of the soft colorful ui and cute sprites and how they juxtapose with the exhausted irritability of the characters (especially chinatsu shes sooo gap moe i totally get how miyuu fell for it again for her lol) thank you for sharing and i bet this time for sure for real one hundred percent itll work out between them and theyll even find potato !!!!

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at first i was unsure if dove was simply going to be the type of hot woman who pushes boundaries but stopping just shy of crossing them in a way that makes her incompatible but oh my goddd she really is actually that irritating i want to scream on sasha's behalf. and sasha's such a fun enabling doormat of character to follow on their hellish zugwang of a date i love the third "it's fine" in the bathroom to the comically sudden cut to dissociating in front of the mirror to then catastrophizing the entire rest of your life as never being the same again after going through such an insanely and mundanely awful thousand cuts death. i hope they eventually learn to have some self respect thanks for sharing

really nice art and story! i loved the barely under the surface desperation inside ensilumi and aurinko and how their fear of how theyre perceived individually and together strains their dynamic so much. thank you for sharing

theres some annoying jankiness in the design (i wasnt even sure if it was renpy at first until i accidentally screenshat a dozen times trying to enter the password) but damn its certainly well earned and effective, i felt as trapped as emerald did in her dead end life while reading. the minimalist visuals and sound are cool and i love the sort of nihilism represented in the story and characters. thanks for sharing!

damn girl you live like this? i like how gross and grimy you get with possums life in her black mold infested house and the music does great work contributing to the uncomfortable atmosphere throughout. thank you for sharing!

awful! like examining all at once a cross section of a fucked up gifted kid at different stages in her development each parts complete view formed by the other two. the characters are all such freaks in unique and fascinating ways with exceptionally strong individual perspectives my favorite being that of han-byeol (the entire factory segment is stunning and i love her good girl catholic fixations). everyone in this is going to the factory except her god willing she destroys it. thanks for the feel good experience

jaw to floor absolute cinema. had me giggling and squirming in my chair and i feel a little dizzy after finishing it. the names are cute. the violence is awesome. everything has such an intense visceral quality to it when i got to the nurse's office scene detailing detailing so grotesquely caitlins scars even just describing the way she has to peel the hoodie off her arms i was like oh wow i dont know if im ready for this lol. the art is incredible too mixed media collage of stickers and crayon pencil oil pastel drawings and first aid kit supplies it fits extremely well for a vn like this and made for some insanely killer cgs

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so awesome to watch dorian lock in after the egg hatches the letter is one of my favorite parts of this and its funny how he has to emulate his groomer to get capella to trust him. such a fantastic and cathartic ending too despite harmony being my problematic fav the entire time (shes just such a diligent counter) i cheered when he finally cut the other braid off. god this was so much fun it felt like reading kitakawa thank you for it

really nice work! the art in this is so eclectic and fun and the music is equally so (the track that plays on the title screen reminds me of penis music lol) i liked the ui too never seen before a vn that put the pov character sprite in a hand mirror like that (though it does cover some of the text) and the rafflesia petals!! (wall)flower nina is such a mess of a protagonist to inhabit the headspace of such a sprawling inner monologue that offers cute little glimpses of insanity belied by a mundane laconic exterior. in some ways shoko almost feels like a counterpart to nina with her crafted persona of unserious childishness that with nina slowly falls away into surprising thoughtfulness. truly gap moe is the strongest force in the universe i totally get why nina went insane for her and i mean she is a very deeply sympathetic character i can relate to being in friend groups where it feels like everyone cares about you a lot less than they might say they do and the fact that shoko actually does in a way that isnt just head pats or pushy nagging does really feel special. im a little curious about how the ending fallout itself went but this was great especially for a debut vn thanks for sharing it

YES!! really stellar atmosphere the presentation on all fronts is so good the writing is evocative yet constantly shifting between present reality and not and yet it all ties neatly back to the bathroom and... crushing!! also enjoyed the juxtaposition of the cute neediness of avas flirting with the slightly less cute content of the flirting itself. thank you for this loved how everything was put together

its so fun to read a vn where the power dynamics between characters are (well) dynamic! its so constantly tense i love how much it twists between blue and white as the story unfolds and the characters surprise each other with how morally bankrupt they are. the sex and the soundtrack were excellent as well thank you for this!

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blue referring to her trust fund as an allowance was so awesome lol

oh so everyone wants to be kissed and taken care of by a cute pointy toothed girl with one missing but if yucky brushing her makes her uncomfy thats a deal breaker? i understand that by portraying a character like sunny in your work youre giving full endorsement of her behavior and actions to which i can say nothing other than I AGREEE !!! shes literally such a good person a real open book just like she says and that book contains absolutely nothing rated pg 13 or higher !! anita was so lucky to have a gal like her who truly understood her never looking past her never talking past her and willing to fix her into a moral paragon who consumes and excretes only the correct kind of art !!

god sunnys character in this really is just the fucking greatest though an aptly named exterior gives way to what can only be described as the most insanely frustrating woman on the planet and the sickening abuse she does to anita as ;; doing the right thing ;; is so real. when she was like daww look at you youre so gay i physically recoiled in my chair like i have GOT to drown myself !! speaking of the little twist on the final stage of the horsehair worms life cycle was awesome although the mantis survived the drowning and the other died instead the parasite postmortem still haunted its host. also you really nailed the visual (and audio !!) part of the visual novel impressive how more storytelling is done through that than narration. i love how much is conveyed through the instants between microexpressions and the ui and framing devices used for anita are sooo clever. thank you for the toxic bug yuri about wholesome bug yuri certainly a fitting tyvnj2 submission 

very scary and hot especially that ending! i like how mysterious and overwhelmingly powerful citadel 33 is reminds me a more mommy cyberqueen. the chiptune soundtrack worked well too thank you for your toxic yuri

finally... REAL living weapon trans fiction !! this absolutely rocked i thought i was just in for a funny satire at first but then somehow i found myself actually emotionally invested in the relationship between an entitled chuuni type knight and a sarcastic talking sword. i still laughed at the sexual innuendos though. what an incredibly delightful and stylistically polished tale thank you for telling it

esther heaven is avery hell its a very efficient system. i enjoyed how funny and insanely frustrating these cute dorks were the pair really felt like unstoppable force versus immovable object. love how ominous it got at the end too with the controller popups like heralding some impending demon. very fun thank you for sharing 

really really miserable exactly like a nightmare you never wake up from. unique and incredibly effective presentation visuals and sound wise. i found it interesting how ariel leaves so casually which felt subversive to arias situation being a literal nightmare and being perhaps instead the metaphorical kind.  thanks for sharing

its horrifying its so clearly obviously horrifying but this really did feel the most like reading a work of horror fiction from the dots given to connect about alex and wayyy more vomiting than i was ready for and seeing rorys steadfast ownership of her own life fade with her color. i could feel my own insides being scooped out too as i read thank you for this

THE FUCKING GAME ICON you sick sick fuck 

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im so upset. this is actually hell. entirely mundane and familiar which is the worst kind of hell. you dont actually have any ;; real problems;; not for you no. this was like lying in a parking lot being repeatedly kicked in the head when sarah talked about knowing she was ;; probably a lesbian ;; but also like that fun fact didnt really matterrrrr i had to close the game and stare at a wall until my heart rate was normal again. you deserve to be grounded no electronics for this. dont think you will be saved by cute character sprites and funny jokes about explaining pronouns. setting aside the pain for what seemed a fairly standard sounding comedy premise this was remarkably unique and compelling in how it extrapolates certain aspects of fandom and shipping culture. unlike bun shes the type to remove herself from it as much as possible and ive always thought (projecting) that type of fan to be the type of person with very low self esteem and sarah embodies that so strongly even outside of her fandom life. her automatic assumptions that everything must reject her including even the smallest possibility of a better life for herself and like shes clearly repressed in many ways but it feels like so much more than that. and grayes character is the perfect foil to sarah a confident prince type who is respected and respects themselves while still feeling a sort of kinship with her. and sarah absolutely doesnt feel that there can be nothing similar between them even in this wacky fantasy scenario like a high schoolers wish fulfillment dream she still cant ever be anything but denied. its so tragic i cant help but pity her but also if sarah ever pops out of my display screen into my bedroom im snapping way quicker than she did.

and that was the cruelest joke a main menu screen ever played on me

cinema cinema cinema. as someone who likes chess and loves scary mad scientist types this was immensely enjoyable. from the first moments of its academic collage (really well done worldbuilding) and animation introduction to its unforgettable ending the presentation was masterfully gorgeous such playful and elegant creativity. thrilled i got to experience such a unique story through such unique expression of what the vn medium can do thank you

damn that sure was toxic. its impressive how at every possible opportunity this just got worse and worse in new ways. the sonic elements were very well done the foreboding droning ambience and the character voices and even the clicks of the ui fuzzy and mechanical. its interesting how olwens domination feels like it extends to the game itself with what initially seemed like an entirely second person narration shifting into hers in first as well as the unhelpful loading screen tips and load menu stalker photos that pop up here and there. entirely revolting and unpleasant work !!

beautifully done the character sprites as entirely unreadable pen drawn messy tangles are a unique touch but they feel fittingly out of place. i love the surreality that pervades charlottes perspective especially around léa and the reality the painful reality of her ever present state of isolation surrounded by the real people in her life who only feel fake to her. this cut like a knife and was even hotter than that really enjoyed it thank you

really gripping portrayal of trauma and how it affects you. i love how mammas presence is constantly imposed upon even before mammalarias introduction and then feels increasingly dreadful until (SPOILER) reaching the tragic ending where daizys cute white turquoise clothes are torn :( phenomenal experience thank you

after reading this i just paced back and forth for a solid fifteen minutes thinking about it. i wasnt expecting this work explicitly about csa to be so fucked up which even on its own is kind of an insane sentence to say. but reading this made me realize (at the risk of sounding even more insane) there is a kind of comedy about it right ? putting in a sexual situation someone completely powerless and ignorant who doesnt know any better and doesnt know whats being to done to them and doesnt even know what sex is. like imagine if someone was having sex with a child of all people lmaooo what thats so craaazy how could they possibly give consent haha !! when sam was choosing a safeword and the words for me to select were giraffe ladybug or dolphin i laughed at how the choices were such basic kiddie shit a second before the queasiness of why they were hit me. and the scene where sam is eventually forced to invoke the safeword and it is for the first time ignored instead it was also funny how she got all defiant like i said giraffe that means you HAVE to stop !!! as if she actually expected her rapist to put her hands up and say whoops my bad youre totally right. it was a horrifying scene but the worst part of it was seeing a comically dumb twelve year old react exactly like that. alexs part in this is similarly heartbreaking an entire tragedy about abuse and identity and guilt and internalized transphobia only to be capped off with a looney tunes style gag as if none of it ever mattered at all. this is honestly what its all about thank you it makes me smile that art like this exists in this miserable painful world. by which i mean a story with a girl doctor in it #empowering

what an absolutely arresting work i was unfortunately too busy to read this all in one sitting so every second i wasnt reading contact wound i was thinking about these mysterious fucked up compulsive liars and going i wish i could be reading contact wound right now !!! i was fascinated by the character dynamics and how much tension their dialogue held. the vivid writing the distorted portraits the dreamlike music it all works beautifully together thank you for sharing this

thank you this is awesome

this kicks ass i love how keenly it understands the appeal of its genre which is ridiculous obsessive toxic yuri between two destined rivals spliced with even more ridiculous made up nonsense childrens games. the weird horny character and angel designs and the stylish ui complement perfectly i wish i could read more of something so fun!

i replayed the separation scene one wormillion times

tragic how helpless marisol is rendered by her trauma and environment. being entirely incapable of telling the truth was such a gut punch

when their house sank to the bottom of the ocean i thought the massive outside pressure would straight up kill them only to learn it was being counteracted by the massive inside pressure that kills them instead. everything felt so dismal and suffocating and entirely unrelenting. i liked the usage of music in this and the doubling down on animal metaphors and trapping the reader in the traumatized psyche of a miserable woman for whom things only get worse in spite of and due to being genuinely cared for. really remarkable stuff thank you

havent read a vn that oozed style like this since seams and senses! the characters are so expressive with their faces and movements and the color and texture of each scene is used perfectly to set the mood as zoey remembers it. fun how it felt like reading a comic book too with the nvl font and the inset panels (god that sex scene) and the halftone patterning. i really struck a chord with  zoeys character in this feeling static and disconnected like the fuzzy texture that covers bits of her memories but also static and never changing while others move on in their lives without her in the most hollow tragic and entirely banal way. her character also makes for an interesting psyche to present the story through i loved the way her memory fragments are presented nonlinearly  (emotionally it made the ending hit harder too) and her thoughts switching between overthought and spacing out and her instinctive running away from any uncomfortable situation or conflict in her childhood or "present" and her mental model of cherrys character misconceived from desperation and envy (while cherry is also doing the exact same thing with her) its good its good thank you for this

this was some painful stuff between relating too much to parvin and her helplessness and her friction fraught relationship with her exact foil of a cute but abrasive girl who tries and fails to help her in such a strangling society. all the elements work so well this ones going to stick with me

wow the sitcomy vibes of the opening with its upbeat music and cute paper sprites and funny dialogue completely disarmed me for how dreadful this would become. really excellent usage of tone the bathroom dissociation was particularly upsetting to me

this goes insano style on so many levels as always your writing is so tight and cohesive and these characters are just the best. when stephanie frame one put her hand on her chest and stared hellen right in the face saying my pronouns are she her i immediately knew oh she has to die. really loved the cgs too that along with the story got progressively more detailed (until you can see hellen giving them the stink eye at the mall lol) the lonely dog boiling line effect complements the pencil sketch aesthetic that gives the (back)story scenes such an;;; idyllic quality. and that ending with the superimposition ????  cant believe how much you all killed it with this one

just the title alone was enough to immediately entrance but those raised expectations were completely shattered after reading this holy shit. the question of if a broken person can be fixed is one thing and if they can fix themselves is another and here erin is being given a chance no one else could ever have and rejects the question entirely. i loved watching her lose herself in herself thanks for reproducing all my worst thoughts and fantasies right in front of me and in the hottest way possible

really loved this

toxic to more toxic to heartfelt this was such a wonderful read !! like with ride home i love the life you give your characters and how the story is shaped by their incomplete perspectives. if not for being a chaser ivy'd have the perfect girl right here..

beyond incredible. i loved benns impressive visuals in hollow hearts (funny how both end in flames) and she really outdid herself here. the theater set pieces (particularly liked the parallax chairs and intense stage lights) are used so well to reinforce the vns theatrical feel. immaculate writing too the understudy is such a perfect dramatic-soliloquy character and i could really feel her pain from the vile mutual resentment with the lead. i love it when two women cry-scream at each other and now its been made twice as efficient. major innovations in toxic yuri nuclear energy generation.  thank you for such a showstopping performance !!