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You're wrong. Straight people do not have it just as bad as gay people in the church. 

You cannot "be gay" and in the LDS church full stop. There's a reason why they go out of their way to explain it as a temptation via "same sex attraction" rather than just saying that they're gay directly. It's a sin to act on romantic feelings with another person of the same sex, even modest ones. That's why they banned the slow dances at the FSY meetups, because too many girls were dancing with other girls and enjoying it. Is dancing with someone you're in love with immodest? Surely you don't actually believe that? 

There's no route for marriage if you're gay in the LDS; you just have to live with your lonely pain forever while vainly hoping that "god will comfort you", eventually... All of this is fully laid out in the My Mission route, which I'm sure you already know, yet for some reason you're still trying to gaslight me into thinking the story was different than what I read?   

I think you'd make a great investigator :) 

I'm not looking for "the whole gay thing" to be handled "tactfully". Mormons are totally fine to be tactful with us queers so long as we don't "act on" our sexuality at all; i.e it's fine if you're gay, but you better not do any gay shit.  

The LDS church is notorious for their manipulative messaging, and part of their schtick is incomplete disclosure about what sorta message you're gonna get out of them. Mormons love to lovebomb, they love to flirt-to-convert, and they loooove baiting in lonely and vulnerable groups of people. They've got like, score cards on how many people they can turn, and they don't care how it gets done so long as it works—it's very disingenuous. (At least they're not JWs ig?)

For anyone else curious, I went further in and I certainly regret it. This VN is 100% an attempt at ministering to the audience, and I should've seen that coming from the start tbf. 

Great art and the writing holds up throughout the first few scenes I've read, but the landing page here and the premise itself leaves a lot of elephants in the room.  Just how pro-mormon + pro-missionary is the narrative here exactly? Because the LDS is verymuch against same-sex relationships, and I'm wary that this'll turn into some kinda conversion therapy story, or like... "being gay is okay, just dont have sex or get married" type shit. Great material for a subversion or deconstruction IMO, but I can't tell yet if that's the author's intent or not from what I've read, which leaves me unsure if I should keep reading or if this just isn't the story for me.

**For anyone else curious: I went further in, (through ch8 of the My Mission route) and the current material still feels like an obfuscated attempt at ministering to the audience, despite whatever anyone else on here might claim. It's got Preach My Gospel tactics written all over it. The narrative is very positive about everything to do with Mormons and missionary work, and offers no great critique on their heavily restrictive practices. Maybe that'll come in later chapters?

There's a line in here about how the MC wishes all gay marriages could be renamed to civil unions—ofc the thoughts of a character don't always align with an author's irl opinions, but there's no narrative pushback against this throughout the entire route I read, and it's important to note that Mormons will never be okay with gay marriage within their church. 

I could go on and on as my own religious traumas run deep; I'll leave it at this though—should this VN turn out to be a tragic tale of losing faith, I still think the current material is far too charitable towards a religious sect that is known for being egregiously manipulative and cult-like. 

wait are there any alternate endings??? please sobsob ;_;

great puzzle game! loved the art

pretty art so far, keep it up. I'm dying to meet that big wolfman!

very cute artwork addition! foxes everywhere are celebrating! 

Love your writing style—lots of fun banter and witty narration. The scenes are well paced, the art is hella cute, and the character dynamics so far have me vry excited for some found family type spacecrew drama. (Getting The Expanse vibes from this, and I love those books to death!)

I'm usually not too interested in RPG-lite or non-kinetic visual novels, but this one I'll definitely keep my eyes on. Great first build!




Edit: One suggestion; I think an option to show the -+'s to character mood as it changes in script might prevent some frustration. As someone who'll always pick the funny and obviously negative roleplay decisions first, it's nice to know when said choice has numerical consequences attached, rather than it just being flavor. 

2nd build has all that, its on their patreon atm

The rewrite is going in such an amazing direction—I'm so damn impressed, seriously. Scipio is sucha fun little weirdo, and Virginia's side plot is fantastic! So much tension! Aya is also the perfect character type to slot in to the group and I love her???? Uhghghgg. I'm obsessed. 

beautiful, i love this so much it's unreal. 

Love the writing, love how ballsy the first chapter was, love the crack fic vibes. The dialogue is very natural and ya got a great choice in sound design and the visuals/sprites are very cute too. 

My one big complaint is the itch page. I'd rather have a comprehensive list of trigger warnings to expect throughout the whole VN instead of chapter summaries, so that the narrative can surprise me rather than advertising "chpt2 won't have x or y", which can take away some of the suspense. 

I'm also curious what genres will this cover? Namely if it'll have romance as a plot or subplot, and if so, will there be routes or will it be kinetic? Will it be m/m? mono or poly? I get some of this might be spoilers but usually that kinda stuff's advertised from the start. Alsoooo I can't find the patreon link!

Loved it! Sawyer and Jude have sucha fun, sad dynamic that is very tasty so far, and I'm excited to read more about them and their heisty ghosthunter-type crew goin into the weirdo zone. The world building is neat, districts and such, the mystery wells, and ill have to see how merit/charter magicsystem works but that could be fun too. Only mild complaint id have is some prose at the start is a lil stiff/repetitive, some scenes could be shortened or use a b plot within em to add some spice, and maybe just a smiiiidge more subtlety w/ jude's inner dialogue in the first couple scenes might feel better.

Can't wait to read more tho! pls no hiatus i beg u!

woooo im excited

i double click and it doesn't launch, though it does show up in my processes. is there an error log or something idk much about renpy

heeelp i can't get the pc version to launch :( 

i love your writing! very unique, and such cute sprite expressions too! excited to read more :> 

commenting on old post as not to bump anything new but I was wondering what happened to far beyond the update! :(

i think a dylus kissing scene would help a lot and a benignus kissing scene and a torin kissing scene and the king too and 

i like him and he is cute and i want us to grow old and happy together

i want to kiss benignus

Yesss vore planet!!!

very exciting first build! Love all the boys, and the scares were cooked just right. 

Looking forward to more! 

the character writing is impressive! everyone has a very strong voice and lots of depth. I usually simp for the big bara boys, but Hiro completely stole my heart <3.  

as for the plot, this project is looking ambitious AF. Seriously. Each route seems to be working with a ton of different genres and plot threads, which is cool to see, even if it ends up a little muddled sometimes.

excited to read more! (pls be kind to Hiro ;_;) 

Woo! great stuff! I love Kavir!!!

is there anyway to save # 3 sobsob ;_;
great game tho hothothot

incredible writing! please say you're working on more projects!

Great game!
Getting an error on Taun when revisiting the clone at the red tentacles

first :^) poggers vn dangpa! I wanna marry Whitman!

You did sucha good job Horrorbuns! Love it <3!