No dating or weird parasocial shit. I'm talking about a literal visual novel. Doesn't even have to be a game. I'm talking about a picture book that has animated pages basically lol

Fantasy/horror/sci-fi preferred

  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I think Higurashi was specifically a response to the movement of dating sims that started out as cute rom-coms, people expected them to get horny, and then they got super depressing instead. Think Clannad, if you're familiar. But yeah. Umineko is probably my favorite game ever, and is definitely the one that I think about the most.

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    It's like 50% critical thoughts about the themes and the structure and how the mystery works from a technical standpoint and the other 50% is my crying about pretty much the whole cast. And also some laughing at Battler.