Hello!! I saw your post about the game you're making - it sounded fascinating, and out of curiousity about a genre I don't know much about I got into a visual novel/dating sim related rabbit hole.
If you don't mind my asking, do you have any recommendations? VN or datesims or both! or any adjacents too.
(thank you, and good luck with the game!!)
YIPPEE!!!
i'm a huge fan of it gets so lonely here because it does a lot of cool things with the narration and multiple playthroughs. her tears were my light does similar things with the multiple playthrough thing and it was the first visual novel to really open my eyes to what the genre could be like! and because apparently today is horror yuri day i will add liar liar and liar liar 2. the artstyle is very cute! and there's blood!
for less horror yuri and more dating sim, i am currently completely obsessed with tokimeki memorial girls side 1-3, the dating sim/visual novel/stat-raising hybrid that inspired a lot of otome games—— and for good reason, too, because it's JUST THAT GOOD. i almost exploded something trying to play the fourth game but i will not let that stop me
in pure visual novel, i have to recommend heartbaked, it was one of those games i played in my free visual novel frenzy when i was younger and it really stuck with me! i still think about the radley ending.
i adore adore adore pacthesis games and i would love to direct you to my number one favourite and inspiration, number days sim date, because the intertwining of plot and romance and friendship was wonderful. xolga and mr toko is more point and click but check those out too
i love you was REALLY GOOD and i adored it. if you want proactive women and blushing boys this is the game for you! kill them with blushing right now
senpai please look at me was good!!! i love it! absolutely worth sticking around for all the bonuses! very short and sweet and you will love it
sweetest valentine is a game. in a genre called :). if you don't know what :) means don't worry about it!
play yuki 4p for lesbians and its sequel, scheme, for even more dumb lesbians. i am absolutely begging you to click those links because the names are too long for me to type out and i don't know if googling lesbians scheme will bring you to the masterpiece properly
hermes and gry is REALLY FUNNY but also one of those games that opened my mind to how complex the ren'py system could be. you made a map, a constantly-updated journal, an inventory, and the best damn ending ever? i was screaming when all my evil schemes came together. absolutely 10/10 worth it if the creator wants my liver i'd hand it over
hot coffee is SO SO SO good that i ended up reaching out to the creator just to praise it so much please play it please i'm on my knees please
speaking of games i am begging you to play
absolutely play i want to pursue the mean side character and my sweet zombie!!!! tsun is a great artist and the stories are good and you have to have to have to have to play okay!!! tsun is also making i just want to be single which is so so so cool the game of the year every year and it hasn't been released yet and you need to become. a fan okay because aro pride is right now
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Ironically enough
I do absolutely miss turning around a corner and be met with a sudden piano scare chord telling me I either need to book it or prepare myself to face a pot equipped with a laser while only equipped with a flimsy plank of wood
But that does mean the TotK vibe is indeed much different from the BotW vibe, and that will still make going back to BotW pleasant
Even if I'm still baffled at the sudden lack of Sheikah tech around the world when it was SO ubiquitous in BotW
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Brimstone and Treacle sounds like a dessert gone horribly wrong I have to ask.
Thank you for asking! From the WIP ask !
It makes me giggle how from all the titles you, who from the last time we spoke was adamant against musicals, picked the title that is directly from a musical XD
Brimstone and Treacle, the title, is from the Marry Poppins musical, in which, as an added plot to the story, while Marry is away a new governess shows up to take her place - serving as the opposite to Marry Poppins's "spoon full of sugar" approach.
When Marry returns, they duke it out and, I shit you not, from the sole production I watched this year in London 2022 at the Prince Edward Theatre, a trap door opens and causes this antagonistic governess (Miss Andrew) to descend into what I can only define as a hellish abyss [chef kiss] incredible
Why am I bringing this up? Because this whole side plot, hellish stage direction and governess pvp included, UTTERLY INSPIRED me COMPLETELY to make this fic a reality (hopefully some day soon).
Fic Synopsis -ish:
Set after Hogfather and before Thief of Time, one Susan Sto Helit (who will certainly NOT dance on rooftops with chimney sweeps) thinks about what it means to be a governess, and her Grandfather's question on whether she wouldn't enjoy branching out to more kids.
Time passes, and something happens that causes Susan to leave her governing post abruptly
Shenanigans ensue, something something similarity of Marry Poppins going and coming back = The Duty™
Susan embracing a little more of her Grandfather and certain sides of herself
And basically we watch as Susan goes from goth Marry Poppins to goth Miss Frizzle
Governess pvp included.
This is the gist at least - excited to share a more polished version in the future!!
Thank you so much again for asking!!!
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Was rereading through the Symbiote Host IK tag because I LOVE THAT AU SM
and I was thinking how freaking cute Host IK and the Newspaper Club would be
I feel like IK would be enamored with Wiz's cool hats, so Wiz gets a small tophat for her bear Momo and IK loves it
Mephisto's uncle agenda comes out full force here, he loves being goofy with the baby because she DESERVES to laugh and have fun
I'd imagine they'd meet when IK was comfortable enough to go to RAD, since the brothers thought there'd be stuff she'd find fun there, and when the brothers/royals/purgatrio are too busy to take care of her, she hangs with the Newspaper Club
She is the president of the NPC now I don't make the rules, there should be an entire article on Momo and the andventures he's had at her and Luke's tea parties
I feel like a kaboom moment for Alecto is something with IK talking about her strength ?? SO CUTE UAH UAH UAH
THE SYMBIOTE HOST AU!!!! it's been so long :')
oh alecto would be an absolute star of the show in this au!! she's fully capable of just WRESTLING the symbiote into passiveness whenever it starts getting too big for its boots but is also super gentle with ik (sometimes excessively) and she is always ready to drop everything if her little buddy needs her. some of their scars are in similar places and ik thinks it's super cool!!
wiz is always building little magical gadgets for ik to play with (the brothers are considering dedicating a whole room in the house just to all the stuff ik gets) also she makes a point to save a page in every newspaper issue for the photos ik takes with her little camera... she titles it 'ik's collection' and adds little comments like "such impressive use of lighting!" and "what an eye for flowers!!", and will kill you if you make a nasty comment about them
mephisto is the one who declares ik the new president and will enact every comment she makes as if it's a legal policy. he plays aeroplanes and spaceships and penguins and every other game you can think of with her with absolutely zero shame, makes up a bunch of rhymes to help her remember the stuff lucifer's teaching her, gets back into making up spells just so he can fulfil any of ik's requests
astaroth lets ik ride around on his shoulders while he's wheeling around and also doesn't mind letting her try his glasses, which is one heck of a privilege with him. he's also unexpectedly good at removing ik from scary situations (or else removing the scary factor from the situation) - as soon as ik looks even kind of stressed, he activates like a sleeper agent
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I just turned around after looking hard at something in the distance and turned around, and a lynel was just. There. Staring at me.
It was a full IASIP, Charlie and Mac staring at each other in the restaurant meme moment.
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I love saying "raised in the restaurant industry (literally)" on Jazz's ref sheet but also You Guys Don't Get It. It's TRUE.
My parents owned a restaurant when I was born, and less than a year later we moved towns so they could open a different one. We lived in the basement of that restaurant and tiny baby me's playroom was back near the big industrial kitchen. Customers knew me before I could even talk bc my parents always wanted to show off their kid. I knew fancy-ass restaurant orders as a toddler bc that was what I was surrounded by.
A few years after that closed and they split, my father opened another restaurant with a separate upstairs living/office area that younger me used to stay in after school until we went home for the night. And I'd hang out in the kitchen and at the bar before/after hours just eating from the line, sitting in the walk-in fridge for fun, and getting drinks from the soda gun.
And THEN he closed that place, moved again, and opened ANOTHER tiny place a handful of years ago, which I ALSO could hang out in whenever I wanted. I'd just walk to the restaurant for lunch instead of eating in the school cafeteria.
My father's always loved being a chef, and my mother's always loved waiting tables. I've had free access to restaurants my whole life. I am THE restaurant baby.
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