[ SECRET POST #3236 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3236 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Video Games, The Last Of Us]


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03.
[Akagami no Shirayukihime]


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[Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~]


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07.
(The Librarians, Cassandra Cillian)


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08. [SPOILERS for Room (2015)]




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09. [SPOILERS for Hemlock Grove seasons 2 & 3]



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10. [WARNING for incest]

[Game of Thrones]















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hm, I've been thinking about getting this game. Is it worth playing? (within the realm of "ridiculous otome romance tropes" obviously, I've played and managed to enjoy some pretty trashy romance games haha)

[futuresoon]

It's definitely entertaining, although sometimes in a 'what the fuck did I just watch' sort of way. I'd actually recommend playing Dandelion (the company's first game) first, since they share a supporting character and his motivations make more sense if you've seen him in Dandelion. (Plus Dandelion is just a good otome game in general.) If you're down with the fucked-up stuff, Nameless is definitely a prime example. Seriously, it has 18 bad ends and 9 of them involve the same character. But it's a solid game for those of us who are into that sort of thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, Dandelion was another I was thinking about getting, so I'll make sure to play that first!

OP

[(Anonymous)]

As the resident Steven Universe fan, I have a thing for traumatized but likable characters, and the trauma runs deep in Nameless. Most of the characters put up red flags in their behavior, but they're treated as red flags and seriously addressed. The key to romancing each character is finding a way to pass through all their defenses and get through to them on an equal level (at least within romance tropes.)

Also, this game does some seriously weird things with romance game structures. Contrary to my initial expectations, there was only one ending that smashed the fourth wall, but there's a lot of breaking of the internal walls as routes bleed into each other and lost memories start to surface again. The game will take notice if you deliberately aim for bad endings, and the basic framework twists into a pretzel as the final ending approaches.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds intriguing, I'll have to give it a try. I'm a fan of traumatized characters too, and a twisty weird story structure is totally up my alley. yiss.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Katawa Shoujo. Literally one of the routes is 'don't be pushy, don't be a Japanese game romance trope, and you eventually get the girl to open up to you'. If you ARE pushy and demanding and presume stuff about her? Bad end. It's such a surprisingly well written VN - probably one of the best written VNs I know, because it actually bothered to consider how people would react to stuff. And probably the only one I can say that acting like a typical VN protagonist won't really get you anywhere.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I never pushed Hanako into anything, and I got her worst ending because I didn't ask her out on a date at one point. I retried from my last save over and over, then uninstalled the game. (Honestly, it was a pretty big blow to my mental stability at the time. Hanako reminded me a LOT of how messed up I was when I was young, so I wound up treating her like me, and I guess I wasn't supposed to do that.)