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The CAUSE OF THE CALAMITY, the ORIGIN OF DOOM, the REASON WHY THIS WORLD MUST SUFFER: one man's insatiable lust for a twink.
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Yes, but who's to say that the harem route isn't how he can unlock Misaki, hmm?He's gay, and he only wants Misaki.
Same lol. Though I also just had a thing for the weird girls. That’s why I married melody who ran the bath house and Raven. Pretty sure I married the witch in the harvest moon game where you had to collect spiritsThat's why in Harvest Moon/Rune Factory games I always marry the ones who seem to not have anyone besides the player in their life.
Yeah. It means the romance is not actually romance at all. The girls aren't there because they genuinely like Hareta, they're there because he's the only source of light allowed to exist in the darkness.Question. Do you think it is bad game design to have the character you don’t marry in a dating Sim go onto live a miserable and sad life? is that just the developer guilt tripping you into picking that person?
For real, only asshole devs give the other heroines a bad end after you finish one route.The Devs are fucking assholes is what I got out of that![]()
I think this perspective also adds additional depth to Hareta's choice. The fact the three heroines are held hostage by the game mechanics means that there cannot really be love. Kihara is the only option for them, and only having one choice means having no choice at all. So they cannot love him for who he is, and he is not free to choose based on love either. And that is where Misaki comes in. The person closest to Kihara, who he gets to know intimately without a twisted hostage plot forcing them together. Misaki has the most freedom to act out of the entire cast, making him a wild card in an otherwise stacked deck.
The existence of bugs that allow them to bypass system restrictions means the system is not omniscient. It's a cruel puppet master, not "the law of the universe".
Genuinely curious how they'll break the cycle. Because if they can, the heroines will also attain the freedom to save themselves, rather than be forced to vie for the affection of a "hero" that is their only hope.
That is not exactly the case for them because before there life's became the dating sim they already had fallen for him at least two of them.Yeah. It means the romance is not actually romance at all. The girls aren't there because they genuinely like Hareta, they're there because he's the only source of light allowed to exist in the darkness.
Thisit's always interesting when the apparent game-like nature of their universe bleeds through or gets explicitly talked about, hope that gets some grand payoff somehow.