Sweet Pool....... But all my friends were watching the entire time
I am a great fan of Visual Novels and that's no secret to anybody who has chatted with me for more than an hour. But I haven't played it all. Very recently I made use of a summer deal to get all of Nitro Chiral's games (At least those available at JastUSA) and I have been itching.
Naturally, it starts with scuff. Because my laptop is new it needed a DirectX update downloaded from the official website for MSFT and I spent... a pretty long time trying to deal with it on my own until I submit to misery and just
Me: "Pinkie, you were good with computers right?"
Pinkie: "No, but continue."
Me: "I refuse"
Pinkie: "Okay. So what seems to be the problem?"
Me, after trying to not say anything for 10 seconds: "My visual novel is giving me problems."
Pinkie: Ends up fixing it within 5 mins after I struggled for 20
Pinkie: "So remember how you asked if I was good with computers and I told you 'No'?"
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That aside, IT PLAYS
And for some ungodly reason Pinkie volunteered to watch. Then Kryo started watching when Lundi joined in too. The whole crew is here to watch Eve's new fantasy horror gore love visual novel yaoi:
Sweet Pool
The moment I enter there are two things thrown at me. Religion. And a Choice.
Heart or Thought?
Instinct or Logic?
Panko helped me and chose... I don't remember which one.
Which sparks the desire to talk about how unique the choice system is in this one. For a 2008 game it's really good. The music is very grating from time to time, the volume it started with almost blew out my ears.
I can tell that it's going to be very interesting because I found an old comment that I had made on a personal discord chat and it reads:
"Cease, are you really going to start me off by asking which one to choose? How dare you offer a heartbeat in one corner and empty wind at the beach in the other? Which is reason, which is instinct? Stop playing with me, I came to watch two guys kiss."
"Hey baby, are you religious? Because I would fall on my knees for you like a nun for Jesus."
So I remember 20% of the beginning, because I did play it once somewhere. Somehow. I knew it up to the part where Zenya is having his way with the coconut water or whatever he was drinking. Everybody's first impression of him was... they want to avoid him.
Since we split up so everybody gets to make a choice when the option of a choice pops up, it was Kryo's turn to decide if we want to avoid him when he stopped us or not and he tried to ignore him. It didn't work, as we all know.
Like, look at him, he is a menace he is being everything and too much of it at the same time.
Meanwhile I assigned Tetsuo to Lundi because he looks like Executor and Mlynar and whatnot and that is her type of men it's stamped and mailed already and he is overall, I feel, the safe choice. Tired and emotionless too, he just manages to cover his eyebags by frowning hard enough the shadow of his eyebrows reaches them.
And he looks so cute and small???? He has the cutest ears ever.
...
Yeah it sure is escalating. Everybody took a turn and we're back to Kryo while my little sick woodland creature is having a panick attack inside the bathrub. He decides that he should go with instinct, using logic as a basis since... Yeah, what else are you supposed to do when you're supposedly bleeding out, right?
Wrong.
He.
That scene.
Good voice acting, but I had to start off with "Okay kids, look away now." so I can watch/read it in peace. I'm used to moaning and pathetic whimpering, however none of my friends have been struck witht he full blow of a yaoi scene.
The next day we talk about god at school, so naturally we all decide to share in on the trauma of religion.
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Lundi: "I think the guy had forsaken god by jerking off in the bloody bathwater."
Kryo: "God said self-preservation and he chose self-masturbation."
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I was so sure it was over... I didn't expect, call for or desire this scene and we were ALL surprised now. The last one was weird, but this one is just no-choice, no-doubt, just full-blown desire and lust. In the chemist's office. Touching chemicals and then himself, you know?
Here Kryo has provided the necessary censorship so I don't get annihilated for making the post.
Me: "That explaisn this entire game. He's just tired."
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Our last moment before I have to hop off and Kryo needs to cook etc was during the scene in Zenya's room:
Me: "It feels like it wants us to think in that direction but I don't think there's anything between them."
Lundi: "It could be anything."
Me: "I'm sure they're going to make this go completely haywire from nowhere. I don't know what to expect."
The scene happens.
Kryo: "I need to go cook now and process what the f--ck I just witnessed."
They like it so far c:
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"Oh, great, another game falls prey to Yellow Paint Syndrome" well, gee, my guy, maybe if we didn't demand hyper-photorealism in every game regardless of context, modern platformers might be able to develop a visual language that doesn't require painting a sign on every single interactable feature to render it distinguishable from the clutter.
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Dead Plate is a short 2D restaurant tycoon themed rpg horror game with visual novel and point-and-click elements set in 1960s France following the story of a lively waiter named Rody trying to make as much money as possible in a week at a fancy bistro owned by a charismatic and successful chef, Vince.
🍽️ Development & Story & Graphics 🍽️
:: RachelDrawsThis
:: @ekrixart
🍷 Composer & Sound Designer 🍷
:: BellKalengar
🥩 Features 🥩
:: Original soundtrack
:: 70+ CGs and 8+ maps
:: Classic restaurant tycoon styled gameplay
:: Character-driven story with 8k+ of dialogue
⏲️ Estimated Play Time ⏲️
:: 1 hour 20 ~ 30 minutes for an ending
:: Up to 3 hours in total for completion
🔥 NUMBER OF ENDINGS 🔥
:: 4
(+ Different dialogues and hidden secrets/details)
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hey did you know that slay the princess is out now? did you know it's on sale with a 10% launch discount until november 2nd? do you want to spend several hours getting sternly lectured by and annoying jonathan sims?? well this is your game
i think it's good and you should buy it but don't listen to me look at that 91 metascore—and for us, just a couple of lil guys make a game with no gameplay other than click dialogue options! idk must be fun
“An existentially horrific visual novel, with an incredibly well-written plot, a beautiful score and graphics that will enrapture all senses. One of the best narrative games of 2023.”
10/10 – Voxel Smash
“There isn’t a single thing I don’t like about Slay the Princess. The presentation is beautiful, the story is fantastic and moving, the voice acting of amazing characters is done phenomenally well, and the branching paths of the story give you what feels like unlimited possibilities.”
10/10 – Try Hard Guides
“Slay the Princess will stay with you for a long time, I think. It’s absurdist and dark and haunting in a way that not a lot of games are. If you have an itch for something that’s spooky but also morally confronting and you will be thinking about it for days to come, it’s impossible not to recommend this.”
A- – Player 2
Anyways more seriously truly from the bottom of our hearts thank you all so much for making this launch a world-shifting experience for us! We can't wait to share more games with you, starting with Episode 5 of Scarlet Hollow 👀
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✶ INTERACTIVE FICTION RECS ✶
✶ Project Hadea - @nyehilismwriting (wip)
✶ The Exile - @exilethegame (wip)
✶ Vendetta - @vendetta-if (wip)
✶ When Twilight Strikes - @evertidings (wip)
✶ The Northern Passage - @northern-passage (wip)
✶ Merry Crisis - @merrycrisis-if (wip)
✶ Diaspora - @diasporatheblog (wip)
✶ Infamous - @infamous-if (wip)
✶ Fields of Asphodel - @chrysanthemumgames (wip)
✶ Eyes of Shan - @eyesofshan-if (wip)
✶ A Comedy of Manors - @sviyaginthegreat (wip)
✶ Wolf Set Free - @wolfsetfree-if (wip)
✶ Honor Amongst Thieves - @leoneliterary (wip)
✶ Thicker Than - @barbwritesstuff (wip)
✶ Soulmates Inc. - @soulmatesinc-if (wip)
✶ Crown of Ashes and Flames - @coeluvr (wip)
✶ Virtue's End - @virtues-end (wip)
✶ You Live and Fern - @beetlebethwrites (wip)
✶ Attollo - @attollogame (wip)
✶ Wayfarer - @idrellegames (wip)
✶ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - An affair of the heart - @doriana-gray-games (wip)
✶ Superstitions 1, 2 - @13leaguestories
✶ Seven Days in Purgatory (I don't think this one is ever getting finished, but it has a special place in my heart)
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VN'S
✶ A Date with Death - @twoandahalfstudios
✶ 14 Days With You - @14dayswithyou (wip)
✶ Blooming Panic - @robobarbie
✶ ERROR143
✶ The Good People - @moiraimyths (wip)
✶ Our Life: Beginnings & Always - @gb-patch
✶ Our Life: Now & Forever - @gb-patch (wip)
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