No.5277
Post and discuss games you're playing that fall into the BL genre.
Prior BL games thread
>>3281 No.5283
>>5276>Man, woman, or bothI'm glad there's a toggle for anything geared towards hetshit but even so, the bl purist in me would just get annoyed that it's even included but that's just me
No.5285
>>5283Do you ever play VNs with a 50/50 gendersplit? I feel like the only thing weird is that it's ths singular het option in an otherwise gay game.
No.5286
Tbh Animamundi is a very plot-heavy game, I would hesitate to call it a proper het route. It's more like… the game takes places in fantasy medieval land, a lot of these people are expected to have children even if they're turbo gay.
No.5290
>>5276>a ton of questions right at the beginning like you're playing Pokemon Mystery DungeonThis description is really funny. I'm curious about what this affects in the game outside of the male/female preferences.
>>5285>singular het option in an otherwise gay gameNTA but this is what struck me as weird, too. I know a lot of otome games have a yuri route, so I guess it's the BL equivalent to that? I wonder if the company's otome game set in the same universe has a lone yuri option.
No.5345
Today's VN was "Another Rose in His Garden" I normally try to link to them but the Itch.io page I got it from is gone now…This one is clearly not aimed at me, it's Omegaverse themed and actually the first Omegaverse thing I've read since I have negative preconceived notions that this did not remove.
To start I think any one of the elements could work in isolation knotting, mpreg, heat cycles, somehow there being female ABO as well? it's really just weird in a contemporary setting with no magic or alternate races that might exhibit the traits. Again not the target audience but I couldn't suspend my disbelief and this VN didn't really seem interested in worldbuilding.
Ignoring that though I still didn't like it, this is a very "straight" BL and by that I mean it's 50 Shades of Grey and every single one of those abusive business bastard smut novels. Your character is Abel an omega who is pretending to be a beta (which I guess are "normal people?"), and he is taking "heat suppressors" to hide his scent which the strong alpha Mars immediately notices and then forces himself upon you. The whole smells along with knotting is so weird to me, maybe if you establish the character as a werewolf or something I wouldn't find it as off-putting. Anyway the game then becomes a nukige with him coercing you for sex, slapping you around, getting into some pretty heavy bdsm, and public humiliation like fucking you infront of an entire boardroom meeting. It's very much PWP, but there are 3 endings, each of them bad! Mars is just an absolute bastard and I hate him, the worst ending in my opinion is when he forces you to get pregnant after telling you he'll look after you but when you leave your job and family he just abandons you with a bunch of other fucktoys at his mansion.
I get that this is a very popular type of relationship, but I'll never get it. Dark and abusive relationships work best for me when twisted fucked up feeling grow out of them. Like a stalker or serial murderer who kidnaps MC but loves him even if he's objectively being abusive. In this case it's hard to tell what the feelings even are because there's this constant aura of "heat" and being drawn to "scents" that I don't even know if the MC has any meaningful connection to Mars, that bastard doesn't have any feelings outside of "must rut"
Well whatever, I'd give it 1/5, it might appeal to people who are more into this fetish. The salsa soundtrack was good at least and it's short only about 3 hours for all endings. According to the extras there's another VN with the MC Abel but who knows what or where since Itch is being retarded.
No.5349
>>5345If I actually did have this fetish, the fact that they made the alpha dude sound like the omegaverse version of a RL manosphere guy would put me off even more than it already does. Once you bring realistic 3DPD shit into fictional men it ruins them.
No.5354
>>5353What started out as a kinkmeme thing that let cis dudes have animal hormone driven no-prep anal sex was eroded into "let's feminize the one who can get pregnant".
No.5357
Tonight's VN Anteholic
https://qbstudios.itch.io/ante-holicThis is an hour-long kinetic VN about a demon and cop duo trying to track down a murderer, but really it's a prequel to a still-in-development VN and seems mainly interested in setting up its world and characters. The whole thing has the feeling of someone playing with their OCs, which isn't bad; it's just not exactly the deepest story since the murder mystery takes a back seat to the author explaining her universe's soulmate-identifying marks, and how angels, witches, and demons work. I liked it; it's ridiculously easy to sell me on detectives, so I'd give it a 3/5, but it's too short to really recommend. It might be better and/or worse if the full thing ever comes out.
>>5349He's more Mr. Grey than manosphere. Again it very much feels like a smutty bodice ripper aimed at housewives moreso than BL, very off-putting and weird.
No.5359
>>5358I've been waiting for this for years so I'll get it day 1. Trying to temper my expectations since the screenshots look iffy.
No.5363
>>5358Maybe I'll get it, but not as soon as it's released because I have a lot of games and visual novels in my backlog. Once I've completed all the visual novels I have I'll buy more of them during sales.
No.5368
>>5358I think it'll be an accurate if somewhat awkwardly worded translation. They keep using the word "flight" in promotional material which means nothing in English but corresponds to the Japanese word 高跳び which can mean flight from authorities, like in a car chase, which the game has plenty of. Plus, MangaGamer has a much better reputation for accuracy than JAST. As for the text itself, you can change the font to your liking in the options menu, so it shouldn't be a problem.
I hope people buy it so we at least have a chance of seeing a bad egg translation within the next decade. I know the Japanese fans are excited at the prospect of the fandom getting a bit more lively these days too.
Also… I want new ivagian fanart. It gets treated like a boomercore ship in Japan and is brought up near exclusively in a nostalgic context. It hurts my soul.
No.5370
>>5368>I hope people buy it so we at least have a chance of seeing a bad egg translation within the next decade.Yeah for me this feels like a potential lose-lose situation cause if it sells poorly they have ammo to blame fujos but if the translation is bad and it sells well it could come off as fujos buying something regardless of quality.
No.5387
>>5384The only problem with the PSP version is that its sanitized. As such, Yukihito didn't get a hot explicit sex scene and that is incredibly disappointing.
No.5398
>>5396One of the screenshots on the store page is worded strangely.
>>5248 It may not be a big deal in the long run but it could also be a bad sign.
No.5399
>>5398The game took years to be released - perhaps it's the early translation?
No.5400
>>5399That's what I'm hoping, going to buy it regardless as I want to support them bringing over games and this is one I've been waiting for.
No.5410
Another day another VN
https://chanimk.itch.io/a-pact-with-me"A Pact with Me" was the next one on the list, and it is a perfectly fine 5/10 VN. It was about four hours long and had three main routes with multiple good and bad endings for each boy. The story follows Belial, a demon who 100 years ago fell in love with the man he had made a demonic contract with. After the twenty years of the pact were up, he had to collect his lover's soul and ate it, leaving no trace of the man in existence. Now heartbroken, he avoids making any more pacts, but after years of no contracts, he is weakened and starved, on the brink of death. Lucifer tasks you with forming a pact with someone to eat a soul so you don't die.
The game is spread out over six days, with one scene for each route given each day, though you can sleep to skip the rest of the day if you don't care about a character.
The main romance options are Renan, a struggling musician who was probably the least interesting. His father hates him, and he's dealing with a stalker and self-consciousness about his ability to perform. Shilo, a businessman who is the sadist psycho option, has some Light Yagami energy and was my favorite as he cuts down people who get in the way of his company. And lastly, Lior, a very shy boy who is just seeking friends. His route starts really childish as you basically help him go viral on a social media site so he can make friends because everyone who see him hates him, but then it reveals
he's actually hated because of demonic possession by Lucifer, and the route gets substantially better in the last few days.
I don't think I'd recommend it even if you like demon stories. Most of the routes just kind of feel derivative and lack an extra "punch" that would make them unique. It has a good core concept, and I like Belial as a protag, but none of the routes are gripping.
No.5411
>>5410Thanks for the review! The art could have looked better…
No.5412
>>5411Yeah, I'm actually cherry-picking the screenshots too, some of the CGs especially the kissing ones were a bit egregious. Given that it's a small game with two creators it feels mean to comment on
. Personally speaking if a story is good enough I'll overlook lackluster art, this one just didn't excel at either so it makes the art extra… not good.