Finished Sister Other Paranoia and it low-key sucks but I like it more than Needy Girl.
>>14782It's very much Notes from Underground inspired with a bit of No Longer Human thrown in, the MC is awful and most of it is rambling rants with a paper-thin narrative. While the MC is presented as in the wrong there is a bit of ambiguity over how much of the work is also just the author talking directly to the audience through the character. The MC is a writer who wrote one popular LN and needs to write a sequel which he has hang-ups over the idea that he'll fail at, this of course is exactly Nyalra's situation. The opening with discussions about influencer culture and how people behave online is also obviously something he believes in.
Everyone in the VN is a bad person except for the sister, so while I don't think the intention is to specifically be misogynistic every female character is obviously written by a man and so the idea that Botan uses her feminine graces to get ahead in life with compensated dating, or that his mother and father's relationship has fallen apart largely because his mother is now fat and ugly and therefore no longer sexually desirable is a bit eyerolling. A better written VN could have these same characters and explore them in a way that doesn't come off as gross I think.
Also Boton's suicide CG with the piss is just so gratuitously fetish-y feeling it's weird for a game that otherwise has great art and presentation. Anyway I do think this game commits to it's theme so while it's a bit exhausting to read it does more with it's premise then Needy Girl. I really like the Bat route and Monkey route both those character's contrasted well with the protagonist and I thought they had the most interesting conversations.
True ending is awful and while an
optimistic element was probably needed to balance the game it's tonally so detached from the rest it doesn't really work.