Btw: On the itch download page it says:
"This page has a unique URL for your purchase. You can always access the latest files from this page. You should have also received an email with a link to this page. If you ever lose the URL for this page you can request it to be emailed to you from the support page.". Keypoint being "alwways" - means that itch breached contract by removing these links! Still no reply from itch support.
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Completely agree here. What bothers me the most is that people who outright blame certain games for being bad, unethical or even dangerous never played them. Yes, the story is about an abusive behaviour and the player is making the choices ... but that's about it. There are countless movies about abusive behaviour and as many about incest in every shape of form ... the only difference between those and this game is that you are allowed to make choices to shape the story ... in the end however it still will be just a story.
"Desensitization" happened over the years when it comes to violent movies as well. Many movies from the 70s and 80s were deemed to be to be too extreme back then and today nobody really cares. Evil Dead was banned in Germany for quite some times and now you can see it as long as you are 16 or older - even in Germany which probably has the most extreem youth protection laws one could imagine. The reason for this is that people are used to see this sort of FICTIONAL violence now so it does not shock them anymore. However they are aware that it is just a movie. The same thing does NOT apply to the real world. You won't go out, see a person ripped to shreds and say to yourself "Oh, I've seen this in Evil Dead - it does not shock me".
So as long as you are aware that this game is only telling a fictional story how could it desesitize you for real events? Both things are completely different. I mean - this is not even an actual game in which you are allowed to control your character and even though the render do look pretty good they are still far from looking real. You are basically watching a storybook with some animated scenes in it about a pretty dark story with a psychological background. So why again should I now have any more desire to go out and abuse women just because I watched a storybook about a sick kid and clicked on some choice buttons to branch inside the story?
Exactly. The problem ARE the people that cannot distinguish between fiction and reality ... but THEY are the problem and not the game. Normal adult people are absolutely capable of seeing the difference - those who don't have a psychological problem that probably will get problematic with and without such games.
I also read ALL comments here in this thread (I was curious if I would find some arguments that would give me actual insight on the question why anybody could be afraid of a game people play in their rooms) and though there were some insults coming from BOTH sides I could not find anything that I would consider to be proof that free speech needs limits. Call to violence, doxing and things like that ... because these are really dangerous.
Hi, just added you (did not realized that you meant GOG and could not find any option to add afriend on itch :D)
At least thea re korrekt with the Kirakira series. I downloaded the patches and opened them directly with an asset viewer. Still censored ...
But yes, such databases usually are made by the community so it is not that untypical that at least some information is wrong. That is why I think that forums are such a good thing. Here you can ask actual owners of these games if they are censored or not.
I don't think that the cheating of the mother actually "transformed" the MC. He is a drugdealer and not the nice guy from next door. I think he always had this unhealthy desire for his stepmom/mom whatever and he uses her cheating as an excuse for himself to defend his actions. It is pretty clear that he is a bit crazy and if you read carefully you will see that often reflected in his inner monologue. There's one thing the game does really well: showing that what the MC thinks, the mother/stepmother actually is thinking/feeling and how they act is not always the same.
Actually there is. Yes, at the beginning you will always be that unlikeable guy who thinks that he can get everything by taking it without any consequences ... but there's a time where you can decide if you want to continue the route or actually treat her good and make her fall in love with you. So in general you still will be able to decide how much of a bad guy the character should be. He still would not be anybody I would invite to my party ;)
Okay, I guess I unlocked all achievements, one secret achievement (are there more?) and all scenes inclusing the secret ending. The secret ending is absolutely great though I have no idea what these "institution" should be. The name of the achievement is absolutely fitting since I thought the exact same thing.
@zeratgames: There's something wrong if you don't go to the club at all. Even if you are on the love path in that case the ending will start with the last act and the last act is in domination mode.
Just finished the game with the love ending and the domination ending. However given the final scene in the epilogue of the domination ending I am wondering how the two scenes before this (Aunt/Tommy's Mom) would fit here. I won't say more because these would be extreme spoilers ... but I guess it is a bug and hope that the devs will read this.
I was never talking about "free speech" I was talking about "enyoing whatever you want in your free time". Also as you said it yourself: we both are talking about a stupid video GAME. Maybe some of you people should start to grow up and spot the difference between reality and fiction. When you played a soldier in a videogame and "killed" all those people did you feel bad? I guess you did not - because it is just a game. When you watch a splatter movie with blood and gore everywhere do you feel bad? No, because it is just a movie. Let me tell you something: I just finished the game or at least two endings ... and I have absolutely no desire now to go out and rape anyone. Never had and probably never will. This is a FICTION in a FICTIONAL setting with characters that are not me ... I only make decisions in a fictional story for these fictional characters and see what happens - as you would do in every RPG. What you cannot know - because you did not play this game: the game does NOT glorify rape or violence ... it is much deeper and actually always shows you what's in the main character's (again: not me) and the other persons mind by displaying their thoughts ... and in opposite to the average porn video it is absolutely clear that the raped and abused character absolutely does NOT enjoy it at all. In fact the game even repeats constantly how the main character only is THINKING that she likes while the inner monologue of the mother does not reflect this at all and therefore making clear how dilusional he is. That is the problem with "reviewers" who aren't able to look a bit deeper at a story just because they don't like it.
For the "world to heal" we really need to stop trying to censor each and everything. In this world you once were free and allowed to enjoy whatever you want as long as it did not hurt anybody. That's no longer the case. Certain people think that they should decide what others are allowed to do in their free time. It's a pity that such people exist but that is the world as it is right now.
Among those I already mentioned: Huniepop, Kirakira Stars Idol Project (all three games are mosaic'd on GOG but not on Itch.io, Denpasoft, JAST USA, Fakku, MangaGamer or Nutaku), Seed of the Dead 2: Home, Paranoid. Some adult games on GOG are missing the unrated patch completely and in some cases the unrated patch will just give you the mosaic'd version. Take a look at the vndb you will probably find even more.
Long time GOGer here and unfortunately I will have to agree, GOG even refused to sell the uncensored version of "Nie No Hakoniwa - Dollhouse of offerings" even though it has been offered to them. They also refuse to host the announced uncensor patch for Tokyo Clanpool and many anime games on GOG are censored and require offsite patches.GOG simply does not have the backbone to accept this game.
I am a bit confused. The devlog says that version 3.8 is out (05/2024) but
the download still says "version 1" Is it possible that the game has not been updated yet? In that case I would wait for the updated game before I buy it. Would be nice if it could be explained to me whcih version I would get if I buy the game.
Is there any chance that his game could come to GOG as well? GOG has added quite a lot of pretty good AVNs recently - and I purchased almost all of them - but this one is still missing. While itch was changing their policy on NSFW games for the worse and Steam even baned some of them GOG is embracing them right now. Would really be nice to hear your thoughts on this coming to GOG. Maybe you still think that GOG is just for old games or that they dislike VNs in general - both have changed a lot.