I see you 🖤

[melancholicpep]

https://calyptalinks.neocities.org/dollydressup

Html dress up game wip

[benvey0]

[free-my-mindd]

[catchymemes]

[wumbreon]

May we all know decadence such as this

[uguisuann]

[rappeljumper]

take it

[littlekhada]

[sopor-radialis]

[strawberry-crocodile]

"Hades is about escaping hell but he doesn't even escape hell" I mean, are you 100% sure that's the actual story here? I feel like it's more about fixing broken and estranged relationships. You get Patroclus and Achilles back together. You get Orpheus and Euridice back together. Both romances start not as you first meeting each other, but as two broken relationships. Theseus has reached out to the man he killed and apparently made amends, to the point that they are now friends (if not lovers). I think it ending with "and then you get your parents back together, and then you get your dad's family back together" is, in fact, completely tonally consistent, even if the story starts with Zagreus going "fuck this shit I'm out."

Now, to be clear, "I don't like or want a story about fixing your shitty family" and/or "I don't think Hades does enough to deserve reconciliation with Zagreus" is a valid response! But uhhh if you look at the game where every single other side story is about fixing broken relationships (often of people who've run away from each other, including the protagonist trying to run away from his dad and his two exes) and go "this is a story about escaping hell, why doesn't he escape hell????" then you may have missed a trick here

[strawberry-crocodile]

no story has EVER before started with a protagonist whose stated goals run counter to the ultimate themes and messaging of the story before

[strawberry-crocodile]

"the story is cordoned off in a corner and not during gameplay" your romance options are one of the bosses and a random event room. the olympians youre trying to connect with are constantly giving powerups tied to their personality and domain. when you initiate contact with someone they give you a passive buff, and when you reach a tutning point in certain relationships they give you a super attack. the final boss of every run is your shitty dad.

it feels like your complaint is "games shoupd never pause the action for dialogue" and like. thats a fine preferance but no?

[strawberry-crocodile]

"Why is this game making me watch a long cutscene about how bad Zagreus is at filing, I wanna be playing a fun game right now! This is a failure of game design." Actually I think the game just gave you the experience of trying to do work and school with ADHD better than any comic or article I've ever seen

[abyssaldyke]

*smirking* you couldn't waterboard that out of me, but even if torture was an effective method of information extraction and not a futile display of state-sanctioned sadism, the high percentage of false confessions it produces would mean that even if you could waterboard it out of me, could you even trust the veracity of my statement?

[darkspaceboytoy]

Incredibly violent take of mine but I actually don’t think you need to relate to a story in any way to enjoy it. You can enjoy a story even if you can’t point at a character and insert some aspect of your personality or identity into them. In fact I would argue the need for a character like that to be present in every single story you experience is a sign of stunted growth.

[barstoolblues]

truly there are only so many words

[vee-dmsr]

[stupiddykehag]

How it feels complaining at you guys

[infectiouspiss]

you're mommy's good little printer aren't you? you'll print whatever mommy tells you to because otherwise mommy gets sad and leaves you for one of those free use library printer sluts

[infectiouspiss]

you're mommy's good little printer aren't you? you'll print whatever mommy tells you to because otherwise mommy gets sad and leaves you for one of those free use library printer sluts

[hotvampireadjacent]