Speaking of orc dating sims, did you ever experience Meat Log Mountain, or See No Evil? Any opinions on the rise of (particularly gay male) furry/monsterboy H-games?
1. nope, but know OF meat log mountain
2. they tend to suck? as do h-games in general, and i don’t mean in terms of gameplay or graphical quality. but they serve a niche that was much less and less served than before. like, the thing is, my experiences with gay stuff as a teen, like i was talking about on twitter the other day, is “you’re not old enough to actually meet gay people, bi people, gender questioning people, the whole nine yards, so here’s what you can do: read all this fucking yaoi manga”
and the yaoi manga sucked! it was CRUCIAL to me at the time, but it fucking suuuuucked. the BEST of them i remember being FAKE but that has a whole bunch of stuff that in retrospect i would make no excuses for now. never mind the ones that were worst, like, fucking Yellow or Wild Rock. but you know, most of us don’t start with ‘good’. we find what we can get, and we work with it and from it. lotta people round my age or lil bit older worked mostly with queercoded villains, especially queercoded disney villains.
i dunno. i got complex feelings about ‘em, because they come from complex circumstances. some dude out there working out his feelings on sexuality and gender starting with a fucking patched copy of morenatsu and an ill-advised crush on kouya. and while that’s not exactly ideal, it’s honest, it’s life.
like, hell, how many people worked out feelings about gender and sexuality via ranma 1/2 shrines back in the day?
a lot of the stories and characters in those kinda games i obviously think could use rewrites but where they exist culturally and personally in regards to the people consuming them is a messier thing.