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sometimes i wonder which member of the clock-up staff is so into pynchon that they had to mention him in yourou ending a epilogue. sometimes i wonder what a book 3x3 from the people who brought us maggot baits would look like.

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it makes me genuinely kind of sad sometimes how vns arent taken seriously as a medium or are seen as a joke. a lot of companies have released visual novels as april fools jokes, some of them genuinely good quality works.

what got me thinking about this was the sonic vn that was released this year for april fools. there were tons of references to other sonic games and character traits, cute fanservice, good art, and genuine heart put into the plot. it was a great game that used its format well but its concept was treated as a joke from the get go.

theres this general air and attitude that vns are automatically vapid or that the erotic content within them has no purpose or potential depth. and its a shame because theyre often incredibly fascinating works with complicated, sometimes self contradictory messages regarding heavy topics. and while i have qualms with some general patterns and tropes regarding nsfw in vns, a lot of the time sex is key to those messages.

i find the reception of vns interesting in comparison to "walking simulators" a genre for which the derogatory term has stuck. walking simulators have historically been victim to a ton of severe backlash. but i find the larger gaming community and critics have come around on them with some walking sims lauded as examples of what the video game medium can do best. that genre as we define it is comparatively way newer than vns but i think the reception to it has changed for the positive much faster. ill see the same people who laud walking sims deride vns. or in some cases, ill see people laud vns and then deride the genre as a whole, treating quality works as exceptions rather than exemplars.

not sure what the point of this post is precisely. partially just complaining about the dismissal of a medium i find super interesting and have come to really appreciate on a personal and professional level. but beyond that, i think it may be indicative of some attitudes held within critical circles, if not broader culture ones. with the caveat of course that, as always, im limited to what i can access in english and my specific net bubble.

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