Another day, another fierce need to lick Vyn's collarbone mole.
My #kbin account seems broken? :\ For the last month+ I can't get any thread I create to show up in its magazine, even when the magazine is a local one. Comments are fine, microblog posts are fine, threads show up in my profile but never the magazine.
Admittedly I don't try very often, but that makes it all the more disheartening when I feel like "yay, I finally have something worth sharing" and, well, no apparently I don't.
I recently finished playing Butterfly's Poison; Blood Chains and thought I'd leave a review to get some conversation going in here.
I'm not sure how I even heard about this one honestly, I just remember grabbing it "for later," forgetting about it for a while, and finding it like a forgotten $20 bill in last year's winter coat one day. Sweet.
I'm surprised I haven't been able to find where I saw it mentioned, as after playing it I can't believe there aren't certain segments of the internet up in arms about it. There's quite a bit of "problematic" content especially with regard to age gaps, consent issues, and family relations. I personally can enjoy that sort of taboo content as I have a good solid wall between fiction and reality, but this isn't an otome for everyone, and I'm surprised people aren't madder about it. In particular, the bad endings can get very dark.
It's an interesting setting I feel like I don't see much of - Taisho era Japan, when the country seems to be struggling with its identity and how much western culture to adopt. The player character is a girl who's just come of age in a financially struggling noble family, and the story opens on a lavish birthday party meant to find her a good husband before the household collapses. Of course, the party doesn't go as planned, but I won't spoil anything until I warn you (and even then I'll only talk about personalities and content flavors, not actual events). The story is written in third person, for those who find that sort of thing important (makes no difference to me), and the MC has a canon name that's voiced in the dialogue if you choose to use it instead of changing it.
As for the love interests, we have:
I enjoyed all the routes, found the setting and mystery pretty interesting, didn't feel like the guys who didn't catch my interest dragged the story down, and didn't regret any of my time spent with this VN. However, I didn't come out of this one with any new figures for the "fictional men's hall of fame" in my heart.
I was also kind of disappointed to learn the original JP release was R18 with numerous NSFW scenes, while the English translation I read was a PC port of the (understandably, but sadly) censored Switch version in which entire 15+ minute scenes are reduced to a vague description line or two in which you can tell something sexy happened but see almost nothing about the character of how the guys approach it. There is NO H-patch for this one that I could find (or find mention of), but there are fan TLs of the NSFW scenes online that I was grateful to find.
Overall, I would give it a good 8/10 or so since I enjoyed it throughout but didn't get that "special something" that would leave it on my mind for years to come the way some other stories/LIs have.
That's about all for the spoiler-free stuff, but I want to end by saying more about my impressions/opinions of the love interests, and while I won't spoil the actual events of the story, you might still prefer to discover this stuff on your own, so here is your...
!! SPOILER WARNING !!
...since I still don't know of any hideable spoiler markup here on the threadiverse.
Thanks for reading - feel free to strike up conversation about your experiences with this game, whether this review piques your interest, suggestions of other otomes that someone who enjoyed this game might also be interested in, or whatever else strikes your fancy.
Goodbye RIF. I don't know how many years it was exactly, but I enjoyed my time with you.
For the last few weeks, I left RIF on my phone but unsubscribed to all my subs, so I'd be greeted with an empty front page every time I idly tapped the time-wasting icon. And man, did I ever learn that I tapped that icon a whole lot.
Thanks for the app.
I made a magazine for Tears of Themis at TearsOfThemis@kbin.social. Aiming for a chill chat space here.
Even if it's for little more than a spot to send ToT-related microblogs, all are welcome.
I subscribed to a magazine that, in the last day, has changed over to an unreadable custom CSS that goes so far as to break site gizmos; no matter my theme choice, their custom CSS overrides my setting.
Is there a way to override their override?
The 2nd birthday card story for #Marius was pretty cute. His dynamic together with MC is adorable as always, and I feel like we haven't had his artistic side front-and-center in a while. I think they overreacted to the NPC of the week and his shenanigans quite a bit, but I can overlook it if I assume he was one of Marius' only friends for a few key years of his life.
Wish this site had some way to mark spoilers for more detail.
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