LMAO for definite, I’m a bit of a programmer so when I saw that my mind just exploded, even *I* could program a better options menu. I cannot believe they released it in such a state.
I'm pretty sure that was only ever looked at by the developer in the japanese version, and then a machine translation was applied to the entire game and nobody bothered to even quickly check how that turned out.
20$?! Hey kids, if you want a game with a main character suffering from a heart illness, Katawa Shoujo is free! It's genuinely an amazing game that addresses disabilities really well. Did I mention that it's free?
@@celtoucan4956 They’re making a joke that it’s gonna take 3 years to get to the letter K in the list (in reality it’s probably going to take closer to 30 years). It kinda doesn’t work though cause the game isn’t on steam.
@@GraeldonIt is most likely a Japanese H game with a different name that was given a rough translation, had it's scenes cropped or removed, and slapped on steam.
Regarding weird font spacing: this is what happens if you try to write in English using a font intended for Japanese. Imagine each character in a square, like if it was Japanese characters (which all take equal space) , and you will get the idea. I suppose the developers didn't bother with finding separate fonts for languages other than Japanese.
Ｈｅｒｅ ｉｓ ａ ｄｅｍｏｎｓｔｒａｔｉｏｎ ｏｆ ｗｈａｔ ｉｔ ｌｏｏｋｓ ｌｉｋｅ． Though my computer's Japanese keyboard input mode does have a 'half-width alphanumeric' mode (instead of full width, seen above), which is normal English characters.
to me it looks like it is in fact variable-width, but with extra spacing applied to the letters wild guess but perhaps they wanted to make all the text in the settings menu the same width but only tuned it for japanese and neglected to disable it for english?
The father coming home after midnight sounds like the most realistic point about the whole game. Japanese work culture can be freaking rough, with tons of overtime being expected
When I was living with a host family in Japan, the father could only come home on the weekends. The rest of the time he lived at his job two hours away. The work culture is definitely brutal
@@Graeldon That's honestly fairly mild. In Japan it's often expected of you to make befriend your coworkers including your boss and go to after work activities with them which as you can guess often take place after midnight and often involve alcohol. You're also often expected to work days you'd normally have off when asked even if the request comes last minute, sometimes literally and working through your breaks is in many places required. There is a law in Japan that requires a boss to give a valid reason to fire someone which is actually quite difficult to cheat however there's no real restrictions on the work you can be asked to do so if a boss wants to fire you they can just make you work stupidly long hours of boring menial tasks without overtime pay to make you quit while still expecting you to be all buddy buddy with them at the end of your work shift. In some extreme cases workers have actually been forced to stare at tv static and report any "abnormalities" or similar completely useless tasks. To say Japanese work culture is rough is the understatement of the century, it's actually so bad that death due to overworking are not only common but are considered an honerable death by some. Of course most work places don't do everything that I just mentioned and there are genuinely good work places in Japan but the things I mentioned are common place in japanese work culture.
I dont know if you've read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy but this challenge makes me think of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. An immortal alien who was fed up with the universe and decided to personally insult every living being, alphabetically. When told it was impossible due to the amount of people being born and dying, he would say, "A man can dream can't he?"
wait, but if you have a weak heart... would it not then be a BAD idea to get yourself too excited? Like, that feels like a one-way trip to a heart attack.
As a person with a weak heart, it was actually my prescribed regimen to engage in extended exercise and push my limits. Of course, done with more tact and not...what this game does, but for all the nonsense there's a very slight grain of reality.
When the creator of this game dies, a pop-up will appear before them: > opy that she's so attached > 't wait to cure this condi Both options send them straight to hell
The protag is named Goro? The four-armed guy from Mortal Kombat? I had no idea he'd lost his parents in a car crash. Feel kind of bad about all those fatalities now.
@@Graeldon Thinking about it more than it deserves, having a dating sim protag with four arms would be handy for the hare...er, *harlem* ending. Wonder if Goro doubles up on any other physical features? Don't you dare judge me, you know there's already porn of that out there somewhere. :)
Wait, he has a heart condition in which he needs to keep his blood preasure up? Because that's what it sounds like. There's a fair amount of meds that can help you with that. No wonder father was so dismissive. He knew Goro was just making things up to take advantage of the situation o3o.
As someone who is trained in the dark arts of visual novels, this one looks...slightly below average. It's a very strange market, but maybe I can share some wisdom. After checking certain reputable sources, I found that Doki Doki Family DOES have explicit adult content that's not available on Steam. This is a fairly normal practice, but the way it's handled here is odd. Normally these lewd VNs will have a fade to white to indicate where the content is censored. Doki Doki Family just...pans away from the naughty bits without removing them? That's the first time I've seen that, and boy is it awkward. At least the art itself is...acceptable. Nothing fancy or grossly wrong, merely acceptable. As for the lack of an English dub, this is pretty common. I see a lot of VN enthusiasts strongly oppose the idea entirely, so that's how the market is. However, good localization is still very much appreciated. This script looks like it was Google translated, which is sadly commonplace for lower quality VNs like this one. It reeks of minimal effort and forethought. Overall, it's rather hilarious that this VN has the nerve to charge $20 on Steam for an incomplete version that doesn't really do anything special. Even more funny is how the Switch eShop sells it as well. I guess Steam couldn't contain the plague of low quality pr0n games to itself, and Nintendo was somehow the best place to spread. Who would have thought? Anyways, best of luck navigating the rest of Steam. You'll need it.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom! It's interesting that the first VN on Steam that I stumble onto just happens to be one of the worst adaptions of an adult VN. Go figure.
@@Graeldon Looking forward to your thoughts on AI: The Somnium Files when you finally get around to mid letter A territory! (That is, if you're up to play a roughly 50 hour VN lol.)
Yeah I've bought a couple vns that were in the 20-30$ price range and even without many branching paths they were still at least somewhere in the 30-80 hour range and had good translations. With h-scenes either vanilla enough for steam or available in a free patch off steam. There are so many better vns for reading or jerking it to for much less money I don't see who decided an aggressively average hentai game with no hentai and google translate should be going for 20$
The thing with the "barometric pressure"... it's phrased super awkwardly which is unsurprising given the quality of the localization, but where I live it would indeed be a perfectly normal thing to say should you un-awkward the phrasing. Just your regular "how's the weather" non-conversation, the pressure being brought up because the local lore says it has an effect on people's general feeling of well-being (low pressure is supposed to make you mentally sluggish for example). I can imagine it can be like this in other places too, and perhaps Japan is one of those places.
Oooh your first instance of an H-game! Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of H-game trivia. So, for starters, the backgrounds are indeed, assets, specifically I believe that classroom is from Tyrannobuilder, a visual novel engine that is popular among the japanese devs, so this is probably made with that engine. Taking that information into account, the options menu is probably auto-translated, while the game has been actually translated. (That's also on the choose options, which btw wouldn't make much difference taking into account how long the game is). All of this has been laid back in favour of, probably, paying a translator AND the voice acting. Voice acting is pretty important for the japanese and REALLY important for visual novels and a MUST on H visual novels, as far as common standards seem to go. Last but not least, the lack of H. Most of the time the H games on steam doesn't have any kind of H, you have to go somewhere else to download a patch to apply to the game to uncensor it, that's the reason of the weird lack of H in a game that is SO obviously an H game. This explains the lack of "character development" too. How do I know all of this? I should probably make a channel making reviews of H-games for the game side instead of the H. Sadly I don't think you'll find too many good games that were made as an H originally any soon, as steam has very few of them. Maybe magical girl Celesphonia, or Light and Shadow Doppleganger, or Prison Principal Karin, or Dohna Dohna (this one is amazing, persona 5 but with a bigger color palette and almost no H and a more down to ground story) but I've seen most of these on GoG rather than steam, and there's still a long run until you stumble upon those I believe. Anyways, still fun to see someone so not-versed about this kind of low-tier gaming stuff looking through it, it's interesting to see how an actual clueless person gets confused for things that for me seem so obvious and justified. Have a nice one.
Thanks for taking the time to comment and share your knowledge! I think there is potential in having a channel that reviews H-Games, but you might not be able to do that on UA-cam... not without heavy censorship anyway
Dohna Dohna had plenty of H, it's an Alicesoft game so just also a lot of game in between. And you seem to only account for the H in a visual aspect, but the game has forced prostitution in its gameplay loop. Now I think Dohna is a great game as well, but that makes it impossible to recommend to people who aren't comfortable with Eroge regardless of how much you see of it.
If you are going to make a channel about shit like that , i think the viwers of your vídeos will not give a fuck for your content and just be there for this stupid games
@@covereye5731 I digress, as GTA has also a prostitution silly mechanic but It means almost nothing. In this case the prostitution serves as a mechanic quite clear in a context in which illegal goods are harder to import and sex slavery of whatever is inside the country is an easier tool. But yeah I only count H as direct visual or described through text, which Dhona doesn't does too much as for the basic game loop, just a short image on the hustle screen.
The game is indeed a nsfw game that got censored on steam, and the censoring is very heavy, like for example the nsfw version you have scenes of the protagonist making the family members pregnant and all. Is honestly quite weird since most nsfw games of this type in steam generally just remove nsfw scenes with a fade to black or literally cut off them, meanwhile this one actually rewrites stuff and crop them to make them sfw, if only the translation was better made.
This could have been a much better game if the protag decided to get his excitement through horror content and his family decides to help him by constantly scaring the shit out of him! :P
You're not wrong - I would have enjoyed a game like that! And imagine the twist of setting it up as a standard adult VN/Dating Sim, only to pull the rug from under the player
I'd criticize this same thing if not for the fact that I joke with my (biochem student) brother about DNA polymerase, cuz of a hip hop song called "Culture Universal" by Sphere of Influence and Zeebra.
Interesting that it is the inverse of Katawa Shoujo, a visual novel in wich the protagonist's heart condition makes it hard to have relationships; it's also an actually good vn.
It's a doujin game most likely made with a visual novel builder program. The backgrounds are most likely default assets. The game was also originally released in 2018 and "remastered" for international release. It's also machine translated, which is the whole thing of the publisher that's helping to release these games in multiple languages outside of DLSite, where you can find this one for cheaper with all the adult content.
@@GeorgeDCowley I literally can't feel romantic or sexual attraction, I get it's not the ideal ending but it is annoying to keep seeing my normal be portrayed as a bad thing
@@GeorgeDCowley I do feel platonic affection, it's just the romantic part I don't feel. like I can enjoy being around someone but I just couldn't imagine myself wanting to spend the rest of my life with someone else regardless of how much I like them, the idea is just alien to me
Thanks, it wasn't easy! But getting into a routine definitely helped things. The pace will likely slow down when I reach some of the bigger games, but so far so good!
lol, the barometric pressure thing is ACTUALLY a fairly common conversation I have with my wife, it sounds less strange in Japanese, lol. I think saying that you often feel sick or unwell when there is a change in the weather might be a a more natural way to translate it. I don't know.
3:10 several of these background assets are free, not to discourage you, something that astounded me before i got into digital art. I can say for certain the living room, the classroom at 5:24, the 5:45 cityscape are assets you can get. I've used them in my art and seen them in several other visual novel.
Ah, the memories. I also had a childhood friend called "Male Student A". Also this game should be called "they're my sisters but not really, the simulator". But for real, if youre gonna create an adult game at leaat have the audacity to include actual adult scenes (and program the menus with more than one hand, even if it's hard. Pun intended).
As someone with many migraine-prone friends from Calgary where chinooks run rampant, talk of barometric pressure changes were a common discussion in the mornings before profs came into the classroom, haha
@@Graeldon And hello from Saskatchewan! (Went to University in Alberta.) It's very much so a regional thing; it happens when warm air from the Pacific rolls over the Rockies, cools, then warms again as it goes down the mountain range and into Alberta. You thankfully wouldn't get them in Vancouver; they make for unpredictable weather at times, haha
This is what looks like when someone wants to be the main character and live out their own fantasy without sounding weird...yes I am doing all this to make a game.
For those wondering the ACTUAL title is " [Incarose] Ane Imo Mama no Shasei Kanri ~Tsuide ni Kodomo ga ". Its just an average seggs bishojo with average plot and gameplay. Look it up at your own risk!
I'm surprised the father actually exists even though his role is so minor, usually in this kind of stuff the dad is dead, divorced, indefinitely away on a business trip, etc. so he isn't "in the way"
So out of curiosity I checked the next game on the list and... it looks like another spicy but not actually spicy visual novel. So let me salute you in your bravery for this journey that is building up to be pure madness.
Just getting into it now.... I originally considered combining the two games into one video, but with the separate "stories", and the length of the video after discussing one game I thought it would be best to split them
wait, how the hell does the ending scene with the dad go if you pick Sawa/the step mom? I can kinda get the dad being ok with Goro marrying one of his step sisters because Japanese families adopting a man in order to marry their daughter to take on the family business/name isn't uncommon (it's called a mukoyoshi), but does he really have nothing to say about you marrying your stepmom?? I know they mentioned that they sleep in separate rooms, I guess to indicate that they have a rocky marriage, but is he so much of a deadbeat he doesn't care if his adopted son marries his wife? Like, does he just tell Goro: "yeah ok you can have my wife now, I'm done with her," as if she's something he got bored with?
Only the ending with Suzune end with marriage and a child. Himari's ending has no marriage but it alludes she is pregnant. Mother and Harem ending both have no closure
At one point you mentioned that it's weird to talk about barometric pressure... But a couple of my family members were making small-talk about how changes in air pressure can make it difficult to sleep just a week ago.
$20 that you could spend on a nice Korean BBQ dinner with tasty marinated Bulgogi and veggies and other sides you spent on a game that in summary says incest with step-siblings is perfectly fine even though everyone is still related legally among other things.
I just binge watched the whole playlist and I must say your channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Thank you for your efforts and thank you for making it entertaining.
That pressure smalltalk is normal - it's common to associate a change in pressure with a change in attitude. Low pressure is, as pointed out by the MC - feeling cranky.
I'm inmpressed at how offputting the music is. I sincerely was waiting for a stinger, but like the father, it never showed up. I'm enjoying the journey so far, Graeldon!
The tracks do each actually fade out eventually, I've looped it for the video. It was actually quite off-putting in the game because it would just end abruptly and then restart. Very odd
The C's aren't too far away alphabetically, but around 50ish games per year, it's going to take a while... it'll be 2-3 years before I hit the letter A
I bet this video will be the one to bring a lot of subscribers, just for the thimbnail and title alone. I'm really enjoying your reviews, this has been a great series and channnel so far. Congratularions on your work and good luck in the future (and be careful with malware)
As soon as you showed the backgrounds I instantly recognized them, yes, those are free visual novel assets, and some of those are really popular and easy to find, specially the school ones, I'm pretty sure they're also on Gacha Life (pretty much all the bg art there is also free assets)
Where is the option to have the main character have their heart condition get bad enough that they eventually just die in their sleep from cellular anoxia due to low heart rate?
Nah, he would probably die from that lmao, and since its a romance visual novel, I doubt something as realistic as just drinking them energy drinks for the heart rate would exist
The minute I saw that travesty of a text layout, I knew it was going to be bad. You could excuse it as it being a direct translation from Japanese with no localisation, but that only means they didn't put much effort into it at all. And that's just the beginning. Thank you for your brave service of enduring this terrible game.
me and my family do actually discuss barometric pressure sometimes, because we've noticed we get headaches at the same time sometimes and headaches can be caused by barometric pressure. That's thankfully where the similarities end, though
The entire time, it genuinely feels like the person who made this was in heat. Like they where too horny to think clearly, but didn't want to go too far for the web
Charging $20 for a visual novel with worse writing and production than ones you can find on Newgrounds for free is a level of hubris that would give pause even to Icarus.
Through this entire video I had 2 thoughts: 1) I think Himari could do better than the uninteresting protag, and 2) Male Student A deserved better, he deserved at least one character sprite, he deserved happiness. Anyways my solution to fix the game would be to let Male Student A get the girl in the end. Male Student A and Himari is my new headcanon couple and OTP for this game that I've never played.
This is a very well written and edited series, feels like there's heavy inspiration from joshstrifehayes's worst mmo series. Do you have previous experience with editing and sound mixing and all or did you learn everything for your videos?
I've taken inspiration from Josh Strife Hayes for his presentation style, ThatOneVideoGamer (The Completionist) for the challenge, and The Cynical Brit for the review format. But hopefully this series is unique enough to stand on its own feet. I had zero experience with editing and sound mixing before I started this series! 100% self taught, but learned a bit from tutorials and analyzing other content creators to see what works well
Horrid letter formatting like this is usually the hallmark of an incomplete fan translation patch, usually done with BepinEX and asset injection, or a certain automatic Google Translate plugin. Might be amusing to check the local files to see if it has BepinEX pre-installed (it'll be a pretty obviously labeled folder).
I did a little digging on vndb (The Visual Novel Database) and it turns out the original game does have the p0rn parts and the game is machine translated, sadly which happens a lot of these days.
@@Graeldon I mean you basically did already. Cracking 4 digits is way harder than cracking 1 million. From my perspective you're doing everything right, so it's only a matter of time for the algorithm to catch up. One suggestion though if you care: I would add a little 10-15 second segment to every video of your "Steam in alphabetical order" series that both explains the premise a bit better and also serves as a reoccuring element. Maybe finding a "catchy" title for that format would be a good idea as well, I think most people would rather click on a game review from a random youtuber if it was part of a series like that. Take my advice with a grain of salt though. I have no experience, I can onyl tell what I prefr and hat I want to believe to have picked up over the years as a viewer. Well wish you luck anyway. You're only 7 months in apparently, so 2.3k subs is pretty respectable already!
Came for Arcane Raiser, stayed around for all the other terrible games you've suffered through so far, this isn't even the worst I've seen... it's at least a functional game! Though this honeslty feels like a game where you have to hunt down a "special patch" for the content that is supiciously absent from the steam release xD
Thanks for taking the time to check out my other content! If you check the comments you'll see that someone has indeed managed to track down the "special" version
As someone who has suffered from hypochondria I know that self diagnosis from the internet is about the worst thing you can do. Speak to a real doctor first. Aside from that, I’ll have to admit, a romantic VN about someone who has to a heart condition and needs romantic stimulation to survive is actually a somewhat interesting premise
Aye no you’re completely right, I recognize that hallway still. I can’t remember where from, so put away your pitchforks. But I can swear I’ve seen it someplace before
@@Vulpas I suspect Pride events for adults are quite mild when compared to some of the American games we had in the 1980s before the rating system. AKA, there was literally Custer's Revenge and a game's title which we can't even say. Not to mention that DMT, marijuana, and ayahuasca fueled 'Member the Alamo tin foil game which was reviewed earlier on Steam. Edit: Member the Alamo was so bizarre that one had to think that the developer was on multiple drugs at once and possible other drugs like meth. As in I was surprised that review didn't have Alex Jones rants in it. At las, the graphics of those games back in the pre-game ratings board era was also poor. But still there was games that would make most Japanese H-Games in terms of concept mild and other games which were so f'd up in 10 different ways (Christian games to push religions, Member the Alamo pushing conspiracies, etc).
i feel like a heart illness game where the mc has to do exciting stuff would be a fun premise on its own if it wasn't just used as a contrived way to segue into the "plot". anyways you're doing the lord's work with this series! i hope you can keep this up for as long as you can. if you need more funds, why not set up a ko-fi? that way people can give you the money needed to buy these games instead of having to pay it all out of your wallet. good luck man!!
I take offense to the jokes in this review. My best friend in highschool was named Male Student E. On a serious note, the real-world reason for the doki doki heart condition in this story is obvious, but the line about reading romance novels and watching romantic comedies made me think. Someone with a medical condition that forces them to watch morkish romantic comedies/romance stories that they feel somewhat self-conscious about enjoying, seems like a quirky and cute character trait for someone in a dating sim or even H game. Or maybe the idea of an H-game protagonist shamefully admitting to their love interest that they have a medical condition that requires them to watch The Notebook just made me laugh.
Caught up to your recent video after seeing the Arcane Raise video recommended to me, definitely following your channel. Reminds me a bit of Josh Strife Hayes Worse MMO series and Iron Pineapple's Steam Dumpster diving if those two were combined.
Love that you picked up on those two content creators as influences, I love both of them! I've also taken inspiration from The Completionist and TotalBiscuit. Definitely trying to put my own spin on things though
Something I'd really like with this series is some sort of list, probably at the end of each episode, of each of the games you've done, and whether you thought they were good or not. 'Cause while I'm Mostly here to see how much garbage there is, shown in some amount of thoroughness and detail, seeing a list of games that might be worth looking at further would be good.
Heya! I'm thinking of starting a spreadsheet to track all the games covered, as well as adding the steam store link in the description of the videos 👍 Hopefully that will help!
Hey Glaeldon, I know the series is currently about going through Steam in alphabetical order, but I feel like there's a lot of interesting games that you won't get to by this method. Have you considered on in order of one game of the alphabet, then looping back around to try and get more variety in? Basically, go one game with A, then B, then when you hit Z, loop back to A. If you don't wanna do this I completely understand. I just figured I'd propose an option.
I did consider that, but I'm not sure it would add much variety other than just which letter of the alphabet I'm doing. I think the advantage of the current method is that it's easier to follow, and even look ahead to see what games are coming up next. Plus Steam is incredibly hard to sort/navigate on that scale. You can't even reverse the alphabetical order in the store.
Goro was too much of a coward to hook up with Male Friend A. Just think, it would’ve solved the problem of missing his “appointment” AND the problem of having to marry his sister
If the "quality" of games you're subjecting yourself to keeps up this pace, you'll be fit for a guest appearance on an Ashens stream in the near future. 🤣
Hey, i discovered your channel a few days ago and have been watching the videos from the oldest to newest. As you can see, i'm now caught up ^^. I was thinking that it would be nice to have a list of which games you recommend, which are playable but not particularly interesting, which are to be avoided, and other such categories. I don't think many people will remember which games were good 6 months later, and going through each video again every time somebody is looking for games will become more and more of a chore as you review more games; and i haven't seen any link to such a list in your video or channel descriptions. I'm not sure how you would implement that, the easiest way to do it that i can think of would be by making different playlists. Maybe you can figure out something better? Anyway, thanks for the videos :)
Hey, thanks for the suggestion! I'm planning on doing a top 5/bottom 5 every 100 games to help highlight some of the ones worth looking at. I've also had another viewer recommend adding links to the steam store page so people can easily find the game. I may also look at creating a google spreadsheet to track the recommended and non-recommended games
The fact the options menu is so crap is especially jarring, because I recognize something pretty similar. This looks like a Ren'py game-which has the same menu options, but a less horrible screen for choosing them, so they would have actively had to change the default to be worse.
In fairness, it looks less horrible in Japanese, which is the games default language. But to not take the time to get the letter spacing and wrapping correct is just lazy dev work.
Let me know if the intro got you! 😆
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Nope.
Male Student A thought it was hot and wants to spend time with you now. :)
bruh
I've had a few beers, so yeah it was very much "oh shit am I jacking off?" 😂
Forget the cut adult content, the atrocious menu alone deserves a content warning.
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LMAO for definite, I’m a bit of a programmer so when I saw that my mind just exploded, even *I* could program a better options menu. I cannot believe they released it in such a state.
I'm pretty sure that was only ever looked at by the developer in the japanese version, and then a machine translation was applied to the entire game and nobody bothered to even quickly check how that turned out.
Doctor: you can improve your heart condition with basic cardio
Goro: i will marry my sister
Doctor: what
Goro: Don't worry, she's my STEPSISTER; we're not related, so that's okay.
20$?!
Hey kids, if you want a game with a main character suffering from a heart illness, Katawa Shoujo is free! It's genuinely an amazing game that addresses disabilities really well.
Did I mention that it's free?
Sounds interesting, thanks for the recommendation!
@@Graeldonyou’ll have to wait for 3 years until you can play it.
@@Smoah ???
KATAWA SHOUJOU IS THE BEST!!! one of my favorite games for sure
@@celtoucan4956 They’re making a joke that it’s gonna take 3 years to get to the letter K in the list (in reality it’s probably going to take closer to 30 years). It kinda doesn’t work though cause the game isn’t on steam.
This feels like one of those games that you get on steam and apply an extra content patch from somewhere else...
The only english review complains that there is no adult patch
@@GraeldonIt is most likely a Japanese H game with a different name that was given a rough translation, had it's scenes cropped or removed, and slapped on steam.
@@jonathanadams5903 It is a japanese H-game. Product ID: VJ011608
I'm always amazed by how much people seem to know (or are able to research) about these pretty niche games
@@Graeldondo not underestimate degenerates
Regarding weird font spacing: this is what happens if you try to write in English using a font intended for Japanese. Imagine each character in a square, like if it was Japanese characters (which all take equal space) , and you will get the idea. I suppose the developers didn't bother with finding separate fonts for languages other than Japanese.
Interesting! Sounds like it would have been a fairly easy fix though
@@Graeldonit would have cost more than 2 minutes of work.
Ｈｅｒｅ ｉｓ ａ ｄｅｍｏｎｓｔｒａｔｉｏｎ ｏｆ ｗｈａｔ ｉｔ ｌｏｏｋｓ ｌｉｋｅ．
Though my computer's Japanese keyboard input mode does have a 'half-width alphanumeric' mode (instead of full width, seen above), which is normal English characters.
to me it looks like it is in fact variable-width, but with extra spacing applied to the letters
wild guess but perhaps they wanted to make all the text in the settings menu the same width but only tuned it for japanese and neglected to disable it for english?
@@rerere284so basically it’s poorly monospaced?
The father coming home after midnight sounds like the most realistic point about the whole game. Japanese work culture can be freaking rough, with tons of overtime being expected
I'd heard it could be pretty brutal, but that's next level
I would like to think some H Game is actually a critique of Japanese society and work culture 😂
When I was living with a host family in Japan, the father could only come home on the weekends. The rest of the time he lived at his job two hours away. The work culture is definitely brutal
@@billbill7187 I play the game for the social commentary I swear😅
@@Graeldon That's honestly fairly mild. In Japan it's often expected of you to make befriend your coworkers including your boss and go to after work activities with them which as you can guess often take place after midnight and often involve alcohol. You're also often expected to work days you'd normally have off when asked even if the request comes last minute, sometimes literally and working through your breaks is in many places required. There is a law in Japan that requires a boss to give a valid reason to fire someone which is actually quite difficult to cheat however there's no real restrictions on the work you can be asked to do so if a boss wants to fire you they can just make you work stupidly long hours of boring menial tasks without overtime pay to make you quit while still expecting you to be all buddy buddy with them at the end of your work shift. In some extreme cases workers have actually been forced to stare at tv static and report any "abnormalities" or similar completely useless tasks.
To say Japanese work culture is rough is the understatement of the century, it's actually so bad that death due to overworking are not only common but are considered an honerable death by some. Of course most work places don't do everything that I just mentioned and there are genuinely good work places in Japan but the things I mentioned are common place in japanese work culture.
Honeslty, that options menu is giving me a Doki Doki Panic attack.
I think that was the most fun I've had critiquing an options menu haha
That menu is just cursed as fk lmao cuz of its text itself
good one
I dont know if you've read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy but this challenge makes me think of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. An immortal alien who was fed up with the universe and decided to personally insult every living being, alphabetically. When told it was impossible due to the amount of people being born and dying, he would say, "A man can dream can't he?"
That's a reference I wasn't expecting to see! Love HHGTTG
wait, but if you have a weak heart... would it not then be a BAD idea to get yourself too excited? Like, that feels like a one-way trip to a heart attack.
You can't use logic in these games 🤣🤣
As a person with a weak heart, it was actually my prescribed regimen to engage in extended exercise and push my limits. Of course, done with more tact and not...what this game does, but for all the nonsense there's a very slight grain of reality.
Cue Katawa Shoujo
Goro desperately wants to die
That profile picture. Good lord that game is really good
When the creator of this game dies, a pop-up will appear before them:
> opy that she's so attached
> 't wait to cure this condi
Both options send them straight to hell
The protag is named Goro? The four-armed guy from Mortal Kombat? I had no idea he'd lost his parents in a car crash. Feel kind of bad about all those fatalities now.
His parents were the first fatality he witnessed 😆
@@Graeldon Thinking about it more than it deserves, having a dating sim protag with four arms would be handy for the hare...er, *harlem* ending. Wonder if Goro doubles up on any other physical features?
Don't you dare judge me, you know there's already porn of that out there somewhere. :)
@@richmcgee434 🤭
Or an eye patch wearing mad dog
That's the branching path where he controls his condition and get his excitement by participating in Mortal Kombat.
Wait, he has a heart condition in which he needs to keep his blood preasure up? Because that's what it sounds like. There's a fair amount of meds that can help you with that. No wonder father was so dismissive. He knew Goro was just making things up to take advantage of the situation o3o.
heart condition?
male friend A is such a mood NGL. and just father could never be forgotten
Wonder if the entire plot for this game could have been skipped if Goro's doctor had just suggested a pacemaker.
Maybe adrenaline patches?
This game has an ending where you join the Harlem Globetrotters? That sounds amazing.
I think a plot twist like that would have made me look more favorably on the game
I thought of "Harlem" as "Harlem Shake" lol
@@Graeldonreject harem, become basketball player
@@Christian-gr3gu I want this to be a game
bro decided to become a hooper
As someone who is trained in the dark arts of visual novels, this one looks...slightly below average. It's a very strange market, but maybe I can share some wisdom.
After checking certain reputable sources, I found that Doki Doki Family DOES have explicit adult content that's not available on Steam. This is a fairly normal practice, but the way it's handled here is odd. Normally these lewd VNs will have a fade to white to indicate where the content is censored. Doki Doki Family just...pans away from the naughty bits without removing them? That's the first time I've seen that, and boy is it awkward. At least the art itself is...acceptable. Nothing fancy or grossly wrong, merely acceptable.
As for the lack of an English dub, this is pretty common. I see a lot of VN enthusiasts strongly oppose the idea entirely, so that's how the market is. However, good localization is still very much appreciated. This script looks like it was Google translated, which is sadly commonplace for lower quality VNs like this one. It reeks of minimal effort and forethought.
Overall, it's rather hilarious that this VN has the nerve to charge $20 on Steam for an incomplete version that doesn't really do anything special. Even more funny is how the Switch eShop sells it as well. I guess Steam couldn't contain the plague of low quality pr0n games to itself, and Nintendo was somehow the best place to spread. Who would have thought? Anyways, best of luck navigating the rest of Steam. You'll need it.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom!
It's interesting that the first VN on Steam that I stumble onto just happens to be one of the worst adaptions of an adult VN.
Go figure.
@@Graeldon Looking forward to your thoughts on AI: The Somnium Files when you finally get around to mid letter A territory! (That is, if you're up to play a roughly 50 hour VN lol.)
As someone who plays a lot of VNs too, I'd be way too embarrassed to listen to a person say those lines in English!
Yeah I've bought a couple vns that were in the 20-30$ price range and even without many branching paths they were still at least somewhere in the 30-80 hour range and had good translations. With h-scenes either vanilla enough for steam or available in a free patch off steam. There are so many better vns for reading or jerking it to for much less money I don't see who decided an aggressively average hentai game with no hentai and google translate should be going for 20$
The thing with the "barometric pressure"... it's phrased super awkwardly which is unsurprising given the quality of the localization, but where I live it would indeed be a perfectly normal thing to say should you un-awkward the phrasing. Just your regular "how's the weather" non-conversation, the pressure being brought up because the local lore says it has an effect on people's general feeling of well-being (low pressure is supposed to make you mentally sluggish for example). I can imagine it can be like this in other places too, and perhaps Japan is one of those places.
I'm enjoying hearing some of the cultural context that I wasn't aware of - thank you for sharing!
What place is that, if you dont mind telling? Im just curious where people do those talks
@@wlodek7422 Poland
Oooh your first instance of an H-game!
Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of H-game trivia.
So, for starters, the backgrounds are indeed, assets, specifically I believe that classroom is from Tyrannobuilder, a visual novel engine that is popular among the japanese devs, so this is probably made with that engine.
Taking that information into account, the options menu is probably auto-translated, while the game has been actually translated. (That's also on the choose options, which btw wouldn't make much difference taking into account how long the game is).
All of this has been laid back in favour of, probably, paying a translator AND the voice acting. Voice acting is pretty important for the japanese and REALLY important for visual novels and a MUST on H visual novels, as far as common standards seem to go.
Last but not least, the lack of H. Most of the time the H games on steam doesn't have any kind of H, you have to go somewhere else to download a patch to apply to the game to uncensor it, that's the reason of the weird lack of H in a game that is SO obviously an H game. This explains the lack of "character development" too.
How do I know all of this? I should probably make a channel making reviews of H-games for the game side instead of the H. Sadly I don't think you'll find too many good games that were made as an H originally any soon, as steam has very few of them.
Maybe magical girl Celesphonia, or Light and Shadow Doppleganger, or Prison Principal Karin, or Dohna Dohna (this one is amazing, persona 5 but with a bigger color palette and almost no H and a more down to ground story) but I've seen most of these on GoG rather than steam, and there's still a long run until you stumble upon those I believe.
Anyways, still fun to see someone so not-versed about this kind of low-tier gaming stuff looking through it, it's interesting to see how an actual clueless person gets confused for things that for me seem so obvious and justified.
Have a nice one.
Thanks for taking the time to comment and share your knowledge!
I think there is potential in having a channel that reviews H-Games, but you might not be able to do that on UA-cam... not without heavy censorship anyway
I think the biggest risk is one of those reviews getting big and having a lot of people expect that
Dohna Dohna had plenty of H, it's an Alicesoft game so just also a lot of game in between. And you seem to only account for the H in a visual aspect, but the game has forced prostitution in its gameplay loop. Now I think Dohna is a great game as well, but that makes it impossible to recommend to people who aren't comfortable with Eroge regardless of how much you see of it.
If you are going to make a channel about shit like that , i think the viwers of your vídeos will not give a fuck for your content and just be there for this stupid games
@@covereye5731 I digress, as GTA has also a prostitution silly mechanic but It means almost nothing. In this case the prostitution serves as a mechanic quite clear in a context in which illegal goods are harder to import and sex slavery of whatever is inside the country is an easier tool.
But yeah I only count H as direct visual or described through text, which Dhona doesn't does too much as for the basic game loop, just a short image on the hustle screen.
With the presence of unnamed female characters now, I nominate that they all be called Lilly.
Love this, hope you don't mind if I borrow it for the future!
@@Graeldon Go ahead!
Ah yes, I do remember that there's Lily, Lily, and Lily
@@ArjunTheRageGuy don't forget about Lily too
@@matoiryuko9444 Yeah, and also Lily, and Lily, and Lily, and Lily, and *copypastes "and Lily" after every comma again and again*
The game is indeed a nsfw game that got censored on steam, and the censoring is very heavy, like for example the nsfw version you have scenes of the protagonist making the family members pregnant and all.
Is honestly quite weird since most nsfw games of this type in steam generally just remove nsfw scenes with a fade to black or literally cut off them, meanwhile this one actually rewrites stuff and crop them to make them sfw, if only the translation was better made.
I can't believe the Harlem ending has the entire family become a world renowned basketball team
This could have been a much better game if the protag decided to get his excitement through horror content and his family decides to help him by constantly scaring the shit out of him! :P
You're not wrong - I would have enjoyed a game like that! And imagine the twist of setting it up as a standard adult VN/Dating Sim, only to pull the rug from under the player
That would be absolutely hilarious as a major twist to the VN scene.
@@Graeldon imagine it turns more unsettling as what seems like another trick is slowly revealed afterwards that no one was actually behind it.
That sounds like a lot of fun
I feel like one could lead to the other.
Ah yes, barometric pressure. I talk about that all the time to my family when I wake up
I'd criticize this same thing if not for the fact that I joke with my (biochem student) brother about DNA polymerase, cuz of a hip hop song called "Culture Universal" by Sphere of Influence and Zeebra.
Interesting that it is the inverse of Katawa Shoujo, a visual novel in wich the protagonist's heart condition makes it hard to have relationships; it's also an actually good vn.
What's the options menu like?
@@GeorgeDCowleylegible and functional
I had no idea Goro joined the Moral Kombat tournament to treat his heart condition.
It's a doujin game most likely made with a visual novel builder program. The backgrounds are most likely default assets. The game was also originally released in 2018 and "remastered" for international release. It's also machine translated, which is the whole thing of the publisher that's helping to release these games in multiple languages outside of DLSite, where you can find this one for cheaper with all the adult content.
So strange that the adult version is actually cheaper. You'd think it would be more expensive than the version with the content removed
@@Graeldon The publisher probably jacked up the price so they could get a better cut after Valve takes its share.
Okay, since the father is just called "Father," I'm just picturing his lines spoken by Father from Kids Next Door.
I miss that show. C:KND was fantastic
So there's a cure that will make him unable to love and that's considered the bad ending. That's a yikes.
It doesn't sound like a golden ending, to be fair.
@@GeorgeDCowley I literally can't feel romantic or sexual attraction, I get it's not the ideal ending but it is annoying to keep seeing my normal be portrayed as a bad thing
@@thisisntevenmyfinalform6814 Fair enough. Is it specifically romantic love, though?
@@GeorgeDCowley I do feel platonic affection, it's just the romantic part I don't feel. like I can enjoy being around someone but I just couldn't imagine myself wanting to spend the rest of my life with someone else regardless of how much I like them, the idea is just alien to me
@@thisisntevenmyfinalform6814 I mean for Goro.
Watched the whole series up to date. Binged it all. Congrats on going from no release schedule to a set schedule
Thanks, it wasn't easy! But getting into a routine definitely helped things.
The pace will likely slow down when I reach some of the bigger games, but so far so good!
lol, the barometric pressure thing is ACTUALLY a fairly common conversation I have with my wife, it sounds less strange in Japanese, lol.
I think saying that you often feel sick or unwell when there is a change in the weather might be a a more natural way to translate it. I don't know.
That makes far more sense, and yeah it's likely a mis-translation. But it's a pretty jarring one for an English speaker
3:10 several of these background assets are free, not to discourage you, something that astounded me before i got into digital art. I can say for certain the living room, the classroom at 5:24, the 5:45 cityscape are assets you can get. I've used them in my art and seen them in several other visual novel.
I'm not sure if I'm pleased or disappointed that my hunch was right
Shout out to the homie Male Friend A
Ah, the memories. I also had a childhood friend called "Male Student A".
Also this game should be called "they're my sisters but not really, the simulator".
But for real, if youre gonna create an adult game at leaat have the audacity to include actual adult scenes (and program the menus with more than one hand, even if it's hard. Pun intended).
As someone with many migraine-prone friends from Calgary where chinooks run rampant, talk of barometric pressure changes were a common discussion in the mornings before profs came into the classroom, haha
I guess it is a regional thing that I hadn't been exposed to yet!
Also, hello from Vancouver!
@@Graeldon And hello from Saskatchewan! (Went to University in Alberta.) It's very much so a regional thing; it happens when warm air from the Pacific rolls over the Rockies, cools, then warms again as it goes down the mountain range and into Alberta. You thankfully wouldn't get them in Vancouver; they make for unpredictable weather at times, haha
This is what looks like when someone wants to be the main character and live out their own fantasy without sounding weird...yes I am doing all this to make a game.
For those wondering the ACTUAL title is " [Incarose] Ane Imo Mama no Shasei Kanri ~Tsuide ni Kodomo ga ". Its just an average seggs bishojo with average plot and gameplay. Look it up at your own risk!
I feel wet blanket should have been moist blanket given the content.
Or maybe a dry blanket. No idea why the characters are falling over themselves to compete for the MC. The cringe factor is extremely real.
I'm surprised the father actually exists even though his role is so minor, usually in this kind of stuff the dad is dead, divorced, indefinitely away on a business trip, etc. so he isn't "in the way"
So out of curiosity I checked the next game on the list and... it looks like another spicy but not actually spicy visual novel.
So let me salute you in your bravery for this journey that is building up to be pure madness.
Just getting into it now.... I originally considered combining the two games into one video, but with the separate "stories", and the length of the video after discussing one game I thought it would be best to split them
Well, turns out that games language servers are offline, so no English version available. Onto the next one!
@@Graeldon You can start the next video with a fake out, pretending to review a vn in a language you can't read :P
wait, how the hell does the ending scene with the dad go if you pick Sawa/the step mom? I can kinda get the dad being ok with Goro marrying one of his step sisters because Japanese families adopting a man in order to marry their daughter to take on the family business/name isn't uncommon (it's called a mukoyoshi), but does he really have nothing to say about you marrying your stepmom?? I know they mentioned that they sleep in separate rooms, I guess to indicate that they have a rocky marriage, but is he so much of a deadbeat he doesn't care if his adopted son marries his wife? Like, does he just tell Goro: "yeah ok you can have my wife now, I'm done with her," as if she's something he got bored with?
Only the ending with Suzune end with marriage and a child. Himari's ending has no marriage but it alludes she is pregnant.
Mother and Harem ending both have no closure
@@Graeldonunless we go to the version off steam, but that would be a one-way trip to demonetization
Not saying I've seen it, but.. you know.
At one point you mentioned that it's weird to talk about barometric pressure... But a couple of my family members were making small-talk about how changes in air pressure can make it difficult to sleep just a week ago.
Must be a cultural thing! I often hear the weather being spoken about in terms of humidity, rain or wind, but never pressure.
@@Graeldon Nah, just a funny coincidence :)
$20 that you could spend on a nice Korean BBQ dinner with tasty marinated Bulgogi and veggies and other sides you spent on a game that in summary says incest with step-siblings is perfectly fine even though everyone is still related legally among other things.
I just binge watched the whole playlist and I must say your channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Thank you for your efforts and thank you for making it entertaining.
I'm just glad to hear that people are enjoying the content =)
Welcome to the channel!
That pressure smalltalk is normal - it's common to associate a change in pressure with a change in attitude. Low pressure is, as pointed out by the MC - feeling cranky.
Apparently I am the wrong culture to be familiar with it!
I'm inmpressed at how offputting the music is. I sincerely was waiting for a stinger, but like the father, it never showed up. I'm enjoying the journey so far, Graeldon!
The tracks do each actually fade out eventually, I've looped it for the video. It was actually quite off-putting in the game because it would just end abruptly and then restart. Very odd
@@Graeldon Yah that sounds like something a horror vn would do to catch you with either splash out or a particular sound.
I genuinely cannot wait until you play Crystal Project as I feel that it is an absolutely fantastic game that nobody talks about!
The C's aren't too far away alphabetically, but around 50ish games per year, it's going to take a while... it'll be 2-3 years before I hit the letter A
@@GraeldonThat makes me curious, how long do you think "t" will take you to go through?
I bet this video will be the one to bring a lot of subscribers, just for the thimbnail and title alone.
I'm really enjoying your reviews, this has been a great series and channnel so far. Congratularions on your work and good luck in the future (and be careful with malware)
I'm glad you're enjoying the content! And yes, I'll be careful haha
As soon as you showed the backgrounds I instantly recognized them, yes, those are free visual novel assets, and some of those are really popular and easy to find, specially the school ones, I'm pretty sure they're also on Gacha Life (pretty much all the bg art there is also free assets)
Where is the option to have the main character have their heart condition get bad enough that they eventually just die in their sleep from cellular anoxia due to low heart rate?
Cant the protag just drink energy drinks to increase his heart rate?? Lol
Nah, he would probably die from that lmao, and since its a romance visual novel, I doubt something as realistic as just drinking them energy drinks for the heart rate would exist
@@ArjunTheRageGuy true lol
Couldn't the MC date someone NOT in his family?
You can't use logic in these game lol
@@Graeldon the game was probably just a social experiment at this point
The minute I saw that travesty of a text layout, I knew it was going to be bad. You could excuse it as it being a direct translation from Japanese with no localisation, but that only means they didn't put much effort into it at all. And that's just the beginning.
Thank you for your brave service of enduring this terrible game.
It's an honor to be of service!
me and my family do actually discuss barometric pressure sometimes, because we've noticed we get headaches at the same time sometimes and headaches can be caused by barometric pressure. That's thankfully where the similarities end, though
this was a missed opportunity to name the father larry
The entire time, it genuinely feels like the person who made this was in heat.
Like they where too horny to think clearly, but didn't want to go too far for the web
"with all the subtlety of a car crash" bro you absolutely murdered this "game" with words, quite deserved imho
Charging $20 for a visual novel with worse writing and production than ones you can find on Newgrounds for free is a level of hubris that would give pause even to Icarus.
Steam apparently removed some shovelware games, that should be good for your time and wallet.
Absolutely love your videos! Your narration is so clean and your analysis is great. Keep it up!
Thanks for the kind words!
11:50 Lol, some needs to make an otome game where you date the Harlem Globetrotters.
I'm kind of sad that I can't snipe your series with an 18+ game. Guess I'll have to settle for a long, expensive one.
Please don't make me broke - this series is going to be expensive enough as it is!
Through this entire video I had 2 thoughts: 1) I think Himari could do better than the uninteresting protag, and 2) Male Student A deserved better, he deserved at least one character sprite, he deserved happiness.
Anyways my solution to fix the game would be to let Male Student A get the girl in the end. Male Student A and Himari is my new headcanon couple and OTP for this game that I've never played.
That fucking intro terrified me 😭😭
As soon as I saw the intro: subscribed.
This is a very well written and edited series, feels like there's heavy inspiration from joshstrifehayes's worst mmo series. Do you have previous experience with editing and sound mixing and all or did you learn everything for your videos?
I've taken inspiration from Josh Strife Hayes for his presentation style, ThatOneVideoGamer (The Completionist) for the challenge, and The Cynical Brit for the review format. But hopefully this series is unique enough to stand on its own feet.
I had zero experience with editing and sound mixing before I started this series! 100% self taught, but learned a bit from tutorials and analyzing other content creators to see what works well
Yeah I mean, not being a morning person is probably one of the first things you'd find out about me too.
Horrid letter formatting like this is usually the hallmark of an incomplete fan translation patch, usually done with BepinEX and asset injection, or a certain automatic Google Translate plugin. Might be amusing to check the local files to see if it has BepinEX pre-installed (it'll be a pretty obviously labeled folder).
Protagonist of a visual novel with a weak heart? If I wanted that, I'd replay Katawa Shoujo.
I did a little digging on vndb (The Visual Novel Database) and it turns out the original game does have the p0rn parts and the game is machine translated, sadly which happens a lot of these days.
That doesn't surprise me, sadly.
Wow, first time I find one of those big gaming review channels before they blow up!
We'll see if it blows up, but it's encouraging that you think it will!
@@Graeldon I mean you basically did already. Cracking 4 digits is way harder than cracking 1 million.
From my perspective you're doing everything right, so it's only a matter of time for the algorithm to catch up.
One suggestion though if you care: I would add a little 10-15 second segment to every video of your "Steam in alphabetical order" series that both explains the premise a bit better and also serves as a reoccuring element. Maybe finding a "catchy" title for that format would be a good idea as well, I think most people would rather click on a game review from a random youtuber if it was part of a series like that.
Take my advice with a grain of salt though. I have no experience, I can onyl tell what I prefr and hat I want to believe to have picked up over the years as a viewer.
Well wish you luck anyway. You're only 7 months in apparently, so 2.3k subs is pretty respectable already!
Came for Arcane Raiser, stayed around for all the other terrible games you've suffered through so far, this isn't even the worst I've seen... it's at least a functional game!
Though this honeslty feels like a game where you have to hunt down a "special patch" for the content that is supiciously absent from the steam release xD
Thanks for taking the time to check out my other content!
If you check the comments you'll see that someone has indeed managed to track down the "special" version
Given the lack of a name for the father, his name is Larry.
Again, I love the concept of this channel. It's so cool!
Cheers! It's certainly a fun way to discover new games
This game is for literally no one, lol.
As someone who has suffered from hypochondria I know that self diagnosis from the internet is about the worst thing you can do. Speak to a real doctor first. Aside from that, I’ll have to admit, a romantic VN about someone who has to a heart condition and needs romantic stimulation to survive is actually a somewhat interesting premise
Aye no you’re completely right, I recognize that hallway still. I can’t remember where from, so put away your pitchforks. But I can swear I’ve seen it someplace before
wincing through this entire game ngl
Just the title alone sets off so many "What the hell is wrong with you Japan?" red flags.
Oh dude, this is so mild for Japan lol. The west is crazy enough now that this isn't even too wild anymore for us. We just had pride month after all.
@@Vulpas I suspect Pride events for adults are quite mild when compared to some of the American games we had in the 1980s before the rating system. AKA, there was literally Custer's Revenge and a game's title which we can't even say. Not to mention that DMT, marijuana, and ayahuasca fueled 'Member the Alamo tin foil game which was reviewed earlier on Steam.
Edit: Member the Alamo was so bizarre that one had to think that the developer was on multiple drugs at once and possible other drugs like meth. As in I was surprised that review didn't have Alex Jones rants in it. At las, the graphics of those games back in the pre-game ratings board era was also poor. But still there was games that would make most Japanese H-Games in terms of concept mild and other games which were so f'd up in 10 different ways (Christian games to push religions, Member the Alamo pushing conspiracies, etc).
@10:09 10/10 quality control
Devs: "What's quality control?"
This channel really needs more subscribers, i love the content bro
Thanks for the support! It's slowly growing 👍
Dont you dare compare my boy squall with such a log of wood
🤣🤣
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed FF8!
$20 for this? I wouldn't even pay $5.
I wouldn't even pay at all. Heck, I wouldn't download it if it was free.
can i just say that the song that constantly plays in this game sounds like im having a fucking nightmare
This game looks so tight. You can do ANYTHING in this game
i feel like a heart illness game where the mc has to do exciting stuff would be a fun premise on its own if it wasn't just used as a contrived way to segue into the "plot".
anyways you're doing the lord's work with this series! i hope you can keep this up for as long as you can.
if you need more funds, why not set up a ko-fi? that way people can give you the money needed to buy these games instead of having to pay it all out of your wallet.
good luck man!!
I'll be opening up channel memberships soon =)
It's been okay while the games are relatively cheap, but I'm sure that won't always be the case
Isn't there a movie series about that?
@@GeorgeDCowley i don't know if there is. would be nice to watch it though
@@GeorgeDCowley Yup, it's called "Crank" iirc.
I take offense to the jokes in this review. My best friend in highschool was named Male Student E.
On a serious note, the real-world reason for the doki doki heart condition in this story is obvious, but the line about reading romance novels and watching romantic comedies made me think. Someone with a medical condition that forces them to watch morkish romantic comedies/romance stories that they feel somewhat self-conscious about enjoying, seems like a quirky and cute character trait for someone in a dating sim or even H game. Or maybe the idea of an H-game protagonist shamefully admitting to their love interest that they have a medical condition that requires them to watch The Notebook just made me laugh.
Caught up to your recent video after seeing the Arcane Raise video recommended to me, definitely following your channel. Reminds me a bit of Josh Strife Hayes Worse MMO series and Iron Pineapple's Steam Dumpster diving if those two were combined.
Love that you picked up on those two content creators as influences, I love both of them!
I've also taken inspiration from The Completionist and TotalBiscuit.
Definitely trying to put my own spin on things though
14:32 The NoData scene. Obviously the best one.
Something I'd really like with this series is some sort of list, probably at the end of each episode, of each of the games you've done, and whether you thought they were good or not.
'Cause while I'm Mostly here to see how much garbage there is, shown in some amount of thoroughness and detail, seeing a list of games that might be worth looking at further would be good.
Heya! I'm thinking of starting a spreadsheet to track all the games covered, as well as adding the steam store link in the description of the videos 👍
Hopefully that will help!
Hey Glaeldon, I know the series is currently about going through Steam in alphabetical order, but I feel like there's a lot of interesting games that you won't get to by this method. Have you considered on in order of one game of the alphabet, then looping back around to try and get more variety in? Basically, go one game with A, then B, then when you hit Z, loop back to A. If you don't wanna do this I completely understand. I just figured I'd propose an option.
I did consider that, but I'm not sure it would add much variety other than just which letter of the alphabet I'm doing. I think the advantage of the current method is that it's easier to follow, and even look ahead to see what games are coming up next.
Plus Steam is incredibly hard to sort/navigate on that scale. You can't even reverse the alphabetical order in the store.
This is my third video from this channel and i've just fallen in love. Hope to see more bad games (but also some good ones, hopefully)
Thanks for taking the time to check out the channel!
Goro was too much of a coward to hook up with Male Friend A. Just think, it would’ve solved the problem of missing his “appointment” AND the problem of having to marry his sister
Since when has CyberStep been making cheap visual novels ? They are mainly known for cheap Free To Play MMO games like Onigiri and Cosmic Break
This released in 2022, so it's fairly recent
I really like this video series concept, looking forward to more-- just subscribed
Thanks for the support! Plenty of interesting games ahead!
What an uncomfortable game lol
I applaud you for finishing this.
A lot of these games are the stuff of nightmares, I don't know how you can handle them.
I have a lot of curiosity and patience, and a willingness to endure for the entertainment of others 😅
If the "quality" of games you're subjecting yourself to keeps up this pace, you'll be fit for a guest appearance on an Ashens stream in the near future. 🤣
I don't know enough about Ashens to know if this is a good thing or not haha
Hey, i discovered your channel a few days ago and have been watching the videos from the oldest to newest. As you can see, i'm now caught up ^^.
I was thinking that it would be nice to have a list of which games you recommend, which are playable but not particularly interesting, which are to be avoided, and other such categories. I don't think many people will remember which games were good 6 months later, and going through each video again every time somebody is looking for games will become more and more of a chore as you review more games; and i haven't seen any link to such a list in your video or channel descriptions.
I'm not sure how you would implement that, the easiest way to do it that i can think of would be by making different playlists. Maybe you can figure out something better?
Anyway, thanks for the videos :)
Hey, thanks for the suggestion! I'm planning on doing a top 5/bottom 5 every 100 games to help highlight some of the ones worth looking at. I've also had another viewer recommend adding links to the steam store page so people can easily find the game.
I may also look at creating a google spreadsheet to track the recommended and non-recommended games
anddd now im caught up to the whole series! judging by the upcoming games in the series there seems to be even more visual novels to come
Welcome back to the top! You might be in for a bit of a surprise with the next episode...
@@Graeldon either way im exited to see your next videos :)
The fact the options menu is so crap is especially jarring, because I recognize something pretty similar. This looks like a Ren'py game-which has the same menu options, but a less horrible screen for choosing them, so they would have actively had to change the default to be worse.
In fairness, it looks less horrible in Japanese, which is the games default language. But to not take the time to get the letter spacing and wrapping correct is just lazy dev work.