I have managed to avoid a lot about this besides: 1) eitaku is the way, 2) takumi take a rest, 3) yugamu

starting with EN audio just since I do appreciate the option

takumi's mom: would

the expository dialogue is coming on a bit heavy in some places which makes it all the funnier when there are things it's like "we're not telling you anything about this"

i wonder if the teachers in this setting allow for exemptions to tardiness if there's a shelter drill

probably no excuse for shiba inu tho

YAAAAY ENJOY remind me if you need any extensive trigger warnings but

the first couple hours are a little slow but

yeah, with many games I accept the beginning is going to be a getting through situation

shove the sword in your chest do it do it says the weird pervert mascot

it is EXTREMELY funny how, via fandom, i did not get a whiff of karua and I'm excited to see how much of this is fandom being fandom and how much may be tied to other things

(i am always sweating about getting Sayaka-baited ala DR1)

"Don't Do Anything" taunting me there like a green goblin mask even if I mash skip on all the cutscenes leading up to this again

bloody naked henshin???????

ooooooh the voltage cut ins are nice

yay 100 line! enjoy! it's such a good game

"it's a killing game!" woah there, miss, watch out, that lampshade's expensive

takumi is the most normie right now, darumi, he's got a childhood friend his mom approves of you eats breakfast with him despite it not being her house....

takumi is Just A Guy

gaku making a stellar first impression

"we all appear to be the same age, give or take, is this a coincidence?" brother it couldn't be any more school-themed that limits the age range

ohhhhh, this is, uh. this is a lotta siscon, dude.

they are fucked up but they arent actually fucked up like THAT (we were all afraid)

As someone without any triggers in that direction I feel like that would still be more normal than whatever is being presented to me here...........................

i respect darumi's commitment to the killing game idea, at least

I would say that the vague things I know about Eito and eitaku are polluting my perception but it doesn't help that Eito is a Joshua (TWEWY) level of "ok the fuck's your deal" very fast.

"omg takumi are you going to fight" yea, like, i bought this game? and i'd like to engage with its mechanics

SPITS

i share a birthday with eito

knowing vague things won't totally ruin his appeal dw

"hey what's gonna stop me from just darumi-chaining everythin- oh right AP"

anyways important fact I should have known before relying on it: can't spin your character to aim their voltage move

"if you all had been there, she wouldn't have died!" i mean. she ran ahead in a cutscene, man, I think that's on her

laughing at "don't worry, we put a new bomb in you"

so far the only thing i don't like about hiruko is that she thinks sirei is cute

SITS UP oh im excited to watch your descent

eito "oh no my symptoms" aotsuki

Yeah, I figured most of the people who would care to see were here!! so why not... record reactions...

"wow there's more rooms i wonder what for" taps watch, taps assassin freak

you should be able to spin before voltage i think its just like, before confirming?

idk its finicky

could it? I'll have to try next time

"what does this number indicate" >it says 98, >it's day 2 of 100
takumi, bruh

i know you dont have to like, spend a move positioning or anything, its just a little weird sometimes i think

also hes not that smartest.

he's just a little stupid

his reaction to "let's study" was "maybe i can guess enough"

anyways the siblings are already saying things that make me question if the TRC is truly idyllic or perhaps takumi is just privileged (not like poverty can't exist it's just always funny when some fictional manufactured minimal human containment zone still has poverty)

checks every bathroom to see if i can piss like it's a david cage game

incredible

"so long as the enemy doesn't come from space we're fine" sweats, they'

they're gonna come from space aren't they.....................

I am very fond of "Ding dong bing bong" it does tickle me

DING DONG BING BONG

Goddamn plurk auto emoji. Ding dong bing bong!

curse staggered content releases, c'mon sirei, overwhelm me with mechanics and units and systems

"hope... more like despair" pointing, they're saying the lines, that's despair, baby

local boy fucked up by seeing the moon and a ghost for the first time in one night

moooooon

wheezing at the last resort mechanic explanation............. go ahead and die

"ok this time SURELY he'll tell us everything" takumi i wanna sell you a bridge in los angeles

im sure it'll happen and nothing bad will occur

eito: why does no one like my cool plan to escape with no other plan im having anxiety

cries at the lil takumi exploration sprite

theyre making nuis using the exploration sprites

aw it's not voiced, i was excited to see the VA try "Prepare to get pwnzored, noobs!"

buddy you can't just call a joshua-type character a friend that fast you're already in the plot meat grindeer

honestly i would love the subversion if sirei is just fuckin' gone from the game because, like i said earlier, i'm not really fond of the cartoonish, pervy, weirdo mascots that have gotten interlocked with this genre

I do like your little starting party quite a bit in terms of gameplay, motives for joining, etc.

"how did no one know these things were attacking before?" takumi. the drills. takumi i'm snapping my fingers. pay attention takumi.

your hatred of sirei is more justified than you know

thank you for saving us eito but, yes, the friendship speech is a bit much

ok yeah i think i did have to "select" the special before I could rotate it...... UI design is our passion etc etc

oh boy i get to choose who gets to execute enemy officers

my wonderful warcrime wife

PHEW.... 3.5 hours down.... many more to go

hiruko my blorbo...

Takumi my blorbo
Absolute "that's just some guy"

someone has to be Just a Guy among all these freaks

a bit more progress tonight, starting with hiruko firmly setting down her iron fist

darumi where did you even get an oldschool eroge..............

darumi knows her way around

brain poison of getting new rooms and thinking "oh i wonder how someone's gonna get murdered in these"

>gift-o-matic unlocked
>scalpel
wonder who that's for (knowing)

before i knew about yugamu i thought it was for darumi

nodding softly at all of gaku's gurgling pathetic noises

.................. fashionable sick pouch huh...................

I'LL PUKE WITH YOU??

I get with Tsubasa I'm definitely being tutorialized on the concept but I wonder how much is actually going to feel like a puzzle versus just another mechanism of learning about character.

I was thinking about this the last few days but with games like this and the Persona series the advancing clock is difficult since you can't really go in and say you're hitting the story or just grinding materials because you can't avoid the inevitable passage of time.

Persona games didn't "rush" me in that I'd usually complete the objective really early into a month but then if the end of the month was going to hit it was time for cutscenes and the processes of introducing the next story beat...

it's not a bad format it's just a format I need to be really, like, ready to tackle

there

there's a LOT less stuff to juggle than persona games, at least

don't worry too much about it, especially in the part you're playing

I'm not worried about it so much as thinking, ah, hm, this whole chunk I'm sitting down to play tonight might be scripted recruitment scenes with no real battles or choices.

oh yes. yes it might be.

testing my cognitive functions with some before bed reading

hey kako blink twice if you need help

W- WE'RE HERE TO NEGOTIATE say the stammering beta males to the girl in a swimsuit

you're telling me i got denied the opportunity to watch mr. siscon try and seduce hiruko............... tragic

let's hear it for day 16 (a short one)

ghost fella one again giving us the good ol' :| :|

"takumi.... ur gay......"

only gonna get gayer im sure

also hoo boy this sure looks like a dramatic set-up for some stragglers to join up in combat, time to see how i fare without skull crushing

TSUBASA GETS A WHOLE VAN??

i think some of us should petition for cooler hemoanimas

the hemoanima get cooler and cooler and its like. wow sucks to have a boring one

every time eito starts talking friendship juice "shut up eito"

my name is sarah and i CONSISTENTLY forget about stun

darumi: kill! grow stronger!!

i'm glad tsubasa gets a nice treat (the garage) after suffering so much (hurl city)

gaku's little frog mouth sometimes is moe.

i did not need to know about takemaru's leopard print shiny undies

yes you did

nice to run into a new enemy type (shield flower buds?) in VR instead of being blindsided their gimmick in a real map

eito: i can't be the leader i have more a gay vizier energy don't it
takumi: damn u rite

damn i got piped and now i'm gonna die in the desert

THERE'S A WHOLE 'NOTHER SCHOOL?? EXCUSE ME?

POINTS!!! YOU (GAMU)!!

its HIM

h- how do you make your mask do that, miss

hoo boy well the dream before showing up here did suggest amnesiac/unremembering karua, whether that's what's actually true or not

NIGOU SO HELP ME GOD IF YOU DON'T KEEP NOT TELLING ME THINGS

yugamu is extremely thirsty and i can only imagine he's on a leash (not like that, although he's like it?) around the girls but he could prove me wrong

miss tomato takes the slightest look as sign takumi is gonna splooge so i'm not sure how she and yugamu coexist peacefully

I NOTICE... UH... NOZOMI'S IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. HEY THERE.

oh ok thank god nozomi just falls back at 0hp i was worried i'd have to redo the wave

oh my god the real struggle do i let yugamu kill the commander or miss tomato... i like them both...

yugamu can have this one............... special privilege

"you've got to take it out!" 99 shield. yea man i don't think that's happening.

KAKO JUST BLINK TWICE WE CAN KNOCK THAT MAN OUT

they're really not handing me good moments to pause and end for the night

DING DONG BING BONG WE BROUGHT NEW FREAKS

tbh during the second to last segment I was wondering if they were gonna balance things between the two or if there would be tactical decisions and then as it was all playing out it was like... "(peaceful smile) yea that makes more sense"

Ding dong bing bong there's more weirdos in the academy

please, u freaks, i have work tomorrow, where was this energy when i had bloodlust

please, u freaks, is the energy of 100 line to such an extent it should be the tag line

^^^^

well i did say oosuzuki was gonna get the next commander kill, i didn't realize that would be within the hour

glad they're filling me up with BP that will all melt once i start upgrading these children

don't like that it didn't auto-send me to bed, mashes save and turns off the console before it can catch me in more cutscenes

I was maybe gonna stay up until ten, now it's ten thirty... evil children...

okieeee.... time to play a bit tonight, starting from day 30 now that the two schools have merged

folds my hands to watch

your freak man is here, now, he thinks we're all adorable

I wonder if the term was different or if the sentence "World Death has decimated the human population" was as funny in the original language.

super high school level ass shit

MURDERLIZE ISN'T OK?? C'MON BUDDY... HE EVEN CALLED YOU PRETTYBOY...

darumi politely reminds everyone the killing game is ready to go at any time

she knows her priorities

"if sirei or hiruko were here" ok bold to assume hiruko wouldn't somehow make it worse and we'd have three factions fighting each other

the groups fighting does feel very like "oh, we're doing this now??" and while it does make sense it feels funny that like... truly if ima kept his fucking mouth shut we could have avoided it today

gaku and kurara probably would have got there fast enough on their own tho

i will say stuff like this luckily doesn't drag on for TOO long. i feel like each in-game week has its own arc

oh yea, it'd make sense. plus like... everyone's got beef until the monsters show up

"i'd be sure any changes i made were tasteful" bro

oh, right, the game reminding me takumi got absolutely brained and picked up by someone to get where he did. gotta keep that thought in my back pocket.

eito: takumi have you heard of alternate universes

"it's like when two video game companies merge. the flagship series always goes down!" "i feel sorry for the fans" HEY QUIT BEING META BACK THERE

oh i see i can make a potion of lose all your health

puts funny little points into leveling up funny little assassin

i can't gift my funny little guy a scalpel yet... conflict must be resolved.................

"it shouldn't matter is someone's blood is special right?" TAKUMI, BROTHER, THE GIRL YOU'VE BEEN THNIKING ABOUT NONSTOP FOR THE LAST X IN GAME DAYS? WHERE SHE CAN'T USE IT RIGHT?

takumi nervously looking up from everyone sullen, crying, or fuming: who! wants! to go! exploring!

day 34, this is the day when things will randomly be porny, right? then on day 63 everyone will be a different gender for the day?

today's exploration didn't go great as gaku was immediately hit by a truck

yeah sounds about right

takemaru sure loves to comment on yugamu's weirdness like... is that something (yaoi appraisal eye)

kurara and kyoshika obvious have some failyuri energy

and ima is in love with stirring shit, to the point it is actually starting to annoy me more than shouma's self deprecation. really can we just excise him and get kako someone new to be codependent with.

your yaoi appraisal eye is good I happen to love takegamu

2nd to last defense academy is like all failyuri. and yugamu

yugamu is the one bi guy at the lesbian bar

it's been extremely funny how the murderassassin guy isn't really instigating any of this conflict, just occasionally making it a lil' worse by saying weird shit

yugamu is genuinely one of the most reasonable people

darumi is fully ready and committed for masopetplay and i hope she gets it no matter what matters

I have trouble believing a guy could go 38 days without having a heart attack about his absent dog. Like, that's the number one thing I know about dog lovers.

(meanwhile, the alternate realities, monsters, and assassin surgical modifications i can entirely believe of course)

"She's got me twisted up sexual style!" gaku i'm putting you on the frontlines

TAKEMARU VOLUNTEERED TO HELP SENIOR CITIZENS TRAIN FOR A FESTIVAL... BABY...

"we have to have faith in them" oh i have no faith in them

before i load into the gym it would be EXTREMELY funny if shouma gained a whole new set of sprites from his workout and was now more in line with the art style of everyone else. i don't really want that so much as i want someone with his plain-ness and style to still be a loveable, realized character but it would also be funny

also i am calling my shot that this will reveal shouma didn't even eat the curry in question because that has also been the least believable thing

spittake

i was just sitting here WAITING for you to find out

this sure is something

WHAT ART BUDGET WENT TO JUST THIS SCENE

it is extremely funny how nozomi was like "no our hemoanima is metaphorically significant!" but everyone's just sort of boldly watching kurara beat the shit out of him

fists aren't metaphorically significant

closes eyes and screams MOEEEEEEEEEEE

SHE'S SOOOO CUTE

"i'll give you all the money you want!" "40- no, 50,000 yen!" gaku. gaku, eyes on the prize here.

I do think I like Kurara's persona a bit more than "sowwy sowwy ;_;" but I'll need more exposure to decide if that angle negates my huge blorbo feelings towards her.

I was expecting to go to bed after the duel but now we've got a map and either way I need to keep playing to see if Muscle Shouma continues or not.

oh and we're already getting bread crumbs of moko!! (darumi shut up you're not in a video game that's silly now go take the 1hp potion and explode for me)

still very funny their transformations come with eyeliner

tabs over to briefly watch the b squad animate at the commander for a bit. stretch, shovel, sword, stretch, shovel, sword.

again i didn't not believe cocoa or the things cocoa said about yugamu's arms but seeing it is very... damn. his arms do be doin' that.

HE DO BE STRETCHING

i need him to do this one day for aak to see but also hes canonically embawassed about them

i feel like hundred line is a game where fans are understanding of "i believe the things you told me. but also what the fuck."

LMAOOOO

can he tie them in a knot can he do own-arm-bondage

im so glad you got to see muscle sho,a

homa

shoma

oh shit it's kaa-style hypnotism truly this game has a fetish for everyone

extreme squinting and wondering if i need to murder my comrades (i'll figure it out, no worries)

aw man it won't even let me try and bumrush the boss immediately? rude

<- woman whose primary tactical skill is overwhelming violence

slothplaying: a knot yes. bondage possibly but he's too shy

the hypnotism was spicy indeed

look, aak's gonna wanna tug on his arms and test those limits, why you bein' shy now lil' freakie boy.................

anyways, ahem, on topic

A FUCKING MECH???

imagine being takumi with your boring ass sword and someone gets a goddamn gundam

kills it with reflect damage for swag points

i'm glad takumi said "this is where we all start working together as one big team" or i wouldn't have known he's such a helpful protagonist

made it this far without the enemies getting a legit kill on my guys... hello weird freakling monsters....

that said i definitely took too much damage in the brainwashed phase so, uh. hm.

eito is worryingly strong, i can feel the game's attempts to endear him to the player both in being a weirdo yaoibait AND being a lil busted mechanically

god both non-boss sides are handled, gaku somehow managed despite tsubasa getting destroyed super early in the wave

it would also be less dire if i hadn't let nozomi get shot with the brainwashing arrow

sometimes we all gotta get a little brainwashed. for flavor

this is how aak can win the flustering war...his one weakness

look in wave 3 it was a single blockable shot and then in wave 4 it was suddenly AOE i can't be held responsible for the healer getting brainwashed

(yugamu also got brainwashed but that was tactically after he'd stunned himself and i finished it off before he recovered)

it's a very funny idea to make shouma kill this commander like way to go little guy with no active attacking moves! now kill.

gaku's getting it because I honestly expected his side was gonna make me reset so the funky little poverty goblin can have it

oh he's so not happy about it, delicious

gaku has such a good commander kill

RANK C yea............... yea i deserved that

its my fav right next to yugamus

and darumis

what a good chunk of progress for the night... time2save and quit...

im glad you got to experience the fun interschool fight

I'm so impressed by, like, I'm playing the Steam release so I see achievement stats. And I'm like ten hours in now. and the achievement for making an enhancement/trap is ~70% and like... I know it's mainly that the game is still new and hasn't been on a steep discount so most people who own it Are the sickos who deeply wanted to play it

im sickos

there's just something about it that makes me smile, especially in a world where some games have "complete the tutorial" as a less than 50% achievement

when theres a steep discount. or if it wins any awards this year. oh boy

theres a mechanic they dont introduce until like day 80 <3

Yeah, I have been warned that the first go around is, like... a lot more of a Prologue/Round 0 and could take 40 hours by itself.

I'm more a mechanics sicko than a story sicko but I have been enjoying the weird twists and turns and I'm a sicko-in-law for these blorbos.

altho maybe i'll become a kurara sicko. the only thing i could do more stupid than playing an adult oc woman in a sex game would be an underage anime girl where the tomato stays on during sex

the tomato stays ON!!!!! during sex

i feel like route 0 only took me like. 25 hours??? but it depends on your gameplay speed

hundo is a game that exponentially speeds up as you play

THE TOMATO STAYS ON

if you do please. i love writing kurara and yugamu together he's like her weird pervert attack dog

i realized peacock had a gaku but i didnt know you had a yugamu too... ough.... you cant do this to me

I am a pretty quick reader which speeds up a lot of it. i assume the actions you choose for free time might also wobble it one way or another.

we do. we've got two whole boys. poses holding them up.

i think also how long you take on the battles makes a difference (i played on baby mode)

hewwo am yugamus

There is no known user thetomatostayson at Dreamwidth Studios. everyone here is lucky i refuse to act on impulse when it comes to usernames

kurara is secretly a freak

hi i play eito and sometimes takumi and ough i do miss peacock........... wait let me not derail this plurk

kurara is a freak who likes to push her perversion on other people to pretend she isnt a pervert

yea i was gonna say isn't half the shit she says to kyoshika/takumi her own thinly veiled fetishism... she is out there accusing everyone of master baiting

look if she was harsh on shouma because she saw her own shy and cowardly self then all the "YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT JERKING IT"................................

its gotta get sweaty under that tomato kurara

I do look forward to seeing the distribution of character for her because, like, obviously not only is she sharing the spotlight with all the other students but also... herself...

I don't wanna think about things too hard though especially in... route 0, lmfao

yeah everyone (mostly everyone) gets some spotlight eventually

YEAH you have lots of time and things to see

this game really does have a fetish for everyone and it has my favorite one so many times over

I may not be playing tonight but I saw this Tumblr post and thought of you all and Hundred Line.

im not paying that child support

im never known a game more accurate to that than hundo

Thank you for being pregnant

i'm the one who left this message so it would greet me when i came back... cool...

anyways, a few hours of playtime before sleep takes me

especially since i may Need Knowledge for Reasons

i knew it. i knew he didn't eat the curry.

i'm vinidicated.

anyways it looks like the twins might be up next on the plot table? i wouldn't mind getting them out of the way so ima can be a bit less douchey. but we might have our rescue gal, too...

hehe

"The planet tried to kill itself... it can do that?!" my thoughts exactly, takumi, like damn

shouma is a good noodle

i can't believe 100line is our fate for ignoring climate change

yaay another s on a vr mission... playing video games in my video game

shouma buddy does your body just do this now

oh god kurara's breakfast curry took gaku back a few decades in comic art

yugamu fondly remembering his first poisoning

"how did i know i would like [boxing gloves]?! are you that in love with me!?" girl i watched you uppercut shouma until you were wheezing

yugamoe

ima. ima buddy are you locking your sister in her room. ima you're so lucky takumi can only fit one thought in his head at once and it's karua right now.

(looks at map icons) are you locking her in YOUR room???

>gifts shouma a trash can and he loves it
>man are we all ok

MOON'S FAKE???

nozomi is extremely trusting that moko must have just kicked ass and got in here herself and while i wish she's right i am doubtful

(cocking gun) moon's fake

"Brother and sister, alone together... P-Perhaps they're... Nay, such a thing would be far too outrageous!" you know, for being raised on manga................. you're allowed, kyoshika, even if i bitterly smile about it

oh, i see our courtyard has some tasteful human cages! how stylish!

"After that, I was restrained by Yugamu and forced to listen to his explanation on the sex appeal of the anatomical model." nods softly

takumi, like two days later: oh shit right the ghost i was supposed to tell people about

i think we should let takemaru do a violence. ima isn't a girl (unless there's some more plot coming) so takemaru can hit him.

cute that yugamu would kill takemaru to get him "healed" faster tho, like, mr romantic willing to get a bit handsy

"She's meant to be protected, not a protector." i will protect your teeth out of your mouth

all the "no" spamming... not even a "but thou must" dialogue snippet, takumi's a fuckin' chode refusing to let me say no. i actually would rather have your sister over you.

can't believe the game's done so good at making me hate a femmy short siscon

oh, kako's grumpy sprite is cute. pout about your brother stabbing people, babygirl

ima is. at his worst in this section

hes less hateable later i swear

he hasn't been great before this!

Like, I'm sure he gets better later, that is how the progression generally goes, he's just been behind a lot of the conflicts we've gone through... i get it, dude, you're neurodivergent and a minor. but consider. blood attack.

"do you think someone who just wants to control their sister would do something like [offer to fight in her place]?" yes.

takumi is allowed to be as stupid as a bag of bricks, though, it's not like he's ever seemed really morally good in these persuasion scenes, he's always just pointed at a complicated moral issue and goes "uh, shit, time to make a gift."

i respect takumi's gormless "whew! guess that was all i could do. -free time-"

anyways when kako said she wanted to be a detective i imagined her with her hair down. and perhaps a cup of pot noodle on her head. (i don't think the design is supposed to be evocative just, like, pointing. dangly romps.)

yaaay free time

huh, while obviously everyone here will fight eventually it is funny to see a kako option during exploration before we've seen her officially join.

oh, yo, it's "invaders running in" cutscene! it's been a while, man!

somebody needs to take yugamu on his offers to lovingly murder them its not like it'll STICK smfh

i know really. how is nobody else freaky enough to try it

oh! does kurara's real face show up for her hemoanima now. it does!

i was trying to catch shouma's dopey face but i've got ojousama disease

"i'm not gonna die just for that" ok takemaru hey also drink this desperation potion and go blow up

FOG OF WAR????

FOG OF WAR

oh wait what killing one mist guy ended the wave? or- was there a timer?

I LOVE HER RIFLE...

the two genders are gun and goth

i'd like to apologize for sometimes forgetting tsubasa is a unit because my mind doesn't parse van = my student

oh shit are we gonna put this lady in our cage

theres no human rights violations in war

"is this a foreign language?" of course it is you fuck fa (remembers there's one pocket of humanity and they all speak the same language) damn

"Can we really kill someone who's this afraid to die, though?" this invader is so lucky hiruko isn't here. we'd be mopping her up already.

honesty a b for that shitshow of a battle is more than i deserve

it's CRIMINAL there's not an art asset for flicking the twins' foreheads, i had to watch kurara uppercut so many men and no moe takemaru punishment??

h'okay.... saving on day 57. guess we did manage to get the twins before moko and more of the weird-ass stuff is piling up.

can't wait to take care of my prisoner of war