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I'm now actually playing Zanki Zero: Last Beginning, a game I'd previously only seen Let's Played!
Zanki Zero never got a big audience, and I can see why. The gameplay is sort of offputting and frustrating, and it's easy to get stuck; I've had to turn to the Internet for help on many occasions. It tackles a lot of dark topics, which could limit its audience, and it's also poorly paced; most of the 'traumatic backstory' sequences aren't really relevant to the wider plot, so they feel like they're slowing things down.
But there's so much I love about this game!
The concept is unique and fascinating: eight human clones as the last remnants of humanity after the apocalypse, surviving by constantly transferring their memories to new short-lived clone bodies. I've never seen anything like it before.
I like the characters, and I love how intensely they bond in their bizarre, isolated situation, and I love that you can canonically pair them all up with each other. Short of Sense8, I've never felt so supported in my desire to see everyone in a big polyamorous tangle.
Everyone is self-loathing! There are some really cool plot revelations! My favourite pairing canonically attempts bondage while one of them has the uneasy feeling the other might be a murderer! There are tentacles!
('Oh, I gave Zen a paralysis-curing tentacle!' I exclaimed, when Ryo got paralysed. I switched Zen into the party and had him use his tentacle on Ryo. Ginger watched in great confusion. I'm still extremely curious about the exact mechanics of using your tentacles to heal your friends.)
The best thing I've discovered while looking through the menus: bondage artist Ryo can learn the skill 'Bondage Play', which reduces his stress level whenever he attacks an enemy with his tentacles.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that I absolutely understand why this game never got a bigger fandom, but I still wish this game had a bigger fandom. It's got a pretty much canonical OT7 and nobody's written it! (Outrageously, the fandom has also failed to exploit the fact that one of the characters is a bondage artist who can manifest tentacles.)
Zanki Zero never got a big audience, and I can see why. The gameplay is sort of offputting and frustrating, and it's easy to get stuck; I've had to turn to the Internet for help on many occasions. It tackles a lot of dark topics, which could limit its audience, and it's also poorly paced; most of the 'traumatic backstory' sequences aren't really relevant to the wider plot, so they feel like they're slowing things down.
But there's so much I love about this game!
The concept is unique and fascinating: eight human clones as the last remnants of humanity after the apocalypse, surviving by constantly transferring their memories to new short-lived clone bodies. I've never seen anything like it before.
I like the characters, and I love how intensely they bond in their bizarre, isolated situation, and I love that you can canonically pair them all up with each other. Short of Sense8, I've never felt so supported in my desire to see everyone in a big polyamorous tangle.
Everyone is self-loathing! There are some really cool plot revelations! My favourite pairing canonically attempts bondage while one of them has the uneasy feeling the other might be a murderer! There are tentacles!
('Oh, I gave Zen a paralysis-curing tentacle!' I exclaimed, when Ryo got paralysed. I switched Zen into the party and had him use his tentacle on Ryo. Ginger watched in great confusion. I'm still extremely curious about the exact mechanics of using your tentacles to heal your friends.)
The best thing I've discovered while looking through the menus: bondage artist Ryo can learn the skill 'Bondage Play', which reduces his stress level whenever he attacks an enemy with his tentacles.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that I absolutely understand why this game never got a bigger fandom, but I still wish this game had a bigger fandom. It's got a pretty much canonical OT7 and nobody's written it! (Outrageously, the fandom has also failed to exploit the fact that one of the characters is a bondage artist who can manifest tentacles.)