Weekly Try A Thing: The Pirate's Fate cleared
A friend graced my Steam inbox this morning with a certain VN that just came out the other day.
That friend got keysmashed at, and I flailed, and then I played through it, knocking out the first route I gunned for in about two hours (plus an added hour of trying to overcome a technical issue that seems to be pre-existing.)
Let me start by saying: You already know if you want this. And this is 500% exactly what you expect it is.
You start in media res as Mila, a petite feline spice merchant who has been rescued by a band of pirates after a shipwreck. Said pirates are hunting after a series of magical coins of considerable power, one of which you conveniently own.
Suffice to say, you do not stay petite, given that these coins have magical transformation powers.
This is.... this is not just somebody's fetish, this is somebody's fetishes. Along with the obvious transformation, there's pretty heavy muscle and weight gain undertones going through a fair bit of it. An early choice sets you up to either avoid a conflict or take the element of surprise. Being aggressive leads you to buff out, turning sleeker, more toned... and avoiding combat makes you soft, in a quite plush, literal sense. There are other consequences than that, mind you, as I'm pretty sure that's one of the Major Plot Forks, but as far as transformation, that's about as spontaneous and egregrious as you should expect.
In other words: Yes, this is absolutely someone's fetish fic. Mind you, it's fantastic fetish fic. The characters are nuanced and have layers of depth to them, and even if I call it "fetishy" it's a safe for work sort of fetish. I wouldn't expect any more lewdness than you'd get out of, say, an episode of Totally Spies. (That, of course, also means it's about as worksafe as that horny-ass cartoon. Which is to say: only on the most technical "there is no porn" sense.)
Also, the ending I got (whereupon Democracy Might Have Been A Mistake But Hey, I Totally Banged A Curvy BatFox Princess) implies there's at least eight "routes" and at least twice as many endings there. There's replay value.
This game probably isn't going to convert you into a furry overnight the way Undertale did to people. This is a niche, and if you're in it, or interested in it, you already know. But if you're already there, then it's fun, pretty quick to push through, and at least compelling enough to play through a few times.
If I had any complaints at all, it's that the voices are... well, they're on the lower end of "just sort of there". They don't add much, and it's about the level of quality you'd expect from a Kickstarter budget. You don't miss much if you turn 'em off, at least from what I've seen.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. Original at https://swordianmaster.dreamwidth.org/111647.html
That friend got keysmashed at, and I flailed, and then I played through it, knocking out the first route I gunned for in about two hours (plus an added hour of trying to overcome a technical issue that seems to be pre-existing.)
Let me start by saying: You already know if you want this. And this is 500% exactly what you expect it is.
You start in media res as Mila, a petite feline spice merchant who has been rescued by a band of pirates after a shipwreck. Said pirates are hunting after a series of magical coins of considerable power, one of which you conveniently own.
Suffice to say, you do not stay petite, given that these coins have magical transformation powers.
This is.... this is not just somebody's fetish, this is somebody's fetishes. Along with the obvious transformation, there's pretty heavy muscle and weight gain undertones going through a fair bit of it. An early choice sets you up to either avoid a conflict or take the element of surprise. Being aggressive leads you to buff out, turning sleeker, more toned... and avoiding combat makes you soft, in a quite plush, literal sense. There are other consequences than that, mind you, as I'm pretty sure that's one of the Major Plot Forks, but as far as transformation, that's about as spontaneous and egregrious as you should expect.
In other words: Yes, this is absolutely someone's fetish fic. Mind you, it's fantastic fetish fic. The characters are nuanced and have layers of depth to them, and even if I call it "fetishy" it's a safe for work sort of fetish. I wouldn't expect any more lewdness than you'd get out of, say, an episode of Totally Spies. (That, of course, also means it's about as worksafe as that horny-ass cartoon. Which is to say: only on the most technical "there is no porn" sense.)
Also, the ending I got (whereupon Democracy Might Have Been A Mistake But Hey, I Totally Banged A Curvy BatFox Princess) implies there's at least eight "routes" and at least twice as many endings there. There's replay value.
This game probably isn't going to convert you into a furry overnight the way Undertale did to people. This is a niche, and if you're in it, or interested in it, you already know. But if you're already there, then it's fun, pretty quick to push through, and at least compelling enough to play through a few times.
If I had any complaints at all, it's that the voices are... well, they're on the lower end of "just sort of there". They don't add much, and it's about the level of quality you'd expect from a Kickstarter budget. You don't miss much if you turn 'em off, at least from what I've seen.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. Original at https://swordianmaster.dreamwidth.org/111647.html