Tales of Lorithel: Bonds of Royalty v1.0 Final

You know that feeling when a game's translation is so raw you can practically see the original text bleeding through? That's this. Aetrian's story, the prince and his servant Jarrod, it's a kinetic novel so you're just along for the ride. The art is 2D, furry, and honestly the character designs are what got me to click. Aetrian's got these ears that I kept staring at, the way they droop when he's conflicted. Jarrod's muzzle, the artist really knew what they were doing with the shape of it. The first scene where they actually touch, it's a handjob in the prince's chambers. The localization choices here are fascinating in a way that pulled me right out of the moment. Jarrod says something like "My prince, allow me to ease your burden" and it's so stiff, so clearly a direct translation of a fantasy honorific that doesn't exist in English. But then two lines later he's whispering absolute filth, talking about how long he's wanted to taste him, and the whiplash is real. The cumshot, the creampie later, it's all described with this mix of flowery prose and sudden blunt words for anatomy that feels like the translator gave up on elegance and just went for it. I respect that, honestly. There's this one detail with a curtain. Aetrian grabs it during the handjob and the text spends a whole sentence on the fabric tearing, the sound it makes. I don't know why that stuck with me. The game's short, you can finish it in one sitting, and it's connected to Endless Bounty somehow? I think these characters show up there. The whole thing feels like a first draft, unpolished on purpose maybe, and the emotional beats hit weird because of it. One minute it's all "duty to the kingdom" and the next Jarrod's got his tongue somewhere and the prince is moaning about how he never wants this to end. The lgbt themes are just... there, not a big deal, which is nice. It's just two guys who are also furry and also in love and also terrible at talking about it until they're not. The masturbation scene felt more intimate than the actual sex, which I'm still thinking about.

• creampie
• kinetic novel
• handjob
• lgbt
• fantasy