Qi is stored in the balls v0.1.1

I keep coming back to that one scene with the elf chick and the magical bondage vines. Not because it's particularly well written, but because the game somehow made me feel like I discovered it myself. You know that feeling when you're clicking through choices and suddenly the protagonist is getting choked out by sentient plants and you're like... wait, is this my thing now? The art is rough. Like, really rough. Some character portraits look like they were sketched during a lunch break and nobody bothered to clean them up. But here's the contradiction, it kinda works? The whole game has this unpolished energy that makes the dirty parts hit different. When the best friend character starts talking about "chasing tail" in this fantasy world, the dialogue is so blunt it circles back around to being charming. Or maybe I've just been playing too many overproduced visual novels where everyone talks like they're in a Shakespeare play. The progression fantasy stuff is whatever. You're questing for power, unlocking secret techniques, the usual. But the "cheat your way along the path of ascension" mechanic is basically just an excuse to fuck your way through problems. There's this one choice where you can either train properly or use the secret technique on some monster girl, and the game doesn't even pretend the training option matters. I wish the combat had actual stakes but it won't, and honestly I stopped caring after the third time I picked the horny option and got rewarded with surprisingly decent smut. The comedy lands sometimes. Other times it's just characters saying "cock" and expecting you to laugh. The interactive fiction elements are there but don't expect Disco Elysium. More like a choose your own adventure where every path leads to someone's pants coming off. The no AI tag is doing heavy lifting because some of these backgrounds look procedurally generated but apparently they're just... like that. Whatever. I'll probably replay the elf scene.

• interactive fiction
• adventure
• visual novel
• action
• nsfw