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Sorry for annoyed ya but I kinda curious can me and my twin remake "today is the end of the world"? We really love how it tell the story and the world is if you say no then that ok Ty for your time

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Well, I finally did it. I have published the demo for "How Are You Paying Today," a liminal horror survival visual novel. More screenshots available under the line.

Here's the Pitch:

Milk.  Bread.  Meat. You're so hungry. Knife.  Bandage.  Medicine. But so is everyone else. In this grocery store, everything has a price.  Navigate the store, manage your sanity and strength, meet strange people, and leave with your groceries. Make it back home, if you can.

Big fat long rant incoming

--The full dictionary of the game is 200 words.

Which means two things:

The writer (yatsunagi) determined that they only needed those 200 words to tell their story.

The otherworld residents only need 200 words to talk about everything they want/need/can remember to talk about (assuming that the game's dictionary is the full vocabulary of the language.

Fanfic challenge: write a story using only those 200 words. Make it fully understandable for the reader.

Above the arrowy, still strings,

The maker of a thing yet to be made."

--Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar.

So one of my favorite things about Homicipher is the fact that the monster men aren't just cute boys in spooky makeup (but it's totally fine if you're into that), but they actually look like gross monsters that you would run screaming from.

But they're also... really hot? Maybe it's because I have cuteness aggression when it comes to cute anime or manhwa boys, cuz whenever I see conventionally cute/hot boys in visual novels, my typical reaction is to feel repulsed and I-want-to-kill-them.

But like, with all of the Misters in Homicipher, I don't feel that. I actually feel like that vine with the boy who looks at a girl puffing out a huge cloud of smoke, and then he gets right in the camera and goes, "Wow."

(Which is probably because I've read too many manhwas with hot boys who think that the female leads exist only for them, so they treat them only slightly better than the dirt they walk on.)

Mr. Gap: Hello, yes, please give me your organs. I need them for... reasons.

Mr. Silver-Hair: Uh-oh, we have pests.

*Gets three (3) pieces of tape*

Here's my thoughts:

As someone who hates jumpscares but likes horror stories, I really liked this one. Yes, there's lots of jumpscares (Mr. Crawling Man knows what he did), but I could actually handle them, mostly because I could anticipate when they were gonna happen so I could look away until after the initial jump. Most of the horror comes from the uncanny character designs (especially Ms. Blue Clad).

The language deciphering aspect is SO COOOOOOL! I may have to make a whole other post gushing about it. One of the things that's great about it is that the words don't directly correspond to words in Japanese or English, but to <i>ideas</i>, which means that the game itself can be translated into multiple languages without changing what the monsters say. And yes, I know that all languages are about sharing concepts and ideas and whatnot, but it's different from, say, Duolingo telling you that "pomme" means "apple" instead of pointing at an apple and saying "apple" or "fruit" or even "red fruit." Basically, instead of starting with a word amd translating it to another word, you start with the idea and then you understand the word. So in the game, a sentence might read like, "Door not open" or "Body broken. Can make well?" But it would read differently for everyone depending on how you translate the words.

Best boys: Mr. Crawling Man, Mr. Hooded Man, Mr. Chopped, and Mr. Masque

Best girls: Ms. Nurse and the Headless Bride

Characters who can become the dirt I walk on: Ms. Blue-Clad, Mr. Hugeface, and Cloth Monster