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ciikos bridge ~ thoughts
Jul. 21st, 2024 02:18 pmjust find and play this little visual novel , ciikos bridge ... did sort of get impression from very front page that might do some strange things .
see , what jump out when start game is how many japanese , or japanese like , names come up ? but also not all japanese . older brother jinsuke , and kamiya family , live alongside old man eden and dr claire in village of bruma , which house magical ciikos .
similar for character appearances , some draw from japanese legend - see tanukawa , who is fundoshi clad tanuki man - and others from different places entirely . tanukawa also have talismans stuck to body , which can not tell if read fake kanji , or just irrelevant kanji . resolution is kind of hard to make out detail .
not have context for everything to really have conclusions , but that ... definitely sort of throw off . like , for what reason is this forest lord character blue with many arms ?
was fun trade sequence puzzle , backgrounds pretty and colourful , but just puzzle by some of these things .
invisible wings ~ first chapter thoughts
May. 6th, 2024 02:24 amis that just nitpick ? maybe so , so will keep on and see where go .
but anyway , how to say ...
so in this world is humans , faeries , and hybrids . all these groups have hate for each other , even in " safe " cities like ceylynn - where this game take place .
hybrids throw faeries under bus to appease humans , faeries pull away from hybrids and humans for safety , and many humans can not stand either one . if one do not take measures to hide , horrible things can happen - from outcast and shun , to murder outright .
this , kind of have same problem though that other " oppression allegory " stories do - humans hate faeries because faeries have real violent history , and hybrids because human-faerie offspring , more proof of violence .
dawn and best friend aranea both hybrids : humanoid body , with thin tail . aranea is politically active and open as hybrid , while dawn try hide - just humble bookstore employee and figure skater . to even participate with humans , dawn is force to tuck tail inside costume .
during big competition , there is someone new , lilith . no one but dawn can see that lilith have tail , and wings - in other words , full on faerie , who hide traits with magic . dawn lose focus on rink , tail slip free from costume , and judges disqualify entirely because not human .
dawn take this out on lilith , who seem actually quite sweet , and really just want same thing as dawn : world where no one needlessly hate or separate . later dawn find and apologise , dawn and lilith bond over prejudices against each other that now so obviously wrong , and lilith make promise to show dawn magic .
that is where this chapter end ... and not sure just yet ? guess really would need more time and chapters to know how well this game tell story . just think , some things feel little bit off , but can understand what try ?
would like to think , maybe this violent history of faeries is humans cherry pick worst examples , what happen specifically after threaten and abuse faeries . but not sure yet if seem like this will be what show in game …
