^^ Exactly. If you'll pardon the possibly overdone comparison, DDLC is to gal games as Undertale is to RPG's. It's played as one, but it's not meant to be viewed in the same lens, per se. The familiar hook is there to draw you in for a closer examination.

As a visual novel enthusiast, I felt it was unfortunate that the game's viral popularity ended up giving it a reputation for just being a creepy visual novel rather than what it was actually meant to be. Even so, I'm happy for Team Salvato, both for getting such a large and (mostly) positive reception and for the boost in interest it created for visual novels (a medium with a pretty severe image problem outside of Japan).

Regardless of what people saw it as, it was certainly a success and I'm happy with that.

(There's a lot of parallels with Undertale and Toby Fox actually, but that's not what I'm here to talk about :P)

edit: also, I love this meme. It's one of my favorites.

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The cutest ever T^T

Okay, but can we talk about those nails???
Like, they're sharp and pointed?!

I just love these two so much, every time they interact it just fills my heart.

hhnnnghhh

Sucker punched

grip.

Now we can all see what her harum sees.

My first time playing DA2, I accidentally hate-slept with Merrill, right after the romance I had actually been pursuing fell through. It felt very strange. But also gay, so I took it.

^
Oh heck yeah.

Noice

Ooh, nice computer virus vibes.

This is one of my favorite formats for yuri parody memes. Ever time, it's just incredible.

Feesh doing something naughty there

lmao this post turned into shark and cephalopod facts and im into it

bird women amirght

unusual ship... I LOVE IT!

^^ The last part of what you said may or may not be intentional. Albedo originally had the same thing but they patched the breath for dragonspine in later.

Cute

@ChippedIce I agree, it's seems they would roughly be the same height w/o the heels

never ever

Setsuna is awfully smooth, isn't she?

^Dragonspine was new then, plus that sounds like bit of a communication mixup between the writing and visual dept's as Gold's creations though artificial are very much organic and alive that got quickly sorted out. Raiden is nigh certainly intentional given the background lore, no other char coming out around the same time having that quirk (implying it's not a simple oversight) and the visual peeps being by now well used to the peculiarities of that area.

Personal pet theory: Ei's replicants are highly derived and refined Khaenri'ah Ruin Machine tech, possibly with some cues taken from those spoopy Maguu Kenki thingies (which are suggested to be someone's attempts at immortality). The lore only vaguely says she picked up the basic idea from somewhere then spent a lot of time and effort improving it and IIRC Yae at one point offhandedly refers to her having learned the "trick" of transferring souls into inanimate objects from an unspecified "someone" - among the weird in-universe stuff we currently know of those seem to fit the bill the closest.

Mako is such a garachirezu! And Yoshida’s Oppai are very grabbable. Tomoko is vindicated.

Apex predator moment