before you depart
okay I can go play th20 now, btw spoiler alert the game is quite literally 41 minutes long and I don't think it's worth it to talk about this without spoilers
before you depart is a gay furry vn from itch.io made on renpy, plaed many vns like this, just without the furry part. Most vns like that just are meant to pull on your heart strings, this does that quite a lot as well, it's understandable though, there really aren't that many videogames whose sole focus is self-insert romance, even less for LGBTQ+ romance, so yeah, almost no budget, free for everyone, short stories that are meant to give you that feel are very common.
Before you depart is a bit different though, this game is either really fucking ambitious with it's storytelling or i'm just overthinking things. The plot is about a guy who dies, and after a while, the grim reaper appears and asks them about their life since the grim reaper is having a existential crisis and wishes that by listening to his life experiences he would come to a better understanding of himself and what it means to be alive, since he was never alive.
The life story of the protagonist is told in a sad manner, this makes sense, it emotionally sets up the next act of the vn, but I want to focus on this for a moment. A life isn't inherently sad or happy, that interpretation comes in the way we tell the story, and this guy decided to compress their whole life into a 15 minute summary with a sad undertone. I find this to be fucking depressing. Let's say you die and are a ghost and a grim reaper appears and asks you about your life, would you tell them that your life has just been sadness?, it very much feels like the protagonist has not been able to come at piece with his life even on death, and that fucking sucks.
After that, the story goes on with a conversation between him and the grim reaper about the nature of life, only to find out there is probably nothing on the other side, protagonist gets really angry, and then things calm down and then they dance and kiss. The story is cutesy, but once again, let's look at the undertones and really think this out, which is definitively not the way this game is meant to be played
there was a line that was along the lines of "The fact that you're having a existential crisis is proof that you're alive". I disagree with this notion, what makes us alive isn't neither existential crisis or love, for us humans, it's the fact that we're concious, at least that is what I personally believe, problem is that interpretatin isn't fluffy or really gives roots to a romantic story so yeah wouldn't have worked in this game. Also, the whole i've not been able to come to piece with my life but now that i've met this furry guy for 20 minutes and fallen in love with him in such timespan I guess oblivion doesn't sound so bad thing really didn't work for me
The end is also ok, cutesy and romantic, but I don't think this game really offers any solution or ending or interpretation or valuable insight into life or death. Not that a 41 minute gay furry vn from itch.io made with renpy SHOULD aim to answer such questions, but again, it felt like it was trying to do so?, like it's too much of a lodead scenario to really avoid those topics and there are some lines and stuff that felt like they were trying to really address it
so yeah, it's cute. C rank.
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okay I can go play th20 now, btw spoiler alert the game is quite literally 41 minutes long and I don't think it's worth it to talk about this without spoilers
before you depart is a gay furry vn from itch.io made on renpy, plaed many vns like this, just without the furry part. Most vns like that just are meant to pull on your heart strings, this does that quite a lot as well, it's understandable though, there really aren't that many videogames whose sole focus is self-insert romance, even less for LGBTQ+ romance, so yeah, almost no budget, free for everyone, short stories that are meant to give you that feel are very common.
Before you depart is a bit different though, this game is either really fucking ambitious with it's storytelling or i'm just overthinking things. The plot is about a guy who dies, and after a while, the grim reaper appears and asks them about their life since the grim reaper is having a existential crisis and wishes that by listening to his life experiences he would come to a better understanding of himself and what it means to be alive, since he was never alive.
The life story of the protagonist is told in a sad manner, this makes sense, it emotionally sets up the next act of the vn, but I want to focus on this for a moment. A life isn't inherently sad or happy, that interpretation comes in the way we tell the story, and this guy decided to compress their whole life into a 15 minute summary with a sad undertone. I find this to be fucking depressing. Let's say you die and are a ghost and a grim reaper appears and asks you about your life, would you tell them that your life has just been sadness?, it very much feels like the protagonist has not been able to come at piece with his life even on death, and that fucking sucks.
After that, the story goes on with a conversation between him and the grim reaper about the nature of life, only to find out there is probably nothing on the other side, protagonist gets really angry, and then things calm down and then they dance and kiss. The story is cutesy, but once again, let's look at the undertones and really think this out, which is definitively not the way this game is meant to be played
there was a line that was along the lines of "The fact that you're having a existential crisis is proof that you're alive". I disagree with this notion, what makes us alive isn't neither existential crisis or love, for us humans, it's the fact that we're concious, at least that is what I personally believe, problem is that interpretatin isn't fluffy or really gives roots to a romantic story so yeah wouldn't have worked in this game. Also, the whole i've not been able to come to piece with my life but now that i've met this furry guy for 20 minutes and fallen in love with him in such timespan I guess oblivion doesn't sound so bad thing really didn't work for me
The end is also ok, cutesy and romantic, but I don't think this game really offers any solution or ending or interpretation or valuable insight into life or death. Not that a 41 minute gay furry vn from itch.io made with renpy SHOULD aim to answer such questions, but again, it felt like it was trying to do so?, like it's too much of a lodead scenario to really avoid those topics and there are some lines and stuff that felt like they were trying to really address it
so yeah, it's cute. C rank.
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