Thank You Very Macho.

[rionaleonhart]

Back to The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! I played as far as the game would let me on the Mystery route, and now... well, I'm not sure what route I'm on now, but I can tell you that it contains the line 'I'll just have to make some counterfeit panties!'



I can't believe the game made me think Yugamu was going to stab me, JUST LIKE HE ALWAYS WANTED, and then Nozomi got in the way of his knife! What a cockblocker!

Well, at least Takumi and Yugamu burn to death together. That's pretty romantic. But I'm going to be so disappointed if there isn't a single ending in which our murder boyfriend cuts us open.

Okay, even if we have yet to be killed by our boyfriend (or that particular boyfriend, at least), we get killed by our girlfriend in the 'Revenge for Moko' ending, so that's something.

We should all be sleeping in a pile together to protect ourselves from the murderer! Holding hands! How do you not get this?

Yugamu continues to be my favourite. What a weirdo.

Shouma: I'll just go disappear somewhere.
Yugamu: Heheh... I've been thinking, you're... rather cute. If you want to disappear, I can make it feel really good for you...

Yugamu: I can tell by the way they've written the word KILL that they have a lustful blend of love and hate. The writer's thirst for blood is pulsating off the board... Ah... I'm all turned on...!

I laughed fondly when Yugamu murdered the commander without any discussion with the others, that scamp.

I really enjoyed Darumi and Yugamu creeping the others out, Darumi going 'let's just kill each other' and Yugamu going 'oh, you know how to have fun; let's chase each other, and, every time one of us catches the other, we get to remove an organ.' Considering their shared interests, these two don't interact nearly enough!

Darumi: Oh, Takumi! Tch, still alive, huh?
Takumi: My bad, I guess.

Delighted by this little exchange. Takumi's enjoyably sassy.

I also enjoyed Darumi going 'haven't you ever wanted your own personal slave?' while doing finger guns. I love these weird, awful kids.

I went 'I hope this is an "IT'S YOUR FUTURE" choice' when we were debating whether to have barbecue or sushi, and I crowed with delight when it turned out that it was, in fact, a choice that split the timeline.

I enjoy that Takumi's idea of a 'transcendental insult' is 'Your curry tastes like poop from a butt.' ('From a butt!' Tem exclaimed. 'The worst sort of poop!')



I'd seen it said that this game's script was long enough to fill sixty novels, which seemed implausible, so I investigated.

Riona: Yeah, I think that's an exaggeration, or at least they'd have to be short novels. Six million Japanese characters is apparently... maybe two point five or three million English words? It's probably more like thirty novels, if we're looking at average novel length. Five or six times the length of The Lord of the Rings.
Tem: Oh, God, we'll be here forever. We're stuck in a time loop.
Riona: I always knew this would happen.
Tem, simultaneously: We were always going to end up here.

I can't believe The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy exists. The scale of it just does not feel like anything that would be created with commercial intent. It's a passion project; it's an Umineko, it's a Homestuck. Any sane studio would have stopped at the first route or two. But somehow here this game is, in all its sprawling, ridiculous glory.

As if the game weren't vast enough already, Kodaka has said he wants to add more routes, possibly consulting the fans on what they want to see.

I think we should all petition him to make my orgy fic canon. I think that would be right up his street.

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

I think we should all petition him to make my orgy fic canon. I think that would be right up his street.

It sounds very much like that kind of game!

[rionaleonhart]

We already have the route in which everyone essentially gets sex pollened into being really into Takumi, and the route in which Tsubasa kisses both Takumi and Darumi, Yugamu flirts non-stop with Takumi and the four of them all end up deciding to move in together; surely it can't take that much persuading to get an orgy in there!

[meteordust]

The scale of it just does not feel like anything that would be created with commercial intent. It's a passion project; it's an Umineko, it's a Homestuck.

I've never played this game, but I really love this description.

[rionaleonhart]

It may not be a perfect game, but it's clear that there's genuine love behind it, and that counts for a lot!

[vriddy]

Such a great time :D And thirty novels worth of script, woooow... such mad respect to the creator(s?).

[rionaleonhart]

I'm really struggling to get my head around just how much of this game there is! We've been playing for about a hundred hours, and we've only reached a quarter of the endings.

[apiphile]

I think all games should include an orgy route

[rionaleonhart]

Can't wait to pitch this to the Pokémon Company.

[knave_of_swords]

I am so excited by the potential for more routes in DLC! I hope that this is a game where we get like, new routes regularly for years and years, the way that Terraria and Minecraft and Stardew Valley all continue(d) to have massive content updates years after the initial release.

[rionaleonhart]

It'd be a lot of fun to see what gets added, if they do go ahead with DLC! Surely there has to be at least one timeline in which Takumi gives in to Yugamu's flirting.

[trepkos]

That is insanely long! How does this game work? Do you see static pictures and dialogue written out? Or are there moving images and actual voices? Tell me if there's a petition for your orgy - I'll sign!

[rionaleonhart]

Some short sections are voiced, and the battles are animated, but for the most part, as you've correctly judged, it's just written dialogue and switching between different static pictures. It's hard to envision a fully voiced game of this length!

[trepkos]

The voice actors would all have sore throats!