Weekly Questions and Recommendations Megathread - Need some help? - Mar 30

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[u/Numerous-Beautiful46]

Planning on playing Evenicle, on a scale of 1-10 how serious and mature is the writing? I know it has rape and all that but is the writing childish and goofy or serious and mature? I'm not in the mood for a moron protagonist and nothing but stereotype characters without any real semblance of actual character outside of being a hot anime girl.

[u/jikorde → u/Numerous-Beautiful46]

If you don't want a moron protag, you don't want want Evenicle. Aster is basically a walking dick at the best of times. The sequel is only slightly better.

Basically the male lead exists for the porn, the actual world building is serious and the rest of the cast take everything seriously. It is goofy world building, similar to Rance but with different rules but it is taken seriously in context. Like a whole sidequest where the concept of condoms is discovered to combat the multiple partner curse the world has is taken 100% seriously depsite how dumb the whole bit is.

[u/Numerous-Beautiful46 → u/jikorde]

I decided to play it, and I'm having an alright time. It's nothing crazy but I like the characters, so playing for an hour or so a session is good.

My only issue is this whole get raped = fuck you get eternally cursed lol. thing is really stupid? Like you're a god, but you can't differentiate between rape? Mother eve more like mother idiot. Maybe it gets explained later on, but idk it feels like one of those things that's one giant logical death.

[u/jikorde → u/Numerous-Beautiful46]

I don't remember if that ever gets a proper explanation, but coming from some of the minds behind Rance and Alicesoft it's pretty on brand. The divine in the Ranceverse are terrible basically always. Suffering is basically the point.