Re: Anthophobia
Well, I tried to enjoy this game. I really did. And before you classify this as a negative review, this game is damn well made, and I couldn't have possibly asked for more passion and effort put into a project. This is absolutely one of the best made porn games I've ever seen, right up there with Nekonomeme and Kyrieru and Datanony and allsuch amazing creatives that I've gotten to know over my time here. The gameplay is top-notch for the most part, with only minor irritations at certain points which are sort of expected to come along with a horror game. The spritework is some of the best I've seen in a game like this, and the animation is stunning in almost all areas. I love the game as a game. However...
Alright, there are two types of games I see on here. Games I would recommend to friends as something to fap to, and games I would recommend to friends because they're amazing horror games for which the rape only makes them that much scarier. And... Well, despite how much I love the animations in this one, this game is just too depressing and horrifying for me to enjoy as pornography. I can't even let myself get damaged by most of the terrors in this game, let alone sexed by them, because the absolutely amazing ambient soundtrack and atmosphere put me in the perfect mood for a horror game.
Dicks tend to shrivel when you're scared, though...
I'd almost recommend taking this as a glowing review. After all, I'm normally really difficult to scare, so either this game hits me especially hard for some reason or it's a legitimately good horror game, and either way I'd absolutely love to see you make more of those sorts of games. The ambient storytelling told after-action by means of the scenery and the radio things hit the same depressing end-times notes as Dark Souls did for me, which only added to the feeling of kill-or-be-killed desperation that carried me through the game... however, whenever I was about to be grabbed, I found myself quitting and reloading rather than sitting through the animation, because I simply wasn't in the mood. When I finally broke down and decided to fap to something, I came (hehe) away feeling dark and hollow, as though I'd just masturbated to something torturous and snuff-y. Um, quick note, if you've managed to scare me away from masturbating to something, well... you deserve some applause. You wouldn't believe the (literal?) shit I (literally?) have on my computer (Actually, most of you would, I'm sure. A lot of it came from here).
So, in the end... I suppose I didn't like it. Not because it was a bad game, but because it wasn't what I was looking for. I suppose I'm just not the kind to be able to easily keep an erection while looking over a scene in which a mother shot a father in the head after recording a message to their daughter who is forever trapped in a tube, wherein it didn't even help the mother not get herself covered in mutating rape flowers by the now-deceased father.
If you are that sort, by the way, I do not begrudge you. Trust me, I've seen enough to have learned not to judge. Enjoy the game in good health, and please, voice your enjoyment in the space beneath my post (however much there may be left). This developer has done enough good work on this to deserve better than one rusted cyborg tearing down the game because he's a little baby.
Though... Sourjelly, man, if you are interested in making a more lighthearted game, sign me the hell up. Put me down for fifty.
Copies. Fifty copies.
