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Release date: 22/01/21
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This is the 5th game from Yumenamakon, who made Marle: The Labyrinth of the Black Sea, Lisa and the Demon's Grimoire and Walking Through Paradise - Refrain. This time we follow a hero trying to restore his distorted world back to normal with the help of the heroines in a castle filled with erotic dungeons.

The heroines get stronger by having sex with the hero. They strengthen their abilities and they can also become hooked to sex, becoming more and more perverted. You can chat with your companions to know more about their background and deepen your relationship. You can explore the castle as thoroughly as you can, you can search for everything or skip ahead bosses. There's crafting and a skill tree system to level up your character.

Controls (Gamepad Compatible):
↑ ↓ ← → - Move up / down / left / right
Z / Enter, Left mouse click - Action, Check, Talk
X, Num keypad 0, Right mouse click - Cancel, Menu
C - Party Talk (Conversation with party members)
Shift - Slow walking speed (Hold), Hide text window, Skill description during battle (display / hidden)
A - Automatic text
S - Item/skill Details / Skip text
W and Q - Swap characters in menus (forwards and backwards respectively)
Ctrl - Text fast forward
F5 - Reset
- You can also move to the clicked position with the left mouse click.
-The text window can be closed by right-clicking the mouse.

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This looks interesting, hoopefully it won't go trashy route like so many devs were going lately...
 

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Male protagonist is the bane of all of us. Who even cares for this dumb PoV?
I can understand the appeal, it just doesn't appeal to me, lol.

Be the Chad, fuck the ladies. Obtain all the vagina. (or if you're into NTR, lose all the vagina...) A good proposal if the game is made for many different females to be involved, or a male self-insert.

I tend strongly towards female MCs because i like making the active choice to fall. I also like corruption from that angle, one reason why i liked Marle: the labyrinth of black sea. It didn't hurt that i liked the viewpoint of the first available encounter's battle rape a lot, hell, probably the most out of the entire game.


However, i've not entirely lost interest in this one cuz i spy a hot ass tanned catgirl in some skimpy clothes, and i can't wait for some wild unsuspecting tentacle monster to give her an unexpected internal massage.
 

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Male protagonist is the bane of all of us. Who even cares for this dumb PoV?
People who are comfortable enough having a penis to admit that they prefer male protag over female protag? On the same side, I could say preferring female protag pov is moronic and worthless. Doesn't mean my take would be good.

I can understand the appeal, it just doesn't appeal to me, lol.

Be the Chad, fuck the ladies. Obtain all the vagina. (or if you're into NTR, lose all the vagina...) A good proposal if the game is made for many different females to be involved, or a male self-insert.
Not every male protag in every game is Rance. Sometimes (almost always) the hero is Luka-tier protag who has never seen a vagina and is terrified of boning all the monster women that are actively seeking a penis to ravish. On the same front, there are some male protags who are dumb enough to refuse outright sex despite having no prior commitments. And then, we have the Peter Grills protags...

I tend strongly towards female MCs because i like making the active choice to fall. I also like corruption from that angle, one reason why i liked Marle: the labyrinth of black sea. It didn't hurt that i liked the viewpoint of the first available encounter's battle rape a lot, hell, probably the most out of the entire game.
I can tell you haven't played a ton of games outside female protag pov for this reason alone. Having a narrow preference means you refuse to acknowledge there is variety in the stuff you don't like, and that that stuff may appeal to you in a different way. Then again, I am vehemently-opposed to vanilla-shit, female protag shit that results in slow corruption (because if you're in a setting with magic, why are you wasting time slowly eating away at the morality of the hero? Why are you a bad villain?), and rape-shit that traumatizes the MC into a coma.

However, i've not entirely lost interest in this one cuz i spy a hot ass tanned catgirl in some skimpy clothes, and i can't wait for some wild unsuspecting tentacle monster to give her an unexpected internal massage.
The penis cannot physically reach the womb. Any amount of hentai that tries to state otherwise is so far removed from reality that I have to question your tastes. That said, catgirls are shit. Smug foxes are shit. Pure, fox waifus are love. Pure, fox waifus are life.
 
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I think it's good that the developer doesn't stick to making just one style of game/story. I feel many devs just keep making the same game with a different protag all the time.

That said, catgirls are shit. Smug foxes are shit. Pure, fox waifus are love. Pure, fox waifus are life.
Touch fluffy tail.

It's 23rd, any info about the demo?
Not yet but it'll be announced on Ci-en when it releases.
 

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I think it's good that the developer doesn't stick to making just one style of game/story. I feel many devs just keep making the same game with a different protag all the time.


Touch fluffy tail.
Imagine liking smug loli fox waifus.


Not yet but it'll be announced on Ci-en when it releases.
It probs got delayed for reasons that are related to current medicinal/political climate. Or, just refining the game.
 

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Yumenamakon, I already miss their older slutty female MCs.

On wombs there are 3 levels in hentai. 1. They can't be penetrated and exist to be SMASHED and Flattened. 2. They're just the right distance up and will be like a hat for the penis. 3. They're literal penis onaholes and either latch on to devour the unsuspecting dick head and rob their vitality or are penetrated and fucked easier than the top deck of an unarmored aircraft carrier by a kamikaze pilot.
 
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Not every male protag in every game is Rance. Sometimes (almost always) the hero is Luka-tier protag who has never seen a vagina and is terrified of boning all the monster women that are actively seeking a penis to ravish. On the same front, there are some male protags who are dumb enough to refuse outright sex despite having no prior commitments. And then, we have the Peter Grills protags...
I didn't say they all were, but it works well that way. I'm also not into massive female dom, so the dick-crazed monstergirls dragging you off to be a cum machine don't appeal to me either. I also don't like generic-harem-MC-who-happens-to-be-in-a-hentai, because generic-harem-mc is awful in the first place, so showing them bobs-and-vagene isn't helping matters.

I can tell you haven't played a ton of games outside female protag pov for this reason alone. Having a narrow preference means you refuse to acknowledge there is variety in the stuff you don't like, and that that stuff may appeal to you in a different way.
I've played enough to know what my preferences are. Good angles/animation, art, gameplay and the other building blocks of an h-game can work against that. My narrow preference is of cultivation, not just glancing over and discarding variety for the sake of being a fuckwit. I like sengoku rance for the gameplay, i like FOBS for the animation and wide variety of monstergirls. I didn't like monster girl quest (contraversial opinion probably) because the battles were too rigid and the rest of it is a VN, and i don't like VNs in general. I haven't refused anything.


Then again, I am vehemently-opposed to vanilla-shit, female protag shit that results in slow corruption (because if you're in a setting with magic, why are you wasting time slowly eating away at the morality of the hero? Why are you a bad villain?), and rape-shit that traumatizes the MC into a coma.
Maybe you haven't played enough corruption games. They aren't always the villain trying to directly corrupt the "vanilla shit, female protag", however, honestly, 99% of villains are pretty bad at their job, considering they drip-feed exp to the RPG hero and then wonder how he gained all those levels and ancient magic items that were left with properly balanced guard encounters for him...

I agree on the latter, [if; (dick) = insert, Then; (slut)] is goddamn awful.

The penis cannot physically reach the womb. Any amount of hentai that tries to state otherwise is so far removed from reality that I have to question your tastes. That said, catgirls are shit. Smug foxes are shit. Pure, fox waifus are love. Pure, fox waifus are life.
If we have magic, then penis can be infinite. You can't set the rules and then ignore them.

Lastly, Catgirls can be great. Smug foxes can be great. Pure fox waifus can be great. Strange cephalopod girls can be great... though i do prefer the tentacles be used on them, not originate from them.

Stop being a dingdong about other people's h-game preferences. That's why i don't go into the Wolf's Dungeon thread and complain about all the gore, pain, and abuse that poor wolf girl has to go through... I ain't into that, but some people are.
 

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I didn't say they all were, but it works well that way. I'm also not into massive female dom, so the dick-crazed monstergirls dragging you off to be a cum machine don't appeal to me either. I also don't like generic-harem-MC-who-happens-to-be-in-a-hentai, because generic-harem-mc is awful in the first place, so showing them bobs-and-vagene isn't helping matters.
Fair enough. I mean, it takes a really good porn writer (Ha!) to give us something beyond "hora hora~! Your penis is splendid! I know this because it's the first in about a million years I've had!" for monster girls. Then again, Succubus Covenant's dev went with the "sperm and life force is our food source, but fuck conserving a food source because infinite timelines and shit!" It brings me out of the story when the stakes are "these are gluttonous monsters who have no concept of self-restraint or long-term survival strategies."

I've played enough to know what my preferences are. Good angles/animation, art, gameplay and the other building blocks of an h-game can work against that. My narrow preference is of cultivation, not just glancing over and discarding variety for the sake of being a fuckwit. I like sengoku rance for the gameplay, i like FOBS for the animation and wide variety of monstergirls. I didn't like monster girl quest (contraversial opinion probably) because the battles were too rigid and the rest of it is a VN, and i don't like VNs in general. I haven't refused anything.
I see you are a man of culture, as well. I personally find stuff like Shrift and FOBS to be at the apex of monstergirl content, in terms of the developers giving us unique ways to lose and possibly deal with certain encounters. I agree that MGQ is way too rigid and the fact that the original trilogy is a VN (the laziest form of h-game content) while the rpgmaker "sequel" is basically final fantasy 6 with monster girls does not help it. The story is really generic and the simplest shit, and the only payoff is the fact that anyone who forces themselves through all the dialogue can get something beyond a few faps from it. The mouth-breathers who praise it, though, really need to fuck off the planet.

You, though? You're alright.

Maybe you haven't played enough corruption games. They aren't always the villain trying to directly corrupt the "vanilla shit, female protag", however, honestly, 99% of villains are pretty bad at their job, considering they drip-feed exp to the RPG hero and then wonder how he gained all those levels and ancient magic items that were left with properly balanced guard encounters for him...
I think it's more that I was spoiled in my "infancy" as an h-game connoisseur that I was exposed to stuff like CoC and basically everything on the hypnopics collective, that I became basically de-sensitized to the majority of what exists nowadays. I'm no longer excited by a new project, because it smacks of the 3,765 other projects just like it. When someone says "I've written a completely original game" and I can see it's been done a half-dozen times prior, I gotta call them out on it. It doesn't help if the dev is so far up their own ass that they refuse to believe the criticism of someone who has been around the block a couple thousand times.

Most villains in games are terrible at stopping the hero because they don't really give said hero their full focus until the third act, when the actions of the hero's party have sufficiently impacted the villain's plans. That, or the hero is paid some attention by the villain, but only as a passing interest and only because the hero shows some form of potential that shouldn't be ignored, no matter how insignificant. Then, you have a real fuck like Hisoka from HxH whose entire reason for living is making sure Gon becomes strong enough to make the infanticide worthwhile...


I agree on the latter, [if; (dick) = insert, Then; (slut)] is goddamn awful.
I never got that. Is the dev saying all women are turned into wanton sluts when dick is inserted? Do we avert the monstergirl invasion with dick? But, monstergirls are clearly after the dick, so are we only giving them what they want and therefore condemning the species to its own destruction?

The message is really un-fucking-clear.



If we have magic, then penis can be infinite. You can't set the rules and then ignore them.
right back at ya, skipper. If the penis is not permitted to reach the womb, then there is a reason, such as causing permanent damage to said womb. The Human body is more fragile than we all believe. You also can't explain that magic can protect against that, because then you have to explain why magic doesn't just make the perfect victim for the rapist and thereby neutralize the threat altogether. When you start bending the fabric of reality with "because it's magic", you have to then stress-test the limits of your system against the most extreme scrutiny. Any system that fails to answer all of its "but why not x..." questions has already failed completely.

Lastly, Catgirls can be great. Smug foxes can be great. Pure fox waifus can be great. Strange cephalopod girls can be great... though i do prefer the tentacles be used on them, not originate from them.
1) Catgirls only exist to prove that science can achieve something worthwhile. Also, headpats.
2) Smug foxes are shit. Flermenwerf them.
3) Pure fox waifus are for headpats and marriage.
4) Do you even prostate stimulation?

Stop being a dingdong about other people's h-game preferences. That's why i don't go into the Wolf's Dungeon thread and complain about all the gore, pain, and abuse that poor wolf girl has to go through... I ain't into that, but some people are.
In your defense, you'd be doing a real community service by calling their shitty fetish out for what it is. I mean, at least mind control, futa, lesbians, corruption, vanilla, and all those other "your taste is trash" fetishes can be applied broadly and with little diversion from the primary focus of the main content itself. Torture porn is akin to openly expressing respect for nazi's outside their fashion sense. Yes, they had some really nice outfits. No, that doesn't excuse the surplus of fucked up shit they did while adorning said outfits.

Yes, I have an extreme view on torture porn. It is a view I am entitled to. I think a lot of fetishes outside my own are shit. @Zepheral has a shit fetish. Come at me, bro. Or ho. I dunno. What's their gender, bro?
 

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Yes, I have an extreme view on torture porn. It is a view I am entitled to. I think a lot of fetishes outside my own are shit. @Zepheral has a shit fetish. Come at me, bro. Or ho. I dunno. What's their gender, bro?
Hey, mocking people's fetishes is my fetish. My gender is milf fucker.




That being said, if it's like monster girl dreams, it should be good.
 
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I certainly wasn't expecting any of this when I made this thread.


In other news. Author just announced that the game will be delayed from mid - October to mid - November. They are adding more depth to the combat system. No news about a demo release but I wouldn't expect one this month.
 
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Fair enough. I mean, it takes a really good porn writer (Ha!) to give us something beyond "hora hora~! Your penis is splendid! I know this because it's the first in about a million years I've had!" for monster girls. Then again, Succubus Covenant's dev went with the "sperm and life force is our food source, but fuck conserving a food source because infinite timelines and shit!" It brings me out of the story when the stakes are "these are gluttonous monsters who have no concept of self-restraint or long-term survival strategies."
"really good porn writer". :ROFLMAO:

I see you are a man of culture, as well.



I think it's more that I was spoiled in my "infancy" as an h-game connoisseur that I was exposed to stuff like CoC and basically everything on the hypnopics collective, that I became basically de-sensitized to the majority of what exists nowadays. I'm no longer excited by a new project, because it smacks of the 3,765 other projects just like it. When someone says "I've written a completely original game" and I can see it's been done a half-dozen times prior, I gotta call them out on it. It doesn't help if the dev is so far up their own ass that they refuse to believe the criticism of someone who has been around the block a couple thousand times.
De-sensitized? Ah, it does feel like that when one gives their friends a fake surprised disgusted reaction to something mildly degenerate just to not have to explain just how deep the abyss goes and why one doesn't show them the demons below. They'll have to mine their own adamantium, then they'll find the clowns for themselves.

Most villains in games are terrible at stopping the hero because they don't really give said hero their full focus until the third act, when the actions of the hero's party have sufficiently impacted the villain's plans. That, or the hero is paid some attention by the villain, but only as a passing interest and only because the hero shows some form of potential that shouldn't be ignored, no matter how insignificant. Then, you have a real fuck like Hisoka from HxH whose entire reason for living is making sure Gon becomes strong enough to make the infanticide worthwhile...
Maybe i've just seen more stuff where villains keep underestimating the hero by just enough margin.

....Also i should get back to HxH, i think i put it on haitus longer than it put itself on haitus.


I never got that. Is the dev saying all women are turned into wanton sluts when dick is inserted? Do we avert the monstergirl invasion with dick?
This reminds me of a doujin a long time ago where for like 90% of the story it was just a catgirl in the wild being too horny to literally survive while some scientists were watching her, until the final little bit explained that she was a prototype sex-weapon to use against some crazy aliens who were attacking the planet, which could only be stopped by throwing hyper-horny catgirls at them.

....it was pretty good.

right back at ya, skipper. If the penis is not permitted to reach the womb, then there is a reason, such as causing permanent damage to said womb. The Human body is more fragile than we all believe. You also can't explain that magic can protect against that, because then you have to explain why magic doesn't just make the perfect victim for the rapist and thereby neutralize the threat altogether. When you start bending the fabric of reality with "because it's magic", you have to then stress-test the limits of your system against the most extreme scrutiny. Any system that fails to answer all of its "but why not x..." questions has already failed completely.
Hey, i didn't put any rules against that either. I don't like fucking tree trunk dicks stretching out people like they're made out of magical rubber a la Luffy. I'm okay suspending belief as long as whatever magic parameters that are laid out, are followed, and not just a whim that vanishes partway through something without a better explaination than "MORE magic!"

In your defense, you'd be doing a real community service by calling their shitty fetish out for what it is. I mean, at least mind control, futa, lesbians, corruption, vanilla, and all those other "your taste is trash" fetishes can be applied broadly and with little diversion from the primary focus of the main content itself. Torture porn is akin to openly expressing respect for nazi's outside their fashion sense. Yes, they had some really nice outfits. No, that doesn't excuse the surplus of fucked up shit they did while adorning said outfits.
While i do engage in some friendly banter calling people's tastes amongst many things "trash", it's just too subjective to really go for it. Got a friend who loves feet, then another who hates feet.
Unless it's snuff or CBT or the like, those kinds of things are actually awful.



I certainly wasn't expecting any of this when I made this thread.


In other news. Author just announced that the game will be delayed from mid - October to mid - November. They are adding more depth to the combat system. No news about a demo release but I wouldn't expect one this month.

Jeez, everything is getting delayed. And this is the perfect time for everyone to stay inside and masturbate furiously. Sigh.
 
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I don't like fucking tree trunk dicks stretching out people like they're made out of magical rubber a la Luffy. I'm okay suspending belief as long as whatever magic parameters that are laid out, are followed, and not just a whim that vanishes partway through something without a better explaination than "MORE magic!"
Kind of unrelated, but that's one of the reasons it's so frustrating to like futa content. I don't know what's with futa and artists giving them horse dicks 80% of the time, like jeez.

I never got that. Is the dev saying all women are turned into wanton sluts when dick is inserted? Do we avert the monstergirl invasion with dick? But, monstergirls are clearly after the dick, so are we only giving them what they want and therefore condemning the species to its own destruction?
That's because most of the time monster girls aren't "pure maidens" waiting to be corrupted/raped by your run of the mill bastard. Don't forget that if she happens to have sex with more than one man she'll become "loose" and a nympho even faster, even though yesterday she was baking cakes and thinking she could get pregnant by holding hands. Maybe that was more of a rant against braindead NTR content.
Monster girls on the other hand can control they sexual urges since the monster part evens out the human slut. Or who knows, H-logic ain't gonna make no sense after all.
 

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Uncle Iroh, is that you?

De-sensitized? Ah, it does feel like that when one gives their friends a fake surprised disgusted reaction to something mildly degenerate just to not have to explain just how deep the abyss goes and why one doesn't show them the demons below. They'll have to mine their own adamantium, then they'll find the clowns for themselves.
See, I'm not a fan of those "I've stared into the abyss" memes as much as I was a few years ago. When someone mentions Madoka now, I have to assume they're doing a bit because, for as depressing as Madoka can be, it's basically babby's first edgy subversion. The best subversions are the ones that are simultaneously genre-savvy and also indulgent in the tropes of the genre. Ishuzouku Reviewers was porn with SoL content. Also, everyone loved the gender-swap episode. Anyone who says they didn't is either the big gay, or lying.

Maybe i've just seen more stuff where villains keep underestimating the hero by just enough margin.

....Also i should get back to HxH, i think i put it on haitus longer than it put itself on haitus.
I dropped it a while back. The constant hiatus's broke my heart worse than the day D.Gray-Man's author had her accident and was unable to put out pages as consistently. Sometimes, the hardest part of a good series is knowing when to let go and go back to it when it's finished.


This reminds me of a doujin a long time ago where for like 90% of the story it was just a catgirl in the wild being too horny to literally survive while some scientists were watching her, until the final little bit explained that she was a prototype sex-weapon to use against some crazy aliens who were attacking the planet, which could only be stopped by throwing hyper-horny catgirls at them.

....it was pretty good.
Okay, I need a fucking source.

Hey, i didn't put any rules against that either. I don't like fucking tree trunk dicks stretching out people like they're made out of magical rubber a la Luffy. I'm okay suspending belief as long as whatever magic parameters that are laid out, are followed, and not just a whim that vanishes partway through something without a better explaination than "MORE magic!"
...Or, it cuts away from the initial brainwashing process and we see the character show up to some shit, seemingly normal until someone says "now, you must defeat the villain!" at which point the character loses their shit and becomes a living onahole. Or, those doujins that are more like collages of concepts involving a character or three, with the only context provided being a narrator's blurb that something happened and ta-da! Sex toy!

Sudden "and then they're fucked" (literal and figurative) narratives take me out of it faster than gore. At least gore has the decency to tell you from the first cut what the fuck is going on via visual storytelling.

While i do engage in some friendly banter calling people's tastes amongst many things "trash", it's just too subjective to really go for it. Got a friend who loves feet, then another who hates feet.
Unless it's snuff or CBT or the like, those kinds of things are actually awful.
Right? I keep asking who the audience is meant to be, since a lot of that stuff generally tends to be so hated, yet it keeps getting made.

I certainly wasn't expecting any of this when I made this thread.


In other news. Author just announced that the game will be delayed from mid - October to mid - November. They are adding more depth to the combat system. No news about a demo release but I wouldn't expect one this month.
Touhou bunnygirl brings bad news. Upside is, I might be down a roommate by that time, so, y'know...


Hey, mocking people's fetishes is my fetish. My gender is milf fucker.




That being said, if it's like monster girl dreams, it should be good.



That's because most of the time monster girls aren't "pure maidens" waiting to be corrupted/raped by your run of the mill bastard. Don't forget that if she happens to have sex with more than one man she'll become "loose" and a nympho even faster, even though yesterday she was baking cakes and thinking she could get pregnant by holding hands. Maybe that was more of a rant against braindead NTR content.
Monster girls on the other hand can control they sexual urges since the monster part evens out the human slut. Or who knows, H-logic ain't gonna make no sense after all.
That hand-holding thing reminds me of the first episode of Peter Grills.

I mean, Alice from MGQ was a virgin throughout the trilogy, up to near the tail-end of part 2 where she takes Luka's virginity on the side of a mountain. Up to that point, you could have made the easy mistake of assuming she'd tasted enough dicks to make a French prostitute blush.

What brings me out of your bog-standard h-rpg is how everyone with a sword and xx years of service either as a soldier or knight is wholly unprepared for life or death situations, yet the protagonist is an encyclopedia of second-hand information. Why are these people terrified by a dragon when those things seem like enough of a normal occurrence? I know you can make the "Goblin Slayer" argument (basically, "heroes of varying degrees exist so your average town guard doesn't need to know how to kill a lich in his afternoon") for that, but it just feels cheap. If we're living in a world where this shit exists, why are your procedures so garbage when it comes knocking?
 
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I mean, Alice from MGQ was a virgin throughout the trilogy, up to near the tail-end of part 2 where she takes Luka's virginity on the side of a mountain. Up to that point, you could have made the easy mistake of assuming she'd tasted enough dicks to make a French prostitute blush.
Isn't Alice more of an exception rather than a rule even in her world? If I recall correctly Luka did have to seal dozens of monsters who were after his non blessed dick most of the game. Then again it's been many years since I played it so I could be wrong.

What brings me out of your bog-standard h-rpg is how everyone with a sword and xx years of service either as a soldier or knight is wholly unprepared for life or death situations, yet the protagonist is an encyclopedia of second-hand information. Why are these people terrified by a dragon when those things seem like enough of a normal occurrence? I know you can make the "Goblin Slayer" argument (basically, "heroes of varying degrees exist so your average town guard doesn't need to know how to kill a lich in his afternoon") for that, but it just feels cheap. If we're living in a world where this shit exists, why are your procedures so garbage when it comes knocking?
That isn't even exclusive to H-RPGS though. In many games the max a normal person/soldier will be fight might be an ogre or a band of goblins. It's obvious why they would be afraid of dragons. They simply don't interact with such creatures on a daily basis even if they exist in their universe. Or also could be like many stories in which you have peaceful worlds suddenly get overwhelmed by monsters they weren't prepared for. I do agree that the incompetence can get absurd many times though.
 

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Isn't Alice more of an exception rather than a rule even in her world? If I recall correctly Luka did have to seal dozens of monsters who were after his non blessed dick most of the game. Then again it's been many years since I played it so I could be wrong.
I think there was something like one or two monster in a similar situation to Alice, but I could also be wrong. Been too long since I played, and I'm too lazy to check. The go-to assumption, though, is that because the average monster is at least close to/over a century in terms of numerical age, they've had a dick or two and their standards are thus more refined.


That isn't even exclusive to H-RPGS though. In many games the max a normal person/soldier will be fight might be an ogre or a band of goblins. It's obvious why they would be afraid of dragons. They simply don't interact with such creatures on a daily basis even if they exist in their universe. Or also could be like many stories in which you have peaceful worlds suddenly get overwhelmed by monsters they weren't prepared for. I do agree that the incompetence can get absurd many times though.
Soldiers are trained to deal with a variety of situations and, barring what one could reasonably expect, taught to at least adapt to the situation as it evolves. If the worst your average soldier in a fantasy setting has had to deal with are the demon lord's trash mobs, then they have experience in not sucking, at the very least. One could reasonably expect them to at least be competent enough to manage a dragon, to some degree. Someone might argue that 10,000 arrows aren't as effective as one swol hero, but I doubt the dragon having to avoid 10,000 arrows would tend to agree.

In terms of "peaceful world suddenly hit with a big fucking problem", I could buy into the exceptionalism of a "chosen hero" being more believable. Times without conflict are often when standards become more lenient and the average soldier is less required to know how to beat a mob of goblins with only their wits and a pickaxe and are usually more qualified to act as meat-shields against the incoming hordes. At that point, though, everybody with a standing army should be looking at the oncoming storm and deciding if maybe improving their defences wouldn't be wisdom in itself.
 
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