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Shout out to the clipped chatter who coined the term "lewdonarrative dissonance", easily my favorite joke of this decade
you must be starved for good laughs if that's the best of the DECADE. not saying it's not witty or funny, but the BEST? of the DECADE? wtf...
@@TerenceChiII It’s hyperbole…
the people who write long reviews of hentais are the real MVPs of the steam community.
Massively virginal people.
yea “my pp hard me happy” was so profound yet effortlessly poignant
So are those that write My PP HARD Me Happy. 😂
I do it for the love of the craft
I realize I’m not so fucked compared to those guys so I’m grateful they exist
Shoutouts to Karryn, seems like a tough job
Screw healthcare workers, Karryn is the true hero in these trying times
Karryn is a girlboss
@@TheLibraryofLetourneau I'm assuming "screw healthcare workers" is prescriptive
Seems like a 'hard' job
@@AlmeaCulpayou think you the drink bitch?
YOU AIN’T EVEN THE CUP
I legit unironically 100% have total respect for every single one of the essay reviewers. SOMEONE’S GOTTA BE OUT THERE IN THE RICE FIELDS TAKING THESE EASY STABS FROM US! What if some fucking absurdly technical masterpiece that creates industry standards comes out and it’s a porno game but all the reviewers don’t review anymore? Someone’s gotta be there to take the bullet and I salute those brave enough to be willing to take them.
I want this game to be the industry-standard for heroine-games. That's why I write the essays.
i found this one game while on a discord call with friends thats like, yiik-tier, you feel the ambition, you feel the dev wants to make something good but its so clunky and not actually fun, i just feel sad for the game, would reviewing it like an actual game be a bad thing where people just call me a gooner or also see the pr0n game as art with me?
@@OctacoreIsAFKregardless of what others think, if you give an honest and fair review I'm sure the developer would appreciate the feedback.
“Pass that one onto Jerma” 😂
Holy shit i could spend hours watching him read steam reviews
React Court but for steam reviews (maybe of games he actually plays like Super Auto Pets. I want to see him go off on some misguided reviewers)
@@AirNeat That would go so hard
@@AirNeat nl reacting to anything goes hard tbh, i like how he showed one tiktok on stream but felt so guilty that he just described all the other videos he found funny while other streamers will just quietly watch hours of compilations and random videos
NL refusing to engage with text-heavy exposition in a game, but goes fucken in on hentai dissertations.
He's definitely right that the reviews can be a gold mine. A lot of recycling the same joke, but the prevalent, open degeneracy is 👌👌
He gave up on the essay barely halfway through, I think that's pretty consistent
Also the existence of react court. Really I think if video game dialogue outraged him or challenged his wit more often he would be more into it.
@@zankaa8031 honestly I get kind of annoyed about him not reading video game lore and dialog, but you make a very good point, I myself have a hard time reading through text since almost all video games make it pretty hard to care about reading through the stuff. Wish games were better about this.
The last one got me, the timing is just perfect
This is NL's version of Ron Swanson going to the whole foods store in Parks and Rec
This is a perfect comment.
I love how many additional hours the reviewers have since the stream
you can kinda see it coz i took my screenshots recently and nl read off some of their hours played which would've been back in january
@@TheLibraryofLetourneau yea exactly
OK that Ace42 review is dangerously based. The man is trying to single-handedly push the hentai jrpg into new territory.
The shut-in compsci major when the uni makes him take a ton of essay writing courses, might as well use what he learned
single handedly indeed
1:30 That Lao Gan Ma mention was foreshadowing for the chili oil arc
Love the dude at 3:25 who said "unnecessarily horny". My man, it is literally a porn game, that's like saying that Doom has too much shooting in it.
The classical music was the cherry on top for that essay review
By the way, what's the name of that piece?
I want to know too !@@radikalskippy
@@FaFares The piece is the minuet and trio from Boccherini’s quartet in E
"Ludonarative dissonance" always gets me.
Tbf, it's a very useful term when discussing video games. Just sounds pretentious as fuck
@@Loeffellux It would be more useful than pretentious if it wasn't for the fact it applies to 70% of videogames
the way they used it correctly and managed to make a meaningful critique of the game has me dying
One of the chat messages said "lewdonarative dissonance" and it just sent me
@@lautaroescarlon7501 sounds like it's very useful then? The word "cutscene" also applies to 70% of video games, doesn't make it any less useful.
I can't admit how much I like Karryn's Prison now, can I?
memes aside, this game is actually S-tier.
highly recommend for anyone that is looking for something more spicy. just check the settings before playing and disable anything you dont like.
I have something to confess, I am one of the debuggers on the game for Rem. I pirated to game back when it was in 0.36 build. The mechanics were revolutionary and the style and art was great. I liked it so much I went back, bought it and supported it since. I am even in the credits. It is a really good game
M8. Don't post your dating profile here, this is youtube comments.
Great game, btw. 200+ hours I'm not ashamed of.
I mean, it’s funny to hear NL rag on this, but at the same time I appreciate the people who see the porn games as games first and porn second, and critique them as they would anything else
When the review popped up that said "pulled a muscle and couldn't walk for 4 hours" I just about passed out laughing. It hit me just right, the way a joke hasn't in like 10 years.
MILK OUTSIDE A BAG OF MILK OUTSIDE A BAG OF MILK MENTIONED LETS GOOOO
Best use of 3 hours and 9 bucks
WTF IS LOW ANXIETY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if the devs saw this and fixed the bar mini game. That would actually be incredible.
Just bc it's a hentai doesn't mean it shouldn't be held to high standards and get in depth reviews. These reviewers are the true MVPs
true huniepop is a really fun puzzle game
@@tgirltouhou The first was so fun. Had a unique vibe to it that I enjoyed. I never played the 2nd but apparently it was completely different and more experimental but wasn't that great
@@MrFredstt huniepop 2 gets incredibly frustrating with the baggage element, it feels like instead of naturally ramping up the difficulty (which in the original ig could be an issue you could just buy a ton of drinks and get easy points, but even then that depended on where you were and who you were with), they just throw annoying gimmicks. i hate the weeb girl and that's the only matches i have left to do. also i feel it has the same problem of the first game's writing to a bit of a lesser extent where it gives you the option to be a girl, but still writes from a male gaze. in the first game it was more blatant, a girl insultingly called me gay as if we werent two women on a date. they should write better for the audience of women playing this game.
NL clips that beat you dry of your contents
I wish he would do more of this, top tier.
Unironically
pogged out when he mentioned Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
I own it and its pretty good, but incredibly complicated. And there are no tool tips.
Not so shrimple after all
There are tool tips for in battle if you hover your mouse over something
@@loch157 Ye but it doesn't really explain like how different status effects and desire changes your stats exaxtly, I think thats what he meant
@@randomfeg4141 Buy it in the corruption screen, and you'll see the desire stuff.
@@mawillix2018 I know I played through it twice I meant like exact stats, like "raising this desire to 50, 100, 150, 200 gives you these +,-% status changes" I know it says that specific desires will make you more likely to perform specific sexual actions but we don't have number. Anyway idk why I'm argue about a h-game I haven't played in like 8-9 months, I might be wrong even cuz it was a long ago
h-game that messed me up once was one where you get to create your character but theres CG sex scenes with your character and like can you imagine how many variations the artist had to do to make that possible
guys who do h games are on a different level, if they had actual teams and budgets to develop the world wouldnt endure it
Can I get a hint at its name, asking for my pet dinosaur.
@@PhantomThiefXI noice
Imagine Monster Girl Quest Paradox but it's like a legit AAA game instead of being on RPGMaker. That shit would slap so hard even without the hentai, honestly.
@@FakeHeroFanggonna take a stab at guessing, one of illusion games products (artifical academy?)
Nah the industry is sleeping on the dedication some of these devs have. Just look at The Last Sovereign
The man wrote his own mods to fix the game. He's a hero.
NL should play Karryn Prison SFW route any% speedrun
My empress ending playthrough was not very nsfw.
Heres another one to Karryns Prison:
I really got impressed with this one. The amount of different mechanics and complexity is incredible since its made with a simple rpgmaker engine. Remtairy created a miracle with the combat system, integrating perfectly the sexuality of the game in it, even with two minigames within, each with scenes of their own. Very few games can pull something like this, usually the h of the hgames is more of a burden to the gameplay. In Karry’s prison, you see the warden slowly get down the slutty road, or if you are really good, you can finish it as a pure maiden. The only bad thing for me is that the game is still on alpha, so you can’t finish it properlty. I’m sure now with the steam release they will definitely complete it tho.
That last review seems like something Patrick Bateman would say.
I know some of the people who worked on Karryn's Prison, it's a good game, and there are some good people behind it
the chapter 2 caught me off guard, like holy fuck dude, that was chapter 1?!
This was a legendary nl moment.
The amount of effort you took to edit this together man, well done. maza aa gaya!
The editing in this is so good!
Nl actually got me into corruption of champions. When he talked about it when playing resident evil.
Ace42's Post-Nut Clarity is CRAZY
the music was a legendary addition
Thanks for the tip.
Pirating as we speak
Enjoy it man
please let us know, what did you think?
My favorite part was "it shouldnt have to be this way" with 0 irony from the 1 reviewer
The music added on to the ending essay made it a million times funnier
Great editing! Really satisfying to see everything referred to
Concurred. I've gotten so spoiled from Library's videos that when I'm watching NL, I expect there to be reference material promptly on the screen. Gotta reel me head back in for a sec like, wait, wrong place.
This game could have rescued Stadia
Karryn's Prison is the GOAT if anyone cares, I unfortunately have a lot of experience in this area
A bit late on this. But Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag, and the sequel, Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag, are fantastic little gems (both with 90%+ reviews) that have a depiction of OCD, depression, suicide, effects of death on the human mind and autism/schizophrenia.
Play them, they are like 5$ together and are masterclass.
its more about complex ptsd aswell
They are terrible and devoid of any substance, do not play them
@@speedosaverage intelligence citizen
@@ciprianrobo average "retort" from bag of milk fan
@@speedos based
As someone who has played Karryns Prison I gotta say that extensive schorlarly review really does hit the nail on the head on some core issues
Thank you for bringing the stream bants that don’t make it to the main channel to us CZcams plebs ❤
I honestly never expected anyone to use "ludonarrative dissonance" in reference to a porn game. Let alone use it unironically.
I need a 3 hours video of NL reading essays hentai reviews.
Why has the last review convinced me this is the dark souls of porn games
Cause it is
@@tyto9786 not even remotely
Honestly it's straight up innovative enough to create a whole genre in the same way Souls did, coming from someone with 400 hours, there's a handul of games inspired by it like Saria Reclaimed too already.
There is one who fits the bill by name(plus presentation) and another who also fits the bill by gameplay, just thought you should know how funny this is.
As someone who's played and followed this game since early in alpha it's actually kind of surreal to hear NL reading reviews about it lol. KP is an absolute gem if you can play an eroge. It's top tier for what it's going for.
Also: while kind of true? about the "assault".... nothing can ever happen to Karryn unless her desires are high enough. She'll definitely protest, and be very prudish early on, but the desire bars don't lie, she's into it on some level (infact early on, almost nothing *can* happen, it's a slow burn corruption game). *shrug* it's uh... a weird subject lmao.
Holy cow we got an expert in the comment section
Hello last reviewer
... I mean.... ahaha. I haven't reviewed an eroge, but I have played this on and off during it's development and have way too much knowledge and such about it. It's almost impossible to just casually talk about it with someone who doesn't play H games. The amount of ???? and WHAT LOL kind of scrolling in the twitch chat kind of proves it i guess.
Bro as someone who's spoken to people who worked on the game it's a little surreal as well. I know one of the games I'm writing for considered some of the same voice talent
although not sexual assault i guess it's technically sexual harassment since the inmates will just start jerking off in front of her even when her desires are low.
That ending XD
NL might have increased that game's exposure by a lot! Eggshell hat for Karryn when?
soooo truee, he should get one when he eventually does a playthrough on stream but doesn't actually show the game so it's just a black screen with his face cam for 3 hours
For those who enjoyed this - Eons ago Northernlion used to play "spicy" xbox live arcade games, including really shitty dating sims and the worlds worst RPG. IMO It's still a great watch!
How can I find these videos?
@@willowdrakon Man this little comment sent me down. Apparently the video in northernlion that had the worst RPG was deleted ("Sexy Xbox Live Indie Games 2")
But someone with the channel called "Stewart Isme" reuploaded it. The thumbnail is a shitty 3d model of a lady eating a hotdog.
If you still can't find it, HMU And I'll try to send you the link.
NGL, I kinda want to play it now.
try the free demo and let us know if it's any good!
Can't believe I actually saw Third Crisis mentioned and it was on a NL stream.
Maybe I should buy that game
ok had to finally sub, any clips channel that adds in context and other things deserves.
i love the people begging for sap while he reads lmao
The last review made the essays look like children's notes
I was there for this live.
Too bad there were no /moment 😕
Idk why but good h games tend to go hard. Its a shame you can't reccomend series like Rance to anyone you know, even online.
don't know about the game but the rance animation is pretty tame except for that extra episode which got super dark
@@TheLibraryofLetourneau that's pretty much the alicesoft modus operandi, where the games are super lighthearted comedy until they slowly build to something more serious. It should be noted how great the lore and worldbuilding is too, the final game in the series (Rance X) has the longest script of any video game ever.
@@rkraccoons i'd like to get into them because i like h content with great stories but it's pretty time consuming for me, i mostly read and work on doujins but those are usually one-shots
I tried Rance once, too many R-word shit.
@@TheLibraryofLetourneau Yeah, the whole series would be a time sink since Rance as an IP predates the Simpsons, that's how old it is. But it might be worth the time as it's not too much of a stretch to say we probably wouldn't have a lot of the modern hits without its impact: lots of the authors who rose to fame in the light novel boom of the mid 2010's cite Rance as one of their inspirations. It's not simply a coincidence so many of their protagonists are self-centered brown haired adventurers with a penchant for green in their primary outfit color, set in world with overt RPG game mechanics that everyone in the setting can clearly see and mundanely interact with.
The side by side with the last review and seeing the exact moment NL reads the most huh bit is so fucking funny man
Good look adding the classical music for the final essay. Chef's Kiss
Your channel is a gift, thank you for all your work
This is such a damn classic. Thank you for your preservation efforts.
these are the bits he should be posting on main imo
sadly these segments are only preserved by archivist channels like Bootleg NLSS and those usually get lost in the ether unless you look for them so doing my best to highlight them
@@TheLibraryofLetourneau honestly dude I've been watching for so long at this point I must have thought to myself 'holy shit this man is a genius' or 'wtf is this madman doing' just before he clutches the win or just had to be astonished at how sharp his fricking mind is hundreds of times.
Not to mention his ability to do comedy on so many levels.
What I'm trying to say I guess is thank you, I don't have the fortitude to do the same but it's good someone is. But it'll never do NL justice those who haven't gone through his back catalogue or have started friggin ages ago will have missed so many just 'NL' moments 🙁
I love chat's utter bafflement at sexual assault being a core feature in a zorn action game
Like, what else would happen in a porn game with combat?
syllables per second started rivalling rap god somewhr in there
An exceptionally polished blend of JRPG, Prostitution Sim, and prison Management Sim with some sandbox gameplay. Thematically it's reminiscent of Third Crisis, but is more tightly conceived.
No uncensor patch is necessary. Can be completed on easy in about 12 hrs.
The gameplay falls afoul of the inherent problem of the genre(s), but mostly sidesteps them through excellent execution and novel mechanics
JRPGs tend to make really lazy and poorly chosen vehicles for hentai. There's usually massive ludonarrative dissonance (What does fantasy combat have to do with sex? Why does the game insist on me deliberately losing combat to show me the lewds?).
This game tries to address this by integrating lewd mechanics (desire meters, stripping, sexual assaults vs regular attacks, etc) into the combat at a very fundamental level.
This doesn't really fix the underlying problems, but it does take the rough edges off a bit.
The combat's engaging, and doesn't really get frustrating to the point where you'd consider it a negative - although the difficulty ramp-up is very uneven on even just regular difficulty level and can lead to some frankly unfair fights if you don't meet the (hidden) level requirements.
It is a bit convoluted and confusing though - with "Stamina" working both as HP and a resource to spend on specific attacks, but then you can maybe replenish it using another resource "energy" (kinda sorta analogous to mana, but not really) after you've run out, but then you run out of that if you can't outheal the incoming damage. At that point, you lose the physical combat, but then go into a sexual combat with your stamina bar replenished, which seems to be a race to get your assailants off before they get you off. At which point you sort of win, but not properly win, even though you lost the combat?
There's two rooms full of people at the start whose only purpose is for each of them to explain one element of the gameplay, and it *still* doesn't make explicit what the fail states, if any, are. I've got very little idea what the different states of having your clothes pulled off actually do mechanically, is it damage reduction? Is it a temporary shield against some types of assault? Both? The Desire meters trigger debuffs, but also trigger H-events, but also sometimes buff you too?
Lots of vital information (enemy's HP values and attack strengths; difficulty of any given encounter; the sex-combat mechanics; loads of prison management values, etc, etc) is simply not made available to you.
It's amazing something so confused seems to actually play so entertainingly.
The obtuseness of some of the gameplay mechanics and thus the metagame can be a real turn-off once the novelty of the game's presentation wears off
There are loads of counter-intuitive design decisions which force the player to learn by trial-and-error things which should be explicit.
The Prostitution Sim elements are fine, and as slickly executed as the rest of the game, but aren't any deeper than the standard fare for that genre
The waitressing job's a bit of a drag - it goes on forever, the difficulty ramps up really quickly, it expects you to repeat it regularly to maintain the perks the bar provides you in the Management part of the game and the currency rewards are just enough to justify doing it, but not enough to feel like it's a productive use of your time. Unlike combat, there's no "run away" option, so it gets unavoidably rapey very fast.
This is probably my biggest irritation with the game in general: It falls into the typical trap of the genre, in that by denying the main character agency in order to apply non-consensual tropes to her, it also denies the player a lot of agency in how you want to build your own narrative via gameplay
For example, if you want the main character to lose her virginity to a specific antagonist, you're probably out of luck. There's no way to realistically engineer it, so it's probably just going to happen to some rando in some unwinnable fight down the line when the respective desire meter tops out against over-levelled opponents and the combat just doesn't go your way.
I mean, I guess that's kinda ludonarrative synergy in that it's out of both the main character's and your control? But it's not exactly interesting story-telling.
You end up with the active gameplay (combat) being in direct opposition to the passive experience of moral corruption and degradation, which makes for a generally awkward experience.
The narrative established by sandbox gameplay is very much pulling in the opposite direction to the plotting given to you.
The progression system's a real mess
"Edicts" are shared between your main character (so percentage stat boosts, unlocking new combat skills, unlocking equipment, etc, etc) and the prison itself. You're limited to ~2 per day (depending on difficulty, starting perks, etc) each of which requires varying levels of currency to unlock.
Because of how the game seems to scale the challenges it presents to you, you always feel like skimping on your character's combat perks is going to screw you over; and the game noob-traps you into diversifying your stat builds - when, counter to how combat is presented (rock-paper-scissors; certain skills being required to overcome some enemies' special abilities, etc), it actually wants you to specialise into over-levelling just one.
There's a ridiculous number of skill trees which are all incredibly important to pursue, but which are fighting for very very limited resources.
This is a real pain, as you have to spend money to get the income-generating perks with which to make money - so even if you prioritise the prison's economics, you still feel like you're constantly trailing behind the curve.
A lot of the prison management sums don't seem to add up properly
The "ledger" page doesn't seem to accurately reflect your incoming cash vs outgoing, as you're constantly short-changed when you start the day with less currency than the status page tells you you're due.
The level of "control" in the prison seems to constantly be going down despite you not pursuing any policies that might deplete it; and because shoring up Control almost always involves expenditure, you never really feel like you can afford to invest in it no matter how monomaniacally you prioritise generating cash.
There's a ticking-clock element in that stability in the prison deteriorates over time, which is a constant source of anxiety. The difficulty ramp-up is omnipresent and because it's so unclear what the fail states do and how you can juggle them, you end up being bewildered at how to tackle the million things the game thinks it is essential you get on top of simultaneously.
The H-content is good, but very non-con with hints of NTR clichés.
Depending on how you play (not throwing, for example), it's possible to end up teasing yourself with the rate of pacing and the slow progress of moral decline. This ramps up the sexiness surprisingly effectively (although possibly unintentionally). The way the game tracks the moral degredation serves pretty well as a narrative device (and indeed a ludonarrative device) and is probably the most valuable addition to the genre this game makes; but unfortunately its not quite satisfactory as a replacement for plotting.
The game's actual plotting is very meh and generic.
The game's probably a high watermark for erotic JRPGs
So in that respect it's worth getting if the genres discussed above appeal to you and the game is on steep discount. The price is a bit excessive for what you get, even with the launch reduction of 20%.
However, if you're more interested in innovative modern eroge, ones that are more interested in exploring sex than using it as furniture in an unrelated idiom , then this is probably not going to hit the spot.
You, my man, get the like, comment and subscribe all the youtubers crave
This is what people do with a postgraduate degree these days
average STEM major who had to take a shit load of writing classes
Okay but milk outside a bag of milk... Is actually good, same with the first game
Tbh I'd watch hours of NL just reacting to hentai game steam reviews. This is gold.
lmao the comment "this is not super auto pets"
Oh boy that line skip at 12:20 !
The edits are insane! Also this is too funny.
very happy to now know the context behind seeing karryn's prison in chat
Huh, I've actually played Karryn's Prison. It's one of the better examples of a fun game meshed with hentai elements. Lot of them tend to be sort of half assed in the game department. Stuff like Hunie Pop comes to mind where they just use a slightly altered version of simple games like bejeweled. Lot of other games use other simple games such as matching ones to space out lewd content. Karryn doesn't do that, so that's nice.
Doubt anyone here is looking for recommendations, but for a more strategy oriented game Sengoku Rance is quite fun. You also don't need to play the other games to play it.
@user-ts2ir4hc5r True.
this vid is the reason i bought this game lol(its VERY good)
niceee
lol the classical music on the last one was a nice touch
3:42 look @ him lookin
So worth it to watch to the end
oh my god the ending lmao
That Ace42 review was actually really well written. I'm impressed how seriously they took it
that last one got me
This is a goldmine, Jerry
they definitely have a point about the bar minigame.
goddamn this is new gold
BS SPAMMER IS A HERO
I love the fact that at least 90% of these reviews come from some sort of post-nut-clarity, the imagery is not great though
Omfg that last one IS legendary.
This man could read ingredient labels on kids' cereals and I'd laugh.
2:01 "unlike other VNs, this one subverts your expectations and is not a dirty sexual VN"
Thanks NL for introducing us to this masterpiece. Also that one guy with 95 hours logged in fucking killed me 💀
100 hours of deep narrative? NEVER. 100 hours of mind numbing pets? YES PLEASE! Thats my Egg.
I wish this was a monthly segment
This game cured my mortality
I think the classical music is really fitting, these are individuals of the highest class
Banger vid holy
I found an online friend of mine reviewed it who happens to have 115 hours on record