This is a xpost from my Patreon (which I will likely be exiting soon in light of the Orwellian creepiness they've displayed recently). This is currently for paying patrons, but I might expand it to whatever platform I move to in 2019 if there's interest.
First up, apologies for the quietness this December. Some other-life stuff cropped up at the start of the month and by the time I was through it I was caught up in the holidays.
And then Patreon decided to shit the bed…
I'm not going to go into it in great detail, but I am of the opinion Patreon is no longer a safe or trustworthy platform for creators. If it wasn't for the fact other work had caused my current writing projects to fall behind schedule, I would have already cancelled my account here.
More on this later, but for now I thought I'd do a better job of managing expectation and lead off with the more positive stuff first.
First, as far as I'm concerned, everyone who has subbed to me up until December is owed a sexy boob monster girl short story and an advance look at the next monster girl CYOA. I intend to stick to that plan regardless of what happens here. If you no longer wish to use Patreon in the light of the Orwellian nonsense they've been pulling recently (or support me—I'm fully aware my own output has been very erratic), I fully understand. If you have been a backer up until now, I will try to get the projects to you as soon as they are completed.
Whatever happens, I do want to thank the people here that have supported me, even for this brief period of time.
Because of the nature of my work, I'm aware a lot of you are uncomfortable about seeing your names in any kind of credits list. However, I think I might have a sneaky solution that might be of interest.
All of my stories contain references to writers, movies and bands that I've enjoyed over the years. These are usually reflected in the names of characters, but I'll sometimes use them as references for place names (street names, etc).
I should also add that I don't do "Take That's." I only ever reference things I've enjoyed, so even my most feckless and/or despicable characters are named after creators/creations I like. This is because of a story I heard (possibly apocryphal) about Wes Craven naming his iconic Freddy Krueger after a bully who used to torment him at school. It might have been initially intended as a Take That, but then Freddy Krueger became a horror icon. My imagination pictures that bully looking at a film poster years later and thinking, "I used to beat this runt up at school and he went on to name a horror icon after me, how cool is that!" So, no Take That's, ever.
More recently I've been moving away from this. It's fine for a random nobody on Literotica, but starts to look icky on a sort-of erotic horror writer with multiple books published on Amazon, especially if people come to the erroneous conclusion they were intended as disses.
However, this does leave me with something I can give back to those of you who've supported me here. Whatever happens in the future, I'm still going to be writing stories and those stories will have characters and places that requires names. It doesn't even need to be a name. It can be a little snippet of description—something you'll be able to recognise and think, I helped fund this.
If you would like to be included in this, please comment below with the name or little descriptive tag you'd like to see used in a story at some point. If you want, also add your favourite monster girl or fetish and I'll try to use your reference in an appropriate story.
Just to be clear, this is just a minor name or descriptive tag rather than any insert characters. When it comes to storytelling, I always do what I feel is right for the story first. On that note, it's quite likely your name might get dropped on a less-than-stellar example of humanity (my succubi do love slurping up assholes). If you really really don't want this, let me know and I'll try and apply your moniker to a less-assholish doomed succubus meal instead (my succubi also love slurping up the innocent as well).
Also, if you'd prefer even this sneaky reference to be totally anonymous, feel free to DM me rather than commenting. My aim is to put a private list together and dip into it for future stories.
(And maybe even grow that list with future subscribers if this political nonsense blows over, or an apolitical competitor to Patreon emerges.)
Obviously, I can't put a timeline on when I'll sneak your reference in—there are over a hundred of you for starters!
Once again, thanks for your support and apologies for the uncertainty. I'll try to post again over the weekend while I try to figure out some backup plans for 2019.
Fuck Censorshit!
-manyeyedhydra
Friday, December 28, 2018
Friday, December 21, 2018
Monster Girl/Succubus H-games on my Radar
As I've stated before, I haven't played many of late because of problems with getting Machine Translation to work on my computer. (I could solve all this by actually learning to read Japanese, but unfortunately I'm English, and we're congenitally awful at picking up other languages).
Thankfully for us gaijin slobs, other solutions are starting to appear. DLSite has been posting some products with English translation (of varying degrees of quality) and other talented folks have made or are making English translations of juicy succubus smut games.
Domination Quest ~ Kuro and the Naughty Monster Girls
AKA the brand new one, as it came out yesterday (the day before?).
It's from the same people that created Demon Angel Sakura. This time they've gone for traditional RPG rather than a platformer. Bizarrely, rather than use something like RPG Maker, they appear to have tried to build something like RPG Maker in Unity, which might just be the most Japanese Game Dev thing ever.
Given that it's from Kokage no Izumi, the people that made Demon Angel Sakura, I'm guessing it's going to be weird and end up frequently crossing the line between erotic and WTF! a lot. In theory it's your typical Gotta Get 'Em All monster girl harem game, but the way the main character picks up new waifus is by shrinking them down and gobbling them up with a tail mouth coming out of his butt.
So, basic Demon Angel Sakura weirdness then.
I would caution against picking it up just yet. It looks like the creator rushed the game out a little too soon and it's extremely bug infested. I hit a game-breaking bug within the first half hour where I couldn't continue down a path because the game kept putting the character sprite on the exit point of the new screen, promptly looping the player right back to where they'd just come from. I've seen comments that this can be avoided if you hit the right spot on the screen, but I haven't found it yet. The same people have also reported encountering lots of crashing problems later in the game.
I have it and it looks interesting enough that I will write about it once the current broken stuff is fixed. For now I'd advise staying clear until a patch or two has dropped.
Drain Dungeon
While checking back to see if Domination Quest had been patched, I noticed the English version of Drain Dungeon sitting in my DLSite game library. This surprised me as I don't remember buying it. I think what might have happened is DLSite gave me the English translation as a freebie as I already owned the original.
This is an old one. 2016, I think. You stomp down an abstracted dungeon and then spurt all your accumulated levels inside a trio of succubi on the way out. I think I played it a little a while back. Now, with the English version I can give the whole game a thorough...
Actually, scratch that. I must be getting senile as well as old and fat. I already wrote a full review of this back here, including delving all the way down the final (and hot!) succubus boss. The fact I can't remember this is probably not a good endorsement for the game.
Oh well, it might be fun to have a playthrough where this time I actually know what all the items do. (And have all that delicious draining done in English-text Bad Ends.)
Shrift
Ignore the art style. A lot of people have been impressed with this game, and I think with good reason. It might be the best implementation of femdom battle fuck mechanics around. The creator has given a lot of attention to the various binds and status effects to make the player horny and helpless before the monster girls moves on to the snu snu. The art style is... idiosyncratic... but they do make good use of puppeting to animate the scenes. It ends up being a lot more sexier than I expected.
This level of detail on the battles combined with an artist like Setouchi or Shiki would be my dream monster girl H-game combo, I think.
There is a workable English translation patch for the game. I haven't managed to delve too deep into it yet. The game also has a bit of Undertale's quirk to it. The obvious influence is in the separate genocide and pacifist routes, but it also seems to be doing similar funky meta stuff with saved games. This makes going back to redo various "fights" difficult as the character isn't there anymore. My last run sort of petered out because I managed to get myself trapped in a fight versus the doll girl that was virtually unwinnable with the equipment I had.
I'm tempted to run at this again and give it the full let's play treatment.
Lust Grimm
Another game that has been recommended to me multiple times in the comments. I was iffy on the demo. The art style looked delightful, but the Bad Ends seemed short.
A lot of this was because I was playing with no English. Translation team =Together= are working on a full translation of this (They've already translated Succubus Prison). I have played the translated demo and can definitely appreciate the game a little more. As with Succubus Rhapsody, there's a lot of sexiness in the text of the battles. Now I'm eager to play the full thing when the complete translation is done.
Because of my translation issues I haven't been keeping as close an eye on interesting H-games as I'd like. Domination Quest is new, but both Lust Grimm and Shrift have been out for a while (although Shrift is using a chapter release model, with the fourth and final chapter not out yet). If you've spotted any other juicy succubus games, let me know in the comments.
I am tempted to run another let's play type thing again (but maybe not as detailed as the Paradox series). I'm nervous of doing them because of time that could be spent writing, but I also don't like leaving the blog empty for too long when I'm working on longer projects. Having something at the forefront that's quick and easy to put out might make for an appropriate screen for those times when I want to be working on larger-scale project in the background. I don't like the regular update posts. They're great when things are running smoothly, but end up doom-spiraling my mood pretty quickly when I fall behind. I think I might have to learn the time-honoured corporate strategy of keeping shtum until I can properly wow people with a new thing.
(For instance, it would have been far better if I'd not told people about the boob monster story and just released it when it was done, rather than fucking up the time estimations, again!, and have people wondering where the fuck is this story and why is it so goddamned late?)
Thankfully for us gaijin slobs, other solutions are starting to appear. DLSite has been posting some products with English translation (of varying degrees of quality) and other talented folks have made or are making English translations of juicy succubus smut games.
Domination Quest ~ Kuro and the Naughty Monster Girls
AKA the brand new one, as it came out yesterday (the day before?).
It's from the same people that created Demon Angel Sakura. This time they've gone for traditional RPG rather than a platformer. Bizarrely, rather than use something like RPG Maker, they appear to have tried to build something like RPG Maker in Unity, which might just be the most Japanese Game Dev thing ever.
Given that it's from Kokage no Izumi, the people that made Demon Angel Sakura, I'm guessing it's going to be weird and end up frequently crossing the line between erotic and WTF! a lot. In theory it's your typical Gotta Get 'Em All monster girl harem game, but the way the main character picks up new waifus is by shrinking them down and gobbling them up with a tail mouth coming out of his butt.
So, basic Demon Angel Sakura weirdness then.
I would caution against picking it up just yet. It looks like the creator rushed the game out a little too soon and it's extremely bug infested. I hit a game-breaking bug within the first half hour where I couldn't continue down a path because the game kept putting the character sprite on the exit point of the new screen, promptly looping the player right back to where they'd just come from. I've seen comments that this can be avoided if you hit the right spot on the screen, but I haven't found it yet. The same people have also reported encountering lots of crashing problems later in the game.
I have it and it looks interesting enough that I will write about it once the current broken stuff is fixed. For now I'd advise staying clear until a patch or two has dropped.
Drain Dungeon
While checking back to see if Domination Quest had been patched, I noticed the English version of Drain Dungeon sitting in my DLSite game library. This surprised me as I don't remember buying it. I think what might have happened is DLSite gave me the English translation as a freebie as I already owned the original.
This is an old one. 2016, I think. You stomp down an abstracted dungeon and then spurt all your accumulated levels inside a trio of succubi on the way out. I think I played it a little a while back. Now, with the English version I can give the whole game a thorough...
Actually, scratch that. I must be getting senile as well as old and fat. I already wrote a full review of this back here, including delving all the way down the final (and hot!) succubus boss. The fact I can't remember this is probably not a good endorsement for the game.
Oh well, it might be fun to have a playthrough where this time I actually know what all the items do. (And have all that delicious draining done in English-text Bad Ends.)
Shrift
Ignore the art style. A lot of people have been impressed with this game, and I think with good reason. It might be the best implementation of femdom battle fuck mechanics around. The creator has given a lot of attention to the various binds and status effects to make the player horny and helpless before the monster girls moves on to the snu snu. The art style is... idiosyncratic... but they do make good use of puppeting to animate the scenes. It ends up being a lot more sexier than I expected.
This level of detail on the battles combined with an artist like Setouchi or Shiki would be my dream monster girl H-game combo, I think.
There is a workable English translation patch for the game. I haven't managed to delve too deep into it yet. The game also has a bit of Undertale's quirk to it. The obvious influence is in the separate genocide and pacifist routes, but it also seems to be doing similar funky meta stuff with saved games. This makes going back to redo various "fights" difficult as the character isn't there anymore. My last run sort of petered out because I managed to get myself trapped in a fight versus the doll girl that was virtually unwinnable with the equipment I had.
I'm tempted to run at this again and give it the full let's play treatment.
Lust Grimm
Another game that has been recommended to me multiple times in the comments. I was iffy on the demo. The art style looked delightful, but the Bad Ends seemed short.
A lot of this was because I was playing with no English. Translation team =Together= are working on a full translation of this (They've already translated Succubus Prison). I have played the translated demo and can definitely appreciate the game a little more. As with Succubus Rhapsody, there's a lot of sexiness in the text of the battles. Now I'm eager to play the full thing when the complete translation is done.
Because of my translation issues I haven't been keeping as close an eye on interesting H-games as I'd like. Domination Quest is new, but both Lust Grimm and Shrift have been out for a while (although Shrift is using a chapter release model, with the fourth and final chapter not out yet). If you've spotted any other juicy succubus games, let me know in the comments.
I am tempted to run another let's play type thing again (but maybe not as detailed as the Paradox series). I'm nervous of doing them because of time that could be spent writing, but I also don't like leaving the blog empty for too long when I'm working on longer projects. Having something at the forefront that's quick and easy to put out might make for an appropriate screen for those times when I want to be working on larger-scale project in the background. I don't like the regular update posts. They're great when things are running smoothly, but end up doom-spiraling my mood pretty quickly when I fall behind. I think I might have to learn the time-honoured corporate strategy of keeping shtum until I can properly wow people with a new thing.
(For instance, it would have been far better if I'd not told people about the boob monster story and just released it when it was done, rather than fucking up the time estimations, again!, and have people wondering where the fuck is this story and why is it so goddamned late?)
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