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Demon's Bond RIP
Feb. 3rd, 2020 08:21 amIt looks like we are losing Demon's Bond. If you haven't yet played it it looks like you still can for a few more weeks and I'd recommend it, I liked it even better than Hakuouki in some ways.
It had a major problem in being marketed badly. It was sold as a pay-per-route romance game. The thing is it's not very romantic and you need to play all the routes to get the full story. What it does an excellent job of is showing two different parallel civil wars from all opposing sides in a way that you can see everyone's point, and also see that no one really has the full picture. The protagonist has to make political choices about what alliance to make, and none of them are really wrong but only because there's no real good answer.
(You also have to read the routes more or less in order for it to make sense, which is never stated anywhere. And it also had a terrible UI and no autoplay function and they never released the fandisk that had all the romance on it. So look, not perfect. But still great.)
I suppose it could come back as a freemium game, since those seem to make more money, but it's an even worse fit for that because it's so plot-heavy and you really need to read all the routes before you understand what is going on. And there's almost no fanservice, I think there's like one kiss and in most cases I ended up caring more about the warlord that Yukina was serving than the Demon bodyguard she was dating.
But ok I will stop complaining about SLBP finding new and creative ways to wring pearls from me, if this is what it takes for them to be profitable enough to keep going then fine.
It had a major problem in being marketed badly. It was sold as a pay-per-route romance game. The thing is it's not very romantic and you need to play all the routes to get the full story. What it does an excellent job of is showing two different parallel civil wars from all opposing sides in a way that you can see everyone's point, and also see that no one really has the full picture. The protagonist has to make political choices about what alliance to make, and none of them are really wrong but only because there's no real good answer.
(You also have to read the routes more or less in order for it to make sense, which is never stated anywhere. And it also had a terrible UI and no autoplay function and they never released the fandisk that had all the romance on it. So look, not perfect. But still great.)
I suppose it could come back as a freemium game, since those seem to make more money, but it's an even worse fit for that because it's so plot-heavy and you really need to read all the routes before you understand what is going on. And there's almost no fanservice, I think there's like one kiss and in most cases I ended up caring more about the warlord that Yukina was serving than the Demon bodyguard she was dating.
But ok I will stop complaining about SLBP finding new and creative ways to wring pearls from me, if this is what it takes for them to be profitable enough to keep going then fine.
