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Slay the Princess: Probably the best Visual Novel i have heard of so far

I just finished playing Slay the Princess, and im not exaggerating when i say that its one of the best games i have ever played. Btw if you plan on playing it i don't rlly recommend reading this since im probably going to spoiler shit. I think the start of the game describes itself better than i ever could: "You’re on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess. You’re here to slay her. If you don’t, it will be the end of the world.". Thats the starting premise of the game, even though it will stay that way for most of it, but there will be major changes to it. I won't be going over the game itself much, since i mainly write this here to dump out my head. The princess in this game reminds me really much of the song "Earthmover" by Have a nice Life. You are promised that if you slay her, you save the world. But even if you do, the world still gets reduced to dust and you die. An unavoidable end, this is what that song portraits in my opinion. I love nearly everything about this game, from the artsyle, the music, the character designs and the dialoge. I would even go as far as calling it perfect if it wasn't for One tiny bit of the game that really annoys me. And that is the ending (atleast the one i got). You see, when you die, a voice appears in your head, what voice it is is deterited by how you got killed (For example when the princess abuses your trust and kills you when you get too comfortable with her, the "voice of the betrayed" appears). Now near at the end of the game the voices get irrelevant and appear as if they are gone. Now in the ending i got these voices do a 360 plot twist and basicly say "We were there the whole time, we were just quiet and watching, and now we are back for revenge" and it ends with an cliffhanger since its not explained what they actually do. Problem 1. It may just be my stupidness, but i have NO IDEA why they actually want revenge, i never once did something that would make them want to do that, nor do they explain why. Problem 2. This whole "getting revenge" thing completely destroyed my perspective on what the voices actually are. For the whole game until then, i thought the voices were part of my instinct, learing from every time i died, but since they can actually influence me in some way(still have no clue how since it doesn't get explained) i don't have ANY idea what they actually are. So yeah im still mourning the fact that i got an ending that im completely dissatisfied with :((( I still love this game though and it will have a big part in my heart, but that was just too dissapointing to forget. Im probably going to post this as an blog too since i want anyone to be able to read this at any time, im just uploading this as an bulletin since he chance is way higher that people will see this (love ya'll my spacehey friends)


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