Slay the Princess - A love story

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Best Princess

  • Spectre

    Votes: 3 8.8%

  • Adversary

    Votes: 5 14.7%

  • Witch

    Votes: 7 20.6%

  • Damsel

    Votes: 6 17.6%

  • Prisoner

    Votes: 3 8.8%

  • Tower

    Votes: 2 5.9%

  • Razor

    Votes: 2 5.9%

  • Beast

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Nightmare

    Votes: 2 5.9%

  • Stranger

    Votes: 3 8.8%
  • Total voters
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The princess is basically like a BPD chick if she suddenly developed supernatural powers of transformation. Also you're a lizard man or something.

And apparently the Steam page does bill it as a love story, so the player is supposed to be into the whole thing, even though you viciously murder each other in different timelines (that's like the shole shtick, it's got multiple branching routes to go through independently but there's an overarching meta-structure to the whole thing where they all feed into the ending)

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Someone uploaded a whole lets play of it already and I'm ashamed to admit I watched most of it due to the off-kilter story and weird art style. It's definitely a thing.
 
Saw an entire playthrough online this past weekend.

I appreciated how tongue-in-cheek it was, and how utterly insane it could get. The endgame story felt very meta which I can appreciate, but at the same time it feels like it'd been done before. Not a bad thing, but just not wholly original. Which nothing really is anymore, really.

Props to the voice acting, really nailed the fucking absurdity of it all.
 
BruhSheep said:
I appreciated how tongue-in-cheek it was, and how utterly insane it could get. The endgame story felt very meta which I can appreciate, but at the same time it feels like it'd been done before. Not a bad thing, but just not wholly original. Which nothing really is anymore, really.
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There's definitely a Stanley Parable influence going on but fortunately it goes beyond just "lol I'm doing the opposite of what the narrator said XD".
 
Mmm, I've seen it already pop around. How long does it seem to last? I tend to enjoy Visual Novels and I'd be keen on something that fucks with your head a bit but isn't gore/rape like way too many of the edgy VN go with.
 
If you are a goal-oriented person, this might not be the game for you.
I went in, stabbed the princess immediately with no hesitation and the narrator gave me a spiel about living in the cabin forever, happily.
Having completed what I set out to do, I then quit "Slay the Princess" and fired up Alan Wake II.
 
ShitLurker said:
Mmm, I've seen it already pop around. How long does it seem to last? I tend to enjoy Visual Novels and I'd be keen on something that fucks with your head a bit but isn't gore/rape like way too many of the edgy VN go with.
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I ran through it last weekend. It's a little under 2 hours. It feels like a vaguely pretentious short you'd get on a short fiction Fantasy podcast. That's not necessarily a slight against it, it's good at what it does, but it would work equally well in that format and saying anything more is a spoiler. If it had launched at 6.99 I feel like it'd do huge numbers.

Spoiler on structure, a thing you learn in the first 10 minutes:
There's an Undertale-esque loop going on. You die, respawn and your protagonist and the princess retain memories of what happened. The cabin degrades slightly too. As you respawn the cabin degrades more and more in differing ways until it reaches a state where you can't possibly respawn, and that's the point where the game shows its hand about what's really going on.


Slightly more detailed spoiler about length:


The 2-hour runthrough requires you to reach that level of cabin corruption 4? different ways to get to the real ending and I'd assume there's about a dozen ways to get there.
 
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I’ve seen a bit about it. If you’re into more off-beat visual novel games, I’d say you’ll enjoy it.
 
I played it a full 5 princesses and I thought it was alright until I got to the most depraved shit in the ending featuring h*nd h*olding and I had to put the game down.
 
The art is what puts me off. Maybe I'll look up a playthrough. Any good ones?
 
SSj_Ness said:
The art is what puts me off. Maybe I'll look up a playthrough. Any good ones?
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Really? The art style is fantastic in game. Beautiful, slightly off putting at times, REALLY off putting at others, but it's intentional when it's like that.

I tried watching a playthrough at first too but the choices everyone made kept pissing me off to the point that I had to play the game myself.
 
MISTER-CREEPMAN00 said:
What is it with Zoomers loving BPD unlikeable cunts?
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idk if it's an exclusively Zoomer thing but I see this all the time on /v/. Some bitchy Tsundere-actin woman is discovered in a video game and immediately people go "but i can fix her!!!".

For example, when HuniPop was released, a LOT of people were going ga-ga over the red-headed (well, multi-colored depending on the costume) flat-chested pot-smoking cunt calling her "best girl" because she was pure (a.k.a. a virgin)
 
Celebrate Nite said:
idk if it's an exclusively Zoomer thing but I see this all the time on /v/. Some bitchy Tsundere-actin woman is discovered in a video game and immediately people go "but i can fix her!!!".

For example, when HuniPop was released, a LOT of people were going ga-ga over the red-headed (well, multi-colored depending on the costume) flat-chested pot-smoking cunt calling her "best girl" because she was pure (a.k.a. a virgin)
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Fucking hell, /v/ has always been a den of faggots with shit tastes. It's a good thing I never got into HuniePop

Cherry Dude said:
Play the game.

Calling the princess BPD is just incorrect, flat out.
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Why, when I can just get a Horror YouTuber to play it for me.
 
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