i hate eroge idk why i read this but i was hoping the interesting elements would actually go somewhere
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This game is something else. It kind of gave me episodic horror show vibes at points. Would really recommend if you want to dip your toes in eroge.
Altered my brain chemistry forever.
In a bad way.
But I don't regret it...most of the time...
In a bad way.
But I don't regret it...most of the time...
had lots of potential (especially with the extra ending), really disappointing
aoi, yoshiki and shinta my beloveds
aoi, yoshiki and shinta my beloveds
This review contains spoilers
this is probably the most conflicted i've ever felt about a visual novel.
on one hand, there's definitely something to be praised about how it manages to handle themes of isolation, bullying, trauma, and misanthropy. but on the other hand, it feels too indebted to trying to shock or titillate the reader to make a strong impact on me.
akane's route feels like the best sampler of what the game aims to do over its runtime, balancing high-school drama, a dense and repetitive atmosphere, and a lot of b-horror influence and style. she's your childhood friend archetype, but also still learning to navigate life after an incident where she and your mc, kyoji, are forced by a gang of bullies to fuck in the middle of the woods. aoi (best girl)'s route brings in heavy denpa elements, with how the entire town is getting affected by the supernatural horrors in the second half of the story. she's a withdrawn, but kind, emo girl grappling with both the death of her father and brother (who she got her style and love of metal from), and her resentment of akane for treating her as a baby bird that needs to be coddled, to the point of stealing kyoji away from her, without even feeling much of anything for him (though that changes for her). kiika's route is the one that mostly directly deals with the theme of sexual trauma. seemingly perfect at first glance, she's self-loathing due to the high standards of her mother, and for her interest in sex and masturbation, as it quickly takes over her life in destructive ways.
the main theme tying these three, kyoji's guardian yamiko, the mysterious and cold-blooded yoshiki, and our villains, yukari and the titular gore, is trauma. everyone has let specific pieces of their past control them for years beyond the fact, except for kyoji, who's been able to forget and suppress the best and worst parts of his childhood. he ends up pulling our narrative further along through this attitude, and across all of the routes and good/true endings, he's enough of an influence on people's lives to grab them by the wrist and pull them into the future with him.
where i think this game didn't quite live up to the hype for me is in the use of sex in the narrative. this is a vn very much about sexual trauma, so the use of it outside of those contexts feels very forced-in (especially when you're having Actual Sex scenes with yamiko, who's basically your aunt, and yuka, who is an ageless being that is no older than twelve physically). i do realize in a sense, it's a bit silly it is to complain about the genre mainly made for sex scenes having a game with a bunch of gratuitous ones, but i feel like it often derails the pacing and undermines the otherwise-strong writing, almost as if it was inserted in near the last second. my other main issue is the general cohesion of the narrative, as it feels like the main heroines and their routes are playing second fiddle to the grander narrative, with not much of an attempt made to tie all of these ends together. kyoji as a character also feels like he suffers in the true route, with a lot of his more unbearable characteristics on full display, making it kind of a slog to get through to the ending
it's very, very fucking messy, extreme, and offputting, but i still managed to feel compelled and intrigued by gore screaming show.
on one hand, there's definitely something to be praised about how it manages to handle themes of isolation, bullying, trauma, and misanthropy. but on the other hand, it feels too indebted to trying to shock or titillate the reader to make a strong impact on me.
akane's route feels like the best sampler of what the game aims to do over its runtime, balancing high-school drama, a dense and repetitive atmosphere, and a lot of b-horror influence and style. she's your childhood friend archetype, but also still learning to navigate life after an incident where she and your mc, kyoji, are forced by a gang of bullies to fuck in the middle of the woods. aoi (best girl)'s route brings in heavy denpa elements, with how the entire town is getting affected by the supernatural horrors in the second half of the story. she's a withdrawn, but kind, emo girl grappling with both the death of her father and brother (who she got her style and love of metal from), and her resentment of akane for treating her as a baby bird that needs to be coddled, to the point of stealing kyoji away from her, without even feeling much of anything for him (though that changes for her). kiika's route is the one that mostly directly deals with the theme of sexual trauma. seemingly perfect at first glance, she's self-loathing due to the high standards of her mother, and for her interest in sex and masturbation, as it quickly takes over her life in destructive ways.
the main theme tying these three, kyoji's guardian yamiko, the mysterious and cold-blooded yoshiki, and our villains, yukari and the titular gore, is trauma. everyone has let specific pieces of their past control them for years beyond the fact, except for kyoji, who's been able to forget and suppress the best and worst parts of his childhood. he ends up pulling our narrative further along through this attitude, and across all of the routes and good/true endings, he's enough of an influence on people's lives to grab them by the wrist and pull them into the future with him.
where i think this game didn't quite live up to the hype for me is in the use of sex in the narrative. this is a vn very much about sexual trauma, so the use of it outside of those contexts feels very forced-in (especially when you're having Actual Sex scenes with yamiko, who's basically your aunt, and yuka, who is an ageless being that is no older than twelve physically). i do realize in a sense, it's a bit silly it is to complain about the genre mainly made for sex scenes having a game with a bunch of gratuitous ones, but i feel like it often derails the pacing and undermines the otherwise-strong writing, almost as if it was inserted in near the last second. my other main issue is the general cohesion of the narrative, as it feels like the main heroines and their routes are playing second fiddle to the grander narrative, with not much of an attempt made to tie all of these ends together. kyoji as a character also feels like he suffers in the true route, with a lot of his more unbearable characteristics on full display, making it kind of a slog to get through to the ending
it's very, very fucking messy, extreme, and offputting, but i still managed to feel compelled and intrigued by gore screaming show.
yuka best fictional character of all time my beloved
she gore me call that a screaming show
Yamiko and Yuka routes are great, with Akane's route being a good teaser of what's to come. Other routes don't really feel required but they do have some cool denpa-like bits that make them worth going through.
A real classic.
A real classic.
a little b-horror treat. in between "short" and "average" length, or maybe it was just good pacing that made it seem like it went by so fast!
akane's route is the only real sour part of this, and even then it's not necessarily bad, just very cliche and predictable.
just don't get too excited for any gore to make you scream. the guro is really limited to hentai scenes and that's pretty much it. i thought our titular character would be way more of a menace, but he's not -- it's not a bad thing, just don't get overhyped.
kiika best girl
akane's route is the only real sour part of this, and even then it's not necessarily bad, just very cliche and predictable.
just don't get too excited for any gore to make you scream. the guro is really limited to hentai scenes and that's pretty much it. i thought our titular character would be way more of a menace, but he's not -- it's not a bad thing, just don't get overhyped.
kiika best girl
This review contains spoilers
overall a really intriguing visual novel! completed akane's route and bad ends (my first route) and aoi's route and bad ends on 11/11/22 and kiika's route on 11/12/22 early in the morning. i love how this visual novel seems to follow the format of a typical horror film, they even reference the horror film format and sadako in the game!
though it is a black cyc game and has gore in the title, shockingly it's not as gorey as i expected so far. the intense squicky gore in the game seems to be in kiika's route. on the topic of gore, i love gore himself and he's fucking hilarious. i'm usually not one for dark humor involving death, but that one scene in the game with sashimi and the teacher absolutely obliterated me. i also think that yuuka and gore are an interesting tag team. there's still mysteries that i haven't found in the game (like what gore and yuuka are) but i'm hoping to uncover that as i play more paths today!
though it is a black cyc game and has gore in the title, shockingly it's not as gorey as i expected so far. the intense squicky gore in the game seems to be in kiika's route. on the topic of gore, i love gore himself and he's fucking hilarious. i'm usually not one for dark humor involving death, but that one scene in the game with sashimi and the teacher absolutely obliterated me. i also think that yuuka and gore are an interesting tag team. there's still mysteries that i haven't found in the game (like what gore and yuuka are) but i'm hoping to uncover that as i play more paths today!
it just tries a bit too hard lmfao. it defienetly had interesting ideas and i don't think it's THAT awful, but i wouldn't really recommend it, i wish the horror elements were more present rather than the opposite
Ero vn with horror or Horror vn with ero content?
well idk but this didn't really grab me it had some interesting art on the horror bits but there should've been more
well idk but this didn't really grab me it had some interesting art on the horror bits but there should've been more
LOVE
gore screaming show? more like gore screaming SHOW TITS!!!!
this game was an experience. i really miss when metawo ueda drew in this style. yuka deserved better
this game was an experience. i really miss when metawo ueda drew in this style. yuka deserved better
10/10 Masterpiece, Yuka shouldn't have gotten any of the treatment she got on all the main routes, she's best girl <3
GGS me surpreendeu em sua eficácia, mas me decepcionou na falta de tato.
Um dos lançamentos mais aguardados e considerado um cult classic por parte da comunidade, GSS traz ideias muito boas e aspectos interessantes quanto a mensagem, usando e abusando de erotismo, perverção e, claro, Gore. Fui esperando algo dentro do que a VN me entregou e fico grato por isso, sem dúvidas a narrativa tem seus méritos, como a quebra do padrão de heroínas quase perfeitas em muitas VNs, em GSS, todas são egoístas e possuem um lado obscuro que exposto durantes suas rotas e são confrontadas por isso, a podridão em muitas cenas sendo transmitidas em H-Scenes funcionam e o Denpa é bem executado, mas, tem seus exageros, a rota da Kiika é o maior exemplo disso. Eu entendo a mensagem sobre sexualidade na rota, mas é mostrado de forma extensiva, tornando quase toda a rota puro fetiche, que vale ressaltar, existe aqui tbm. Claro que elogiei o uso de erotismo, mas o aspecto fetichista ainda existe e é problemático, eu sei que estou dizendo a mesma coisa que a água molha, pois quase toda VN faz isso, porém não posso deixar de comentar, GSS não se isenta desse problemas, mas compensa pela excelente conclusão da obra.
Já os personagens, bem, alguns só existem, como Kyouji, um protagonista bem médio, mas que funciona narrativamente ou Yamiko que é uma expositividade abulante, além de outro aspecto fetichista da VN, já outros são abordados de forma decente em suas rotas, como Akane e Aoi, a Kiika poderia ser boa, se a rota dela não focasse tanto em erotismo exarcebado, os maiores destaques sem dúvidas são Yuka, Gore e Yoshiki. Os 3 são a alma de GSS, Yuka com seu lado misterioso e perverso que esconde suas fragilidades, onde sua rota trabalha isso muito bem, Gore sendo o Gore, uma criatura bizarra, grotesca e aterrozante, já Yoshiki sendo o elo entre Yuka e Kyouji, com um bom arco próprio.
A produção de GSS é bem ok, tem muitos CGs lindos, mas não é brilhante, principalmente em alguns por conta do background art desconexo com o que está em primeiro plano em alguns CGs, no entanto adoro o Char Design, muitos podem achar genérico e entendo, eu acho que da um charme a mais para a obra. A OST tem muitas trilhas marcantes, pena que sofre de ter pouca variedade.
No fim, GSS valeu a pena, me entregou o que eu esperava, não coloco como um destaque dentre outras VNs que li, todavia não foi uma perda de tempo e tem sim suas qualidades.
Um dos lançamentos mais aguardados e considerado um cult classic por parte da comunidade, GSS traz ideias muito boas e aspectos interessantes quanto a mensagem, usando e abusando de erotismo, perverção e, claro, Gore. Fui esperando algo dentro do que a VN me entregou e fico grato por isso, sem dúvidas a narrativa tem seus méritos, como a quebra do padrão de heroínas quase perfeitas em muitas VNs, em GSS, todas são egoístas e possuem um lado obscuro que exposto durantes suas rotas e são confrontadas por isso, a podridão em muitas cenas sendo transmitidas em H-Scenes funcionam e o Denpa é bem executado, mas, tem seus exageros, a rota da Kiika é o maior exemplo disso. Eu entendo a mensagem sobre sexualidade na rota, mas é mostrado de forma extensiva, tornando quase toda a rota puro fetiche, que vale ressaltar, existe aqui tbm. Claro que elogiei o uso de erotismo, mas o aspecto fetichista ainda existe e é problemático, eu sei que estou dizendo a mesma coisa que a água molha, pois quase toda VN faz isso, porém não posso deixar de comentar, GSS não se isenta desse problemas, mas compensa pela excelente conclusão da obra.
Já os personagens, bem, alguns só existem, como Kyouji, um protagonista bem médio, mas que funciona narrativamente ou Yamiko que é uma expositividade abulante, além de outro aspecto fetichista da VN, já outros são abordados de forma decente em suas rotas, como Akane e Aoi, a Kiika poderia ser boa, se a rota dela não focasse tanto em erotismo exarcebado, os maiores destaques sem dúvidas são Yuka, Gore e Yoshiki. Os 3 são a alma de GSS, Yuka com seu lado misterioso e perverso que esconde suas fragilidades, onde sua rota trabalha isso muito bem, Gore sendo o Gore, uma criatura bizarra, grotesca e aterrozante, já Yoshiki sendo o elo entre Yuka e Kyouji, com um bom arco próprio.
A produção de GSS é bem ok, tem muitos CGs lindos, mas não é brilhante, principalmente em alguns por conta do background art desconexo com o que está em primeiro plano em alguns CGs, no entanto adoro o Char Design, muitos podem achar genérico e entendo, eu acho que da um charme a mais para a obra. A OST tem muitas trilhas marcantes, pena que sofre de ter pouca variedade.
No fim, GSS valeu a pena, me entregou o que eu esperava, não coloco como um destaque dentre outras VNs que li, todavia não foi uma perda de tempo e tem sim suas qualidades.
discourse is very important i need to know if vns are games or not
if this got tled in 2013 gore would've absolutely been a tumblr sexyman prove me wrong
kiika and yamiko also living knowing they the best.
kiika and yamiko also living knowing they the best.
Ty Gore Screaming Show-sama, you were the best buddy in the world
I love you Mr Gore Screaming Show
gore screaming show baby its mighty gorebin power rangers time baby