BISCUITS HOPS ON COMMENTARY. ART NERVOUSLY LOOKS AT HIM WHILE HE HANDS HIM THE MICROPHONE."WHAT'S GOOD MONSTERS, ROLL UP, BLAZBLUE IS ASS, SKULLGIRLS IS STRAIGHT BOOTY" ARTURO SIGHS IN RELIEF AS BISCUITS HASNT SAID ANYTHING OFFENSIVE YET. "YO MONSTERS, HOOK ME UP WITH SOME DIVE KICK TORRENTS. I AINT SPENDING 20 BUCKS ON THAT GARBAGE FLASH GAME." "UGH-HA UGH-HA UGH-HA" AS ARTS HAND HOVERS OVER THE MIXER. "YO ART, WHENS BLAZGREEN?" ART NERVOUSLY LAUGHS "UGH-HA UGH-HA UGH-HA" AT BISCUITS' ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY E-SPORTS "MAN, ARE THERE ANY PEOPLE BESIDES ME THAT HAVENT GOTTEN NECK FROM SHERRY ?" BISCUITS ASKS THE STREAM. ART KNOWS HE HAS TO INTERFERE. "YO aaaAAAaaa, BISCUITS BLOWING IT UP". ART MUTES BISCUITS MIC AS HE CONTINUES TO RAMBLES ABOUT NECK AND TONSILS

/!\ WARNING /!\
Oh I best BELIEVE your FASCIST ASS ain't playing THAT GAME cause it don't want you TRUMP ASS

Ok... Now that I got that out of the way, I can get to the review.
Before I started playing this I was just a normal apolitical cringe normie, but after playing this baby... I just can't stand by and watch dr*mpf fuck this country up anymore (i'm european), now I get it's not enough to WANT things to change, but that you need to kill the president.
So I started playing this game a few days before the release of No More Heroes 3 and it started off pretty okay though I was kinda off the mark I thought it was gonna be one long road trip with randomly generated events like a collection of scenes.
Turns out it's a trump game and you have to get through 8 road trips and escape the country with your life because the president wants to kill all teenagers who want to leave... OK, that's cool... it's fine... I thought it was a shame because I wanted to keep my bonds with the characters and everything I had and have a chance of meeting some again later (I was cringe and apolotical but because of the game now I'm a socialist)
But no, you just meet some once or twice on the road... OK, that's cool... So I tried to die by any possible means to see how hard it was and it really was, at that point I already started playing NMH 3 and I paused it to come back to the trump game, it was a little funny going from fuckhead to fuck trump but that's ok, both games are about aliens so I wasn't out of my comfort zone.

Muramasa killed fiction for me


Today while going through some pictures on my tablet I found a picture of Kageaki Minato in my gallery.

My first reaction was a slight smile, as I immediately remembered all the time I had spent with this novel whose main saga is made up of 3 arcs(4 if you count the common route)

My initial impressions of this novel were really positive; I had it on my playlist for quite some time because it made use of certain narrative devices that for me were completely unbelievable or that I considered daring in any work of fiction

Time went by, and in many forums I kept reading great praise for the themes present in the narrative, or that well known joke of "came for the sword porn, stayed for the plot""

I finally gave it a chance, and yes, it was a truly amazing experience. I was a bit confused initially, as I didn't understand the initial relationship between the Tsurugi and alternative Japanese history, as well as all the horrible "feats" that everyone attributed to the Ginseigo; still, I enjoyed it immensely

I would later finish the Prologue, and I must confess that I was a bit caught off guard by immediate signs of narrative quality and talent compared to most VNs I'd read, however, I've always had a strong affinity for thematic depth in literature, so this more deconstructive thematic approach was something I'd experienced quite often before. Again, I enjoyed it immensely

Time passed, and with the announcement of an english translation I finally decided to read the entire thing. To be completely honest, at first I was quite reluctant, because hey, that would be more than a hundred hours I would have to venture through to understand Narahara's vision! However, none of that mattered and I just sat down in front of the computer and started the journey

Prologue was great. It was complex already, and watching Narahara's pen at work was definitely fun

Next would come the opening scenes of chapter I, and I did enjoy them, and it was cool to see Yuuhi's beginnings

Then i'd finish chapter 1, and jesus christ, I never thought I'd enjoy a VN so much because it actually had depth. The ending was also one of the epic things I've read in a long time(Yuuhi completely stole the show in this part)

Then I played chapter 2, and to this day I consider it one of the most ahead of its time chapters


After playing Chapter 2, I would play Chapter 3-5 and I never expected such a huge turn Kageaki would take as a character after the events of chapter 2. From here you can notice certain nuances in his personality, and even, - even I was surprised at the time - certain glimpses of questionable morality


With the Hero and Revenge routes, I was already in ecstasy; I never in my life thought that something in this world could be this amazing, and I must confess that I enjoyed it from start to finish


Then I would finally get to Tyrant, and this would be the beginning of the end of fiction for me. Throughout all the routes we meet a huge number of characters, and to see all of them explored with so much depth and come together in such a way that compliments each one is simply a marvel

Everything about this route is incredible. The art, the soundtrack, the characters, the ending, the true ending....absolutely everything

When the credits rolled, all I could do was stare at the screen for several minutes, and that's when I realized it was all over. My days of waking and sleeping thinking about Muramasa were over, and there came a huge sense of emptiness.

To this day nothing has ever made me feel that level of emotion, satisfaction, or appreciation for a work off art, do I regret it? Not at all; Muramasa killed fiction for me, but at the same time it gave me one of the most enjoyable moments of my life.

I just wanted to share these words with those who already immersed in this work, as well as those who are not yet; there may be a lot of expectation towards this work, but if you give it a chance you will be very pleasantly surprised.

Full Metal Daemon Muramasa saved my life, before I read this game I had a cancer and was going to die. I never came to accept the fact that I was going to go so I fell into a deep depression, I couldn’t handle the thought. But what I was doing was unhealthy and everyone picked up on the fact that I was in complete denial. They all tried to get help for me but I turned it all down because I told myself that I didn’t need help. “you’re going to be fine” I told myself. “nothings wrong” “it’s all in your head...” until the thought of death finally came to me and took over the entirety of my personality “I don’t want to go...” “I DON’T WANT TO GO” “I DON’T WANT TO GO”. All the help my family had tried to give me had failed and its all because of my depression and denial. I could’ve gotten help... but I kept telling myself there was nothing wrong. And I grew sicker, and sicker, and sicker... until I became so sick I could not get out of bed. My skin grew dry and pale, I grew skinny and weak. I could barely move and was constantly coughing up blood. I tried to come to accept the fact that I was going to die, but I couldn’t. Then I officially got the news that I would die in 12 hours when I woke the next day. I cried and cried all day until my daughter walked up to my bed. She said very tearfully “we really tried, dad. We did everything we thought of. There’s only one thing left that I can do...” she passed me a copy of Muramasa. “what’s this?” I asked. “the only option we have left...” she said as she walked out of the room and slowly closed the door behind her. I picked up the copy of Muramasa and looked at the cover. The art on the cover was absolutely gorgeous, I was completely speechless at how stunning the cover was and how it got across such a big message with one simple piece of artwork. I opened up the game to what would end up being the most heart racing, realistic, and emotional adventure I'd ever go on. The characters felt so much like real people and i found myself full on crying multiple times because of how the characters got me caught up in the story like it was actually happening. It felt real. After reading this game I was so extremely grateful that i got to witness what might be the best work of literature on earth the night before I had to leave it. After reading this game I became cleansed, I felt truly at peace with everything. I sat at my bed, getting ready for eternal slumber. Once I went to bed, I had 2 more hours. My body would give up before the morning, and that’d be it. I finally lied down I quietly said to myself “I’m okay with this...” as I slowly drifted off the sleep. This is it. This is my end. Until... I woke up. I looked out the window and saw that it was morning. I was so confused and was sure that this was a dream and not reality but sure enough it was. I started sobbing "tears in my eyes peak fiction*. I saw my hospital and said that even though there was no treatment that I took that my disease had completely vanished. He said that suddenly, I was the healthiest I've ever been and that I now have no clear sign of death. I would live a long and happy life, and I'm not sick anymore. “what happened, what did you do to get rid of it?” he said. I told him “Look up Muramasa on JAST store. I didn’t conquer death, it did. And trust me... it’s way more than a visual novel” Muramasa saved my life. I could not be more thankful for this masterpiece. If Bean is reading this review, I want him to know that I have conquered death. Thank you.

It was ass. I don't care about the twist, I was already out of the game way before that hit me, there just wasn't anything but the actual concept to keep me there, and it was such a pain to sit through. Despites the concept being so wacky it's all really unoriginal, very clumsy, and technically feels unpolished, the game refuses anything creative from you and you're forced to follow a set path and solve this one (1) single puzzle that it has the exact way it wants you to, which will lead to very little fun figuring things out cause it's the easy part, and a lot of frustration figuring how the game wants you to make the characters do it, cause you see, not even blueballing you is fun here, it's not about god himself making some bullshit happen to prevent you from doing anything too busted that'd solve the problem too fast, but suddenly every single character will be dumb as a rock just so you can't have your way, it just feels like an unfinished indie game that you can get on early access except it's the whole game and it's just that underwhelming. Willem Dafoe is pretty cool though.