auuuuuuggggghhhhhhh I'm still seething. This was truly a tragedy in the sense that there was no other conclusion that was going to be reached once the ball was set in motion. infuriatingly realistic. and yet the sex scenes were incredibly hot.
The writing has a good sense of physicality and sensation. I love the depiction of Claire as basically the worst type of person alive. I think her worldview comes across very strongly in both her actions and her narration. Very good game.
the writing style took a while to really grip me, but what first made it work for me was the swing over fence. Didi being so graceful, claire being a mess, that's reflected in the writing style of their respective descriptions of the actions. flowy vs scrappy.
The turns all of this had were amazing. Claire stumbling into Didi and describing her like a man. Nina. Nina getting off on it. The pain and resentment between Claire and Nina. They're so toxic towards each other in ways I have seen and experienced, such as Nina doing the really fucking annoying "lolololol" thing to deliberately do whatever the fuck this ever actually does irl. we all know and hate to be on the receiving end of it.
and then nina ceases being an active participant in the story in the most relatable and upsetting way imaginable. by blocking claire on fucking discord.
To highlight more of these moments: especially as the story progressed towards claire showing up at didi's apartment, there were so many short moments and lines that felt like nothing but a brick to the ribcage
- "I was afraid of her"
- the change of portraits in the chatlog
- typing out the discord blocked message suddenly hit like
- "do something thatll make you feel better" into "hey didi"
the way this writing lulls you into drifting in your allegiance to these characters is insane. in my own notes, I describe didi as this fucking monster. things from my notepad; "didi also having no self control and going along with claire after barely pretending to care about an apology" "the pure unadulterated disdain and hatred from didi in the spanking scene"
"these are all horrible characters"
And finally, I of course have to mention the OBVIOUS FUCKING THEMES OF TRANSFEMININITY, CHASERISM AND TRANSMISOGYNY!
This is so fetishistic, in the marxist sense of the word. ths fucking visual novel puts the fear of god into you when you see and experience its shape and know this to be nothing more than a mundane retelling of everyday fucking occurrences in this fascist hellscape we're slipping into and then it leaves you do return back to that world because there is no fucking god
i fuck heavy with claire having so many chaser-y thoughts. she's straight up disgusting and horrible and part of me likes that. im just ill in the head. especially in the first half, the very violent transfem superiority part of me wants this vn burn even brighter.
the ending. claire is horrible. as the scene progresses and moves into the bathroom, you realize just how incongruent these 2 are. didi, rightfully and understandable, views this as nothing more than a bdsm scene. because that's all claire ever communicated to her. whereas for claire, her mindless and aimless self-flagellation exposes her to real consequences of nonconsent, and it serves fucking no one. didi just feels horrible. nina doesn't know and probably wouldn't approve. claire is traumatized. and then claire runs away.
didi just doing bdsm shit
I literally capslocked to take notes as I got to this part. and it simply reads nothing more than.
CLAIRE YOU FUCKING
DONT CALL YOUR COP DAD
the fucking degendering
her becoming a woman when brutalized
dad misgendering her bc ofc
I don't even know if I should bother cleaning up those notes for this review. we all know what the fuck this is. it's fucking reality.
to summarize my review of FAITHLESS//FLAGELLANT: F//F is a poignant commentary on v coding and transmisogynist violence as it exists in society right now. this visual novel dances with the topic of transfemininity in ways barely any work of art I have ever read have. its decriptions of bodies. its twists and turns that yank you to the ground and then drag you across it. its control over its own narrative styles. it knows what it is. it knows what we are. In my opinion, it is so rare that a work in our space is as sobering as this one. no pretense. no bullshit. the end is just horrible and it happens every fucking day. out there. in the real world we live in when we peel away from our screens.
i finally took the time to get to this game and i was not disappointed at all. fatally toxic yuri — and grounded toxicity at that. the kind that's scarily true-to-life.
claire is the most terrifying, infuriating character in this work. her inability to take responsibility — her whole "poor baby" act towards cheating on nina — and the subtle (that gradually gets less subtle) chaser behavior she displays towards didi... all culminating in the ending that made me hate. her. so. much.
i especially think a lot about that break in the line towards the end. she spares a thought for nina, her ex — but suffocates whatever guilty conscience she had towards didi. it's so, so telling.
anyway thanks for making this awesome work. on a side note, i love the muramasa-inspired textboxes and character sprites. they rule....
Evil, awful, terrible, definitely one of the most toxic games in the jam I've played so far. First game I've had to tap out of from sheer discomfort alone, I'm incredibly impressed, keep up the good work.
Amazing vn! Very masterfully written, it brilliantly ramped up my emotions from “Oh, I don’t like Claire” > “Oh. I really don’t like Claire” > “Oh I fucking hate Claire” “Oh holy shit I fucking HATE Claire”
I don’t think I’ve ever hated a character this much before, what fantastic writing
tried to come up with a pithy comment but actually just too in awe. this game filled something that needed filling. a soul desire for toxic yuri as real and evil as women.
The visuals are minimal and really good. I hate Claire so much. The way she fetishizes Didi to even minute stupid fucking details (her scar is masculine, somehow) and how she lies constantly about every interaction. (The thing with Nina coming was kind of funny but.) It’s hard to see it as her not doing it on purpose by the end…
I found it very upsetting that she cared about what she did to Nina but not Didi even though it was also awful… like the way she does things without seeming to care at all. It ended with Didi getting arrested and handcuffed which is horrible, kinda felt like Claire just used her and threw her away.
God I don't even know where to start with this one.
Basics first. I love the effective simplicity of the presentation. Between the UI and the focus on ambiance with a handful of sfx, this VN is a great show of how much you can get out of modest assets.
Was very much prepared for the worst going into this. Frankly a little eager for it. In the best way possible I love getting a good sense of how things are gonna go down in the end just from Claire's own perspectives. And those views kept unraveling themselves in such horrid ways especially the increasingly dodgy, piercing dogwhistles of her languid (trans)misogyny. The constant gaslighting and her needing to always be in the right. Extremely fucked up what happens to someone when they're made to be the fawn all their life!! The break in a certain line at the end actually made me chef kiss in real, too.
also it was awesome that nina came from being cucked
Love the visuals throughout the game; even with the minimalist portraits, you were able to convey so much. The punishment scenes were so well written... my favorite spanking scene I've come across in the jam so far >>; the ending really fucked me up. It's a real gut-punch. Anyway, fuck chasers. Great work!
I feel like there's not much I could say that isn't just re-stating what's it's doing on a surface level BUT: For a while now I have been feeling the conspicuous gap between the popular conception of toxic yuri, and the actual, more mundane, usually completely unglamorous ways that harm is inflicted in the real world. This speaks an ugly reminder of that gap. Also it was hot. Thank you
AAAUUGHH....... i was so drawn in by the atmosphere the whole time and even tho i vaguely had some dread from the beginning (and was honestly doing my best to ignore the red flags of our pov character), i couldve never imagined how everything culminated in such a wicked disaster. fabulous read, i really enjoyed it and there are so many moments where i was just like totally getting emotional, feeling disgust, feeling crazy amounts of dread, or even experiencing positive emotions while enjoying the punishment bits.... its an emotional rollercoaster. the type of story that reminds me WHY i enjoy toxic yuri at all to begin with. WONDERFUL.
this was fucking insidious. i knew what i was in for from the jump, but the journey to each sensory treasure was thrilling all the same. claire is such a cunt lol im happy i can continue to count on KILLJILL to serve delicious evil, not only from the severity of the content but the earnest and raw emotions that shine though from behind and within. appreciate your work as always :didiLockedIn:
i read the content warnings but seeing it in action left me blindsided anyway. wow. claire's pathetic nature and sheer depth of self-pity is so well done. not even to mention the wonderful visual style... i will be thinking about this for a while
Just once I want to finish one of these with a bodily fluid that isn't tears.
Excellent aesthetics and a primo soundscape. I love how all of the little red flags are there from the beginning and they completely pay off in the worst way possible. 10/10 made me a woman disliker.
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your writing of claire is so so so masterful. thank you for this—i have a feeling it's going to stick with me for a long, long time.
god this is so fucking well written. few games fill me with such huge amounts of dread and hatred and agony. incredibly well done
lolololololol she drank piss lolol
claire is. a. class act of a woman. i had to stop many times in disbelief or utter awe. i wish her a very porky time in hell.
front facing didi save me
Holy fuck. That's it. Good work Jill. incredibly well made, artistic, visually wonderful to witness. Thank you for making this game.
auuuuuuggggghhhhhhh I'm still seething. This was truly a tragedy in the sense that there was no other conclusion that was going to be reached once the ball was set in motion. infuriatingly realistic. and yet the sex scenes were incredibly hot.
I want to gouge out Claire's eyes with my drawing tablet stylus.
The writing has a good sense of physicality and sensation. I love the depiction of Claire as basically the worst type of person alive. I think her worldview comes across very strongly in both her actions and her narration. Very good game.
my god what a work
the writing style took a while to really grip me, but what first made it work for me was the swing over fence. Didi being so graceful, claire being a mess, that's reflected in the writing style of their respective descriptions of the actions. flowy vs scrappy.
The turns all of this had were amazing. Claire stumbling into Didi and describing her like a man. Nina. Nina getting off on it. The pain and resentment between Claire and Nina. They're so toxic towards each other in ways I have seen and experienced, such as Nina doing the really fucking annoying "lolololol" thing to deliberately do whatever the fuck this ever actually does irl. we all know and hate to be on the receiving end of it.
and then nina ceases being an active participant in the story in the most relatable and upsetting way imaginable. by blocking claire on fucking discord.
To highlight more of these moments: especially as the story progressed towards claire showing up at didi's apartment, there were so many short moments and lines that felt like nothing but a brick to the ribcage
- "I was afraid of her"
- the change of portraits in the chatlog
- typing out the discord blocked message suddenly hit like
- "do something thatll make you feel better" into "hey didi"
the way this writing lulls you into drifting in your allegiance to these characters is insane. in my own notes, I describe didi as this fucking monster. things from my notepad; "didi also having no self control and going along with claire after barely pretending to care about an apology" "the pure unadulterated disdain and hatred from didi in the spanking scene"
"these are all horrible characters"
And finally, I of course have to mention the OBVIOUS FUCKING THEMES OF TRANSFEMININITY, CHASERISM AND TRANSMISOGYNY!
This is so fetishistic, in the marxist sense of the word. ths fucking visual novel puts the fear of god into you when you see and experience its shape and know this to be nothing more than a mundane retelling of everyday fucking occurrences in this fascist hellscape we're slipping into and then it leaves you do return back to that world because there is no fucking god
i fuck heavy with claire having so many chaser-y thoughts. she's straight up disgusting and horrible and part of me likes that. im just ill in the head. especially in the first half, the very violent transfem superiority part of me wants this vn burn even brighter.
the ending. claire is horrible. as the scene progresses and moves into the bathroom, you realize just how incongruent these 2 are. didi, rightfully and understandable, views this as nothing more than a bdsm scene. because that's all claire ever communicated to her. whereas for claire, her mindless and aimless self-flagellation exposes her to real consequences of nonconsent, and it serves fucking no one. didi just feels horrible. nina doesn't know and probably wouldn't approve. claire is traumatized. and then claire runs away.
didi just doing bdsm shit
I literally capslocked to take notes as I got to this part. and it simply reads nothing more than.
CLAIRE YOU FUCKING
DONT CALL YOUR COP DAD
the fucking degendering
her becoming a woman when brutalized
dad misgendering her bc ofc
I don't even know if I should bother cleaning up those notes for this review. we all know what the fuck this is. it's fucking reality.
to summarize my review of FAITHLESS//FLAGELLANT: F//F is a poignant commentary on v coding and transmisogynist violence as it exists in society right now. this visual novel dances with the topic of transfemininity in ways barely any work of art I have ever read have. its decriptions of bodies. its twists and turns that yank you to the ground and then drag you across it. its control over its own narrative styles. it knows what it is. it knows what we are. In my opinion, it is so rare that a work in our space is as sobering as this one. no pretense. no bullshit. the end is just horrible and it happens every fucking day. out there. in the real world we live in when we peel away from our screens.
i finally took the time to get to this game and i was not disappointed at all. fatally toxic yuri — and grounded toxicity at that. the kind that's scarily true-to-life.
claire is the most terrifying, infuriating character in this work. her inability to take responsibility — her whole "poor baby" act towards cheating on nina — and the subtle (that gradually gets less subtle) chaser behavior she displays towards didi... all culminating in the ending that made me hate. her. so. much.
i especially think a lot about that break in the line towards the end. she spares a thought for nina, her ex — but suffocates whatever guilty conscience she had towards didi. it's so, so telling.
anyway thanks for making this awesome work. on a side note, i love the muramasa-inspired textboxes and character sprites. they rule....
Motivated me to embroider a manual orchi hat, incredibly written work.
Evil, awful, terrible, definitely one of the most toxic games in the jam I've played so far. First game I've had to tap out of from sheer discomfort alone, I'm incredibly impressed, keep up the good work.
Amazing vn! Very masterfully written, it brilliantly ramped up my emotions from “Oh, I don’t like Claire” > “Oh. I really don’t like Claire” > “Oh I fucking hate Claire” “Oh holy shit I fucking HATE Claire”
I don’t think I’ve ever hated a character this much before, what fantastic writing
tried to come up with a pithy comment but actually just too in awe. this game filled something that needed filling. a soul desire for toxic yuri as real and evil as women.
i kneel
maybe the worst a game has made me feel in my life. really fucking good. stares in to the distance..................
Steer clear of chasers.
Damn good vn.
The visuals are minimal and really good. I hate Claire so much. The way she fetishizes Didi to even minute stupid fucking details (her scar is masculine, somehow) and how she lies constantly about every interaction. (The thing with Nina coming was kind of funny but.) It’s hard to see it as her not doing it on purpose by the end…
I found it very upsetting that she cared about what she did to Nina but not Didi even though it was also awful… like the way she does things without seeming to care at all. It ended with Didi getting arrested and handcuffed which is horrible, kinda felt like Claire just used her and threw her away.
The 14k words went by really fast, great job.
God I don't even know where to start with this one.
Basics first. I love the effective simplicity of the presentation. Between the UI and the focus on ambiance with a handful of sfx, this VN is a great show of how much you can get out of modest assets.
Was very much prepared for the worst going into this. Frankly a little eager for it. In the best way possible I love getting a good sense of how things are gonna go down in the end just from Claire's own perspectives. And those views kept unraveling themselves in such horrid ways especially the increasingly dodgy, piercing dogwhistles of her languid (trans)misogyny. The constant gaslighting and her needing to always be in the right. Extremely fucked up what happens to someone when they're made to be the fawn all their life!! The break in a certain line at the end actually made me chef kiss in real, too.
also it was awesome that nina came from being cucked
Repugnant! 5 stars. never trust a chaser
Love the visuals throughout the game; even with the minimalist portraits, you were able to convey so much. The punishment scenes were so well written... my favorite spanking scene I've come across in the jam so far >>; the ending really fucked me up. It's a real gut-punch. Anyway, fuck chasers. Great work!
Fuck.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
God. Fuck. God
Wonderful. I feel a little bit sick. Thank you.
I feel like there's not much I could say that isn't just re-stating what's it's doing on a surface level BUT: For a while now I have been feeling the conspicuous gap between the popular conception of toxic yuri, and the actual, more mundane, usually completely unglamorous ways that harm is inflicted in the real world. This speaks an ugly reminder of that gap. Also it was hot. Thank you
This is why we stay away from chasers.
note to self: never trust a woman with glasses
AAAUUGHH....... i was so drawn in by the atmosphere the whole time and even tho i vaguely had some dread from the beginning (and was honestly doing my best to ignore the red flags of our pov character), i couldve never imagined how everything culminated in such a wicked disaster. fabulous read, i really enjoyed it and there are so many moments where i was just like totally getting emotional, feeling disgust, feeling crazy amounts of dread, or even experiencing positive emotions while enjoying the punishment bits.... its an emotional rollercoaster. the type of story that reminds me WHY i enjoy toxic yuri at all to begin with. WONDERFUL.
this was fucking insidious. i knew what i was in for from the jump, but the journey to each sensory treasure was thrilling all the same. claire is such a cunt lol im happy i can continue to count on KILLJILL to serve delicious evil, not only from the severity of the content but the earnest and raw emotions that shine though from behind and within. appreciate your work as always :didiLockedIn:
guhuhu thank you... i want to make :didiLockedIn: real now
i read the content warnings but seeing it in action left me blindsided anyway. wow. claire's pathetic nature and sheer depth of self-pity is so well done. not even to mention the wonderful visual style... i will be thinking about this for a while
thank you for the kind words!
Just once I want to finish one of these with a bodily fluid that isn't tears.
Excellent aesthetics and a primo soundscape. I love how all of the little red flags are there from the beginning and they completely pay off in the worst way possible. 10/10 made me a woman disliker.
[manual orchi] hat merch when?
thank you for the kind and dastardly words. i will only make more women who are evil, as i am one. i'd wear a manual orchi hat tbh
The people (and otherwise) demand the hat