Info
- Title:: YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World
- Platform:: NEC PC-9801
- Developer:: elf
- Publisher:: elf
- Year:: 1996
Log
2024-02-22 – 2024-03-28
Main Gameplay
once i got past the prologue and into the meat of the gameplay itself i got stuck pretty quickly, and i think that’s honestly one of the biggest turnoffs i have about the game: not only does it make you pixel-hunt, but it also requires you to fail a certain amount to progress. you have to keep clicking various things until takuya is satisfied and lets you move on. or even when clicking on a certain thing gives more exposition that’s worth getting, it’s a fifty-fifty as to whether clicking anything will trigger the exposition or whether you need to keep clicking that specific item. it’s tedious as all hell and takes away the feeling of adventure, at least to me.
Ayumi Route
what happened to me? how did i fall for her so quickly, so badly?
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watermoon — 02/27/2024 6:14 PM
is anyone here able to help me understand either the theory behind the parallel universe system in yu-no or why i’ve got it down bad for my mom
Cadysona — 02/27/2024 6:53 PM
yearbook “most likely to have oedipus complex”
watermoon — 02/27/2024 7:00 PM
the protagonist absolutely does
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i personally love her because she’s a scatterbrained wreck thrust into a position of authority that she obviously doesn’t want to be in – she can barely keep her own life together, let alone her kid’s, let alone an entire company project too – but she sure tries her damnedest anyway
i want to be stolen away in the thrall of romance. i want to be seduced. i want to meet a beautiful woman and feel the badump badump in my chest and have there be enough chemistry between us to feel like i actually have a chance. and maybe i could’ve had many such chances, were it not for my nervous condition.
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i’m still thinking about how, during yu-no’s prologue, ayumi started dropping some serious hints that made both takuya and i go weak in the knees. and while i’ve made at least a few people go weak in the knees – some quite literally – i do yearn for someone to do the same to me. i yearn to be taken in the palm of someone else’s hand and have them play with the putty that i’ve become. i want an ayumi.
Eriko + Mitsuki Route
for anybody who tries to pull the it’s not hentai, it’s art argument for this one, i wanna hear them defend the scene where you’re hiding in a locker after your teacher enters the room, but then she decides to hide in the same locker after your other teacher (who you fucked a couple hours ago) and the headmaster enter the room and you begin to hear them fuck each other, which then makes you so aroused that you start fucking your other teacher in the locker at the same time.
like, i won’t deny that this is a pretty incredible scenario, and i appreciate the imagination that went into it, but… like, come on.
Mio Route
i don’t like mio, but then again, i might not understand tsunderes. if someone likes you, then why would they be mean to you?
the puzzle
am i a dumbass for trying to solve the puzzle by attempting to decipher the numbers along with solving the puzzle itself? is it bad that i also got “pretty close” too, with 5, 6, and 7 being my biggest hurdles? am i dumb for not noticing that the number system is presented right there on the clock in the intro? am i dumb for needing to go to the hint corner to figure this one out?
one thing’s for certain, though, which is that i’m pretty sure i’m not dumb for not noticing the corpse in the corner of the screen which isn’t even visible unless you pixel hunt that corner specifically, at which point takuya notices that there’s a giant-ass body right there.
i admit that i could’ve handled that one better, but also, fuck that.
i don’t know if anything happens if you solve the puzzle before noticing her, though – like, if the game finds a way to stop you, somehow. i assume it would, since you need to record the completed puzzle onto the laptop in order to answer the name of the king question later on.
Kaori Route
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Kanna Route
oh my god that part where the game makes you keep checking the empty park for like ten literal minutes until something happens… who thought this was good design?
Other World
and now we’re back to the prologue style of gameplay. which i’m ok with, honestly, since it feels easier to brute-force.
and we get a little bit of a takuya torture simulator, but that’s ok, because he got to have a good life and he got to have a cute wife.
and we get to see what he would be like as a husband and a parent, with the answer being that he’d be kinda strict and domineering.
those eleventh-hour twists seem like a bit much, though. like of course the planet is secretly a giant machine, and of course eriko was a (not-)timecop all along, and of course ryuuzouji wasn’t just an obsessed being but a near-immortal spirit who possesses people yu yevon-style in order to obliterate universes.
although, now that i think about it, this whole scenario we experienced is a loop that relies on its own success, right? since dela grante’s crashing into the earth some 8000 years prior was the reason that sakaimachi’s hypersense cache existed in the first place, which is the thing that kicked off all these events to begin with. but also the priestesses from before this happened were yeeted into more contemporary versions of sakaimachi, so the time wires sorta criss-cross at one point.
The Ending
so then the question is… who is best girl?
- FIGHTS FOR MY HEART
- yu-no: omg a needy clingy puppy dog of a girl who wants to stay with you and love you forever and ever and ever?! who wouldn’t want that?? (though then again, i’ve had people insinuate that my tastes may actually be abnormal)
- kanna: she has a… she has a sadness in her heart. really a lot of the heroines do, but she appeals really intensely to the hurt/comfort side of me. i want to make her feel like she’s valuable and worthwhile as a person. i want to build her up! i want to help her heal! (but also irl we would be a couple of lesbian sheep around each other, and that would never change) (like ok, honestly, how much of her romance arc involves breaking and entering?!)
- ayumi: as someone who is nominally an adult, ayumi appeals to me in a lot of ways. i can relate to her being a highly-educated scatterbrain just trying to hold her life together, because, well, same.
- GOOD GIRLS
- eriko: get urself a girl who absolutely reeks of marlboros
- sayless: the needy clingy puppy dog girl on silent mode
- mitsuki: she seems like she’d be a really great and understanding friend
with benefits- amanda: i actually like her a lot, but i also get the feeling that she wouldn’t care for me at all. why do the hottest butches want the manliest men?
- NOT MY TYPE
- kaori: shit i forgot that she had a whole arc for a while. but also this is such a non-romance romance arc? like it’s a story about using and being used, to mutual benefit
- sayu: oh god this scene was irritating. oh god takuya truly is indiscriminate when it comes to women
- mio: like, ok, i get it. the stuck up rich girl is hurting too, because uh, her daddy doesn’t let her engage in her special interest of paranormal investigation as much as she’d like and… uh… because her crush who she treats like shit is off banging the teacher because, unlike mio, that teacher actually tries to engage with him as a person and… are there really any good sides to mio anyway? it takes a near-death experience to finally break through her shell and at that point is it even worth it?
though if the three i loved most actually had to fight for my heart, yu-no would absolutely win, if only because the others are already kinda self-defeating.
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