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alias_sqbrThe game of the month for June is Diabolik Lovers: Haunted Dark Bridal! This is the first game in a gothic horror romance series from Otomate about a girl who finds herself trapped in a house with a family of vampire brothers.
I haven't played the game myself but hear that these vampire boys are all sadistic assholes and their angsty backstories contain common triggers like rape and incest. But it is from all accounts a lot of fun if you're into this sort of thing. There's also a mechanic which allows the player character to be the sadistic one, which sounds interesting.
It's not available officially in English, but there's lots of fan translations. Here's a patch for the PS Vita, and here's a video of the prologue with English subtitles.
There'a an anime, which does have an official English translation, as well as manga, drama CDs, music CDs and fanbooks.
It's suffered a bit in the West from the post-Twilight "women can't recognise that dating creepy vampires would be a bad idea irl" discourse, which I feel obliged to push back against on principle as someone into plenty of Terrible Otome Boys, even if these particular ones are too much for me. Also I love that the sequel is called MORE BLOOD in allcaps. This is a game series that is what it is 100%.
Has anyone here played it, or otherwise experienced the story? If the links I found via a brief google are wrong, please let me know!
“The girl learns her fate amongst the beautiful scent of wild roses. The girl encounters them, as if being drawn there by the threads of fate. ‘Yours Truly is going to take her every first experience.’ ‘Tell me, do you hate me? Do you want to learn more about me?’ ‘Does it hurt? You poor thing... Okay, I'll make it hurt even more, little bitch.’ ‘I know why you came to this house. This blood (of yours) is of the finest quality.’ ‘Humans are nothing more than containers of blood.’ ‘Stay out of my business! Come any closer, and I'll destroy you!’
I haven't played the game myself but hear that these vampire boys are all sadistic assholes and their angsty backstories contain common triggers like rape and incest. But it is from all accounts a lot of fun if you're into this sort of thing. There's also a mechanic which allows the player character to be the sadistic one, which sounds interesting.
It's not available officially in English, but there's lots of fan translations. Here's a patch for the PS Vita, and here's a video of the prologue with English subtitles.
There'a an anime, which does have an official English translation, as well as manga, drama CDs, music CDs and fanbooks.
It's suffered a bit in the West from the post-Twilight "women can't recognise that dating creepy vampires would be a bad idea irl" discourse, which I feel obliged to push back against on principle as someone into plenty of Terrible Otome Boys, even if these particular ones are too much for me. Also I love that the sequel is called MORE BLOOD in allcaps. This is a game series that is what it is 100%.
Has anyone here played it, or otherwise experienced the story? If the links I found via a brief google are wrong, please let me know!