#repeat (visual novel)

[valenfraux]

i was bored so i made fuuni style test with a bunch of characters from shirokoi's Repeat VN

[repeatechovn]

[shirokoi]

Repeat (Visual Novel) - Day 23 Morning Cuddles

Every time I draw Sissel his boobs get a little bigger ;;w;;

[if-whats-new]

Next Week: Interview with Drew Cook

As announced in our last issue (go read it!), we will be interviewing...

DREW COOK (@golmac)

Award-winning creator of Repeat the Ending, retro-IF enthusiast and creator of the Gold Machine, parser craft writer with Top Expert.

Send us any question you'd have for Drew!

Whether it's general or ultra specific, tell us what you'd like to know!

[harpagornis]

Repeat Sissel's Route Review

Repeat has been in the works for almost ten years now (2015). I only experienced it recently, around 2022, but this vn has a way of making you feel old, in a good way.

Sissel's route was the first to be completed, after such a long time. As a visual novel writer myself I get the feeling of wanting to focus on a particular route, and given how long it took it paid off. So for now this is the sole Repeat canon; can't wait what else will be added to it.

Emotionally it was a complete roller coaster. Shirokoi really knows how to write romance well, and Sissel's rise from orphan to esteemed chef was nuanced and filled with love. If there is one complain I have, is that the antagonists are too cartoony. I get the vibe, but this clashes against the more serious themes of class struggle, recursion and depression.

I also felt that Echo's resolution was nowhere to be seen. Rest assured, he shows up in the alternative ending, but for the main ending he's just gone.

Overall a strong story, barring the aforementioned hiccups

[roseofcards90]

I need the same fucking vibe and energy I had last year during this time because rn is not it

[chaoschenoo]

Queer Itch.io VN List

So IDK when I'll be able to post art again so here's another bit of content. Queer visual novels from itch.io. Not all of these are itch exclusive so you steam only? Feel free to check. Oh these will be 18+. Four things going in; 1.) Not all of these are finished. I'll be breaking it up between finished and unfinished.

2.) A lot of them are furry because the furry VN and queer VN venn diagram is a pair of nested circles.

3.) Spoilers, will be light but they will exists.

4.) Mostly MLM because that's the place I tend to live.

Coming Out On Top: 5/10

Starting with Coming Out on Top because it's the most average of the list and the quinessential baby gay VN. It's cute, fun, funny, sexy and has the depth of a brook at best. Light fun but has a couple of issues one with stereotypes, the other with power dynamics it adamantly doesn't want to think about because sexy.

Nekojishi: 6/10

Nekojishi is a bit more interesting than Coming Out on Top. Has more depth by and large but is also more fun than deep. Cute characters and while I cannot speak to cultural fidelity the husbandos are all in front of an interesting situational backdrop.

Full Service: 5/10

Similar to COoT, hot guys, sexy CGs, fun and silly moments with big personalities for the husbandos. But doesn't really explore the conflict beyond having something to spice up the romance, tempted to dock points for an infuriating mascot character.

Human Cargo: 6/10

Has a bit more going on between the ears than the baseline but the plot is still more a vehicle for the husbandos. Hot CGs, very cute, a good bit of soft moments and the romance feels at least a bit like an earned climax to the relationship.

In Case of Emergency: 8/10

So this is where we've broken the 'plot as car for husbandos' glass cieling. This is one that definitely has something more going on than date hotties. I dock a little bit of points for it being a bit hard to parse towards the end as to how interactions gets a good ending. BUT gets points for it being the start of the relationship. It feels like the MC matters to the route but not like he 'fixes' their problems. They're all on the road to a better place. Be warned a bittersweet game.

Adastra: 9/10

So I did play Echo first which makes me a bit of an oddity apparently. I think that was a part of the reason the emotions of Adastra didn't hit me quite as hard. Like I was expecting the other shoe to drop. Also since I was waiting for that I also spent much of the early game frustrated by 'Marco's' choices. That said Amicus is everything the Echo fandom wishes Leo was.

Arches: 8/10

Arches is going here before Echo for a reason despite being a nominal sequel, but also... I have so many mixed feelings here. It's an objectively good story, it makes me feel things. It's also REALLY depressing and I feel genuinely conflicted about if it's a very good or very bad representation of schizophrenia.

Echo: 10/10

Yeah I know it's the bloody posterchild for the subversive dating sim, it's also why the spoiler tag exists. Because Echo sets up as a dating sim meant to evoke nostalgia and then devolves into a psychological horror on the level of one of the classic Silent Hill games. Also Leo is the Ur-Furry Thirst Trap and the fandom shows just how terrifyingly effective he is at it. Horror and tragedy in equal measure. And at the end so I can start the unfinished list with it's prequel...

UNFINISHED: There are enough here that are so solid despite still being updated that I needed to keep the list separate. They would get points docked for not being one but I didn't want that to reflect on how evocative they are.

The Smoke Room: 10/10

The prequel and chronologically first game in the Echo Trilogy. Set one hundred years before Echo shortly before the 1915 hysteria and following Sam, a sex worker at the local Saloon. It's charming, unnerving, tragic (especially given Echo ESPECIALLY WILLIAM'S route if you know you know.) All the husbandos and side characters are delightful and charming in their own ways.

Errant Kingdom: 6/10

I would award it a higher score but between being bought, unfinished, and having been slow to update I'm worried it's a dying project. I am more sympathetic to the slow updates because every chapter is functionally three chapters as each origin point is a genuinely different story even when they are at a converging point such as the speech, or merchant's party. The art is beautiful and the characters are fun and interesting. I truly hope it's still in development.

Andromeda Six: 7/10

Also in development hell but getting slightly more updates and has a valentines day side story that is complete. Sci-fi story about an amnesiac with a crew of mercs on the wrong side of a successful coup. There's twists and turns some obvious some much less so that make it engaging. Fun romance options for straight mlm and wlw.

Repeat: 9/10

Repeat OOZES charm, it's fun, has a shockingly fun core of mystery hilarious and engaging characters. Fun and sexy CGs. And a lot of heart that makes the tragic lows hit just that much harder.

Santa Lucia: 8/10

Fun with an Echo-esque mystery and horror subplot. Engaging and been following it for a while. That said I do dock a little points for the routes not intersecting with the main plot as well as Echo which inextricably links the two. Still overall a very good time.

Socially Awkward: 9/10

Hilarious and also incredibly charming, bonus points for all the characters being incredibly similar to actual people I know. It makes the whole friend group cast likeable and realistic. Even the trash goblins like John.

Soulcreek: 9/10

Interesting, intense, one of my favorite genres, good art, but has some frustrating moments early game similarly to Adastra. Ultimately not enough to really drag it and the mystery and setting is MORE than enough to keep you clicking.

Dawn Chorus: 10/10

Okay so this one's a bit of a cheat for me. It's only a 10/10 because it's my comfort VN. Dawn Chorus is like a warm bowl of soup or cup of tea on a cold rainy day. It's cute, sweet, and character driven with an undercurrent of tragedy for many of the characters that makes you hope for the best.

Shelter: 10/10

Remember how I said Soulcreek's my facorite genre? Well so is Shelter. Fantasy that's secretly a Post Apocalyptic sci-fi. It's got mystery, uses the Visual Novel format in unique and amazing ways. Also puns, SO FUCKING MANY PUNS. The world building Raus does here drove me to dip my toes into the setting with a fic it was that inspiring.

[lvlcurrent]

did.

uh did anyone know about the 3 new obey me songs that released like a week ago bc either that was the quietest launch ever or they are falling off =w=) !

[unproduciblesmackdown]

as per further [will roland in a joe iconis christmas spectacular / extravaganza] investigations, he crops up several times in these clips

1:24 as a belly button puppet show puppeteer, between ewm mister macabee and gerard canonico

the consecutive clips at 1:59 & 2:57 as uncle peenie

the consecutive clip at 3:23 on stage closest to the camera, as no immediately discernible role, which potentially counts as playing himself / “will roland” as cited in the tweet of pre melvin cooterstein roles, and as seems to be others’ role in the show sometimes (playing As Themself)

[mypleasehelpmeblr]

Crossposting a google forms poll event for FVN March Man-ness

[valenfraux]

the nintendo direct if it was good:

[repeatechovn]

[shirokoi]

Download links here: https://shirokoi.itch.io/repeat-vis.....public-release

Hnnnggg I'm so sorry this took so long, but Part 1 of Sissel's Epilogue is now complete!

This one got a little big and took forever to complete, but I hope you guys enjoy these fun moments with Sissel before the end of his route! The next main update should fully conclude our bunny boy's storyline. Thank you for sticking with me through this journey, I appreciate all you so much QWQ

This update also contains my first every animated lewd scenes in my visual novels. Hope you guys get a kick of out them~

Changelog:

81 new pages (25,582 words) of story Sissel's route!

Sissel's Route - Part B: Day 22 is now complete.

Sissel's Route B - Day 22 has been added to the Chapter Selection screen!

22 new illustrations for Sissel's route.

7 new outfit sprites for Sissel

2 Animated CG segments for Sissel's lewd scene!

3 Animated CG segments for the Owen/Sissel/Euca lewd scene! The whole scene totals up to 9 video files stitched together.

The Owen/Sissel affection meter has been fixed! There are a number of scenes in Day 22 with significant variations depending on affection levels. The variations should now vary properly now, and also give you more opportunities to respond to situations and further tweak affection levels to your liking.

The Owen/Sissel/Euca threesome scene now properly unlocks at affection levels 3 or higher.

Owen now properly wakes up during the airplane blowjob scene at affection levels 2 or higher.

Another wave of grammar/typo fixes courtesy of Crestfallen Crumpet's diligent reports!

[dyspraxicgamergirl]

We're all just the sum of our memes

[rivalsforlife]

takumi posted about the showcase on twitter today (relevant tweet 1, relevant tweet 2) and from the sounds of it he delivered the speech in english because he heard the capcom showcase had more overseas viewers than japanese viewers last time. so he asked janet hsu to translate a speech for him and record it, and then listened to it morning to night for two weeks so he could repeat it by memory at the showcase. he even made notes to try and get the cadence of it down.

(source tweet)

all for the experience of us turning on the capcom showcase and going "oh! I didn't know takumi could speak english!" and he can't he just memorized a script to pitch ghost trick in english because he thought it would be interesting to overseas viewers. this guy really operates on an entirely different brain level from most people and I have so much respect for him

EDIT: Have gotten a few tags now with people saying "I don't go here", so I thought I'd provide a little more information! You can view Shu Takumi's full speech and more elaboration on Ghost Trick in this video. It's a delightful little mystery puzzle game that is often considered one of his best works, and what he says in that video interests you I highly recommend checking out at least the demo and possibly the full game. You play as an amnesiac ghost with powers of the dead allowing him to turn back time and change fate. He seeks to save other people and uncover the truth behind his mysterious death, and his identity, before the morning comes and he's doomed to fade away.

As well, Shu Takumi's most well-known work is on the murder mystery visual novel series Ace Attorney, where you play as a rookie defense lawyer defending clients against a corrupt judicial system heavily stacked against you. You can find the first three games in the series (all written by Shu Takumi) in the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, which is available on all modern consoles and a total steal whenever it goes on sale. You can learn more about it through this trailer! I'm obsessed with those games and also super recommend checking it out if murder mysteries or visual novels are your thing.