It's been sooo long since I last played a yaoi game, I never thought I'd say this. I feel as if I had been neglecting my origin story! Yaoi has made me and yaoi will unmake me.
This time we have another vn from Spain. Opposed to last time's Spanish One Thousand Lies, A Hand in the Darkness chooses to take a classical approach to the medium instead of trying to subvert it, and it just works. I'm gonna scream if anyone sends me a 'It just works' rtx meme.
Despite being a clichéd story trope (same-sex boarding schools make a perfect recipe for gay stories: you are gay, ALL your roommates are gay and romanceable... that's quite convenient), the story didn't manage to bore me. And maybe it's because it's too short to do so or maybe it's because the romanceable guys are not perfect. Honestly, I have no idea which guy I disliked more. I lied, I know which one I hated more: it's Monty, the redhead.
The current 1280x720 resolution of the Steam release has been upscaled from the 800x600 original one, and unfortunately it shows in some places. The art quality is uneven: some CGs are pretty good while others look bad. There's one CG in which the protagonist looks like a whole different person compared to the rest of the game!
Description
The story follows Alex White, the youngest member of a large family and hence always rather overprotected, into his new stage in life moving to an exclusive boarding school, St. Michaels, during the Edwardian era.
There he will meet some friends: the always cheerful and helpful Monty, the shy and clever Rick, the snob and troublemaker Damian. But he will also face an unexpected danger.
And perhaps, who knows? He will even find true love. It's up to you to decide if Alex will reach a happy ending or will leave St. Michaels with a broken heart… or maybe even worse.
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Even shorter than A Hand in the Darkness, there's Your Dry Delight. Damn Steam and their new "Profile Features Limited" bullshit, these changes in the Steam API have caused my games list on BLAEO to be out of date. Only vndb can save me now. I hope that a workaround can be invented one day to show these games on BLAEO.
I ended up liking this game a lot, more than A Hand in the Darkness. Too short for me to talk about the plot, the technical side (jazz music, simple art, atmosphere) was good.
The game wants you to play a third time after having completed the two routes and WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CANNOT SEE ANY THREESOME I WANT MY MONEY BACK
I wish there was a continuation! But yeah, I now want to see the devs other games.
Description
Richter and his boss, Leslie, are private detectives hired to help enforce Prohibition in Cleveland, Ohio.
However, when Richter catches the eye of a charismatic mob boss, a different story falls into place...
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Thanks for reminding me about
style="width:auto;"versus going with fixed percentile scaling for my images which makes them way too tiny on mobile. I’ll incorporate it into future posts so I wanted to give due credit. :) Sadly, VNs are not my area of expertise so I can’t say anything worthwhile at the moment.I wrote the codes for this post template one year ago, so at first I had absolutely no idea what you were talking about 🤣
On the other hand, since we are talking codes, I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox, and I was bummed to find out that the arrow in the details tag was not showing. For posterity,
display: list-itemfixed that.Anyway!!! This might interest you: yesterday I found out about the existence of the units of measures vh and vw and maybe they could be of better use to you if you do not want the images to fill the entire free space. Technically, they should be responsive since they change size when resizing the browser.
example:
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/jE1Ss8U.jpg" style="width:50vw">style="width:70vw"is perfect and exactly what I could use. Problem with straight up scaling I’ve been using so far is it looks like shyte on any display that’s not a relatively normal sized monitor. This seems to be more generous while still keeping some space on the edges AND it resizes based on browser.Thanks a bunch. :D