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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2142 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 21, 2025

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Has anyone played Dispatch? I'm hearing a lot of good buzz about this VN but am currently busy with EU5, it's like I've been working two jobs these two weeks.

I've got a major love for its genres*, so grain of salt, but I like it enough that my biggest complaint's that it's too short. Story's pretty strong if sometimes a little jank, the animation's great, and the voice-acting works a lot better than I feared given how heavily they leaned on youtubers. There's definitely room for improvement -- the central minigame is a little too easily broken, and The Last-Second Redemption feels like it's more earned by a player than by a character -- but it's well worth the entry fee.

* both VNs with some strategy or reaction gameplay dropped in like Uplink, and serious-but-not-grimdark superheroics like the Astro City and Common Grounds comics.

It's great, I can easily recommend it. It's mostly an interactive movie, though. As opposed to an actual video game.

The biggest things that pop in my head about it: the characters are awesome and interesting, the writing is almost all excellent. And the choices matter a bit more than they did in older Telltale games. You can do two playthroughs that feel very different from eachother. Oh, and the voice-acting is genuinely phenomenal.

There are a few graphic scenes (boobs) but there's an option to censor them.

As an Eternum, Ripples and Pale Carnations enjoyer, why would I censor them?

I played Dispatch. It's fun. It's pretty. It's not really a game but a story with aspects that make it more immersive than a normal TV show. I will be happy to buy whatever else AdHoc Studio comes up with.

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