Northernlion reads a ℌệ𝔫𝔱ằ𝔦 game's Steam reviews 

Shout out to the clipped chatter who coined the term "lewdonarrative dissonance", easily my favorite joke of this decade

the people who write long reviews of hentais are the real MVPs of the steam community.

Shoutouts to Karryn, seems like a tough job

I legit unironically 100% have total respect for every single one of the essay reviewers. SOMEONE’S GOTTA BE OUT THERE IN THE RICE FIELDS TAKING THESE EASY STABS FROM US! What if some fucking absurdly technical masterpiece that creates industry standards comes out and it’s a porno game but all the reviewers don’t review anymore? Someone’s gotta be there to take the bullet and I salute those brave enough to be willing to take them.

NL refusing to engage with text-heavy exposition in a game, but goes fucken in on hentai dissertations. He's definitely right that the reviews can be a gold mine. A lot of recycling the same joke, but the prevalent, open degeneracy is 👌👌

Holy shit i could spend hours watching him read steam reviews

I love how many additional hours the reviewers have since the stream

OK that Ace42 review is dangerously based. The man is trying to single-handedly push the hentai jrpg into new territory.

"Ludonarative dissonance" always gets me.

Love the dude at 3:25 who said "unnecessarily horny". My man, it is literally a porn game, that's like saying that Doom has too much shooting in it.

“Pass that one onto Jerma” 😂

The last one got me, the timing is just perfect

This is NL's version of Ron Swanson going to the whole foods store in Parks and Rec

MILK OUTSIDE A BAG OF MILK OUTSIDE A BAG OF MILK MENTIONED LETS GOOOO

The classical music was the cherry on top for that essay review

1:30 That Lao Gan Ma mention was foreshadowing for the chili oil arc

Just bc it's a hentai doesn't mean it shouldn't be held to high standards and get in depth reviews. These reviewers are the true MVPs

I have something to confess, I am one of the debuggers on the game for Rem. I pirated to game back when it was in 0.36 build. The mechanics were revolutionary and the style and art was great. I liked it so much I went back, bought it and supported it since. I am even in the credits. It is a really good game

I mean, it’s funny to hear NL rag on this, but at the same time I appreciate the people who see the porn games as games first and porn second, and critique them as they would anything else

I can't admit how much I like Karryn's Prison now, can I?

h-game that messed me up once was one where you get to create your character but theres CG sex scenes with your character and like can you imagine how many variations the artist had to do to make that possible guys who do h games are on a different level, if they had actual teams and budgets to develop the world wouldnt endure it

I wonder if the devs saw this and fixed the bar mini game. That would actually be incredible.

NL clips that beat you dry of your contents

I own it and its pretty good, but incredibly complicated. And there are no tool tips.

When the review popped up that said "pulled a muscle and couldn't walk for 4 hours" I just about passed out laughing. It hit me just right, the way a joke hasn't in like 10 years.

pogged out when he mentioned Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

I wish he would do more of this, top tier.

The man wrote his own mods to fix the game. He's a hero.

NL should play Karryn Prison SFW route any% speedrun

My favorite part was "it shouldnt have to be this way" with 0 irony from the 1 reviewer

As someone who has played Karryns Prison I gotta say that extensive schorlarly review really does hit the nail on the head on some core issues

Heres another one to Karryns Prison: I really got impressed with this one. The amount of different mechanics and complexity is incredible since its made with a simple rpgmaker engine. Remtairy created a miracle with the combat system, integrating perfectly the sexuality of the game in it, even with two minigames within, each with scenes of their own. Very few games can pull something like this, usually the h of the hgames is more of a burden to the gameplay. In Karry’s prison, you see the warden slowly get down the slutty road, or if you are really good, you can finish it as a pure maiden. The only bad thing for me is that the game is still on alpha, so you can’t finish it properlty. I’m sure now with the steam release they will definitely complete it tho.

I know some of the people who worked on Karryn's Prison, it's a good game, and there are some good people behind it

Thanks for the tip. Pirating as we speak

A bit late on this. But Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag, and the sequel, Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag, are fantastic little gems (both with 90%+ reviews) that have a depiction of OCD, depression, suicide, effects of death on the human mind and autism/schizophrenia. Play them, they are like 5$ together and are masterclass.

That last review seems like something Patrick Bateman would say.

I honestly never expected anyone to use "ludonarrative dissonance" in reference to a porn game. Let alone use it unironically.

Ace42's Post-Nut Clarity is CRAZY

This was a legendary nl moment.

the chapter 2 caught me off guard, like holy fuck dude, that was chapter 1?!

Why has the last review convinced me this is the dark souls of porn games

I love chat's utter bafflement at sexual assault being a core feature in a zorn action game

This game could have rescued Stadia

Karryn's Prison is the GOAT if anyone cares, I unfortunately have a lot of experience in this area

Nl actually got me into corruption of champions. When he talked about it when playing resident evil.

the music was a legendary addition

The editing in this is so good!

The amount of effort you took to edit this together man, well done. maza aa gaya!

The music added on to the ending essay made it a million times funnier

Great editing! Really satisfying to see everything referred to

For those who enjoyed this - Eons ago Northernlion used to play "spicy" xbox live arcade games, including really shitty dating sims and the worlds worst RPG. IMO It's still a great watch!

As someone who's played and followed this game since early in alpha it's actually kind of surreal to hear NL reading reviews about it lol. KP is an absolute gem if you can play an eroge. It's top tier for what it's going for. Also: while kind of true? about the "assault".... nothing can ever happen to Karryn unless her desires are high enough. She'll definitely protest, and be very prudish early on, but the desire bars don't lie, she's into it on some level (infact early on, almost nothing *can* happen, it's a slow burn corruption game). *shrug* it's uh... a weird subject lmao.

Thank you for bringing the stream bants that don’t make it to the main channel to us RU-vid plebs ❤

NGL, I kinda want to play it now.

I need a 3 hours video of NL reading essays hentai reviews.

Okay but milk outside a bag of milk... Is actually good, same with the first game

The last review made the essays look like children's notes

these are the bits he should be posting on main imo

Can't believe I actually saw Third Crisis mentioned and it was on a NL stream. Maybe I should buy that game

NL might have increased that game's exposure by a lot! Eggshell hat for Karryn when?

I was there for this live.

Good look adding the classical music for the final essay. Chef's Kiss

this vid is the reason i bought this game lol(its VERY good)

i love the people begging for sap while he reads lmao

This is such a damn classic. Thank you for your preservation efforts.

Idk why but good h games tend to go hard. Its a shame you can't reccomend series like Rance to anyone you know, even online.

The side by side with the last review and seeing the exact moment NL reads the most huh bit is so fucking funny man

That ending XD

Huh, I've actually played Karryn's Prison. It's one of the better examples of a fun game meshed with hentai elements. Lot of them tend to be sort of half assed in the game department. Stuff like Hunie Pop comes to mind where they just use a slightly altered version of simple games like bejeweled. Lot of other games use other simple games such as matching ones to space out lewd content. Karryn doesn't do that, so that's nice. Doubt anyone here is looking for recommendations, but for a more strategy oriented game Sengoku Rance is quite fun. You also don't need to play the other games to play it.

Oh boy that line skip at 12:20 !

ok had to finally sub, any clips channel that adds in context and other things deserves.

syllables per second started rivalling rap god somewhr in there

An exceptionally polished blend of JRPG, Prostitution Sim, and prison Management Sim with some sandbox gameplay. Thematically it's reminiscent of Third Crisis, but is more tightly conceived. No uncensor patch is necessary. Can be completed on easy in about 12 hrs. The gameplay falls afoul of the inherent problem of the genre(s), but mostly sidesteps them through excellent execution and novel mechanics JRPGs tend to make really lazy and poorly chosen vehicles for hentai. There's usually massive ludonarrative dissonance (What does fantasy combat have to do with sex? Why does the game insist on me deliberately losing combat to show me the lewds?). This game tries to address this by integrating lewd mechanics (desire meters, stripping, sexual assaults vs regular attacks, etc) into the combat at a very fundamental level. This doesn't really fix the underlying problems, but it does take the rough edges off a bit. The combat's engaging, and doesn't really get frustrating to the point where you'd consider it a negative - although the difficulty ramp-up is very uneven on even just regular difficulty level and can lead to some frankly unfair fights if you don't meet the (hidden) level requirements. It is a bit convoluted and confusing though - with "Stamina" working both as HP and a resource to spend on specific attacks, but then you can maybe replenish it using another resource "energy" (kinda sorta analogous to mana, but not really) after you've run out, but then you run out of that if you can't outheal the incoming damage. At that point, you lose the physical combat, but then go into a sexual combat with your stamina bar replenished, which seems to be a race to get your assailants off before they get you off. At which point you sort of win, but not properly win, even though you lost the combat? There's two rooms full of people at the start whose only purpose is for each of them to explain one element of the gameplay, and it *still* doesn't make explicit what the fail states, if any, are. I've got very little idea what the different states of having your clothes pulled off actually do mechanically, is it damage reduction? Is it a temporary shield against some types of assault? Both? The Desire meters trigger debuffs, but also trigger H-events, but also sometimes buff you too? Lots of vital information (enemy's HP values and attack strengths; difficulty of any given encounter; the sex-combat mechanics; loads of prison management values, etc, etc) is simply not made available to you. It's amazing something so confused seems to actually play so entertainingly. The obtuseness of some of the gameplay mechanics and thus the metagame can be a real turn-off once the novelty of the game's presentation wears off There are loads of counter-intuitive design decisions which force the player to learn by trial-and-error things which should be explicit. The Prostitution Sim elements are fine, and as slickly executed as the rest of the game, but aren't any deeper than the standard fare for that genre The waitressing job's a bit of a drag - it goes on forever, the difficulty ramps up really quickly, it expects you to repeat it regularly to maintain the perks the bar provides you in the Management part of the game and the currency rewards are just enough to justify doing it, but not enough to feel like it's a productive use of your time. Unlike combat, there's no "run away" option, so it gets unavoidably rapey very fast. This is probably my biggest irritation with the game in general: It falls into the typical trap of the genre, in that by denying the main character agency in order to apply non-consensual tropes to her, it also denies the player a lot of agency in how you want to build your own narrative via gameplay For example, if you want the main character to lose her virginity to a specific antagonist, you're probably out of luck. There's no way to realistically engineer it, so it's probably just going to happen to some rando in some unwinnable fight down the line when the respective desire meter tops out against over-levelled opponents and the combat just doesn't go your way. I mean, I guess that's kinda ludonarrative synergy in that it's out of both the main character's and your control? But it's not exactly interesting story-telling. You end up with the active gameplay (combat) being in direct opposition to the passive experience of moral corruption and degradation, which makes for a generally awkward experience. The narrative established by sandbox gameplay is very much pulling in the opposite direction to the plotting given to you. The progression system's a real mess "Edicts" are shared between your main character (so percentage stat boosts, unlocking new combat skills, unlocking equipment, etc, etc) and the prison itself. You're limited to ~2 per day (depending on difficulty, starting perks, etc) each of which requires varying levels of currency to unlock. Because of how the game seems to scale the challenges it presents to you, you always feel like skimping on your character's combat perks is going to screw you over; and the game noob-traps you into diversifying your stat builds - when, counter to how combat is presented (rock-paper-scissors; certain skills being required to overcome some enemies' special abilities, etc), it actually wants you to specialise into over-levelling just one. There's a ridiculous number of skill trees which are all incredibly important to pursue, but which are fighting for very very limited resources. This is a real pain, as you have to spend money to get the income-generating perks with which to make money - so even if you prioritise the prison's economics, you still feel like you're constantly trailing behind the curve. A lot of the prison management sums don't seem to add up properly The "ledger" page doesn't seem to accurately reflect your incoming cash vs outgoing, as you're constantly short-changed when you start the day with less currency than the status page tells you you're due. The level of "control" in the prison seems to constantly be going down despite you not pursuing any policies that might deplete it; and because shoring up Control almost always involves expenditure, you never really feel like you can afford to invest in it no matter how monomaniacally you prioritise generating cash. There's a ticking-clock element in that stability in the prison deteriorates over time, which is a constant source of anxiety. The difficulty ramp-up is omnipresent and because it's so unclear what the fail states do and how you can juggle them, you end up being bewildered at how to tackle the million things the game thinks it is essential you get on top of simultaneously. The H-content is good, but very non-con with hints of NTR clichés. Depending on how you play (not throwing, for example), it's possible to end up teasing yourself with the rate of pacing and the slow progress of moral decline. This ramps up the sexiness surprisingly effectively (although possibly unintentionally). The way the game tracks the moral degredation serves pretty well as a narrative device (and indeed a ludonarrative device) and is probably the most valuable addition to the genre this game makes; but unfortunately its not quite satisfactory as a replacement for plotting. The game's actual plotting is very meh and generic. The game's probably a high watermark for erotic JRPGs So in that respect it's worth getting if the genres discussed above appeal to you and the game is on steep discount. The price is a bit excessive for what you get, even with the launch reduction of 20%. However, if you're more interested in innovative modern eroge, ones that are more interested in exploring sex than using it as furniture in an unrelated idiom , then this is probably not going to hit the spot.

Your channel is a gift, thank you for all your work

very happy to now know the context behind seeing karryn's prison in chat

Tbh I'd watch hours of NL just reacting to hentai game steam reviews. This is gold.

lmao the comment "this is not super auto pets"

That Ace42 review was actually really well written. I'm impressed how seriously they took it

lol the classical music on the last one was a nice touch

The edits are insane! Also this is too funny.

they definitely have a point about the bar minigame.

I love the fact that at least 90% of these reviews come from some sort of post-nut-clarity, the imagery is not great though

10:09 "did griffin mcelroy write this" BRO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

So worth it to watch to the end

100 hours of deep narrative? NEVER. 100 hours of mind numbing pets? YES PLEASE! Thats my Egg.

I think the classical music is really fitting, these are individuals of the highest class

Thanks NL for introducing us to this masterpiece. Also that one guy with 95 hours logged in fucking killed me 💀

This man could read ingredient labels on kids' cereals and I'd laugh.

Omfg that last one IS legendary.

I wish this was a monthly segment

This is a goldmine, Jerry

The funniest part is that the essay review was written at 0.2 hours of playtime. 09:28

BS SPAMMER IS A HERO

3:42 look @ him lookin

oh my god the ending lmao

Anyone with that prof pic will try to slide “ludonarrative dissonance” into any conversation about a game

this is golden, but that just makes me think what would he say about milk otside the bag of milk

that last one got me

My man really said ludonarrative dissonance

I found an online friend of mine reviewed it who happens to have 115 hours on record