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Review of Dasaku

SubjectDasaku
Dasaku ~Nuiawase~ Download Edition
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Vote: 3.3
denp4xlyr on 2020-11-24
ReviewDasaku is a bit fucked up. Dunno if I'd say it's worse than euphoria, but it has made me WTF a lot more.

The common route was fairly enjoyable, until I realized this is a nukige. The characters aren't anything too special, although I found the chuuni trap Toboso who wants to become a girl fairly interesting. There was this kind of anticipation from the beginning because of this feeling that there's something just off about the MC.

When the plot gets going in the common route, the way the mystery is presented is quite well done. The fitting BGM and good pacing gave me pretty high hopes. The early plot is that the main love interest, Alice, is being stalked, so the MC starts spending more time with her for protection. It builds up really well until the MC begins raping and cutting bits off all the girls before leaving them to die, then combines their parts into a 'perfect' form of Alice that he presumably fucks night and day until he gets found out.

There's a lot of general madness that happens, and fortunately the characters have a bit more depth than it first appears; although it's mostly just that they all seem to be a bit insane - especially Alice, who turns out to be a manipulative bitch who feeds off of people's attention. I admit that the story has made me think a bit about the meaning of identity, sexuality, and gender, but the increasingly depraved sex scenes that just aim to be more ridiculous than the last get in the way, and then it all ends before any interesting resolution is made.

The guro is pretty satisfying, if you're into that. Not very realistic though. Toboso has some kind of drug that allows her to cut open with a knife (with pleasure rather than pain) おまんこ in her perineum, then belly (to better reach the 'womb' (stomach), of course), then eye, and finally skull, all of which the MC happily fucks. I just found myself laughing incredulously throughout most of the route.

So the last two routes were Hanami's and Somari's. They went basically as I expected. Hanami was probably the most likable character in the end; she may have issues but she was surprisingly understanding and devoted. As the formula of Dasaku goes, things quickly got extremely depraved, throw in a rape flashback here and there, throw in some scat and torture, etc. It wasn't too hard to get through since the writing is really just fairly ridiculous, and extensive bullying scenes are the only thing that I really find hard to endure. The characters in Dasaku either deserve bad shit to happen to them in the end, or are extreme masochists, so in the end it almost felt slightly endearing. I'm not sure if the author wanted the reader to see a kind of deep connection between the fucked up characters, or whether he wanted to just say "look at how fucked up these people are", but if the former, it was difficult since the VN is almost devoid of any kind of humanity. Hanami was, at least, a good person at heart.

Since the character routes were just exercises in depravity, I was looking forward to the true route which unlocks after reading the 4 side routes, but I realized in the gallery that there were only a couple scenes left. Indeed, the true route added absolutely nothing to the story, but was just a weird orgy. It's rather confusing, since the normal route drops these hints about the main character having a rough past, having gone to a medical facility or something, etc. But there was really no explanation for his fucked up changes throughout the VN. I guess I can accept that he just had a mental illness since the beginning, but that just doesn't make for an interesting resolution at all. Very disappointing. They certainly could've added some interesting twist to the end at least, but it's like they scrapped the idea of doing anything interesting and decided to just make it all about H.

My own version of the true route: This all took place in an artificial town where they throw people with severe mental illnesses that can't be fixed, to let them deal with shit themselves. Hence why nobody ever seemed to notice limbless bodies being carried about or 30 minutes of blood-curdling screams coming from the nearby park. Yeah, seems about right.

The art was nice at least. The problem was the breasts all look highly engorged and kinda weird. And I'm someone that dislikes even slightly large breasts in the first place, so not great. The music also got very repetitive. In the end I can respect the VN for the places it went and for the intriguing normal route, but otherwise it was quite a let-down. If there was a VN like this but not a nukige, I'd love to read it.

(Originally posted on a r/visualnovels WAYR thread.)
6 points
#1 by YuukiAmami
2020-11-25 at 12:33
< report >i only read some review from japan site. so:
hanami die in the end of her route?
#2 by denp4xlyr
2020-11-25 at 13:53
< report >I read this a while ago so can't remember, but I think she does.
#3 by YuukiAmami
2020-11-25 at 15:07
< report >Damn, so twisted. She was my favorite.
#4 by HataVNI
2020-11-25 at 18:57
< report >Do you think the game is necessary to follow Dasoku?
#5 by shoujomiko
2020-11-26 at 05:21
< report >I actually really liked this game, but i 100% understand why others don't and i'd never actually recommend it to anyone. i talk about how much i love it a lot but if someone asks me if they should play it i'd definitely say no.
#6 by denp4xlyr
2020-11-26 at 08:12
< report >#4 I think this is going over my head

#5 I like it too, for what it is. The main draw is clearly the guro, yet it has some good scenes and likeable characters. But from an objective standpoint, it's lacking as a visual novel imo. A pure nukige like Teaching Feeling you can judge just based on the ero, and for story-focused eroge you can judge them ignoring the ero; but Dasaku falls in the middle, which is a hard spot to make anything that can be considered universally good.
#7 by denp4xlyr
2020-11-26 at 08:23
< report >#4 Ah, I wasn't aware that there is a spiritual successor(?) coming out. I doubt that it will be substantially related at all, but who can say. I've yet to even read the Dasaku fandisc, which is something I should get around to doing.
#8 by shoujomiko
2020-11-27 at 03:42
< report >I didn't know there was another one coming out, i'll definitely read it
#9 by saolzboi98
2020-12-10 at 21:30
< report >dammm
#10 by SGT
2023-10-31 at 23:28
< report >giga tourist lmao