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Review of Dasaku

SubjectDasaku
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ErickKursaw on 2022-05-17
ReviewDasaku is simply amazing, it is a simple, yet powerful, experience.
(sorry if what I write is not 100% accurate, I played the game a long time ago)
The VN is comprised in two parts, the common or first route, and the heroines routes.
The game starts with the first route, in which the narrator talks about the greek tale of pygmalion, and how he didn't like the absurdity and stupidity of the tale, I personally identified with this because I dislike old tales (written before the year 1500) because of their simplistic and boring nature, simply put, they have really stupid plots, and the writter mocks them by writting a pygmalion satire in the first part.

After the introduction, we are presented with the cast, an average slice of life anime group eating in the school's rooftop, which contrasts with the dark and crooked narrator at the start. Everything appears to be a normal cutesy anime until one of the characters starts having insomnia, and everything goes in a downward from there, the protagonist is told by Alice that someone is stalking her, and he tries to help her, but through the game we get a lot of clues which point to the protagonist being the stalker himself. After this, the protagonist goes on a rampage, killing and mutilating his friends, gathering their parts to create the perfect woman with them, like in pygmalion, after he succeeds, we get the last scene of the first route, the protagonist having sex with the perfect girl in his psychotic delusional world.

The second part is a simple message, addiction causes a downward spiral which always leads us to destruction. Every heroine in the game is addicted to something drugs, love, pain and revenge (causing pain), and describes how addiction progresses. The first phase of an addict is the euphoria phase, where everything appears to be good and everything is pleasurable, this is the start of every route, where everything is pure joy and euphoria, almost like it is a dream. The second, is where everything starts to escalate in the search for a stronger high, and the addict starts losing his morals, moderation, and humanity, because nothing is more important than getting high, then the third, where the addict knows no other from of happiness than the drug and no other activity has the capacity to produce them any sort of pleasure or joy, and the person is just a shell of how the person used to be before the drug, then at the final phase, the person needs so much to satisfy his addiction that he ends up overdosing, in Dasaku, at the end of every heroine's route, they die because of their adicction, and the protagonist says "this is the best erection" which is a metaphor for searching for the first high you get from a drug, which you will never be able to get, so the only way of not falling in the hole, is not trying to search for a treasure that doesn't exist.
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