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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast · March 9, 2026

Shared from search: Driven

00:28:24 - 00:28:30

They're kinetic visual novels or choice-driven visual novels. Dating-themed adventure games. Yeah.

In Context

... It's so oppressive. It's so dark. It's so moody. It works really well. Tokemeki Memorial, I'm probably on record on this pod at some point ranting about how They're kinetic visual novels or choice-driven visual novels. Dating-themed adventure games. Yeah. There's plenty of those and a long history of those, but I feel weird when we start to always refer to them as dating sims, when the sim part is actually pretty important. The legacy of that, honestly, did not go into a lot of what you would say are modern dating ...

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00:28:14 - 00:29:23

... Tokemeki Memorial, I'm probably on record on this pod at some point ranting about how a lot of the things that we say are dating sims are not actually dating sims. They're kinetic visual novels or choice-driven visual novels. Dating-themed adventure games. ...

01:22:11 - 01:23:08

there's a tonal shift yeah and and I think one thing I was worried about was obviously like the entire sky falling down after this happened right you know I've I'm no stranger to it people are no stranger to it that when any sort of lightly to moderately to heavily personality driven venture loses a personality it's it's changed everyone and and I will say like the blood god community has been very accepting of it and and has rocked with us if we have as we have kind of found our footing and found our new tone…

02:09:00 - 02:09:36

rhythms have perhaps altered there's a different energy that is a little bit but I she was the responsible one for sure and I just want to kind of emphasize that I am NOT in the most driven person I try dear god I try oh my god do I try but at when you're my age and probably masking all your life you just kind of have to do your best and I do my best but when I was a kid I was always fighting against myself because here's one of my earliest memories as a kid being in junior kindergarten which is basically…

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