Saya no Uta ~ The Song of Saya – Official English Trailer – YouTube
Shimokura admits that moralistic finger-wagging has already had an effect. Even within Nitroplus’s age-restricted imprint Nitro Origin, he says, “we haven’t been able to release many adult games lately.” Still, he remains undaunted, telling 4Gamer, “I’d like to keep creating opportunities to make adult games in ways that fit the times.”
Nitro has produced some of the most viscerally strange visual novels — often beautiful in their venomous intensity and frequently aimed at women. Consider the 2019 novel The Song of Saya, written by Puella Magi Madoka Magica co-creator Urobuchi Gen, which follows college students driven to madness, pregnancy, and cannibalistic acts.
This blend of rancid horror and aching romance — so repellently thrilling it becomes intoxicating — seems to suit “the times,” as Shimokura calls them, even as storefronts like Steam push back. Otherwise, Robert Eggers’ parasitic Count Orlok wouldn’t have married his hollow angel Lily-Rose Depp, and I’d be at a loss.
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Source: gamesradar.com
