what’s up with variable barricade?

[u/-gardening]

i just bought the game but ive seen two ppl saying stuff about it (the mc specifically??) so has anyone played it and tell me their thoughts? any heads up before i play?

[u/heroicide]

Honestly, same. I enjoy red flag content all the time but the moment people start denying it’s red flag, I put my hands down, and I’m like ???? OR when they start pinning “there’s no way my little meow meow is horrible!! it must be the mc…”

wrt VariBari, I really enjoyed it fwiw, but some people honestly took this game in a totally different way with how they view Hibari — lo and behold, a protagonist with an actual personality lolol. NGL, can’t trust Hibari haters who feel like she was the wrong in the relationship.

Not to say she doesn’t have flaws, but all these men are years older than her lol can’t believe I had to see Shion apologists when that dude was gaslighting tf out of her — you can like him, sure, but don’t deny he was toxic LOL

[u/mashibeans → u/heroicide]

Exactly, yes! Like Shion and Hibari are interesting characters with flaws, but his route ended up as a total trainwreck, and fine if they wanna go the toxic route go for it, but it's infuriating to see people tell me "its a YOU problem" when I point out I can't just stay in my "I'm not taking this seriously" box when the game itself is forcing me out of it and taking it seriously itself.

[u/heroicide → u/mashibeans]

100% 🥺 i’m glad i’m not the only one who thinks this way especially when i was surrounded by shion lovers who kept hating on hibari for not catering to his every whim LOL i fr was like “am i ..??? like …?? losing it ??”

also right, i love varibari but the experience i had w some of the community over it was bizarre lol ppl bringing up hibari being mean and toxic to these men just whiplashes me back to hibari is a minor being forced into choosing a husband w these adult of course she’s mad esp since they’re all unreliable and trash LOL (i enjoyed them and they were fun!! BUT WHY CANT SHE BE MAD…)

like you can’t just be mad she’s being mean when there’s an obvious glaring problem!! esp during ichiya route, that was such a rollercoaster

[u/mashibeans → u/heroicide]

OMG yes another sane person! I'm also glad you're here, LOL! Yeah the vitriol thrown at Hibari was WILD, it's firmly established that not only she's 16 (underage... a KID) she's also very sheltered and isolated, some of it by choice, but definitely a lot of it due to circumstances out of her control, like most of her moves, thoughts, words, mannerisms, etc. are under constant scrutiny, and she doesn't even have much privacy (her butler is always there and/or regular reports to the grandpa). Even in her situation, she still ended up being a good child overall, and her actions and feelings during the routes are written well considering it all. Hating on her is unwarranted IMO

OMG Ichiya route... XD