Chronotopia: Second Skin

This is a very good game. Well worth the wait.

disclaimer: i've worked with the game's director before, but i was entirely uninvolved with this game's development. that being said, this is a lovingly crafted visual novel with an absolutely stunning style. worth picking up just for the visual presentation alone, and the opening hook is immediately intriguing.

Still have got to finish the game so I'll update it then but so far I can say this is a very interesting and very compelling narrative experience in the form of a videogame. Good job, devs!

This is a game that I finished on June 21th for one reason. I really felt bad how this has so little Reviews on Steam. so I used the excuse that this had two W/W romance options to try to finish this just to review it. I did play this on Itch io when I first discovered this. so that absolutely gave me a reason to get my hands on this for Steam. The problem was, I had no real good reason to try to finish it. so I decided to use June. that might have been my only mistake on my end, because this is a dark, mature fantasy story that uses Donkeyskin to explore some dark stuff and managed to handle them better then I thought. another thing that helped me get a bias for this game is the fact that this has a love for fairy tales, like you can collect a bunch little facts of fairy tales like this one through out play throughs. I think part of the reason why this is under known, is because of the fact that maybe the languages this has are only are in English and French. I hope there is some way, even if it is through making this review, that I could get more people to know about this game. like fans of fairy tales and dark stuff that are perfect for Halloween . I just love this for a reason that I wrote a very rough and longer version of this that unfortunately went into spoilers and was was not focused on the game at all.

A very interesting visual novel!

《驴皮公主》成人向黑暗童话乙女游戏（？），总体给7分吧。 剧本有一定童话式的教育意义，普通童话展现了世间的美好，黑暗童话却揭露了残酷的现实，喜欢这种剧情的可以入手，就是有一些需要避雷的点： --只有英文法文 --乙女玩家想要的那种甜甜的恋爱占比可能不到10% --有点残酷血腥和十八禁内容 --大量DEI元素 --女主和配角绝大多数都不是完美人设 --没法向坏人复仇 下面分享一下玩后感（涉及剧透，且本人对DEI无感）： --共通线：个人觉得这部分最出彩，看着女主一次又一次地死亡，从天真公主变得虚荣暴躁，对女主哀其不幸怒其不争。三个王子代表了各种类型的渣男，绝不是乙女游戏会出现的那种，也算是警醒某些找对象只看钱的人吧。 --女仆线：比较平淡和突兀。女主和女仆差不多就是还珠格格中紫薇和金锁的关系，结果金锁是女同一直爱紫薇，紫薇高攀不到大少爷就和金锁在一起啪啪啪了，给我带来的只有冲击。。。而且也没怎么铺垫他们多么生死相依，一直以来公主都不特别在意女仆吧。。。就算只当朋友，我也总觉得被一个爱着自己的女同照顾生活起居有点奇怪。。。？ --仙女教母线：有点大女主剧的感觉，抛弃世间一切自己飞升——本来到此为止都挺好的，但是为了搞女同又又突兀地和仙女酵母在一起啪啪啪了，大家想象一下灰姑娘没和王子在一起而是转身和送自己水晶鞋礼服裙的仙女教母成为女同还玩起了sm！冲击+10086，感觉特别毁仙女人设。。。和仙女是母女情师生情都好，就算实在要爱情，也不能这么突然吧。。。 --熊线：真乙女线大团圆结局，但是为了给我们唯一完美人女仆一个好结局，没和以前出现过很多次的闺蜜配角在一起，非要空降男主，一开始挺摸不着头发的，后来才知道为啥这样。整体也挺平淡的，反正就是告诉你找个适合自己真心爱自己的对象。 可惜最后没有向反派复仇女王登基和大家一起其乐融融统治世界的路线，这个应该才是最女权主义的吧。作为一个为DEI服务的作品，即使是黑皮女主也依然没有跳出“美艳动人”的人设，好结局也都要有对象，有点不符合我对“第二层皮”这个标题的想象。