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I just finished Humanity. What a good ge that was. >>16733721 's review of it is extremely spot on. I just really wish the writer toned down the comedy because dang was I exhausted by the end of it. At the very least, the comedy was funny enough that I never got bored per se.

If anyone's around who also finished (all five of us in the world), I want to talk about the ending: The ending seems to imply that the entire game was a cold sleep induced dream for some random guy. But the credit sequence shows that Chii-chan was the one keeping the school clean, so it can't all have been a dream. I really don't want to think the writer wrote this whole story with the ending "and all of this happened inside some kid's head" in mind. So was it something real that the kid just happened to dream about? Or what? I gotta admit, I was like "holy shit no way" when the "Wake Up" option appeared, but the ending was so vague about the truth I'm not sure how to feel. Either the ending was the greatest jape of all time or it was a weird cliche that landed poorly.

Putting that aside though, I have to say that Humanity has made me really appreciate all-ages game. The fact that two of the heroine routes in this game have no traces of romance whatsoever is great, I really enjoyed just reading about pure character development and such without any unnecessary moege romance / sex / etc. And I even liked the one romance-filled route way more than many moege in recent memory because it all felt so much more sincere. The romance wasn't born from the writer trying to make a self-insert fantasy for the reader and there was no awkward sex forced in. It was all sincere and very heartwarming. I played Miagete Goran recently and while I greatly enjoyed the romance in that game, the second the characters started dated there was a slew of immediate H-scenes that were just tasteless. I think a lot of time the need for ero really hurts a lot of games.

In conclusion, ero is the cancer killing eroge (not really) and as bizarre as it may sound I'm a lot more interested in reading all-ages romance games now as opposed to 18+ romance games. There's nothing wrong with sex, but I think a lot of romance is corrupted into a sort of porn in eroge, and I would like to read more routes born purely from the writer's desire to tell a good romantic story as opposed to routes with porn stuffed in them. Humanity was really refreshing and I would like to read more things like it.