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>>45267313
Basically every pil game was written by a different writing team, usually an already known writer with a fairly distinctive style, or at least the thing they made for pil is similar to something they made previously.
Koibito Yuugi is like Maruki’s previous work, Shingakkou is like BaraKi, I’ve never read anything else by the masquerade writer but they had previously worked with the same artist before for a different studio or maybe in a doujin circle.
Pigeon Blood was the only game written like it was and even then it was using some already known writers (it was also very badly received so it’s easy to see why they never did it again).
So if it seems like there’s a house style it’s more based on who’s being chosen seeming like a fit for the company I guess. It’s not like some companies where there’s an obvious creative director behind the tendencies you see in the games (that I can see, at least, there could certainly be an anonymous one).
As for where this style came from, I think it’s from back in the 90s when Pil was a bishojo game developer that made S&M games. Masquerade seems to be more or less a gay adaptation of one of these, Gakuen Sodom. You also might have seen screenshots of Daraku no Kuni no Angie before, they make the rounds in ‘funny eroge screenshot’ compilations sometimes.