In addition to also being their first.
And what I mean by accessible here is it could have a wide appeal if it was available in English. It not being translated makes it less materially accessible then School Days or Shiny Days or even Cross Days which seems to have an unofficial translation floating around out there somewhere.
Large Pon Pon is a Visual Novel where the main cast seems to be mostly in their 20s. Ayumu Inou the main protagonist is 24 if what I’ve read is correct. One girl in the game is in High School and I presume that route is avoidable or at least it’s H Scenes are if there are any. There are absolutely no Lolis.
Its content seems to include plenty of Depravity, but there are lots of people who are okay with Anime depravity so long as it’s between adults.
This is all stuff I know from reading about Large Pon Pon as I can’t play untranslated Japanese Games.
So when trying to get Overflow Games on the radar of those English speaking YouTubers who can play Japanese Video Games that have never been translated, we really should start with Large Pon Pon not the Radish Vacation series. Something I wish I myself had thought to consider earlier.
Since the madness that is the Overflow Family Tree was mostly built by a game series that was a prequel to this, its relationship to all that is at face value more direct than say PureMail yet possibly still 100% Retcons. So most of the questions I’d want answered by seeing someone else give a deep analysis relate to that.
The infamous Overflow Family Tree makes some of the relationships Ayuma can have in this game Incestous, but I’m highly skeptical that any of that was in the minds of the developers when they first made this game, and if so it shouldn't be relevant to this game as a stand alone piece of Art.
On the Overflow Wiki the biography of Ayumu Inou prior to the events of Large Pon Pon is already a very insane one. But it seems to be all offscreen even in those Prequel games, Ayumu himself does not appear to be an onscreen character in any of them.
Part of my brain is highly skeptical that any of that was mentioned or even hinted at in Large Pon Pon itself. But I hope I’m wrong, I think Large Pon Pon is a more compelling story if Ayumu’s sexually traumatized backstory is relevant to the present story. But it’s certainly by no means boring if it’s not.
For those who don’t know, that history includes being sexually enslaved by his Aunt Asagi for years, a complicated history with his older sister Kagura, sireing multiple Bastard children who he may not know about, most of them with biological relatives, and being the possibly acknowledged son of the most vile fictional character ever written.
Tomaru Sawagoe is not an onscreen character in this game, but I really am curious to what extent he is mentioned. Because onscreen characters in this game do include the woman he’s actually married to and his son by her and that son’s wife, in release order the Sawagoe surname first belonged to those characters. And even in the canon established by those prequels Tomoe seems to have already had that surname before she married Tomaru. The Wiki presumes her to be Tomaru’s Aunt but I think that’s a mistake since Aunt-Nephew marriages aren't legal in Japan but Cousin marriages are. And in Snow Radish Vacation they are either the same age or Tomoe is younger, so a possible but not typical Aunt-Nephew age gap.
Also is the Hospital that Tomaru is said to own in Shiny Days the same one much of this game takes place in?
But I’m even more curious if Kagura is mentioned in any capacity. To me the Radish games have made her the most important protagonist of this Epic Saga of Depravity, so it’d be nice if there was at least some hint of her existence where it all started. Even if it’s unnamed, if it's just an offhand statement that Ayumu has an older sister. Kagura and Ayumu are siblings who share both parents and have the same last name and were raised together, so it’s a sibling status that has no asterix attached to it.
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