V13 Cover Art Trypophobia

[vepper]

Disclaimer: I do not have trypophobia, but I have close friends who do.

 

I have been enjoying V13, especially as patches have improved and touched it up, but one thing has kind of concerned me. The cover art imagery involving the Puppet Master's eyes, both in their mask and the pattern of eyes on the paintings such as the one Saki is stuck to, based on what I know about it and it kind of making me uncomfortable on its own, makes me concerned it could be a trypophobia trigger due to the use of "too many eyes" as well as the uniform patterning of round, nearly hole-like shapes. Obviously, I'm not asking for the art to be replaced or redrawn, though I would like to hear feedback if others have felt this concern as well. It would be cool to potentially have an alternate version of the offending art covers to replace in the game files to avoid them appearing as your title and menu screens if so, too. Sorry if this comes off as nitpicky or too sensitive.

 

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However - I had heard that content in V13 contains a section that warrants a jumpscare warning. With minimal spoilers, is it possible to say when this part happens so I am prepared for it? I absolutely despise jumpscares and don't want to have to look up the whole chapter in a video in order to find out what part is sensitive.)

 

[Nave]

15 minutes ago, vepper said:

Disclaimer: I do not have trypophobia, but I have close friends who do.

 

I have been enjoying V13, especially as patches have improved and touched it up, but one thing has kind of concerned me. The cover art imagery involving the Puppet Master's eyes, both in their mask and the pattern of eyes on the paintings such as the one Saki is stuck to, based on what I know about it and it kind of making me uncomfortable on its own, makes me concerned it could be a trypophobia trigger due to the use of "too many eyes" as well as the uniform patterning of round, nearly hole-like shapes. Obviously, I'm not asking for the art to be replaced or redrawn, though I would like to hear feedback if others have felt this concern as well. It would be cool to potentially have an alternate version of the offending art covers to replace in the game files to avoid them appearing as your title and menu screens if so, too. Sorry if this comes off as nitpicky or too sensitive.

 

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However - I had heard that content in V13 contains a section that warrants a jumpscare warning. With minimal spoilers, is it possible to say when this part happens so I am prepared for it? I absolutely despise jumpscares and don't want to have to look up the whole chapter in a video in order to find out what part is sensitive.)

 

Spoiler

When you enter Saki's door in the nightmare realm (disturbing images but not as disturbing as doki doki literature club) , the south section of the ancient temple in the nightmare realm (aelita's path, tho its pretty much a black and white picture that i couldn't even see clearly since it changes quite fast) 

 

Personally, i find them disurbing instead of being a jumpscare. if you have played ddlc, these jumpscares should be a breeze

[Lillietea]

That's a bit different, but there are also times when someone is chasing you and, well, my reaction time and reflexes are abysmal and I get scared of this type of stuff easily, even though that I understand that I shouldn't be that scared, so this is really hard for me to do and I have to rely on the WalkThroughWalls mod. I have also seen people asking others to clear that section for them because they can't finish it on their own due to health reasons.

Now, I know that this was done to spice the content up and I don't ask for it to get removed, but it would've been great to have an option to choose to get walked through that section (like in cutscenes), that would make the game more possible to complete for people who are not good at such stuff due to various reasons.

[Lillietea]

1 hour ago, Nave said:

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When you enter Saki's door in the nightmare realm (disturbing images but not as disturbing as doki doki literature club) , the south section of the ancient temple in the nightmare realm (aelita's path, tho its pretty much a black and white picture that i couldn't even see clearly since it changes quite fast) 

 

Personally, i find them disurbing instead of being a jumpscare. if you have played ddlc, these jumpscares should be a breeze

Spoiler

There are also some jumpscare-ish elements when you enter your Nightmare Realm with bad enough Karma and Relationship Points to warrant an option to choose the bad ending.