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I've resumed my playthrough of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy: by far the longest game I've ever played, and also one of the weirdest.

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a game about teenagers being forced onto the front lines of a harrowing war they don't fully understand. At one point you come down with a disease called Super Smartass Syndrome, meaning you can't be a smartass or you'll explode and die.

I was not at all prepared for Moko's wrestling hero to be called Anal Boss.

Everyone canonically falls asleep huddled together in the rec room in one of the routes, because their bedding was destroyed in a fire, and I think that's very important.


( Notes on The Hundred Line. )


In conversation with Rei, the concept of Yugamu/Takumi arranged marriage fic came up. Yugamu goes, 'I know we're married, but I'm afraid I have to be true to my heart; I'm not going to kill someone I'm not in love with,' and Takumi goes 'g... good?' and is then very alarmed when feelings start to blossom.

On Tumblr, I once described The Hundred Line as 'a ludicrous child soldier simulator that feels like what happens when you've almost finished making your game and you accidentally drop it in a barrel of fanfiction', and I don't think I'll ever write anything truer.

I've now reached ninety of the game's hundred endings: only a tenth to go! I have been playing this game for a hundred and eighty-five hours. The developers are threatening to create DLC, because apparently they do not think this is enough.

I mean, they should release DLC, because there needs to be a route in which Yugamu makes out with and/or lovingly disembowels Takumi, but I think that's all we need for this game to be complete.