Most notably in the form of transitional scenes where the writer seems to meander about, coming up with banter that may or may not fully work with the order of events chosen by the player, and often resulting in the characters falling asleep for long hours during lengthy car rides while on poorly maintained roads. The ensuing concoction of one part parody, one part gag visual novel and one part semi-political mockery is an enjoyable blend with a series of memorable moments peppered throughout its story, along with a few lines that left me repressing my laughter, but it does unfortunately share some of the structural drawbacks of its predecessor as well. The developer does not shy away from how awful the nation is, highlighting lack of maintenance, resources, and the mandated deification of its corrupt leader among other things, but it also does not delve into the more dark and unsettling subject matter too much, instead using the setting as a jumping off point for various scenes and gags. ![]() With well thought out characters who also lovingly mock familiar tropes, a script filled with a large number of endearing gags and jokes, and an undercurrent of politically themed oddness that this time is caused by the game’s North Korean setting. While Nippon functions as a base for the story to be built on top of, the rest of it feels like a spiritual successor to Panzermadels more than anything else, and as such, features the same things that made the developer’s prior title as enjoyable as it was. However, despite having numerous direct ties to Nippon, the story remains feeling notably distinct, only occasionally unsubtly reminding the player about the connections, while the developers bounce off of the premise in order to deliver something more unique than I expected. Some scenes are directly lifted and recontextualized, the very structure of the game, with three days of free travel followed by a brief trip, is copied over, and both the characterization and appearances of Jeong and Eunji are based around Makoto and Akira’s. All while hopefully being able to leave this country without staging an international incident.Īs a direct parody of Go! Go! Nippon, one would expect DPRK to mirror and mock a lot of things featured in the original title, and that is certainly the case here. ![]() ![]() Thereby placing the protagonist in one of the more prolific dictatorships in the world, and under constant surveillance from his two guides as he tries to make the most of this trip by visiting the various sights North Korea has to offer. Stay! Stay! DPRK centers around an American soldier who is on vacation from active duty, and decides to spend his time away from war with his two Korean pen pals, a pair of sisters named Jeong and Eunji, only to discover that they are actually members of the North Korean military. Stay! Stay! Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Review A game that I recently replayed for the sake of this review. A year after that game’s release, the developers, DEVGRU-P released their second title, which took the form of a parody of the weeaboo wish fulfillment fantasy of Go! Go! Nippon. Stay! Stay! As in stay where you are and stay away from North Korea, because if you go there, bad things will probably happen.īack in September of last year, I reviewed a quirky little visual novel by the name of Panzermadels, a tank dating simulator that sought to parody and tribute the dating sim genre through a very western lense, that also contained a bit of a military theme.
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