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Piofiore: Fated Memories Switch NSP Free Download Gangsters – be they yakuza, mafia, or otherwise, are aestheticised in Japanese culture in a way that lends itself very well to otome and a kind of violent, but ravishing romance story. Because of that, Piofiore: Fated Memories, which is a visual novel about three warring Italian mafia mobs, but setting aside is in every way a yakuza story, is surprising and even transgressive, and it’s a particularly good and vivid otome visual novel. ROMSLAB.COM BEST SWITCH GAMES

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It comes to us from Otomate, a developer that has a stranglehold on the upper tiers of this genre, and it is compulsive stuff; dark and affecting, but also beautiful, sensual, and impossible to put down. As noted by Ferico Varese in his analysis of Paul Schrader’s own analysis of yakuza films: “Yakuza films are instead organised around the confluct between social obligation (giri) and personal inclination (ninjo). This dialetic, which the good-natured protagonise embodies, drives the standard plot where good and evil, individual inclination and group obligations are clearly distinguishable.”

Take the husbando. Leave the cannoli.

So far this year, there have been two groups of Otomate/Aksys visual novels: Code; Realize was set in the 1850s, and then Collar X Malice in the modern day. The newest collaboration, Piofiore: Fated Memories, splits the chronological difference by parking itself straight into the Roaring Twenties with a tale of intrigue centered around an Italian city. As I worked through the five way struggle between three different Mafia families, the Catholic Church, and the Mussolini regime, I dealt with a lot of emotions. Nexomon: Extinction Switch NSP

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There hasn’t been a game this year that’s made me cry, but a little bit later left me feeling more uncomfortable than I have with anything in a long time. Piofiore is set entirely in and around the fictional city of Burlone, on Italy’s western coast. The city starts the game with three main districts headed by different Mafia families, the city slums, and a district that is neutral territory by agreement.

the story’s heroine Liliana

The neutral area contains the city’s church, where the story’s heroine Liliana (Lili to her friends) was brought up and lives. Her suitors are the heads of the three mafia families – the taciturn Dante, outgoing Gilbert, and the seductive/abusive Yang – as well as Dante’s “underboss” Nicola and a young disciple of the church named Orlok. Each character has their own story, as well as post-game scenes that unlock after getting their romantic ending that show what’s happening in the next year. Ni no Kuni 2 Switch NSP

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Of the five suitors, Orlok’s story is the only one that made me burst into tears, as this demure boy who would most likely quote 2 Corinthians would end up quoting Two Cathedrals by the end. As his name implies, Yang is not an Italian by birth, but is actually Chinese. This led to a bit of discomfort during his story, which is cranked up to 11 in the post-best ending story. I’m not sure if this is intentional – sadly, his portrayal is common for Asian characters of that era – but the fact that it’s the ethnically Chinese character that gets this treatment is worth noting.

The dark themes

The dark themes are not the only ticks in the plus column for Piofiore. The game has several, but the most important one is that it has a deep and captivating story. There are few things worse than a visual novel with a terrible story, especially since the gameplay rarely involves anything beyond reading. As previously mentioned, Piofiore: Fated Memories stars a church-raised orphan who gets entangled with the Mafia. Lilliana Adornato is your typical orphan from 1925 Italy. She’s beautiful, everyone loves her, and she has a dark, distinctive mark of a saint on her breast. Yep, just your ordinary 1920s orphan.Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Switch NSP

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She’s also tied to a mysterious legend in the fictional town of Burlone, which happens to also involve the oldest Mafia Family in the town, the Falzone Family. But the Falzone aren’t the only ones in play to try to control Lili and the legend. There’s also the Church itself, the rival Visconti Family, and the Lao-Shu, an Italy-based cell of a larger Chinese gang. They’re all mixed in for several different reasons and, like any true otome, you won’t entirely unearth every facet of it without completing all of the Best Endings.

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