No really, give me your opinion on this.

Not really! It's not the focus and it's so normalised it's kind of hard TO focus on it ICly sometimes.

yeah thats kind of how i feel

also its so flexible what you can change

but im curious if anyone feels differently

Not by design, since most required changes are very mild and chosen by the player.

seconding what raile said tbh; i'd say no

Players who want to go for extras, like the event optionals, can do so and change the characters more. And players can choose to do changes that upset the characters.

But that's on the player.

No, because there's not really any horror part of the body horror

okay im glad im not alone here

i nearly did a spit take when someone called it body horror a moment ago and then i was like WELL MAYBE????

Transformation can be inherently horrifying, but the game's tone doesn't favor that. The magic causing the changes is supposed to mostly cause things the characters can be okay with.

to some characters i guess it COULD be?

but as a player no, the game doesn't have that same feel, even if some characters could take it that way

Yeah. Can be, isn't intended to be, it's the player's choice if it goes there.

most characters do have "shit i grew ears" moments though

but since the changes can be light... i havent seen anyone push it to horror territory

NAH more a Body Alarm game -finger guns-

BODY ALARM -snrk

can we add that to the tagline for the game officially quixocalypse

Am I right in thinking this was a doubletake at a EMP comment that grouped it with Ryslig?

damn i really want to make that my username now....

lmao putting lc on the same level as ryslig is.... Something

I know I doubletaked at it, they're different enough sorts of transformation games to make an odd pair.

i feel like it initially was going to have that as a theme but it didn't really end up becoming a part of it in any real capacity

Murder arson and jaywalking

some events have stuff that is a bit body horror like I guess

but overall yeah, ultimately it's set up to make the changes relatively comfortable

as opposed to ryslig which is all limbs exploding out of places

Yeah. There's elements of transformation both ways, which itself can be horrifying. Ryslig between the people-eating and kinds of changes tends to be worse.

swirl it WAS at that EMP comment. of course if the player doesnt want any transformation or their characters would just not like it at all no judgement there. but just SEEING lostcarnival next to ryslig there i was like

BWUH ??????

its even against the rules for the transformation to be painful.

i mean i definitely had psi emitting slime before he grew arms but that was just because i thought it would be hilarious and he doesn't give a shit

Laughs yeah as someone in Both Games, Very different tfs

Yeah, if it's body-horrorish, it's because a character chose to go that route, so I feel like it's very different. It's why I always sell it very much as "non horror transformation" when friends ask about games to join and I rec LC

I mean, I literally just had Joker grow an entirely new limb and it was in the gayest, dumbest, rainbow-est way, and there was zero horror, lmao, so

Yeah uhhhh body horror is not what I would classify this as lmao

Wait, it’s against the rules?

I remember seeing someone on plurk saying they’re not supposed to be painful, but I couldn’t find anything about it on the info pages

it's how they are described on the transformations page

or at least I thought it was

or maybe it was just answered as a question a lot

but anyway it's not like there is a rule against it being painful it's just never been described to be

mostly because I didn't want people to be in agony from changes and to blame the Ringmaster for it.

nods

YEAH I think for it to be body horror it'd need the horror aspect, where the changes are regularly painful, unsettling, and disturbing for the characters.

And while they get weird the tone of the transformation is more surprise and acceptance

I guess if someone had a major squick for body tranformation but like, as a genre, nah.

lol I like "body alarm".

whenever I say it I just think of Yuzu's reaction to her changes

she just woke up looked in the mirror and then screamed