That Which Binds Us

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Name: That Which Binds Us
Status: Complete
Site: https://crystalgameworks.itch.io/that-which-binds-us
Pairing: F/M
Description: Lies, manipulation, and mind wipes somehow coalesce into romance?

This is a game that relies a lot on romance logic making some of the weird shit that goes on okay. The idea is that there is a magic knife that can be used to make people forget completely about someone else. The man who owns the knife inherited it from his father, and with it he inherited the business of performing this operation on behalf of other people. He also happened to inherit a bondsman's shop along with it. It's a weird combo, and a premise I can safely say I've never seen before. If nothing else I do have to give the game some credit for that.

 

The MC is a girl who has a shit criminal boyfriend, and when going to get a bond for him the bondsman informs her that he has this magical knife that he can use to make her boyfriend just forget about her completely. She decides to take him up on it, and since he doesn't charge her she decides to treat him to dinner as a thank you when it turns out to work just as he promised. 

 

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I somewhat regret replaying this one multiple times, because the first run, while effectively a kinetic novel, was cute, had some plot progression, and the ending was satisfying. I felt that the following runs only resulted in lowering my opinion of the way the story was told because these felt like subpar versions of the original story, not really new paths in their own right.