If you guys have any other visual novel recommendations let me know! (also don’t judge how I say their names I know I know)

nino please do more freaky dating sims this is cracking me tf up 😭

Love how in that harlequin section you can see me trying over and over again to send trigger warnings in chat like "GUYS BE PREPARED"...nino was not prepared 💀

37:34 "If this is harlequin, I'm gonna shit my pants.—Pants not shitted."  HAHHAHA I'm crying xD
The delivery on that line was amazing

I like how nino is like a child he saw someone with only one eye and immediately blurted out “what happened to your eye!” lol

“I used to be afraid of clowns when I was little, and that somehow developed into…. The reason I’m playing this game.”I’ve not had a single unique experience… 😅

36:00

"Fuck Fuck Fuck I can't speak spanish"

My brazilian ass hearing this: 🤡

Love that you played this, but you missed lots of secret endings! If you want to try them out I'll write them below:

1. If you ignore Pierrot in the begining of the game, the strange customer (which is actually ticket taker in disguise! They lure people they find attractive with the pink ticket and make them Fools, the clowns that wear pink which is why Carol disappeared and ended up in the circus, you'll end up going to the circus and there will be a surprise I bet no one would've expected.

2.When Pierrot enters your apartment and you tell him that you need some time to think about it, he leaves and Harlequin enters from your balcony, there you'll have a little talk. (You will also be able to hear his voice actor!)

3. If you don't pick up the knife when lights go out in your cafe, and immediately turn the lights back on, Pierrot will give you a colored paper rose! (It explains why his forehead is injured..)

4.if you don't eat anything, after Pierrot's performance when you tell him his show was fun, and then let him know you'll come back the next day, he will hold your hand and make an adorable face, that way you won't end up getting drugged (well at least not that day)

5.this one is actually what happens after the next day after you go home (what happens after the 4th one I listed), he will explain the meaning of Fools and then if you follow him in his tent he will show his true form and then, well, you'll find out how pierrot will defend you💔

6. When you visit the circus and Ticket Taker will recognize you, try clicking on the black tent not just once but a few times, it will reveal his and Jester's secret conversation you weren't supposed to hear!

Hope this helps, if you do try these out please make a video of it, I really want to see your reaction lol

Also a tip: you can tell which clown is which in their monster forms by the color of their eyes! For example: Pierrot's is light yellow, Harlequin's is green, Jester's is purple, Ticket taker's (or, what jester calls him, Bill's ) is blue and Doctor's is cyan or red, depends on his mood.

Fun fact: Harlequin and Pierrot actually used to get along very well until the incident . And Harlequin's hair strands resembled a heart when he first met you

And not so fun fact.. Harlequin genuinely believes he saved his fellow monsters by tearing apart Columbina as she made a makeshift dinner

In the end MC ask Pierrot if he's mistaken us from someone else it's because MC must've connected the dots that Pierrot was in love with Columbina before she was devoured. When MC asked "why?" And his reply was, "Because you, are you" it means that he really loves MC  not because MC reminded him of Columbina, the small act of kindness MC showed was what trigger Pierrot in being obsessive to them- which is linked in trauma bonding. I'm not going into a lot of detail to not spoil you but, they've been abused by the ringleader and people who mocked them, after escaping that MC showed kindness to Pierrot after being hit and yelled at causing him to be attached to MC-craving for their touch and closeness but fears MC rejecting him- him showing those adorable puppy dog eyes.

In the mirror scene, Pierrot is seen protecting Columbina that's why humans tortured him to weaken him so they could get Columbina as he was the strongest among the 5 males.

If you want more lore on this game go watch Darthsuki's YT he's the VA of all the voices, and he voices the AMA from Nekoboydream's tumblr (the game creator) where fans asked the circus cast and the creator about them. I'm not sure but news is going around that this June or mid summer Day 3 will be published. 😊

I love how fast people run back to Pierrot the second Harlequin shows up.

I paused this halfway through to play it myself. Now I'm back, I need the Nino commentary.

BRO I DIDN'T KNOW NINO PLAYED THESE KINDA OF GAMES!! I FREAKING LOVE THIS ONE!!

I hate the canon voice for Pierrot so Nino's yandere voice is my canon haha

This is such a cool concept lol, I love Nino's reaction to every questionable scene being just "Eeeeeeughhhhhhh ',:/"

Oh man, re-watching Nino's encounter with this game and I got hung up on "Sans Undertale" saying "I'll be glad to know someone used my ticket." MAN! This game has so much to learn on subsequent watches / playthroughs, wow!

ngl Im in to it.

THIS GAME IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT, MY GOD

my two worlds have collided this is the funniest play through I’ve seen yet lol

I locked in when Pierrot said his name and I realised this was going to have basis on Commedia Dell'Arte, I just fucking love it

The one interesting point I want to point out in relation to Commedia is the relationship between Pierrot, Columbina and Harlequin. In Commedia Columbina's main lover is usually Harlequin not Pierrot. They were oftentimes married or he was desperately in love with her but she was in love with Harlequin. It's important to note that this is not really an absolute truth. Commedia Dell'Arte is a theatrical genre characterised by its use of a specific cast of stock characters in different settings and plots and so there were many different way characters interacted with each other. Sometimes Harlequin chases after Columbina instead like in this game (which was not very often as far as I remember/am aware. If anyone has more info, please do share I'd love to learn more), sometimes they are just chaotic best friends, sometimes she pines after him and tries to seduce him in many different disguises, sometimes they fuck on stage (the characters, not the actors. I just felt like pointing that out lol. Though actually according to Wikipedia a Columbina actress was actually found cheating on her husband who was playing Pierrot  with the actor playing Harlequin backstage and the irony in that never fails to make me laugh a bit. Back to what actually matters tho). So yeah while in the game the relationships between these tgree characters are quite dissimilar from the most normal Commedia iterations, it's interesting that Pierrot's heart still ends up broken by something that happens between Columbina and Harlequin

Anyways that aside I rewatched the mirror scene a couple of times like any healthy individual and came up with some things

Pierrot is the one who tries to protect Columbina and stands between her and the humans, you can tell who's who from the eyes. For this he gets punished and caged. You can also see a pool of some liquid by his cage and considering the three stabs we see/hear right before it's probably blood so he was hurt before being caged. Then Jester talks to Harlequin about it. You can see who's supposed to be mentioned in the glitched out names by the colour of the nane and the letters being flashed since they are actually the ones corresponding to each their names. So yeah, Jester tells Harlequin "Maybe he'll be the first to fall. And then one by one, we'll wither away in this pit, -Harlequin-. I will, feed him." And then we see Jester is caged up so I at least interpreted this as Jester telling Harlequin Pierrot getting locked away was the beggining of the end for them all and that Jester himself would be the next to go. There's a comma between 'I will' and 'feed him' because he's telling Harlequin he's getting locked away right after so Harlequin has to feed Pierrot instead of Jester doing it, because he won't be able to. He does something we don't see because Harlequin says "wait" and then who I assume is the og ringmaster cages Jester so there's probably something happening between those two lines. And then Columbina asks Harlequin for help and right after we get the ringmaster saying he's going to let them all starve and take only her. So I assume she goes to them for help in a way because, to take another line she said earlier as context, they, probably the circus enjoyers, are going to touch her again and she doesn't want it. Jester has been locked up for less time than Pierrot and he can't even move, plus Pierrot bled a fucking ton, so he wonders if Pierrot's even alive. And he is but doesn't say anything, probably because he doesn't want to be atp tbh. Then when Harlequin breaks free she says she's scared but when he says she's the weakest of them and basically implies he's going to kill her she says thank you, so I don't think she was scared of him, she was scared of what could happen to her and what could happen to them. Her "no" later, in my opinion, doesn't refer to her getting killed. I don't think she minded being cannibalised for the sake of those she loved, especially knowing what could await her if she lived, she just didn't know Pierrot was still alive. He didn't answer when Jester asked if he was still even alive after all. This is further proved by her last words: "He wasn't...". She never finished that sentence but I think she wasn't referring to someone not being sorry about her death, it's the fact Pierrot was alive. I think the no is more about the fact that he was alive and he had to see that happen and the fact that atp Pierrot himself would have to eat her too if he wanted a chance at survival and I mean, eating your lover sounds... yeah. Harlequin was already more insane than Pierrot. He wanted to survive. Maybe he was mad she didn't love him back too (we need to get context for everything from all the three retellings of this same ocurrence and Jester's play tells us his uncorresponded love for her had to do with it as well). So yeah, he takes the chance at survival and saving her in his own way like she asked him to do and she thanks hin for it and he laughs. Columbina's death (and flesh) seems to have been what gave everyone the strength to rise up against the circus ringmaster that was abusing them. That's probably what Harlequin meant when he said they realised they needed a sacrifice. They had to eat someone to have the physical strength to fight back since they were being starved exactly so they'd be easier to keep in check. She just so happened to be the perfect target. Her angelic theming also seems to be really present. I think part of why the developer chose Columbina is her name (derived from the italian colomba, meaning dove, and the suffix -ina it basically translates to 'little dove'. The version of the name used, Columbina, is basically a mix of the italian version Colombina and the english Columbine). The angelic theming also goes on to show that she was both the vest if them and their saviour in death (I think the part showing her as their saviour is shown more in the wings of blood in Jester's play, that also having the added part of maybe showing she goes to heaven (?) but I am not sure). Anyways the reason why I fixated on this one specifically is because it seems like the most reliable. In the hall of mirrors, I think you actually get to talk to a fragment of her soul that is forever trapped in that mirror. She says all of them built their own walls when thinking about that day so all of the retellings are going to be slightly wrong or twisted since it's how the others decided to perceive ehat happened that way as a coping mechanism perhaps. But hers should be the most accurate. Of course we should still look at the other retellings as important because they all have their details that tell us not only about the incident but also about the character telling us the story, but at least I think this one should be used as the basis. Of course, maybe this is just as flawed as the others and I'm giving it too much credit but oh well

Finally on the serious topics, and I've seen someone mentioj yhis already, but it's starting to feel as though the MC are the new Columbina. The MC has a thing going with Pierrot, and then there's Harlequin making his own advances on them, that aren't really corresponded. The circus crew seems to have been pretty fucking abused by the og ringmaster and the MC was probably the first person to show Pierrot kindess since Columbina, which led to Pierrot's unhealthy obcession with them. It feels as though he's starting to see them as the new Columbina and the MC might be freaky af but they aren't that stupid, they're starting to realise that and that's shown in their final question to Pierrot

Anyways all serious stuff done and over with, I love Doctor. I can't say I was turned on by that scene cause I'm too asexual for that but I was giggling like a manica and kicking my feet the whole time. The only way through to my aromantic heart is medical malpractice. Like yes, perform a vivisection and poke around my internal organs with no anastgesia please and thank you. I love me someone after my own heart. Literally. I am fucking weird on this and I have no shame about it

58:35 Nino will never recover 😂