It is part of a process and its context is change. It is not cerebral wisdom, or academic horseshit, or ideas carved in granite or destined for immortality. This book is an action, a political action where revolution is the goal. Dworkin is known for not supporting women’s “equality” but rather their liberation. The very first words that Dworkin opens with are “This book is an action, a political action where revolution is the goal.” The intentions are stated right off the bat this is a book that was intentionally made for the purposes of inciting a revolt against our current society. The part of this book that many fail to take into account is precisely what is said on the first page. In order to set things up, I believe I should take a brief moment to explain Woman Hating.
If one is interested in the full book it can be viewed and downloaded for free here. I have seen enough connections that I would not be surprised if one of the writers was familiar with her work. Among many things, I have drawn a surprising number of comparison’s to Dworkin’s Woman Hating when I started reading it, and I kept thinking of Euphoria constantly. I did not even come close to scratching the surface of it in my review and I don’t even know if I will at the end of this article. Euphoria is a deep game, a VERY deep one. I have briefly touched on this in my response to hbomberguy, and it is now time to fully expand on it. One of the most famous (or infamous depending on your perspective) anti porn activists was Andrea Dworkin, an influential 2nd wave radical feminist that, as far as I know, is well respected in radical feminist circles but is often criticized as sex negative by liberal feminists. Additionally, it has been accused of furthering the objectification and exploitation of women. Most pornography has little to no artistic merit and cannot be enjoyed outside of serving as masturbation fuel. Allow me to talk for a second about why pornography has the reputation it does. The truth is that Japanese eroge have significantly more attempts at being more than fap fuel than what most westerners are accustomed to. The reason is likely because the Japanese are much more lax on sexuality than westerners are and are less likely to write off an entire game because it has sexual content. I briefly mentioned in my review of Euphoria how well it portrayed a mentally ill protagonist in a way that most western games will never even attempt. Furthermore, these types of analyses are typically reserved for more mainstream titles and not niche Japanese shit (especially in the eroge category). I say this because I have the tendency to notice a lot of tiny details that most don’t. I have been considering writing more analytical pieces referring to more philosophical and abstract aspects of games rather than straight up reviews. My review was over 5k words but I still left a lot of stuff untouched. Also, there will be spoilers for every major plot event in Euphoria.Įver since I completed Euphoria, I have thought about it over and over. If you read further on and end up seriously scarred by the content, I will not be paying for your therapy bills, but I will feel very bad about it. There will also be far more elaboration on the plot related and thematic concepts present, which really just makes everything ever more disturbing. I briefly talked about the content of the game in my original review, but this article is about to go a lot further into detail.
Note: Naturally, there will be spoilers ahead in the guide. The game has endings for 4 different heroines (Rika, Natsuki, Rinne, and Nemu), as well as various other endings, including a few bad ends and a true end. This guide is simply based upon the original Japanese walkthrough for the game by foolmaker but instead adjusted to match the translated choices. Original Japanese developer of the game is Clock Up. This is a walkthrough for the English location of Euphoria by Mangagamer (Get it here).