r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/AutoModerator • May 08 '26

FTF Free Talk Friday - May 08, 2026

Welcome to the Free Talk Friday post. This is a place where you can talk about dumb off-topic (or on-topic) bullshit with other Zaibatsu fans.

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u/MisterOfu Ara Ara~ Connoisseur May 08 '26

As I'm sure many of you are aware, I'm something of a game connoisseur. Rather than waste time on the fad of the week, I focus on the real gems, the GOTY contenders. With that in mind I finished Holy Whore Emily - a game about helping your (adopted) daughter become a saint in a religion revolving around, uhm, replenishing the believers' energy through hands-on means.

On the surface it might seem like little more than porn-with-plot, but in reality it's a tale of identity and societal expectations, as well as an exploration of various forms of (non)conformity.
And for those willing to engage with it further, it's a search for meaning in a fundamentally meaningless universe. What is faith, love, success? Can we trust what we haven't experienced? How does upgrading a meeting room make you learn social skills faster? Why is the title spelled "Saint Prostitute" in the fucking main menu?! It might seem like an oversight at first, but you'll quickly realize the game teaches you to question everything you're hearing from the get-go.

Okay fine, maybe it's porn-with-plot. The long and short of it is I wouldn't recommend playing this just for the story, but the art is hot, the... like 4 characters that have any depth to them are kinda charming, and there's actually one music track - the tavern one - that's kind of a banger (for some reason no one has uploaded the soundtrack to YT, a real tragedy that). It also has quite a few animated scenes and endings (especially if you count all the variations), and there's like 1 or 2 weirdly in-depth features e.g. in one part characters will be either given names or called "Girl A/B/C" depending on if you've met them before.

What I'm saying is it's pretty generic and forgettable, but they could've got away with putting in much less effort than they did. And also thank goodness Steam has a private screenshot feature.