I have a small complaint about the lack of warnings about bright flashes and harsh lighting effects. The thing is that during battles there are various bright effects that flash for a moment and they often appear. Thank God I don't have epilepsy or other serious vision problems, but still I have poor eyesight, or rather short-sightedness, and I wear glasses on a regular basis. The only warning about this was in one of the FA posts (https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46280020), but it's not on the game's page itself, since not all people will search for this post or even look for the developer's FA, and I didn't even know that the author had his own page in FA and that all the roots of this game went It's from there. I just want to politely ask you to write a warning for epileptics and people with photosensitivity on the pages of the CS and GT games, because if someone else really has epilepsy, then this game may be the last for him in his life.
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I will add a brief warning to the itch pages, as it's now been formally requested. That said, I think the danger in such cases, while real, has been somewhat misunderstood and exaggerated over time. The Pokemon episode that put the issue on most people's radar, "Dennō Senshi Porygon", for example, resulted in the hospitalization of some 600 people (a real issue), but no deaths, and that episode is the WORST POSSIBLE scenario. To the best of my knowledge, there has NEVER been a death tied to a seizure caused by photosensitive epilepsy. Seizures are still bad enough on their own of course, and CAN be fatal, so sure, I'll put a notice. But I geniunely don't believe the mild flash effects in the games pose any risk to anyone, sensitive or otherwise. If I did, I wouldn't post a warning, I'd just leave them out.
For clarity however: CS and GT hypno effects sometimes include a MILD, SINGLE flash effect in ONE color. Occasionally, this may be strung together into as many as three or four, but somewhat spaced out in time. In contrast, the pokemon episode had a rapid STROBE effect of two colors that went on for several seconds. I'm NOT photosensitive, and even I find it kind of sickening to watch.
I'm not aware of such an episode, and I'm not a fan of Pokemon to watch their animated series, although I've heard something about this episode. However, as for CS, I've just been sitting at the computer for a very long time lately, summer holidays after all, and one day I was tired and my eyes were tired too, and when I looked at the effects of the fights, my eyes felt unpleasant, they hurt a little. I understand that this is essentially my fault since I don't feel sorry for myself, but what about other people who have more serious vision problems? I know that hospitalization is not a fatal outcome, but it's still not good.
No, I agree, it's entirely possible the effect could be mildly unpleasant for some people, so from that, an ABUNDANCE of caution, and the fact you requested it, I've added the notices you requested. But there's a big difference between that and SEVERE health effects, which I think are simply not going to be triggered by any of the effects in the game. That was all I was pointing out. But regardless, the warning is up now, so people can judge for themselves.