Replayed with a friend who had the same first impression as me: The clash of art styles is unnerving. Holds up impressively for an indie game, but the character builder simply isn't good and would frequently break my immersion.
One or two routes are pretty cute, but this game simply doesn't know who their audience is: Is it for gay men? Is it for straight women?
I am of the firm belief that, were it not for Epsee/Shanen's masterful art and Game Grumps' notoriety, this visual novel/dating simulator wouldn't have the fame it has today.
One or two routes are pretty cute, but this game simply doesn't know who their audience is: Is it for gay men? Is it for straight women?
I am of the firm belief that, were it not for Epsee/Shanen's masterful art and Game Grumps' notoriety, this visual novel/dating simulator wouldn't have the fame it has today.
mascotizing, de-eroticized, de-humanizing wooby doo-doo that started out as a low key homophobic ~sooo randim~ joke about how funny gay cultural nomenclature is to its straight creators but then got agonizingly retconned into game grumps' (ugh) flailing attempt at a self-serious inclusivity project. Too ignorant and afraid of offending anyone to portray anything resembling adult human intimacy or eroticism, and reeks with the no homo!!!! creator's fears of depicting anything messy, hot, or specific about icky degenerate gay sexuality. Never overtly cruel and clearly interested in playacting safeness and inclusivity, but the placid smoothness of everything feels like its own form of erasure--and it's a smug, self congratulatory one. This is clearly not really trying to provide anything meaningful or substantive for gay audiences: it's for obnoxious straight "allies" to play and have fuzzy wuzzies about how great they are for wubbing the cutesy wootsie daddy poos--they're smol pastel beans just like us!!! Heinous. I dont want to yuck anyones yum too hard or whatever but if you're a queer adult and love this game I kind of think you're a fucking idiot