I was gonna give a more detailed review of this game, but as I was reading it over I realized: Wow, this is pretentious as hell. So I'll spare you and just say the funny parts.
1. This game gets a 10/10 because Ryuki is in it and he's the realest character to ever be conceived in the history of fiction. Wow, He Is Literally Me!
2. This game is flawed and objectively shouldn't get 5 stars from me, however, I really enjoyed playing through it and I think that based on pure enjoyment, it deserves those 5 stars.
3. This game's biggest flaw was the decrease in funny flavor text. This is all NicoB's fault. I hope the third game makes it so that every single object has new flavor text everytime you go to a new location and that the horrible puns get more horrible as the game progresses. Out of spite. And because I'm so mad we didn't get the same amount of banter from Tama and Ryuki that we got with Aiba and Date in the first game. We were robbed. *I* was robbed.
4. Criticism of this game is homophobic because Ryuki is the gayboy of all time. My read on his sexuality is the following: "I desire men carnally. Women can do whatever they want to me because I'm terrified of them." Perfect protagonist fr.
5. I loved The Big Plot Twist, personally. Does it fall apart the more you look at it? Kinda. Does it make the game worse? Eh. Will I turn my brain off and look at it uncritically because I enjoyed the reveal so much and it fucked with my brain? Of course I will it was awesome. It was just so fun. It's a fun twist. Don't we like to have some fun around here? I do.
6. I love Date and Ryuki, both as separate characters and their relationship with each other. Everytime Ryuki gushed about Date I fell to my knees sobbing screaming at the screen "HE JUST LIKE ME... HE JUST LIKE ME FR!!!" That's me and Ryuki's emotional support MILF. Do they not amount to much in the grand scheme of the game? Yeah. Still, the content we did get of them is enough for me to brainrot over until we get the next game, which will hopefully have them making out on screen for 20 minutes straight. I'll even be fine with 15 minutes straight, Uchikoshi, for realsies.
7. Tama is Ryuki's idealized version of Date being a BDSM mommy and I will not be hearing otherwise. When Date made the same gag of "(Pointing at non-sexual object) That's erotic, isn't it?" that Tama did I was like. They are literally the same person.
8. Date looking the same way he does in the last game makes sense btw, even with the spoiler toggle on. Yeah the explanation they give is silly because Date is silly and repressed as hell, but if you think about it for more than 5 minutes it makes so much sense that he'd still wanna look like that. Seeing people take it as bad writing and say that it makes his character worse confuses me a lot, though I will admit it's partially Uchikoshi's fault for not diving into it more. At the same time, it's not Date's game, Even though I wish it could be. (<-- the date fan that dickrides him the least)
9. That being said, I hope they ditch the "no spoilers/minimal spoilers" approach for the next game. I really do think it was to the game's detriment that we didn't get to talk more about the first game. Keep Date like that tho, I love prettyboy Date. Prettyboy Date is all that matters and if the third game has to disregard even more of the last two games to keep him there, then so be it! Fuck narrative consistency, I need my bishounen MILF. Seriously Uchikoshi I will dickride and defend your writing till the end of time in order to keep Date's design like that. #SHOOTERS_FOR_BISHI_DATE
10. also spare some saito crumbs pls. at least add a saito tamagotchi to the eyeballie game come on it's my birthday do it for my birthday i'm just a little birthday boy (<-- Got baited and thought the "Sejima" eyeballie with the Loving and Crazy stats referred to Saito.)
11. so yeah 0/10 not enough saito
12. Also fuck Chikara seriously
13. Also someone needs to cut So Sejima's dick off You would make the world a better place
Final thoughts: I think it's hilarious that Date has 12 years worth of amnesia. I hope AI3 makes it 18. (date's amnesia has a coming of age story)
1. This game gets a 10/10 because Ryuki is in it and he's the realest character to ever be conceived in the history of fiction. Wow, He Is Literally Me!
2. This game is flawed and objectively shouldn't get 5 stars from me, however, I really enjoyed playing through it and I think that based on pure enjoyment, it deserves those 5 stars.
3. This game's biggest flaw was the decrease in funny flavor text. This is all NicoB's fault. I hope the third game makes it so that every single object has new flavor text everytime you go to a new location and that the horrible puns get more horrible as the game progresses. Out of spite. And because I'm so mad we didn't get the same amount of banter from Tama and Ryuki that we got with Aiba and Date in the first game. We were robbed. *I* was robbed.
4. Criticism of this game is homophobic because Ryuki is the gayboy of all time. My read on his sexuality is the following: "I desire men carnally. Women can do whatever they want to me because I'm terrified of them." Perfect protagonist fr.
5. I loved The Big Plot Twist, personally. Does it fall apart the more you look at it? Kinda. Does it make the game worse? Eh. Will I turn my brain off and look at it uncritically because I enjoyed the reveal so much and it fucked with my brain? Of course I will it was awesome. It was just so fun. It's a fun twist. Don't we like to have some fun around here? I do.
6. I love Date and Ryuki, both as separate characters and their relationship with each other. Everytime Ryuki gushed about Date I fell to my knees sobbing screaming at the screen "HE JUST LIKE ME... HE JUST LIKE ME FR!!!" That's me and Ryuki's emotional support MILF. Do they not amount to much in the grand scheme of the game? Yeah. Still, the content we did get of them is enough for me to brainrot over until we get the next game, which will hopefully have them making out on screen for 20 minutes straight. I'll even be fine with 15 minutes straight, Uchikoshi, for realsies.
7. Tama is Ryuki's idealized version of Date being a BDSM mommy and I will not be hearing otherwise. When Date made the same gag of "(Pointing at non-sexual object) That's erotic, isn't it?" that Tama did I was like. They are literally the same person.
8. Date looking the same way he does in the last game makes sense btw, even with the spoiler toggle on. Yeah the explanation they give is silly because Date is silly and repressed as hell, but if you think about it for more than 5 minutes it makes so much sense that he'd still wanna look like that. Seeing people take it as bad writing and say that it makes his character worse confuses me a lot, though I will admit it's partially Uchikoshi's fault for not diving into it more. At the same time, it's not Date's game, Even though I wish it could be. (<-- the date fan that dickrides him the least)
9. That being said, I hope they ditch the "no spoilers/minimal spoilers" approach for the next game. I really do think it was to the game's detriment that we didn't get to talk more about the first game. Keep Date like that tho, I love prettyboy Date. Prettyboy Date is all that matters and if the third game has to disregard even more of the last two games to keep him there, then so be it! Fuck narrative consistency, I need my bishounen MILF. Seriously Uchikoshi I will dickride and defend your writing till the end of time in order to keep Date's design like that. #SHOOTERS_FOR_BISHI_DATE
10. also spare some saito crumbs pls. at least add a saito tamagotchi to the eyeballie game come on it's my birthday do it for my birthday i'm just a little birthday boy (<-- Got baited and thought the "Sejima" eyeballie with the Loving and Crazy stats referred to Saito.)
11. so yeah 0/10 not enough saito
12. Also fuck Chikara seriously
13. Also someone needs to cut So Sejima's dick off You would make the world a better place
Final thoughts: I think it's hilarious that Date has 12 years worth of amnesia. I hope AI3 makes it 18. (date's amnesia has a coming of age story)