Off of dating apps for a bit so I played this.
Anyway, I'm going to rank the dads:
Hugo
Robert
Mat
Craig
Brian
Damien
Joseph
Decided to play this after watching Tim Rogers' video on Tokimeki Memorial and wanting to test my own sense for the appeal of a dating sim. This one is weighed down by a mechanical simplicity, gratingly millennial sensibility, and a tenderqueer homonormative ideology that pooh-poohs hookup culture a bit too moralistically to feel authentic. Mostly cute and doesn't overstay its welcome, but it's rather sleight. I managed to play through all good endings and the two major hidden endings (one more interesting than the other, as the more sinister elements of a certain ending and their foreshadowing in additional lines of dialogue make it clear that, perhaps in a bit of inspiration from Doki Doki Literature Club, the crew got carried away by the idea of a dating sim's novelty in an increasingly streamable marketplace, giving a certain amount of credence to those who found the idea of the project a bit patronizing or pejoratively novel upon its announcement) and didn't feel like going back for the in-date shock endings. First game completed over spring break! Hopefully I finish at least one more; I'm thinking Kingdom Hearts.
Anyway, I'm going to rank the dads:
Hugo
Robert
Mat
Craig
Brian
Damien
Joseph
Decided to play this after watching Tim Rogers' video on Tokimeki Memorial and wanting to test my own sense for the appeal of a dating sim. This one is weighed down by a mechanical simplicity, gratingly millennial sensibility, and a tenderqueer homonormative ideology that pooh-poohs hookup culture a bit too moralistically to feel authentic. Mostly cute and doesn't overstay its welcome, but it's rather sleight. I managed to play through all good endings and the two major hidden endings (one more interesting than the other, as the more sinister elements of a certain ending and their foreshadowing in additional lines of dialogue make it clear that, perhaps in a bit of inspiration from Doki Doki Literature Club, the crew got carried away by the idea of a dating sim's novelty in an increasingly streamable marketplace, giving a certain amount of credence to those who found the idea of the project a bit patronizing or pejoratively novel upon its announcement) and didn't feel like going back for the in-date shock endings. First game completed over spring break! Hopefully I finish at least one more; I'm thinking Kingdom Hearts.