ValiDate - an upcoming (and unsurprisingly racist) visual novel made by SJW's, for SJW's. Currently MIA.

Like if it's ever gonna happen...


Here's some Total Drama Island styled fanart
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Some shump podcast spoke to the developers behind the visual novel with such poorly designed characters.

They're also doing a shitty meme raffle as well.
 
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Badonkadonk Trash said:
Like if it's ever gonna happen...


Here's some Total Drama Island styled fanart
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Some shump podcast spoke to the developers behind the visual novel with such poorly designed characters.

They're also doing a shitty meme raffle as well.
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that total drama island style fanart is better than the actual art for the game. it's accurate too, they even managed to capture ashlie's man shoulders in the drawing.
 
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The podcast is just more of the head devs sucking their own dicks so tl;dr
  • One of the head devs, Kevin, talks about having COVID-19
  • They bitch about most VN characters being white despite most of them being Japanese
  • "muh distinct characters"
  • Ashlie is a confirmed e-thot bitch who's written with zero self awareness
  • They project onto their characters
  • "muh bland protag"
  • ValiDate was going to be a game based on a fictional tinder-like app called ValiDate
  • Despite how shitty all of the characters are, Malik is apparently the worst character in the game
  • They only mention the pictures they took themselves for the backgrounds and not the ones they ripped from Google.
  • "the full game finna smack!"
 
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The 8 of Spades said:
The stress of buying a container of Paprika?

...ok then.
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Buying things is a whole new concept for these people who are used to having everything given to them for free. Interaction with live humans face to face might as well be speaking to aliens as they don't have the cover of an electronic device to distance themselves from actual human to human contact.

These are people who live in an echo FORTRESS and built the wall so thick that nothing, not even reason/logic/sanity, can hope to penetrate.

This KS will fail as it requires people with $$$ and the Angry People on Twitter have nothing but +1's, Likes, and 💕 to give out. You can't pay for a development staff on emojis...
 
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As long as nobody complains (too much) that I'm treading old ground or clogging up this thread with terrible summaries/reviews, I'll probably just keep doing one a day until I cover them all.

I decided on the always-singing theater teacher to see if she can actually get into Malik's pants, since she friendzoned the gentlewoman gamer the other day. This one has a different author, both the other routes I covered where by someone named Zo. This one is by Dani. Lets see if that changes anything.

Our protagonist Isa stars by walking around internally bitching that she has to deal with theater people, while having an existential crisis. She solves this by going to the Bopeyes/bar to get drunk before her dress rehearsal. You get a choice if you want to go to the bar or chicken place first, chicken place is the obvious correct answer so I chose bar. I was immediately disappointed. She just orders a drink and you get a game over.

The story starts out much thirstier when our protagonist sees the manager working the register and immediately declares him hot. Isa declares that she wants to wash down some dry biscuits with tequila, Malik makes a comment about how she must not drink much.

"Yeah, not much of a drinker. I dabble more in the cool drug scene". Emphasis original. At least she calls herself out for being lame afterwords. They talk about dry sandwitches and get to the "Eres Latina" line. Mostly they try subverting stereotypes, she can't speak Spanish and hates spicy food. For some reason she declares Spanish her native tongue anyway.

Speaking of stereotypes, the conversation turns to music and you get the second choice asking if he likes music or assuming he raps. Assuming he raps makes him call you a racist. He gives you his number anyway lol.

We formulaicly go to the texting session next. Thus far it looks like all of Malik's routes have the same storyline, people go to his restaurant for some reason, they flirt, and he gives them his number. He uses it to send her his Boundcloud link. She thinks its "pretty good" and...we get some of his lyrics.

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....This was definitely written by a white girl. Anyway, Malik gives her the N word pass but she refuses. They talk about music with Isa offering to do rap with him. Then he asks her out. So far there has been slightly more chemistry solely because their characters both revolve around similar interests, so it makes more sense than "You made me explain what nonbinary is lets sex".

He springs for Pink Lobster. She shows up late intentionally (lol). He mentions his father didn't let him go to pink lobster when he was a kid and...I kinda thought his father wasn't around in the other routes, it was kinda important there, so whatever. Isa apparently autistically memorizes the menus of every restaurant she's visited a few times. She goes off on a weird rant about how dark it is in the restaurant, how "oh shit" would be a great song lyric, then into asking about rap. Malk gives his rap backstory where he'd cut class to do weed and rap with a sketchy stranger. Isa lies about cutting class in highscool to seem cool. Malik presses her on it and she walks back saying she was talking about theater. We get the next choice: theater life was awesome or you don't know about theater life? I picked the second one and she immediately assumes Malik is judging her for being into theater and says he is at a dead end in his career (lol).

One thing to note here is that you can rollback over your past choices, it never seems to lock and they all seem to either have one lead to a bad end or both lead to the good end.

So I picked the other option and she sperged out about how much she loved highsclool theater. Malik says the woman he interacts with are his muse (does that mean he punched a woman in the jaw? I'll assume it does.) Isa says she's serious about the collab and Malik says he better be paid.

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Malik says he isn't that easy and she pretends she was joking and meant tickets to the theater. Her internal monologue confirms she's thirsty. She talks about restaurants after breaking open the crab with her bear hands and feeding it to him (what?) and realizes her life is repetitive sending her into another existential crisis. Travis Scott gets name dropped without change. They have a very small amount of connecting based on both being creative types, Isa has an anxiety attack and has to go home. No, really. You get to your house and get the option to ask if he lives alone or just go home. I pick the first one because, much like Isa, I'm here to get laid.

She pulls weed out of her purse and they smoke in the car on the way to his house. His personality is weed and rap, her personality is weed and theater, they go together like theater and rap. He somehow piggybacks the woman who is twice his size into his apartment. He says welcome, then we fade to black.

They pillow talk about their family. Apparently Malik's dad is still around, he says the reason he wants to buy his mom a house is to get her away from his dad (a tie in to the other route that would have kinda been important if he brought it up there, but whatever!). And then... Isa breaks up with him. They decided to just be friends. There isn't even an epilogue here. That is just the end.

Again. None of these dates result in a long term relationship. So far the most we've gotten is one night stands. These characters have the closest thing to common interests among the cast and their relationship still just consists of flirting at a cash register, one exchange of texts, one date at a restaurant, and one night with weed. They could all happen in the same timeline since none of them can hold on to a relationship for more than a week.
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The cadence on that "rhyme" doesn't even work. It's not just that though, it's obvious that whoever wrote this has no clue about hip hop culture and just assumed the black guy would be a rapper while they write dialogue that calls you racist for guessing he's a rapper. No one is going to write a song that goes ''baby mama, I'm a badass, watch me get this pedicure." It's just not how the genre works.


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"the full game finna smack!"
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Fucking kill me. "Finna smack"? So it's going to be on heroin? I have no idea what regional slang that's supposed to be because I haven't heard anything that even sounded that stupid since maybe the late 80's.
 
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What is it with this game and weed?
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Weed is, like, cool man.

The devs are basic bitches who likely literally believe that. Or they think it would be racist for any of the characters to be on anything harder that's also illegal.

But I really think they just are the sorts who think that when they're stoned they are really deep, creative and intellectual, rather than just being even duller, self-centred bores.
 
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honestly yolanda (even though she's APPARENTLY half korean and doesn't look mixed at all) is kind of a sweetheart, i'll give them that.

but if yolanda and rocky are half asian, they really need to learn how to draw mixed black/asian people. a good example is nicki minaj to go off of.
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It also really bothers me that Yolanda’s other heritage is supposed to be French but creators just couldn’t be fucked to look up African countries that were French colonies once, or justify her looking 100% black by saying she’s adopted or something.
 
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This disaster of game is a really slow burn; there's no real drama or conflct, but it's gruesome to see the failure in slow motion. I peek in on this thread once in a while and lift the lid and just smell what's in the crockpot.

These small, small podcasts where people can just spout off any bullshit no fact-checking are really amazing sometimes. It's staggering to see the difference between a good podcast and a bad one.
 
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Malik is apparently the worst character in the game
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WHY IS HE IN LIKE 60% OF THE DEMO THEN?!
Also, I had a thought. When I first read the game has 30+ endings, I thought it was 'you have 12 people, bland PC can date each one, and there's 2-3 endings for each.'

That's not the case. Actually, you have each character as the perspective character in 2-3, and as the target lover in 2-3 as well. So they'll be unable to be romanced by half the cast. I guarantee someone's favourite ship is impossible.

What's a good tool for forecasting a Kickstarter? I think it's got a shot, the bar's pretty low, but I'd be surprised if it hits any of it's stretch goals.
 
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The 8 of Spades said:
The stress of buying a container of Paprika?

...ok then.
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I think she meant more in general than specifically the stress of buying things, but she did have an anxiety attack over realizing how repetitive her life is while having a positive conversation about restaurants, so who knows?

I think there are two routes left for me to review/summarize. I'll go with Airihi, the final new character, next. Pronouns are he/him and the only choice is the allegedly straight Malik, so I'm not getting my hopes up for a fade to black here. He doesn't pass despite being a drawing. There is something feminine about his face, between the hairstyle and earnings, that makes him look like a girl. A boyish girl if we're being generous.

The opening finally makes sense now that I know this was originally going to be about a dating app. It seems to be vestigial from that, it looks like you'd originally pick strangers from a list rather than having them on your phone for some reason. Presumably the story would actually integrate the opening too. Here we get a strange rant about how friendship is a scam. The title is "Two Assholes walk into a store", so presumably we're not supposed to agree with either of their behavior. Another new writer, Oscar Gao. Lets see if he follows the same formula as the others did. I'm betting he will.

Our protagonist starts by complaining about their normal supportive family having raised them. We then get some character building about how he likes marriage counseling because he gets to see other people's problems and can pretend they have worse lives than him. He then attempts...and fails...to pick up a bottle of ibuprofen (name not changed!). Three times. He spills them over the floor and Malik breaks the cash-register-curse to come out of nowhere and helps pick it up. You get the choice to thank him or to be a jerk for literally no reason. I picked be a jerk and our protagonist flips out demanding not to be touched. This surprisingly isn't leading to a bad end and our protagonist apologizes and blames their behavior on being sick. The protagonist blatantly checks out Malik and Malik comments on this.

Next choice in this "dating sim": Just walk away or You're Not My Type. I put Just Walk Away and the protagonist says they have to throw away their trash at home. Alone (?), Malik says there is a trashcan just outside and pulls their hand to show them it. Setting off the alarm with sound effects. Protagonist ends up passing out and wakes up with a mystery mixtape in their pocket.

Rollback to "your not my type". Malik demands a fistbump, which protag refuses to provide due to being sick. Malik insists until he gets fist-to-fist contact. I'm pretty sure this next line was posted here before, but...
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So far the protagonist has been a jerk and this is probably intended to go along with that personality, but still. Malik asks if she likes music.

"Nothing is stopping you from hurting this man.
Maybe the Law. But that's about it."

Malik offers him a mixtape and protagonist tries to ditch him. Malik says he's being nice because protagonist is clearly into him, and uses the "bro kinda gay" line from the previews.

"God. Has there ever been a man more worthy of being punched in the face? You're a pacifist but..."

Protag walks away...and somehow finds a mystery mixtape in his pocket. Lol.

"This week, you have a burning hatred for cis men"

Protagonist goes on a rant about how all the men at her job are terrible and if he had a wife he'd be a total Nice Guy who'd be the best husband ever and treat woman with respect. Protag gets an outfit changes and head over to Bopeyes. We get a mention of Emhari, a character who isn't implemented in the demo, in the first vague hints that people other than the two focus characters actually exist. Malik isn't as lucky, and gets described as being in an orange uniform despite clearly being in his casual cloths. Protag goes to order chicken and they have some banter. He, unprompted by anything, thinks he's better than Malik since he works fast food and brags about have three masters. In an actually kinda funny comeback, Malik pretends to mistake these for BDSM masters.

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Malik calls her a bitch (the actually word, rather than just implying) and says he is the manager. Karen here thinks internally about how he is still better than Malik (lol). Malik asks protag to rate his disrespect out of ten giving us our next choice: 7 or you just lost a customer. I picked the customer one because the others recommended it, Malik calls the protagonist a drama queen and he's #triggered because that is a feminine term and misgendering him and he passes and the protagonist goes into a tirade about how he's going to ruin Malik's life. Malik casually kicks the protagonist out. Small children laugh at him and he cries.

Picking the other option, protag calms down and thinks he isn't as bad as the dudes she works with. He really hates those dudes. So He orders chicken and we immediately get to the next choice: Tip 10% or 20%. I'm picking 10% cuz I'm cheap. The protagonist continues being a jerk and goes on a rant about how they don't have to be nice to strangers, another bad end with the protagonist crying.

So I hit 20% and the protagonist complains on how his parents taught him never to pay that much for tip. "You really wish your parents didn't believe so wholeheartedly in capitalism". Protag sits down and pulls out the mixtape CD just in time for Malik to show up and talk about it. They get in another almost amusing one liner referencing the earlier conversation ("So am I an eight not? A nine? Twelve?" "Yes, I would gauge you at twelve years old"). Malik steals a piece of chicken from Arihi (lol). Then protag promises to listen to the mixtape and we get an epilogue saying maybe they'll be friends.

The end! Malik fails to pull of a hat trick, thus far he has only been able to sleep with the fat chicks. Put that in a rap song. They barely screech by with a friendship. They spend the entire time antagonistic to each other for literally no reason, the protagonist is a jerk with no hope of improvement. Having said that the character interaction is slightly better IMO, while it is quippy and consists mostly of trading barbs they're at least playing off each other and responding even to past conversations. The main protagonist is developed as a terrible person, but at least they're developed. While I'm faintly praising the game I should mention that the soundtrack isn't bad. Its kinda elevator musicy, but its just generic rather than being offensively terrible. The characters still have no chemistry and there is no story aside from the characters, but as above it didn't stand out as much since there wasn't really any relationship. I could almost see it developing into a tsundere thing, but it is pretty clear that isn't the angle they're going with. I'll give him credit for being less formulaic as well, though it doesn't really deviate that far it at least changes the order from "Go to get chicken, meet guy, date" to "Meet guy, go to get chicken".

Disc said:
WHY IS HE IN LIKE 60% OF THE DEMO THEN?!
Also, I had a thought. When I first read the game has 30+ endings, I thought it was 'you have 12 people, bland PC can date each one, and there's 2-3 endings for each.'

That's not the case. Actually, you have each character as the perspective character in 2-3, and as the target lover in 2-3 as well. So they'll be unable to be romanced by half the cast. I guarantee someone's favourite ship is impossible.

What's a good tool for forecasting a Kickstarter? I think it's got a shot, the bar's pretty low, but I'd be surprised if it hits any of it's stretch goals.
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Everyone's character consists 20% of quirks, 30% of hobbies, 50% of flaws. Thus far Malik has been the closest to a normal person, and that is mostly because the flaws are all in the internal monologue. They didn't decide to make anyone an outright good person thus far.
 
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