I'm a few minutes into the Twitch Bwitch thot x chicken hat storyline. So far literally all her narration is about how she's alone because she's a bitch who keeps burning bridges with her boyfriends and all their friends, how abusive/stupid/pathetic her exes were, or assuming chicken hat secretly hates her for whatever reason. So quite possibly a crazy BPD cunt, great.
fuck if I know. If it was sane, it might just be that she can tell by the clientele she's gone to the wrong salon, but I wouldn't be surprised if she feels bad she forgot to bring a tribute of some 🅱opeyes fried chicken.
So there's no protag-chan? They're generally a good thing to have - a character that the player can insert themself into the role of.
This isn't like a normal Dating Sim. With the protagonist being a character already listed, and the character you're gonna date selected from the start, you're literally just matching people up and then watching a shipfic. Bleh.
One minor thing that pissed me off is how every. single. brand. they mentioned in the game is just a real one with the first letter replaced with a B. Off the top of my head there was Bopeyes, BFC, BVS Pharmacy, Beddit, Bwitch, Boundcloud, Bumblr, fucking Beebie Babies... The only exception was Google in Anoki's route. I wonder if it's an injoke that only the dev team finds funny, or just sheer laziness?
One minor thing that pissed me off is how every. single. brand. they mentioned in the game is just a real one with the first letter replaced with a B. Off the top of my head there was Bopeyes, BFC, BVS Pharmacy, Beddit, Bwitch, Boundcloud... The only exception was Google in Anoki's route. I wonder if it's an injoke that only the dev team finds funny, or just sheer laziness?
One minor thing that pissed me off is how every. single. brand. they mentioned in the game is just a real one with the first letter replaced with a B. Off the top of my head there was Bopeyes, BFC, BVS Pharmacy, Beddit, Bwitch, Boundcloud... The only exception was Google in Anoki's route. I wonder if it's an injoke that only the dev team finds funny, or just sheer laziness?
fuck if I know. If it was sane, it might just be that she can tell by the clientele she's gone to the wrong salon, but I wouldn't be surprised if she feels bad she forgot to bring a tribute of some 🅱opeyes fried chicken.
So there's no protag-chan? They're generally a good thing to have - a character that the player can insert themself into the role of.
This isn't like a normal Dating Sim. With the protagonist being a character already listed, and the character you're gonna date selected from the start, you're literally just matching people up and then watching a shipfic. Bleh.
One minor thing that pissed me off is how every. single. brand. they mentioned in the game is just a real one with the first letter replaced with a B. Off the top of my head there was Bopeyes, BFC, BVS Pharmacy, Beddit, Bwitch, Boundcloud, Bumblr, fucking Beebie Babies... The only exception was Google in Anoki's route. I wonder if it's an injoke that only the dev team finds funny, or just sheer laziness?
I was googling the game to find the download (I deserve to suffer for my sins). First is Twitter second is...this thread. "Validate visual novel" has this thread in second place, below their Twitter but above the actual game and its Kickstarter. Anyone actually seeking this game will probably pull up this thread.
Now for my turn!
The buttons are the usual, with one exception: Hit V for "Assistive Self-voicing". As you expected, this means you can have Microsoft Mike read out the Tumblr sperging in his oddly appropriate monotone. Presumably, this is so the blind can't escape the VN genre. I recommend anyone doing a video lets-play turns it on for laughs. He also says "Skipping" if you skip, which is great.
First up I'll pick Anoki, because they have the most pronouns and are thus the most oppressed. Their quote is a lovely "On God Fuck white People", and their phone screen quote is "Done with White People, sure. But with you who knows". As the others said you have to option to pick Malik or hit Nah. Nah just takes you back to the main screen, so I'm stuck with a manager.
Also that opening everyone mentioned? Its about getting into contact with someone on your phone but...that isn't how the story goes after that. Its a setup that is dropped after you pick the route. You don't have his number and it shows "he's vaguely familiar but this is your first time meeting".
We get a gay marriage, then a gay housemate, the only mention of "cis" is how the protag is totally not that.
So with their total interactions being "Hello, want my mixtape? Here is my number" we immediately jump into a "romantic" dream, then the black man invites you over for pot. Our protagonist has surprisingly not done drugs before and thinks this stranger offering her drugs might be shady. They then immediately turn around and invite them to her house instead, saying how they are a tranny (with different pronouns from the opening, where he/him where also present...)
So far, the only option was to say "Sending out mixtapes is dumb/not dumb". The first makes him make a silly face and the plot continues.
The other guy texts back sure whatever, and as the other Kiwi said asks questions about it. Apparently his coworker is nonbinary and the way the protagonist said "i'm not cis" made him think that she was also nonbinary. I chose "explain" just for variety on this thread, and the protagonist spergs about how nonbinary isn't one gender and how they are genderfluid "and those are two separate genders"(?).
He's cool about it and thanks her for explaining. She says no problem but
How dare he not know what genderfluid was!
The protagonist then equips themselves with pepper spray and texts a friend seriously saying that if they don't call back in 3 hours they're dead. Arming themselves is probably the most relatable thing this protagonist has done so far.
Cardkeeper Bukurua is probably a combination between Cardcaptor Sakura and the Yu-gi-oh character, as a fictional character the protag is cosplaying. At least they didn't just go with Bardkeeper Lakura.
He immediately comes in and gives the protagonist weed. She suddenly wants to kiss him for no clear reason. There has been no deep character interaction. No relationship, all the side characters are faceless. You don't see anyone from the other routes like you would expect in a normal VN/dating sim. Its pretty clear to me that they have a bunch of 100% separated stories loosely held together under the same wrapping. Anyway, the next choice: Do a lot of weed or just a little bit. I chose just a little bit. The start talking about rap and we get the start of some actual character development. If he gets rich, he's buying a house for his mom! The protagonist asks "what about your kids?" He gets all cranky and says maybe he'll do something if his baby mommas will let him.
"You might need therapy in the future when you can afford it, but you're as good as you're gonna get right now"
Protag immediately starts jumping his bone, stating how she wants to do things with him but wants a date first. They've had three conversations, two of witch where less-than-pleasant (and I only sabotaged one!).
Remember that explanation where she said she wasn't nonbinary?
Malik than says "Maybe I'm not cis, that is why I wanna date you!"
Then we get to the date. "You intentionally dress on the masculine side" but your art remains 100% the same so Malik doesn't notice. They talk, the protagonist brings up weeb nonsense including cosplay and gatcha games (revealing themselves to be a dolphin). They have some actual conflict again, what little characterization they have revolves around Anoki feeling their parents did a bad job and wanting the black man to stop being a deadbeat. So far all their character building has been "Thinks people should be a good parent" and "is a deadbeat", so they don't really have any chemistry at all. She just vaguely complains about it, first internally then externally.
Malik immediately tries to call her "Queen", catches himself and asks if that is Ok. She says no. He asks if it should be "King" then and she says no. We get yet another gay character with the character's older, married-to-a-chick sister. They then go to his house and get laid.
As I said a while ago, we get "We're going to have sex" fade to black "We had sex!"
"Maybe I'm not as straight as I thought I was"
"Maybe that is why he was crying during sex?"
He then dumps her for not being a woman. She's happy with that since she didn't want a long term relationship. Then he immediately asks to be friends with benefits. They decide on just friends.
So that is the story. Two people get together. Have three unpleasant conversations. Have sex. Decide to stay friends. There isn't any sideplot or other characters, very little developmet of the two characters that are there, and no chemistry between them. Much like the art it looks like the story writers had little communication with each other, it was very much a two person story. Where the characters where developed seperatly and not meant to be with each other in the first place.
-malik has not one, but MULTIPLE "babymamas"
-on top of that, its heavily implied he is an absentee father
-and it's outright stated that his father was absent as well
-anoki's parents were neglectful as well.
-if isabelle asks malik if he raps, he gets super offended and calls her a racist for assuming he raps because he's black
-even though, he does rap, and it's a large part of his character
-malik calls other characters "queen"
-malik also smokes weed and barely ever went to class in highschool
and to top it all off he is the manager of a fried chicken place.
HOW is this game so unintentionally racist. he is the epitome of a stereotypical black guy
Does anyone actually listen to Malik's mixtape? Or do they all just take it and not listen to it?
...How literal do they mean 'mixtape', for that matter? Is it a cd or an actual cassette?
Malik is such a bizarre choice to be the dominant target for affections in the demo. Why are you leading with an uninformed deadbeat dad in your game about progressiveness, and having all of them be from outside his perspective? Why not have characters pair off as much as possible, so you can get a taste of most people / everyone?
I mean, I know that this is probably all decided just from the first few routes that were finished - in other words, Malik's artist probably got all the art done the soonest, so they finished a bunch of his arcs first.
What is with this image? What's with the race track smoke? What's with having these golden, light colours dominating the sad picture? Why are her tears glinting TWICE when the light is out the other side? Like once, stylistically? Sure. But twice?
What the fuck is 'Bopeye's... more like Sadeye's...' supposed to mean??? Putting aside that the bootons are eating it, it reads off like it's supposed to be an 'Apple pie? More like CRAPple pie.' - style thing. But there's NO PUN. Not even a slight one. It's the final nail in the coffin of this picture, spoiling the mood it could have built with one last fuckup.
"I prefer 'she', 'he' or 'they' as pronouns"
"I'm not cis"
This is like every normal internet person ever. Call one by 'she' or 'he', they don't give a shit because of anonymity. Now how is this trans if the whale is under every pronoun under the sun? Malik (unknowingly) didn't make an error either, yet he still got chewed off. I can't understand
holy shit, Malik is the best character by far for being the sane one out of the cast, even tried to be accepting on one yet the game forces him to be shit on. He deserves to be on a better game.
What the fuck is 'Bopeye's... more like Sadeye's...' supposed to mean??? Putting aside that the bootons are eating it, it reads off like it's supposed to be an 'Apple pie? More like CRAPple pie.' - style thing. But there's NO PUN. Not even a slight one. It's the final nail in the coffin of this picture, spoiling the mood it could have built with one last fuckup.
Couldn't they have gone with "Bopeye's... more like Bopcries..." or something like that? It's a shitty pun, but it took me literally two seconds to come up with and it's better than Sadeye's. It's like they didn't even attempt to put a modicum of effort into this game.
Does anyone actually listen to Malik's mixtape? Or do they all just take it and not listen to it?
...How literal do they mean 'mixtape', for that matter? Is it a cd or an actual cassette?
Malik is such a bizarre choice to be the dominant target for affections in the demo. Why are you leading with an uninformed deadbeat dad in your game about progressiveness, and having all of them be from outside his perspective? Why not have characters pair off as much as possible, so you can get a taste of most people / everyone?
I mean, I know that this is probably all decided just from the first few routes that were finished - in other words, Malik's artist probably got all the art done the soonest, so they finished a bunch of his arcs first.
What is with this image? What's with the race track smoke? What's with having these golden, light colours dominating the sad picture? Why are her tears glinting TWICE when the light is out the other side? Like once, stylistically? Sure. But twice?
What the fuck is 'Bopeye's... more like Sadeye's...' supposed to mean??? Putting aside that the bootons are eating it, it reads off like it's supposed to be an 'Apple pie? More like CRAPple pie.' - style thing. But there's NO PUN. Not even a slight one. It's the final nail in the coffin of this picture, spoiling the mood it could have built with one last fuckup.
The chick in my route listened to it, its how she found out that Malik had kids he basically abandoned. She fell asleep listening to it when she had the dream.
He draws on it, I think it was an actual cassette. I wasn't paying enough attention to care.
How many more pronouns would you even call someone normally? 99.99% of people will assume that at least one of those applies to you anyways. And the rest would either be people who are in this internet space and would ask first, or people who'd call you it to tease you or something.
What is with this image? What's with the race track smoke? What's with having these golden, light colours dominating the sad picture? Why are her tears glinting TWICE when the light is out the other side? Like once, stylistically? Sure. But twice?
What the fuck is 'Bopeye's... more like Sadeye's...' supposed to mean??? Putting aside that the bootons are eating it, it reads off like it's supposed to be an 'Apple pie? More like CRAPple pie.' - style thing. But there's NO PUN. Not even a slight one. It's the final nail in the coffin of this picture, spoiling the mood it could have built with one last fuckup.
