Played this years ago when I was younger, used Lucky Patcher to buy the in game episodes, at the time I thought it was good but remembering the story and reading the comments, it was really shitty. Alot of the terms confused me back in the day and Em confused me as I didnt realize what gender they were back then. Wouldn't recommend playing tbh, characters are cliches and the story goes in one direciton regardless of who you do and dont get together with.
I'll be one person to say I do not care. I'm a black dude but I don't care who you portray regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation so long as the writing and characterization is there to back it up. I went into this game with no expectations not even reading the comments people posted but there's a comment below that pretty much sums up how I felt and overall It does the one thing I genuinely hate. It's a dating sim that railroads you the way that the creator wants you to go while having the nerve to say you have choices when you don't it feels like an author filibuster at its finest.
Alright, guess I'll write half a well-constructed review. The story is pretty simple and rather high-school slice-of-life, except for the whole "Em" mystery part, which started off well in the beginning honestly, but then was completely ruined. Essentially, Em just comes back out of nowhere, they left for a bit, then came back, simple as that. Reason they were bullied? The reason you found on the note, heartbroken, nothing more, nothing less. The characters are all cliches of the dating sim genre, the "average girl", the jock, the jackass turned "nice"(?), the bitches that some people want, the gamer chick, the cool one and the mysterious. But in the end, they are all just stereotypes or high school cliches. Somehow the most interesting characters is, one, the one character that can't even talk (Turkey). They do on Episode 8, but that's not really "canon" and I don't want it to be. More on that later. and two, Nora, the gamer girl, she's the one who struck me as the most human and relatable of all of the characters. The others just felt like carbon copies of high school drama cliches. But I feel like I should talk specifically about this "Em" character. "Spoilers" ahead, the spoilers aren't that important, but still, if you wanna play it, then I recommend not viewing this. Em is essentially the developer's OC, nothing more, nothing less. The forced (as in your character only reacts positively to their actions) coolest person in the game, that is African-American, non-binary and a driving force of the whole game, that turned the game from a mystery into slice of life. Their mystery is nothing interesting, really. They were heartbroken, so they left. Then they came back. The person that broke their heart was Abby. You're basically forced to get them back together, in which Nora is actually pissed at you about, and in all fairness, really. Em was a really forced and bad character, irrelevant of their gender identity or sexuality, it really didn't matter. They felt bland and like the Developer's self-insert, seriously. Now, for the most dreaded part of the game, Episode 8. Episode 8 is special from all the episodes, because unlike the light themes of the main Episode 1-7 and the more casual Episode 9, Episode 8 takes a very forced left-leaning political turn. It forces your character to be a die-hard Democrat Party backer with no choice in the matter. The episode portrays "Lump" (obviously a play on Trump) as total scum and his backers as insensitive and completely and utterly bigoted, racist and unreasonable, while the Democrat protestors that speak to Em are understanding and empathetic, even if they don't know about her identity. This is episode was the worst of all of the episodes, not that much because of the topic they use, but how they approach it. Your character CANNOT be Neutral or side with the opposing party on issues. Your character IS and WILL BE a try-hard democrat backer, and you will be FORCED to show that support. If you want to stay on this game's good side, don't bother, don't even read it, it's actually horrible how forced the agenda is. You are warned. Just skip it and go straight to Part 9. Other than that, it's a fairly mediocre dating sim, good at a stretch, but nothing to write home about. The gameplay mechanics aren't much to talk about either, they were meant for mobile so they kinda work, but they lag a lot and are sometimes clunky. Plus the decisions you make don't feel like they have much of an impact if you use mixed feelings, so you're usually forced to follow one path like a good little dog to get together with someone. Remember to save-scum, some of the reactions to your answers can be stupid, and sometimes your character doesn't even react like a normal person would.
"The previous owner of your locker is mysteriously missing, Do you want to figure it out the mystery behind it?" It's not my problem. so why the hell do i care about it? it's not like I know her/him. I'm just gonna enjoy my life and stop pretending to be a detective to solve some stranger case
I don't know about you but I'm not a trisexual seahorse mutant so I don't want to play as one or play a game trying to make me feel guilty about myself for not being one. And I'm not even white like all of your examples above, so none of that applies to me. If you really want to defend yourself and your new prototype hieroglyphic gender you rough drafted last night, keep all this shit on the internet where you won't get laughed at along with the other internet communities that were outcasted from society.
Ok, I gave it a try and I have mixed feelings about it. It was easy to read, to kill time and the art is lovely But I think there were too much soap opera for middle schoolers and I was expecting more a story about the MC discovering "love"+sex orientation for the first time. Overall, it's a decent game to pass time and doesn't have any heavy political view (except for one special chapter that's totally out of the main story). Everything is pretty casual and you easily forget the kids have 14 years old and could fit in a college setting so much mature they're. I don't think I would replay it because I don't mind to have friend zoned everyone and it's fine by me too much soap opera didn't made want to have a deeper relationship asap, lol I would play a sequel, tho.
Oh... I was about to download it when I read "Play as the gender of your choice and date the cutie" but no. Not really. At all. Lol I am lesbian but I am not into this LGBCDEF stuff. I simply like cuties. Games with tomboys and traps are a no-no. (>w<)/ Come on! "Pick your pronouns"? What even???
I think the vast majority of people are cool with gays, trans, whatever the hell you are attracted to, go for it. You deserve every right that everyone else has period. What we are sick of is the 100 genders, pick your pronouns, anti-science mumbo jumbo. I think people just need to have a cause. Society has never been this accepted with peoples differences, but some people will simply never be satisfied.
you do know the L in lgbq stands for lesbian right aahah you contradict yourself lady i don't agree with it either but come on ''I am lesbian but I am not into this LGBCDEF stuff''
you seem to have missed the point she was trying to make. she is a lesbian that doesn't like shit that intentionally and heavily panders to LGBT people to the point that the only selling point of the product is the fact that they have LGBT characters in it.
that's what they are called, retard. the idea that "trap" is a slur was created by butthurt non-passing transgender women to shit on the ones who pass and police how people talk to make themselves feel better.
Wouldn't recommend playing tbh, characters are cliches and the story goes in one direciton regardless of who you do and dont get together with.
The story is pretty simple and rather high-school slice-of-life, except for the whole "Em" mystery part, which started off well in the beginning honestly, but then was completely ruined.
Essentially, Em just comes back out of nowhere, they left for a bit, then came back, simple as that. Reason they were bullied? The reason you found on the note, heartbroken, nothing more, nothing less.
The characters are all cliches of the dating sim genre, the "average girl", the jock, the jackass turned "nice"(?), the bitches that some people want, the gamer chick, the cool one and the mysterious.
But in the end, they are all just stereotypes or high school cliches.
Somehow the most interesting characters is, one, the one character that can't even talk (Turkey). They do on Episode 8, but that's not really "canon" and I don't want it to be. More on that later. and two, Nora, the gamer girl, she's the one who struck me as the most human and relatable of all of the characters. The others just felt like carbon copies of high school drama cliches. But I feel like I should talk specifically about this "Em" character.
"Spoilers" ahead, the spoilers aren't that important, but still, if you wanna play it, then I recommend not viewing this.
Em is essentially the developer's OC, nothing more, nothing less.
The forced (as in your character only reacts positively to their actions) coolest person in the game, that is African-American, non-binary and a driving force of the whole game, that turned the game from a mystery into slice of life.
Their mystery is nothing interesting, really. They were heartbroken, so they left. Then they came back. The person that broke their heart was Abby. You're basically forced to get them back together, in which Nora is actually pissed at you about, and in all fairness, really. Em was a really forced and bad character, irrelevant of their gender identity or sexuality, it really didn't matter. They felt bland and like the Developer's self-insert, seriously.
Now, for the most dreaded part of the game, Episode 8.
Episode 8 is special from all the episodes, because unlike the light themes of the main Episode 1-7 and the more casual Episode 9, Episode 8 takes a very forced left-leaning political turn. It forces your character to be a die-hard Democrat Party backer with no choice in the matter. The episode portrays "Lump" (obviously a play on Trump) as total scum and his backers as insensitive and completely and utterly bigoted, racist and unreasonable, while the Democrat protestors that speak to Em are understanding and empathetic, even if they don't know about her identity. This is episode was the worst of all of the episodes, not that much because of the topic they use, but how they approach it. Your character CANNOT be Neutral or side with the opposing party on issues. Your character IS and WILL BE a try-hard democrat backer, and you will be FORCED to show that support. If you want to stay on this game's good side, don't bother, don't even read it, it's actually horrible how forced the agenda is. You are warned. Just skip it and go straight to Part 9.
Other than that, it's a fairly mediocre dating sim, good at a stretch, but nothing to write home about.
The gameplay mechanics aren't much to talk about either, they were meant for mobile so they kinda work, but they lag a lot and are sometimes clunky.
Plus the decisions you make don't feel like they have much of an impact if you use mixed feelings, so you're usually forced to follow one path like a good little dog to get together with someone. Remember to save-scum, some of the reactions to your answers can be stupid, and sometimes your character doesn't even react like a normal person would.
It's not my problem. so why the hell do i care about it? it's not like I know her/him. I'm just gonna enjoy my life and stop pretending to be a detective to solve some stranger case
Straight males can't be in any games can't they?
you shitting me? -_-
It was easy to read, to kill time and the art is lovely
But I think there were too much soap opera for middle schoolers and I was expecting more a story about the MC discovering "love"+sex orientation for the first time.
Overall, it's a decent game to pass time and doesn't have any heavy political view (except for one special chapter that's totally out of the main story). Everything is pretty casual and you easily forget the kids have 14 years old and could fit in a college setting so much mature they're.
I don't think I would replay it because I don't mind to have friend zoned everyone and it's fine by me too much soap opera didn't made want to have a deeper relationship asap, lol
I would play a sequel, tho.
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I am lesbian but I am not into this LGBCDEF stuff. I simply like cuties. Games with tomboys and traps are a no-no. (>w<)/
Come on! "Pick your pronouns"? What even???
this ain't it, chief.
also pronouns are gay.
she is a lesbian that doesn't like shit that intentionally and heavily panders to LGBT people to the point that the only selling point of the product is the fact that they have LGBT characters in it.
I love transphobic lesbians!
the idea that "trap" is a slur was created by butthurt non-passing transgender women to shit on the ones who pass and police how people talk to make themselves feel better.
Bruh