Let’s play the dating sim/isometric real-time dungeon crawler boyfriend dungeon, which, contrary to its name also includes girlfriends and whatever I’m supposed to be called
I just moved to a seaside city with dungeons that manifest from people’s negative thoughts. There are also weapon-people like Soul Eater but with shoujo transformation sequences.
Anyway, I’m supposed to meet a guy at the coffee shop to set me up on a date.
Fuck you, Eric.
The game asks if you’re okay with “mom” texting you and I wish I’d said no, it’s very annoying even if you don’t have mom trauma
lol health care
killer bob wants to know
My ultimate fantasy is a world in which cardigans and pleated skirts are athleisure let’s go
i think that was the 1920s fyi
thanks old sport
are these hybrids formed when someone like… fucks a sword
there’s a very obvious joke to be made here about swords penetrating things, but at this rate i’m sure the game will tell it eventually (and do it far worse than i could ever manage)
Weirdly, no? Like Isaac said his mom was a wielder and dad is a weapon. It seems like a heritable trait but also Eric started talking about how he wanted to make a sapient weapon out of nothing.
I like that it just asserts it as a fact of the world
“It helped me grow and level up as a person” 
No sex yet and it’s on the Switch so the most I’m expecting is a fade to black when I max a social link
It’s way more otome with western sensibilities than a porn game
This seems like a slightly more honest Hades, having played neither
The dungeon crawler part is surprisingly fun! It’s critically not too fussy - one Vancian magic spell, one capped healing item, dodge, block, parry, light and heavy. I beat a boss with 1 HP left thanks to just parrying consistently.
The relationships are already more interesting than most dating sims I’ve played (admittedly few) because they imagine conflict between the protagonist and date rather than conflict as something you’re observing or intervening in.
The thing I’m missing from e.g. Persona here is the sense of time passing. Whatever triggers new characters entering the story or events seems tied to progression in the dungeon, and the game tells you to go do the dungeon when there’s nothing else in the tutorial. I want to have to choose what I’m doing and when and go to bed and so on. It’s an odd thing, but I think I want the simulated satisfaction of good time management.
Terrible character creator, though, looks nothing like me 
For my taste this is walking the line between cute and cloying very well, the only writing that’s made me wanna vom is mom but maybe some people’s moms are like that?
I am having a weird problem where I’m playing “myself” and everyone keeps flattering me in a way only people bullying me for being credulous have - when it’s faceless anime protagonist or an authored character like Venus in WKTD I don’t instinctively feel like they’re lying to me even in the game.
