Gaming News The bizarre phenomenon of flirting with animals
“Love knows no bounds”: That’s probably the credo of these totally insane dating sims who choose to portray animals and similar creatures.
In the never-ending tunnel of games showcased throughout the week of Summer Game Fest, it wasn’t uncommon to be left disoriented by the frantic pace at which the trailers were tied. However, some have proven unique enough to mark the spirits. With its ultra-colorful look and its very special tone, Kaichu’s was one of them. In this dating sim developed by the Squiddershins studio, the player embodies a Gigachu, a kind of very romantic big dino who is looking for his significant other.. In order to find the one who makes his heart beat, it is necessary to conduct about twenty appointments in historical places, where the aim is to destroy a lot of monuments and charm yourself with roaring. Anthology scenes punctuated by Clark Aboud’s tunes (Kind Words, Slay the Spire).
If the proposal comes as a surprise to you, you’re not finished with your surprises. Brought to light the same evening love pear, another dating sim this time featuring single pairs of birds. This Tinder-like game reserved for feathered beasts, which we certainly weren’t expecting to see during the Wholesome Direct, is of course reminiscent of Hatoful Boyfriend. But it’s not about flirting with a whole bunch of birds in human skin, it’s about having two winged beasts copulate with each other. The title contains rhythmic mini-games that resemble advertisements. Everything on the platform is offered for free juck.io.
Hatoful boyfriend and comrades
When we quote Hatoful Boyfriend, it’s because he’s still a notable exponent of the animal genre. Released back in 2014, it is the result of a single person: the mangaka Moa Hato, a young woman who loves pigeons and made her first game there.The first version was made in half a day and as a browser title made with Adobe Flash . But the popularity is so insane that the traffic crashes the web server. Development of the FamousWriter game engine then continued. The protagonist is a young human girl who has the opportunity to attend the prestigious St. Pigeonation High School, made up of only the elite of the birds. Beyond the “joke” effect, the visual novel still contains 14 different endings and some even lead to dramatic bad endings. “If fans of the genre find there a very satisfying parody, those allergic to passively interactive fiction will flee at full speed when the formula hits. we wrote at the end of our test.
More than a game that just simulates a romantic relationship, dating sims are often much closer to a management game that consists of winning a character’s love by making the right decisions and using the right resources. Two parameters that affect your statistics. And over the years, we completely move away from the simple fantasy scheme. The traditional structures of the standard love affair are far too worn now, so you might as well create bizarre and unexpected scenarios to grab attention.
It’s an exciting time because there is such a thirst for well-written romance and most major studios still dare not make relationships a major selling point – Tanya X. Short, Creator of Boyfriend Dungeon, at GamesIndustry.biz.
A fountain of creativity
One of the first titles to be considered a dating sim is girl garden, released in 1984, in which a young girl tries to win her lover’s heart by picking flowers. Then comes out a year later Tenshitachi no gogo, bishoujo game made up of pornographic elements, this time aimed at young adult males. The goal is to seduce a popular girl from the tennis club. Today such crazy suggestions as Hatoful Boyfriend are linked. In particular, Uma Musume Pretty Derby asks us to take care of anthropomorphic half-horse women. Obviously the graphics are surprising and can make you laugh, and yet the 2021 game is a real local hit. In the ranking of the most popular applications on the Japanese Appstore and Google Play, the game even surpassed Genshin Impact and Pokémon GO last April in terms of revenue. He ended the second quarter with a profit of more than $361 million. A success that was also rewarded with an award for excellence at the last Japanese Game Awards. And in the west, atypical experiences are much more popular than classic scenarios.. Finally, let us quote Creature Novels: Kokonoe Kokoroin which you, as a high school student in love, play his half-girl, half-grasshopper childhood friend, Paka More who confronts you with an alpaca, or Jurassic heart which, unsurprisingly, offers you to seduce a T-Rex playing the ukulele. You might think they’re limited in their skills, but dating sims still haven’t surprised us.
