Dōkyūsei: Bangin' Summer

二代什麼時候上STEAM

Played in easy mode with Traditional Chinese while fully following the guide. The game is fun, and I don’t regret playing it. However, I would definitely not recommend it to a general audience. For VN veterans, I doubt my advice will matter if you’re going to play it anyway. So just take this review as a personal rant about how its gameplay and structure haven’t aged well by today’s standards. The Good: [list] [*] Dialogue and options: The game has some low-quality but genuinely fun jokes, especially in interactions with other male characters. You also get options to choose some surprisingly “spicy” interactions with heroines that are basically nonexistent in modern VNs. It really made me appreciate the existence of these choices. [*] Character development: The heroines and male NPCs are vivid and serve their roles well. Their interactions are genuinely fun to watch. [*] The magic: You only have twenty days to meet all the heroines and maximize their relationships. Without a guide, you’re literally wandering around town with no clear objective. Strangely, this is appealing as it feels like experiencing summer with melancholy and desperation. As a player, you’re more of an o…

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seems like an absolute steal while on sale for ~$8 or less all i did was boot up the main menu, listen to the music in the menus, and look at the way they had the diff info for the girls arranged and i could immediately feel that it is brimming w/ genuine quality and serious content volume that was enough to immediately earn a positive review relative to the price i have a lot of stuff to play through at the moment, but I will definitely loop back around for this one. seems like it will be a great time

This is an old (and trimmed) review I wrote almost immediately after playing. The original version was posted on VNDB on 2023-08-30 and was over the Steam's character limit (literally over 9000 characters), so I was too lazy to post it on Steam back then. I'm reposting it now because Dōkyūsei 2: Winter Heat was just announced for an English release. I went into this game expecting a comedic porn fest. I wanted to ease my stress by looking at beautiful women. I did not expect this game to have even a drop of consciousness. But it not only had consciousness; it had almost too much of it. It made me think and ponder things described below. Unspecific spoilers ahead (very specific for Mako). Note that I'm a woman, and this game was clearly not made for me. [h1]How do men see women?[/h1] I've always had a firm belief that the male POV in anime and sensual movie scenes exaggerate a lot for the sake of fantasy. All those gliding gazes up and down a limb or a curve, notes on how her hair or skin smells, the out-of-this-world softness of her flesh. So here I go playing this game, wanting to strangle the main character for looking at girls and literally drooling as if they were pla…

Solid Experience