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alias_sqbrDate Warp: a scifi visual novel/dating sim from Spiky Caterpillar and Hanako Games (of Long Live The Queen and Magical Diary) It's flawed but I overall enjoyed it, and it does the "multiple versions of the same story from different perspectives adding up to a complete picture" thing I really like.
It's cheesy, badly drawn, a bit slut shamey, and fails the Bechdel test spectacularly but the the love interests are all varied and basically decent and the protagonist is well drawn. Also she's Indian American but this is not a big deal, which is a nice change from the ZOMG LOOK OUR PROTAGONIST IS BLACK/What Are PoC approaches of Certain Other Dating Sims. She's an agnostic too, which I enjoyed, even if the plot gets a bit THE POWER OF FAITH for my tastes. (She is also a little more similar to the ethnically Indian agnostic vegetarian intelligent-but-unsure-of-her-goals similarly aged protagonist of one of my games in progress than I'd like but that's not really a flaw)
I had some issues with the way the bisexual poly love interest was treated but they're spoilery (EDIT: Ok it turns out I was mostly wrong about that! It's actually pretty cute)
It's cheesy, badly drawn, a bit slut shamey, and fails the Bechdel test spectacularly but the the love interests are all varied and basically decent and the protagonist is well drawn. Also she's Indian American but this is not a big deal, which is a nice change from the ZOMG LOOK OUR PROTAGONIST IS BLACK/What Are PoC approaches of Certain Other Dating Sims. She's an agnostic too, which I enjoyed, even if the plot gets a bit THE POWER OF FAITH for my tastes. (She is also a little more similar to the ethnically Indian agnostic vegetarian intelligent-but-unsure-of-her-goals similarly aged protagonist of one of my games in progress than I'd like but that's not really a flaw)
I had some issues with the way the bisexual poly love interest was treated but they're spoilery (EDIT: Ok it turns out I was mostly wrong about that! It's actually pretty cute)
