Recent reviews by dynastystar

The writing was too on-the-nose in that the writer seems to wear their beliefs on their sleeve(touching on politics that I saw). On top of that, it can be far too wordy. Eventually I just turned on "Skip All Text" and to continue skipping after choices, held Ctrl and sped through the dialogue for the achievements. Fortunately, its shorter than most visual novels so getting the rest of the endings took roughly 5-10 minutes.

I was planning on Skullgirls being the first fighting game that I seriously got into since I liked the character designs. With skullgirls starting to be sanitized, that time has passed and I don't think anybody should play it.

This game was a buggy mess. The game didn't play voices in cutscenes and sometimes even not in cutscenes the voice would only play of the character talking wasn't in the middle of the screen. I clipped my character's model 2-3 times and he'd get stuck in a wall or something like that and I couldn't wiggle out of it so I had to reload. Alt+Tabbing caused weird graphical bugs where there we some weird black tearing at the bottom of the screen and some thin horizontal and vertical lines. During the final encounter, one of the items that I needed to use a power on was spawned in the wrong location, so in order to do the encounter, I had to reload the game.

On top of all that, I had to leave the game on for another 30 hours in order to get the last 2 achievements of the game.

Tried to play with some friends, only to realize that the publisher borked it in an update. If you want to play it with friend, hard pass

I'm still not done the game, but I wanted to post some of my honest thoughts since most of the "positive" meme reviews. I'll try to come back to this to rewrite the review once I've actually finished it.

In my honest opinion, Huniepop 2: Double Date is even better than the first game. The only issues I have are due to personal tastes(primarily Polly and Sarah), and smaller nitpicks. I can't really fit it in with a nitpick or a positive quality, but it is worth nothing that this game seems harder than the first game. You can brute force it though since you still get currency if you lose the date depending on how much of the affection you filled(you just get less) and getting currency from talking to the girls.

When it comes to new additions and overhaul, the things that I want to focus on are the addition of Stamina, baggage and the economy. Stamina is something that you need to be careful to balance. Each girl has 6 stamina total and if both girls are either exhausted or angry(status that a girl is in when you match broken hearts with them, also makes them lose all their stamina), then you lose the date. Moves that have larger matches cost more stamina and the stamina cost increases the larger match is(4-token costs 2, 5-token costs 3, and likewise for moves that have 2 and 3 matches or a 4-token with an additional match of 3). This provides an extra layer of depth that isn't in the first game where 4+ matches are not only as reliable to happen as often as they are in the first(with the addition of the stamina token that you match to give the girl more stamina), but also where sometimes you don't want to do larger matches until you're able to get more stamina.

The Baggage mechanic provides an extra layer of depth when it comes to date gifts. The date gifts are equipped to each girl and with the baggage mechanic, you are incentivized towards equipping them with gifts that counteract their baggage. Baggage are quirks that the girl has that apply to the grid and your interactions with it. Baggage can include things that incentivize you to switch attention between girls as least as possible, refusing to accept specific types of date gifts, only accepting gifts after a specific qualification has been met in the date, giving additional penalties when you match broken hearts with them, swapping the effect that broken hearts do with another type of token, encouraging you to finish the date as fast as possible. The baggage adds more to the game than some reviews I've read will lead you to believe.

Now for some smaller issues I have. The lack of nudity during the game's "bonus round" where in the first game was where you had to do matches as fast as possible. The game has a substantial more of dialogue which is a good thing for Huniepop 2 since you get to know the girls more, but with more dialogue comes the need for the ability to skip it because without the ability to skip it, replayability is killed and skipping it is something the game doesn't seem to have.

Update as of April 7th 2016: The criticism I have of the game seems to be somewhat addressed. The developer introduced a "Rock Hard Mode" that is unlocked after you get the Gold Trophy(which as I recall is 25k Fans). I already uninstalled the game so I have yet to test out the new difficulty mode to provide more information, but if/when I pick the game up again, I will update this review further.

Loving this game, can be a bit too easy though. I've been going after the achievements recently and even while I'm going for things like the achievement to get the Bronze Statue without using Accessories, I'm still able to get the Diamond Statue(second highest statue for having 50k fans). On my second playthrough, I got 165k fans which is 65k above the highest statue. Something that could really do wonders for this game is some kind of leaderboard as well as a "Hard Mode" of some kind.

I was somewhat shocked at how short each playthrough is since you'll be done a playthrough after a couple hours or so. However, there is some replayability in that after you finish a playthrough, you get Wardrobe Tokens that are used to unlock hairstyles and outfits that can be changed for each girl for her to have in future playthroughs. You can then go do another playthrough with a different playstyle. Use different girls, different fetishes, different accessories, and overall micromanage your girls and investments differently.

Its one of the best clickers I've ever played.

I think this says ALL you need to know abot this game(the square on the right is where your characters is supposed to be, character on the left is where an NPC is supposed to be): http://imgur.com/kJ1rhvC Thats a couple minutes into the game.

One of my favorite games of all time. 100% Recommend if you're not offended by anthromorphic characters.