WARNING: This review may result too long and even more if you don't imagine it with the voice of Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. Yes, this is a rather weak attempt to do a review in the style of Zero Punctuation, given the fact that Yahtzee hasn't reviewed this game and it doesn't seem like he's interested in doing so.
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It would be very narrow minded of me to say that all VN created by amateurs or fetishists suck, it's like saying that every shooter game released this day is a rather bland and weak work of copy pasting the same concepts but with different stories and some sort of different graphics (even when this is true 90% if the time). The fact is that there’s bound to be at least one thing to your taste in all different varieties of VN’s, be it about the most cliché story about heroes or mundane slice of life pseudo-comedies or even about sex maniacs that want to have sexual intercourse with every woman in the vicinities by sheer force of wank and luck. But it would be fair to say that there are certain popular trends in VN’s that tend to set off my “this is massive ♥♥♥♥” alarm. I would list them but thanks to this particular VN I don’t have to, now I can just point at Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme and say: “Pretty much that”.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not sort of fascist VN connoisseur who cannot function without a sublime argument and jaw dropping CG’s, reading about nonsense, plastering your own dark and deep fantasies and making a plot that doesn’t appeal even the most twisted of fetishists is fine with me, as long as it brings me some degree of fun or enjoyment. I’ll make an except at making a VN with Mary-Sues so unbelievable ♥♥♥♥♥♥ that you’ll start to wonder if those magical crystals you added to your coffee this morning were actually sugar. The game starts rustling my jimmies when it populates itself with a cast full of rapists, sociopaths and incarnations of fetishism and starts neglecting even the most insignificant amount of plot or even art decency because it’s too busy vomiting fetishes at us that makes me want to beat the faces of every character with a mallet.
Allow me to expand, the abominable cast of characters lets you summarize what can happen when your entire VN is a walking abomination made of your own fantasies and the only thing the player can do is chug the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like there’s no tomorrow. There’s no reason to not add any ♥♥♥♥♥♥-up character but the game seems to be too busy eating its own piss and feces cake to care about it. It’s like a friend invited you to some convention, under the false promise of some food and fun, but then you realize that the convention is about ponies and your friend buys you a hamburger in apology, but no, you won’t forget this betrayal, oh no.
The producers are trying to play the: “Intricate and deep story about transgender issues and society” card, but in truth you’re only invited to a party where the cake is only a cover of nice looking icing but under that there’s only ♥♥♥♥ and wank. It seems however that after all the rambling and rage about this game attracted the developers are only plugging their ears and yelling really loud: “IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, DON’T BUY IT. THANKS FOR THE MONEY”, totally oblivious of the fact that here, in Steam, you can’t rate bollocks if you don’t buy it. There’s going forth with confidence and then there’s the developer whooping my nose with the tip of their big self-pleased stiffy. Not that I think that most amateur VN’s are sublime works of art that deserve the maximum amount of praise, some are only worth of a shot in the balls. But the only thing you need to do is not grabbing all the worse parts of every single trend and fetish in history and magnify it by 200000%.
The “story”, if one can be so bold as to call it so, revolves around a pair of male “scientists” (a term that this game uses so loosely that the genitalia of the most concurred sex worker is cleaner than this) that are FIXATED with becoming females. And I made the word fixated big because it’s something that borders plain and pure madness. But not the kind of madness that makes you do the right thing in the wrong way, no, it’s the kind of madness that whispers in your ear and makes you wank in front of your parents. The kind of madness that was treated with electroshocks and brain lobotomy.
Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme is a game that really makes me want to hate it because everything about it is twisted (get it?) to a degree where all that could possibly be remotely enjoyable has morphed into a horrible ball made of the most horrible nightmares. And there’s nothing wrong with nonsensical writing, there’s some charm to it in fact. But this shiny gold star I sticked for the attempt at nonsensical writing its almost immediately torn off for some truly abhorrent drawing and writing design. Genderbending: Fine. Genderbending with some animalistic tweaks: Fair Enough. Genderbending with the option of going full furry: Now we’ve dropped into the ocean of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. But then there’s Gender Bending, with the option of going full furry, mermaid, goo girl and others mixed with the worst writing in the history of humankind and art worth of a 4th grader: And now the ocean of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ has closed over our heads.
Lazy attempts at absurd aside, GBDNATE, strikes me as a rather mediocre attempt at a game. An argument as solid as farts and that whole speech about wanting to create a truly enjoyable game about living the life as the opposite team aren’t valid points when your whole game is just a pile of turds. The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions, they say and this game sure makes you notice that you’re on a different kind of hell. Instead of red skinned fellows wielding pointy tridents you are pinned against sexual deviants, furries and mentally challenged people. Even when they try every single approach to the other routes, you can see that it’s just a misuse of a good formula.
You see, if that were the only fatal flaw, we could call this game mediocre at best, and then go back to the wanking, but no, this is just the tip of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ iceberg. I’ve already mentioned the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ art. And even when the artists says he’s trying to “improve” all I can really see is a moderate amount of effort being put in not sucking so much rather than stop being a complete disaster. IF at that you add the price tag, which is 25$ you can see with ease what the problem seems to be. Because, let’s be honest, if this massive ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ was only 2 bucks then then the only complains would be: “Such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game, but for 2 bucks it’s a nice way of getting a giggle of two (If only you could call this an attempt at comedy), but no, the price is way high for a quality this low.
At this point it seems that the developers are only trying to grab the most amount of cash in exchange for the least amount of effort. And no, the: “Then don’t buy it if you don’t like it” card cannot be played here, devs. Also, speaking of the green devil, I must remind (Or tell) you that this game was FUNDED before. Yes, the devs got even more money before they even got this game on Steam. And that makes you think that they could’ve hired better artists or a decent writer for this.
Overall I can only recommend this game to masochistic ♥♥♥♥♥ that enjoy psychological pain rather than the physical one, but at some point you will also feel the physical pain. And you don’t have to tell me, I’ve spent 110+ hours in this thing reading every passage trying to find the most minimal trace of good writing but at this point I can safely assure that my adventure has ended in total and abysmal failure.
Paying the full price it’s equal to asking a gentle colonoscopy. You won’t like it but you paid for it, and the guy who’s doing it it’s probably enjoying the ♥♥♥♥ out of this.

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