For example, the Dragon Galore Zine allows you to shoot fireballs at enemies. In addition to standard melee, there’s Zines, which grant you different bonus abilities based on their contents.
I let out a decent laugh when I stepped into the first dungeon and saw an anthropomorphic cellphone, flapping around with fangs. The monsters you encounter in dungeons are manifestations of your own fears and insecurities. One-handed weapons allow quicker yet weaker attacks, while a two-handed blade deals heavy damage at a slower pace. Depending on what weapon-person you use, your attacks will vary.
The game takes on an isometric camera angle, and your character is rendered in 3D, similar to when they roam the overworld. Once you get into a dungeon, it feels like you’re playing an entirely different game, and I mean that in a good way. Everybody’s different, but the dating in Boyfriend Dungeon can feel one note at times. I’d love it if the more standoffish characters actually took longer to woo, forcing me to put the effort in to win their hearts. It may sound silly, but there’s something rewarding about really getting to know a character, with a relationship blossoming after you’ve become quite comfortable with each other. While that’s nice and all, it’s a contrast to the awkward, never-dated-anyone introvert that I’m being described as.Īlso, there’s a nuance to building relationships in a good dating sim. I could pretty much successfully flirt with any character I wanted to on our first interaction. Dating connoisseurĪlthough I enjoyed my interactions with most of Boyfriend Dungeon’s characters, it felt like it was simply to easy to build a relationship with anybody I wanted. It incentivizes players that may not be all the way on board with the romance dynamic to put in a little more effort in that area. Reaching new Love Rank levels will reward you with in-game bonuses and traits for that respective weapon, such as increased damage, or a bleeding effect on wounded enemies. As your relationship with a character progresses, your “Love Rank” will increase. It’s also really impressive how Kitfox Games weaves together the dating sim side of Boyfriend Dungeon with the action-combat side. I was actually excited when my favorite characters would hit me up about going on another date or taking on a new dungeon. Each of the characters have personalities that are genuinely interesting to learn more about. I also appreciate that the game doesn’t limit which characters you can date and lock off content based on which pronouns you pick at the beginning. In fact, she won’t even show you her human form the first time you meet. There’s the warm Sunder, who feels like he was plucked right out of a romance novel, or Valeria, who takes much longer to come around to the idea of getting to know you. There are several different romanceable characters, each with distinct personality traits. Characters will often text you, asking to hang out or go adventure in a dunj (shorthand for dungeon) together.īoyfriend Dungeon is able to succeed as a dating game because of its colorful cast. There’s branching dialogue choices, and you can always tell the immediate consequences of your actions. The visual novel side of Boyfriend Dungeon is really well done. Not to mention the whole dating your swords thing, which really takes the idea of “being one with your weapon” to an entirely new level. The tropes of a visual novel dating sim have all been done to exhaustion, but when you toss in monster-slaying, you’ve got my attention. It’s a bonkers premise, but one that works surprisingly well. People who can’t transform, also known as “wielders,” use these weapons in dungeons to take down monsters and earn precious loot. Some of the people in this town have an ability to transform into weapons, like swords and daggers. Your character is freshly moved in with their cousin in Verona Beach, California, and after a pretty rough history of failed romance, you’re hoping that this new setting means an opportunity to turn things around for yourself.įor the first couple of minutes, Boyfriend Dungeon comes off as your standard visual novel dating game, but takes a hard left not too far in.
BOYFRIEND DUNGEON VALERIA LEVEL 4 SKIN
New city, new meīoyfriend Dungeon opens with a character creator that lets you customize a handful of details, including skin tone, hairstyle, and preferred pronouns. Kitfox Games gave themselves the challenge to do just that with Boyfriend Dungeon, a visual novel dating sim combined with a traditional dungeon-crawler. Bonus points if those two genres are a pair that we almost never see together. I always love it when a developer can cleverly weave together two genres.
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