Yeah, it's good. I love the characters and the little world it builds for itself. There's a very somber yet comforting feel to it all, especially the Refuge, my favorite part of the game. I also found that it handles its metanarrative elements with much more tact and grace than other similar indie games of the time, such as, say, Stanley Parable with its pompousness, or DDLC with its banality and overall shit quality. I'm glad to find something that gets these things right every once in a while, at least in my own eyes.

Knocked this out in roughly 5 hours total while waiting for my Twitter account to get unlocked. Not a long game at all, would definitely recommend giving it a try, especially for fans of other RPG Maker titles.

My first instinct was to regard this as a “flawed, but promising” take on the game-night horror boom - but as the experience sat with me, Ive started to realize: I dont think this game has a soul. I dont believe that the game itself' believes in its concept. Much like its subject matter, this feels like a stunt. A toothy-grinning facade hoping to capture nothing but attention, like a decoy predator. A skinwalker, a doppelganger. A veneer. It almost tricked me, almost got in.

Which isnt to say the game is nefarious. What Im saying is, I dont think its… well-meant. Theres an obscured hollowness to it. A fakeness. Plastic, dressed to look warm but when you touch it all you feel is cold - and there is a low-level deceptiveness to that. Your nerves sense it, they fill you with distrust. I withhold my trust from it.

Extremely fun for maybe an hour or so.

What's here dries out pretty quick though, and even by the end of my first play session I could tell the amount of stuff to do was already running pretty thin--giving you a single map, a couple of monsters, and not much else. However, the recording mechanic is engineered to be funny with friends much more than even Lethal Company, to where I think a robust version of this might honestly surpass a robust version of the game it's really clearly riffing from. Given Landfall's history with releasing and promptly abandoning novelty multiplayer games, though, I wouldn't hope for much.

This is a really impressive RPG for the GBA that I played through all the way something like 5 times. It's a great game for a portable system and the way you change character's classes by giving them different combinations of summons is neat... but I will say that the story is pretty dull and the amount of dialogue they use to tell it is pretty absurd. The cutscenes can really drag on due to the amount of times you have to watch a little character sprite bounce while they have a little sad face bubble appear over their head.

yeah this is another case of me being an industrial quantity consumer of furry gay porn vns and if some pervert read that deers and deckards review this is basically a spin off of that other vn where the focus is completely shifted on another couple of a doggy protag who was nameless when this was released but in the current deers and deckards builds he's called bosco and that's what I called him in the vn

so what happens is that youre co workers with this guy and also fwb with this guys which means that as soon AS you get a thermae date with him yknow whats up

it's pretty useless to tell you how the events evolve because it's basically just glorified porn cgs as always the plotline here is just a setup for the subsequent sex scenes that are gonna develop and nothing else

that being said as monotonous as they can be the characters are pretty alright the writing is still pretty fine and I really wanted a porn cg with the hyena because im very much attracted to him but he got zero action no actually theres a 3 lines peeking sex scene with him but its not really a cg so that doesn't count

as always the developer(s) got some bomb cgs and while theres only 3 at least more than half are a hit and just because I don't like tentacle porn never did never will the true route sex is incredibly well done and masterclass in drawing and can be even used for more than one jerk off session !!! youre welcome

so yeah whatever this ain't worth mentioning but if you like the developer this is a nice addition to their multiverse of cock and for the runtime of it you can get at least some sexual stimuli if this is your shit

it isn't really explained in the itch io page as much as ive seen but I think the game is done so im gonna put completed bye bye

First of all, the elephant in the room: the game really tries to have its cake and eat it too with the H-scenes, trying to convey sexual anxiety via psychological horror but also sometimes being clearly intended to be jack-off material. I do believe there are some stories that could only be told with sex and all its complexities, but Everyday took my willingness for good faith too far at times. Frankly, you have to have a pretty strong tolerance to all sorts of problematic BS in eroge to be able to appreciate the good, and I’m not saying that to diminish the opinions of those who don’t have that tolerance. I always roll my eyes at people who call this a “kamige” and gatekeep people who can’t appreciate the “genius” of this masterpiece when it’s for a very particular audience.

I wish more discussion was put on the resemblances to Cyrano de Bergerac. At its heart, Wonderful Everyday is a compelling twist on the classic story. That fear of saying what you mean, saying what you want in your own words, is relatable to me and while I had mostly learned my lesson by the time I played this game, I could still recognize how profound that component is for someone who is still afraid to express themselves. That’s what the real wonderful everyday is: being able to live true to one’s self with people who love you for you. Miss me with all the philosophy quotes and namedrops, I’m not a fan of philosophy just for pontification’s sake and instead appreciate how it manages to translate to the human condition in practice even while being draped in surreality and metaphor. It’s this surprisingly soft, tender side that I think of the most whenever I reflect on the game, a lone point on this thorny rose with which it can be held and admired.

I can see how this title would have caught eroge players by surprise with its very contemplative nature as it gradually broke down certain tropes of the medium until sex became one of the less remarkable (and prevalent) aspects in the later chapters. I would never recommend this to anybody who isn’t comfortable with eroge, as there are certainly better-told stories with fewer caveats to be found elsewhere, but I also can’t understate the power to pierce through its target audience’s defenses and maybe that’s why it’s so special to some people.