I am writing this review before finishing the game, because I want to wait until the last 2 weapons are released
Boyfriend dungeon is a pretty good game.
The combat is fine, but nothing groundbreaking.
The music and sound design are fine, the character creator is simple but fun, and getting to customize yourself with outfits and hats is pretty fun too.
The game's goal of using the weapon mechanic to make you spend more time with your romance options than you would in a typical visual novel works excellently, with only 6 dates you feel like you really got to know a character, thanks to the time you spent fighting monsters together.
Valeria's route was excellent, my clear favorite (for now)
Rowan's and Sawyer's route were both great, though Rowan felt a bit too much like a caricature at the beginning (and also they were much more obscure to find than they needed to be)
I wasn't really interested in Isaac, Sunder, or Seven personality wise, but they were hot, and I'm sure other people enjoy dating them.
I wasn't very interested in befriending a cat in a dating sim, so didn't really do much with Pocket.
The game's pacing is a bit shit. You get stuff leading to the final quest after reaching rank 5/6 with one character. If you (like me) focused on one character early on and were planning on leveling the others later on, you spend more than half of the game with "summer nearly over" and a dangerous threat breathing down your neck (but not really doing anything) and no more main story. I feel like a good alternative trigger could have been rank 6/6 with one weapon or 5/6 with 2 weapons.
The game also could have been a bit longer. Not in a "I paid X amount of money for this and only played this for Y amount of hours, so it's a ripoff" way, I just didn't feel like I could really appreciate each weapon's mechanical uniqueness properly.
I greatly appreciate the game's representation, especially its polyamorous representation, though I wish it would have been possible to be an aromantic protagonist (it's possible to be asexual which is cool)
Overall, Boyfriend Dungeon is a perfectly alright game that you'll probably have a fun time playing. At least if you're pansexual, no idea how appealing this game is if you're only attracted to some of the characters in the first place.
Oh, and mind that trigger warning at the beginnig. Stalking features pretty heavily in the game.
Boyfriend dungeon is a pretty good game.
The combat is fine, but nothing groundbreaking.
The music and sound design are fine, the character creator is simple but fun, and getting to customize yourself with outfits and hats is pretty fun too.
The game's goal of using the weapon mechanic to make you spend more time with your romance options than you would in a typical visual novel works excellently, with only 6 dates you feel like you really got to know a character, thanks to the time you spent fighting monsters together.
Valeria's route was excellent, my clear favorite (for now)
Rowan's and Sawyer's route were both great, though Rowan felt a bit too much like a caricature at the beginning (and also they were much more obscure to find than they needed to be)
I wasn't really interested in Isaac, Sunder, or Seven personality wise, but they were hot, and I'm sure other people enjoy dating them.
I wasn't very interested in befriending a cat in a dating sim, so didn't really do much with Pocket.
The game's pacing is a bit shit. You get stuff leading to the final quest after reaching rank 5/6 with one character. If you (like me) focused on one character early on and were planning on leveling the others later on, you spend more than half of the game with "summer nearly over" and a dangerous threat breathing down your neck (but not really doing anything) and no more main story. I feel like a good alternative trigger could have been rank 6/6 with one weapon or 5/6 with 2 weapons.
The game also could have been a bit longer. Not in a "I paid X amount of money for this and only played this for Y amount of hours, so it's a ripoff" way, I just didn't feel like I could really appreciate each weapon's mechanical uniqueness properly.
I greatly appreciate the game's representation, especially its polyamorous representation, though I wish it would have been possible to be an aromantic protagonist (it's possible to be asexual which is cool)
Overall, Boyfriend Dungeon is a perfectly alright game that you'll probably have a fun time playing. At least if you're pansexual, no idea how appealing this game is if you're only attracted to some of the characters in the first place.
Oh, and mind that trigger warning at the beginnig. Stalking features pretty heavily in the game.