Dream Daddy
Dec. 27th, 2021 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI went ahead and bought Dream Daddy on the Switch. You can probably rush through and romance a character in under an hour, but I sat with the game for a bit longer. Maybe three hours? I went on a couple of dates with various characters but wasn’t impressed.
I don’t think the art or the writing resonates with me. All of the characters look and sound too young for my taste, and the player-character avatar you create at the beginning is maybe 25 years old, tops.
I chose to end the game with the high school teacher (despite his gross pedo mustache) because he’s the only character who seems to have any trace of what I consider to be the two defining characteristics of an adult: (a) being tired all the time, and (b) good-natured resignation concerning shitty situations. His route is painfully lame until your final date with him, when you find out that he’s super into pro wrestling and spends a lot of time online writing academic breakdowns of matches.
I think this is probably the case with all of the romanceable characters, meaning that they’re kind of boring for the first two dates and only get interesting at the end of their storyline. Each of the characters is also associated with a minigame (like a Pokémon-style turn-based battle that involves bragging about your respective children), but some of these games are better than others.
I think you can probably spend about fifteen hours with Dream Daddy if you’re interested in experiencing everything it has to offer, but like I said, its youthful wholesomeness didn’t resonate with me.
I ended up really liking the youth minister, by the way. He’s hands-down the best written character, and his humor landed with me. Apparently, the ending in which he’s the leader of a death cult is secret, and you have to build your avatar in a very specific way from the beginning into order to access this route. I’m intrigued by there being a darker side to the game, so I think I’m going to start over from the beginning and see if I can successfully get murdered.
I don’t think the art or the writing resonates with me. All of the characters look and sound too young for my taste, and the player-character avatar you create at the beginning is maybe 25 years old, tops.
I chose to end the game with the high school teacher (despite his gross pedo mustache) because he’s the only character who seems to have any trace of what I consider to be the two defining characteristics of an adult: (a) being tired all the time, and (b) good-natured resignation concerning shitty situations. His route is painfully lame until your final date with him, when you find out that he’s super into pro wrestling and spends a lot of time online writing academic breakdowns of matches.
I think this is probably the case with all of the romanceable characters, meaning that they’re kind of boring for the first two dates and only get interesting at the end of their storyline. Each of the characters is also associated with a minigame (like a Pokémon-style turn-based battle that involves bragging about your respective children), but some of these games are better than others.
I think you can probably spend about fifteen hours with Dream Daddy if you’re interested in experiencing everything it has to offer, but like I said, its youthful wholesomeness didn’t resonate with me.
I ended up really liking the youth minister, by the way. He’s hands-down the best written character, and his humor landed with me. Apparently, the ending in which he’s the leader of a death cult is secret, and you have to build your avatar in a very specific way from the beginning into order to access this route. I’m intrigued by there being a darker side to the game, so I think I’m going to start over from the beginning and see if I can successfully get murdered.
