Dream Daddy, Part Two
Dec. 29th, 2021 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingMore thoughts about Dream Daddy:
- It is endlessly amusing to me that this game thinks it takes place in Massachusetts, because I have never seen a game so obviously set in Orange County. Like don’t get me wrong, I know that Massachusetts isn’t all derelict rowhouses sandwiched between Dunkin chain stores, but “Maple Bay” is definitely in Orange County. And it’s lovely.
- Off topic, but damn it would be funny to set a game like this in Philadelphia. You would have the option to romance a literal pile of loose garbage on the side of the road, and there would only be one character who doesn’t have murder in their past or immediate future. I was recently reading Yelp reviews about the city of Philadelphia, and a completely unsurprising number of them say something along the lines of “what the fuck is wrong with this city.” It unironically makes me proud to live here.
- I’d forgotten that Game Grumps (specifically Arin Hanson) co-produced Dream Daddy. I don’t have any thoughts about Game Grumps save for that I still enjoy watching their Zelda videos from time to time, but it doesn’t feel like there’s nothing particularly “on brand” about this game. You can build your player-character to look like Arin or Danny, but that’s about it.
- Although it’s implied that you have sex on the third date, Dream Daddy is an almost aggressively PG-rated game. If I had to guess, I’d say that the fantasy it expresses isn’t necessarily romantic, but rather watching a bunch of fathers be kind and loving and supportive to their children. The relationship your player-character has with his daughter is actually kind of amazing. I suspect that, for many players, the game is an opportunity to tell themselves what they wish their parents had said to them.
Anyway, I took a day away from Dream Daddy, but now I’m back and sitting in the front car of the murder train. The specific player-character build you have to use in order to unlock the secret murder cult ending is like a cross between Paul Giamatti and Hunter S. Thompson, and I have grown very fond of him. I can’t wait to see him get murdered.
- It is endlessly amusing to me that this game thinks it takes place in Massachusetts, because I have never seen a game so obviously set in Orange County. Like don’t get me wrong, I know that Massachusetts isn’t all derelict rowhouses sandwiched between Dunkin chain stores, but “Maple Bay” is definitely in Orange County. And it’s lovely.
- Off topic, but damn it would be funny to set a game like this in Philadelphia. You would have the option to romance a literal pile of loose garbage on the side of the road, and there would only be one character who doesn’t have murder in their past or immediate future. I was recently reading Yelp reviews about the city of Philadelphia, and a completely unsurprising number of them say something along the lines of “what the fuck is wrong with this city.” It unironically makes me proud to live here.
- I’d forgotten that Game Grumps (specifically Arin Hanson) co-produced Dream Daddy. I don’t have any thoughts about Game Grumps save for that I still enjoy watching their Zelda videos from time to time, but it doesn’t feel like there’s nothing particularly “on brand” about this game. You can build your player-character to look like Arin or Danny, but that’s about it.
- Although it’s implied that you have sex on the third date, Dream Daddy is an almost aggressively PG-rated game. If I had to guess, I’d say that the fantasy it expresses isn’t necessarily romantic, but rather watching a bunch of fathers be kind and loving and supportive to their children. The relationship your player-character has with his daughter is actually kind of amazing. I suspect that, for many players, the game is an opportunity to tell themselves what they wish their parents had said to them.
Anyway, I took a day away from Dream Daddy, but now I’m back and sitting in the front car of the murder train. The specific player-character build you have to use in order to unlock the secret murder cult ending is like a cross between Paul Giamatti and Hunter S. Thompson, and I have grown very fond of him. I can’t wait to see him get murdered.
