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[Dynasty Lovers Dating Sim]

Seriously Broken

Healing in combat adds to your game HP, not your battle HP, plus the 2-headed snake thing can't kill you (you go into negatives until you kill it). So you can just heal yourself three times, then kill the snake at your leisure, then have a bunch of game HPs banked up for you. Never did figure out spell combat, because I never needed to.

Is it a function of the magical armor to ADD to your HPs when the dragon prince attacks? Cuz that's what happened to me. I banked up a bunch of HPs, talked everybody's ear off until they were enamored of me... it was about Day 13 then. After that, I slept over and over until Day 99 (gaining zooks of HP every day). Then in combat, I gained HP instead of losing it.

The little grab-the-food games always timed out on me before the clock elapsed naturally. Not fun at all.

The Guess-what-wardrobe-they-like was a waste of time... didn't seem to have any bearing on the game. And what good were Happy Points? You kept kissing and they went up.

Good points: Artistically very visually engaging, even more so if you're into sissies, lesbians, and vampires (not that there's anything wrong with that) :)

It's easy to be a critic and hard to program flash games, so don't be discouraged by my words. I don't mind a date sim that doesn't show the proverbial cartoon skin, but I think you could widen your games' appeal by making your hetero love interests a bit more butch on the male end instead the frail nancy-boys that seem to populate your worlds. You are capable of drawing handsome/not-pretty, I hope.

Bomee responds:

The armor does add a regen function to your battle HP, it prevents you from losing in the end battle.
I've fixed the healing! thanx

a very good review and advice, albeit harsh on the score.

[Get a Life]

Pretty Good!

Kinda mechanical, but amusing. Is Vanessa always your soulmate? Here I am, Goth-Emo Boy trying to be a Rock Star, but my soulmate is some chick in a pink blouse, and not Alice?

There's two bugs on the Phone-a-Friend Menu. Jane and Mary's pictures are mixed up and you can keep phoning well into the negative APs. In fact, once you reach negative APs, you never need to sleep.

Whenever a girl is angry with me, they stay angry, even after they fall in love.

While Goth-Emo Boy was studying to be a rock star, some chicks would gain hearts even though he hadn't met them in the game yet. Is that supposed to happen?

This is not really a Dating Sim, since you never go out on a date. Not a lot of romance in mechanically given gifts, Emails, and phone calls.

I speak for half of NG when I say, "We wanna see some cartoon skin!"

Does the male character version operate the same way? You can simplify that part by getting rid of gifts but the booze and figure out how to rub the guy's leg. :)

Johnnybdesign responds:

oh! That's a nice and thorough review. Thanks for taking the time to write it.

Yeah... Vanessa is the de facto soulmate. I thought of various options: random, fixed or complementary soulmate. I chose the fixed options for simplicity reasons because of the complex engine underlying the game.

Oh! I didn't know about the mixed up picture. I used the "phone bug" during testing for obvious reasons and forgot to fix it.

Actually, when a girl is angry, you should be able to fix it provided that you can spoil her with enough gifts (like in real life, huh?) ... Practically, though the amount of gifts required might be too much in some case and there is no way to know that because you don't see the different scores/values.

Yup, a stranger can gain hearts if you increase your reputation and boost some relevant areas of interest. That's normal isn't? I know cuz it happened to me all the time during high school.... All the chicks would totally fall in love with me because of my great body and the fact that I am a real stud. They would call me at any time of days/nights, drop love notes in my locker.... and then I would wake up and it was all a dream.

hehhehehe I gotta you. More skin next time.

ohhhh that's a knowledgeable comment. I may have over-complex-ified the male version of the game. ahahahha that's a great comment actually. It should be:
1- order pizza to go
2- drink booze
3- go out at the pub