It also helps that the team at Kitfox Games created this wonderful character, even though I was the actual “creator,” but they gave me great options for dialogue and choices. Although I leveled up each weapon and was extra flirty while dating them all, I knew the two I really wanted for elsie from the very beginning. I found both good and not so good suitors for my friend, elsie.

What especially made me connect with elsie in Boyfriend Dungeon was that I wanted to help her find love. Instead, I feel more like a coach, or decision maker, possibly their conscience? I just don’t understand what’s happening at all.’ Maybe this is because I never actually feel like I am the main character in the game, no matter who they are. I’ve never thought, ‘aw man, this character isn’t like me. While playing Boyfriend Dungeon as elsie, a female character I created, I realized that I’ve never really felt like that before. Some Gamer Dude: “I don’t identify with this female lead character.įemale Video Game Character: “Didn’t you recently play as a Zombie, Robot, Lombax, Ghost, Skeleton, a Hedgehog? But a woman is where you draw the line?Īnother human feels wrong, because of what? Here’s something we see constantly on the internet whenever a big new game has a female protagonist:

This game sort of works in reverse order, where the Outside World is the main world, and the Dungeon World is used to level up your weapons, even though that’s where the action happens.

The Outside World in Boyfriend Dungeon is a full-on Dating Sim game. What follows is one of these anime-style videos.īoyfriend Dungeon may have the largest scale Outside World I’ve seen in one of these games. Any time a new weapon is discovered, it’s actually a new character. The Outside World (2) usually consists of where you go to level up, purchase items, customize your character.īoyfriend Dungeon‘s cast of characters each have their own spicy intro video when they come into the picture. It is usually made up of randomly generated rooms filled with enemies, items, secrets and more. The Dungeon World (1) is where the action takes place. I’ve played many dungeon crawlers in my gaming lifetime, and while some of them are strictly made up of a dungeon area, I’ve seen many that feature two separate worlds. Cousin Jesse sort of works as your unofficial matchmaker. In between dates, you get to chat with different suitors (via text message and in-person). The point of the game is to meet all possible suitors, and take them on “dates” into the “dunj” (or dungeon), where they transform into weapons as you fight off hordes of living machines and objects. She even gets to live in his old apartment while in town. The story begins with elsie moving to Verona Beach for the summer, and the one person she knows in town is her cousin, Jesse. In Boyfriend Dungeon, you get to create your own character: choosing a name, gender, some visual details and even pronouns. When blended together, these two genres made a unique and special experience, Boyfriend Dungeon. What got me interested was that this game mixes one genre that I already know I am a big fan of - Dungeon Crawler - with one that I’m not too familiar with - Dating Sim. I ended up watching a few minutes of her playing Boyfriend Dungeon and thought, ‘Oh, this looks really cool.’ This is when I learned about the dungeon crawling part of Boyfriend Dungeon. At the time, I was in the middle of reading Felicia Day’s new book Embrace Your Weird: Face your Fears and Unleash Creativity, and had recently discovered her Twitch channel. It wasn’t until later on, a bit after the game released that I watched some gameplay on Twitch one night.

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