Boyfriend Dungeon Review - Dates with frighting blades

Boyfriend Dungeon is a dungeon crawler-dating sim indie game created as well as released by Kitfox Games. Happening in a city fantasy setup, the player character need to battle with dungeons with the aid of a human partner that can transform into a sentient weapon. Beyond dungeons, the player can date their companion in aesthetic novel-style series that boost their power in fight. It was launched for the Nintendo Switch Over, Xbox One as well as COMPUTER on August 11, 2021.

Do you play a lot of games games? The answer is a surprising relevance with respect to Boyfriend Dungeon. If you do not do it, then this game will have serious reserve twists. They could even be too much, if the initial content warning gives you a break. If you are a regular about this simulated business business, you may find it a little provincial. By far, BD is in a kind of gold buckle area. Too much for some, not enough for others, maybe just for you.

You play the newcomer in Verona Beach, a seaside town focused on romance and dungeons. Your pronouns and appearance are fluid enough, giving you more freedom to play the game of your point of view. It's slightly misleading because you are still a version of you that has been trained in a weird world where nothing is more important than going out together. Like Karate Kid, Roadhouse or Over The Top, Verona Beach turns on a slightly different axis. Each meeting is an appointment and every vacation is romantic. Rather than a critic, this is an observation designed to manage your expectations. These expectations will probably differ depending on your experience with game games.

For example, dating games can become quite intense. This medium is an opportunity to live your fantasies, after all. Conversely, meetings are sometimes uncomfortable, even frightening. The content warning tries to warn you (it has even changed since the day of the exit), but still! I have little experience in the wildest incarnations of these games, but summary searches suggest that they can become quite dark. So much so that some people would consider Boyfriend Dungeon as tame. Forgive the timid language, narrative games like this are so sensitive to spoilers. Beyond light content warnings, BD stories are better experienced than explained.

As I am more paid in dungeon exploration, deepen that. You have nine different weapons to discover, who come with a wide variety of styles of combat. Kind of. Each sword slice in the same way, but they have different bonuses and effects. Weapons become stronger, but only as your relationship with them is deepens. Fortunately, your own strength increases, no matter who you hit the dunj. In addition, there are no serious consequences in the event of a fall in combat. So, you can just crush your head against a given problem until it is solved. The story advances with your progress in the dungeons, so you always know what to do next. If you are really stuck, there is a goddess shield option in the settings that increases your 50% defense. It's super practical if you just want to focus on the sword kiss.

On the kissing front, you have many options available. Some are nice, other bad guys and all are beautiful. My game was mainly focused on a single dagger, but apparently some of the weapons are poly? You can go out with everyone, but it ends up getting serious enough for dual use to be strange. I want to follow all the paths finally, though. There are so many sordid spent to dig up, hands to hold and blades to sharpen. It's the summer of love, after all.

Any game that mixes genres like this one has to make cuts somewhere. In this case, a little depth is trocked for accessibility. Although it is not the dungeon robot or the most complex meetings simulation, the end result is always satisfactory. You have enough space to explore your violent and romantic impulses. The dating pool is both vast and inclusive, with excellent writing to match. Although the combat gameplay loop is simple, it offers a challenging challenge with narrative relevance. On the other hand, each half of the gameplay may seem like a distraction of the other half. This may be the price to pay to break together two disparate systems. Even if you end up missing the depth absent, the casual rhythm is a rewarding compensation. If only half of this mashup premise interests you, what you are looking for can be elsewhere. But if you are looking to mix hacking, slash and smooching, Boyfriend Dungeon will be a perfect match.