“When you’re with someone who completes you – there’s no better feeling in the world.” I’m going to kick off a review of a dating sim with a pronouncement: I am not much of a romantic. I think flowers are a waste of money, I think marriage is a bankrupt institution, and I have never seen a romantic comedy willingly. Someone once tried to convince me that The Princess Bride is a romantic comedy and I told them to never call me again, because I love The Princess Bride and I won’t stand for slander in my house. And yet – I really enjoy a good dating sim, and I am pleased they’re becoming a legitimate genre here in the States. Not just because I like playing them, but because their success is a sign of an ever-diversifying customer base for video games in general. Recently there’s been a growing interest stateside in the visual novel.

One can even argue that Telltale’s recent success with its gameplay-light narrative-heavy franchise games is an extension of the visual novel formula. But the stepchild of the family, the dating sim, is experiencing its own growing audience – primarily young women hoping to sweet-talk anime boys (and sometimes pigeons, as in the delightful Hatoful Boyfriend).

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Starfighter: Eclipse stands a bit apart from its more innocently romantic brethren in that it isn’t quite as interested in “romance”, per se. There’s plenty of hand-holding and blushing, sure, but it has more interest in depicting frankly sexual tension than the fluffier romances in most English-language dating sims.

It’s an M-rated adaptation of a relatively ribald webcomic of the same name, a sexually-charged space opera concerned mostly with the dynamics of a relationship between a spaceship pilot and a navigator. The game is loosely tied to the comic but is entirely playable with no prior knowledge of any of the events there. Starfighter is tinged with romance at times but it’s geared much more towards being decidedly pornographic – there isn’t much of that sort of thing in the actual main route of the game but its endings are explicit sexual encounters between the male main character and one of several other men on your ship’s crew. There’s a snazzy little anime-style animated opening, with a song that’s a bit like a cheesy Depeche Mode-lite.

Not even really good Depeche Mode either – more Exciter than Violator. It’s not bad, but I wasn’t feeling it. Having said that, the situational music actually used in the game is pretty cool 80’s throwback synth: a little Mass Effect, a little Blade Runner. My character of choice to romance (Deimos, the tiny pouty Russian sexpot with the swoopy bangs and the crappy attitude) even has a theme of his own when you run into him at one point, and it sounds like a Kavinsky b-side. Sadly, the dreamboat with the eyepatch, Praxis, remains un-romanceable, like a beautiful stoic truffle behind the cold glass of a display case. I wrote my phone number on a piece of paper and stuck it to my monitor but I’m not sure if that worked.

For a game that’s centered around dialogue, nothing in this game’s script is particularly revelatory, and a lot of it in the more explicit cutscenes is a little awkward. Vybz Kartel Discography Rar. I’m going to be real with you – I’m a female in my late 20’s and I’ve read a fair share of fanfiction and this can read a lot like some of the more middling examples. Believe it or not there’s some incredible writing to be found out there in the wilder parts of the internet when it comes to believable sex scenes, but Starfighter isn’t always it. It’s perfectly fine for what it accomplishes, but don’t expect A Midsummer Night’s Dream or anything. In a pleasant change of pace for dating sims, dialogue choices actually make sense.

I know this seems like an obvious thing but many dating sims tend to give you zero clues as to where a branch might lead – usually it’s just dumb luck or a walkthrough that gets you on the path you want to be on. In this game you can get an easy sense of what’s going to endear a character to you or what’s going to get you airlocked. Sonic 3 And Knuckles Hd.

The story itself is standard sci-fi fare – there’s a derelict alien ship, some interpersonal drama, some subterfuge – but it retained my interest well enough with a tinge of space horror I appreciated. It’s short, maybe 45 minutes to an hour, and the ending is fairly abrupt on every route.

It can feel unfinished if you give it one go-round, as the “real ending” only unlocks after you’ve completed all of the others. The art is polished and great-looking, and identical to the quality of the artist’s work on the original comic. The cast are all classically bishonen-manga pretty and easily distinguishable from one another, both in looks and in personality. It has a striking visual language in its ghostly, low-contrast palette, and the minimalism of its color choices (black, gray, white, glowing pale greens, and very little else) make for an engaging aesthetic. The setting and thematic elements of this game, and the comic it’s based on, are relatively unique amongst dating sims and entertainment geared towards women in general.