It's really a "how to get girls to like and sleep with you" sim. (And please note, the only reason I am complaining, is because I was expecting an actual dating sim!) This is a fun, flirty, sometimes downright dirty Matching sim with surprisingly tasteful voice acting, graphics, and playability. But, sadly, those of us that would want to settle down with the girl of our dreams... cant. The real goal of the game is to sleep around, making surface relationships with all the girls, to unlock new girls to... sleep around with. -1* for the false advertising. -1* for the lack of replayability. -1* for making it so damn hard to concentrate when the "Night Date" secondary match screen comes up (if your volume is on, anyway, whew!). Overall, if you dont want a real dating sim, are looking for something different and exciting, this is a good game to try! Personally, I am going to see about getting a refund.
...because the pace seems to waffle between exploration sandbox rpg and fps/hack-and-slash psychic style. Double Fine has finally done something I need to complain about! You made the Cobweb duster required to finish the game? Really? That's just... not right. Especially when to get it I have to use the rod (see, button smashing) to afford it. So if you decide to play this one, work on affording the Duster first and foremost, even to the point of ignoring PsyCores, because you will get plenty of figments to use as rank-up material later on. Overall a lovely little jaunt through the odd bits of the human mind and all that go with it, with a few small issues that leave me wondering at the thought processes behind them... and a yearning for a PsyDoor.
