dull and wierd
dull and weird
Reviews for "Kaleidoscope Dating Sim"
good game
its a nice game and has beatiful graphics..but gaining EXp is not really explained and isnt shown anywhere
Bomee responds:
shown in the menu, exp
Love
The graphics/art was gorgeous and the yaoi option you placed was a very nice touch. :)
Beautiful, but repetitive
The art style was absolutely beautiful, and the premise -- that you're trapped in a dream world and can only be freed by finding your soulmate -- was pretty cool too. But the conversation setup was somewhat annoying: like Heyimcarlk said, it would have been great if there was some sort of "Continue" button, instead of having to press "Back" and getting one of several canned responses from the girls that usually didn't even make sense in the context of the conversation. It also would've been nice to have some of the story arcs go a little more in-depth: for example, at one point Angel mentions that her mom forced her to break up with Will, her boyfriend at the time, but we never learn why.
It would also have been really great if there was more than one place to go on a date with each girl. It became quite tedious taking Angel to the same bar, having the same conversation(s), buying her the same drink, giving her the same gift, and then taking her to the same beach over and over for about the last ten cycles.
Bomee responds:
angel's boyfriend was older and her mother forced her to break up with him. she explains this in the game.
SSDG
I think I'll just write a list of ways you can improve it and be constructive, instead of going with my desperate urges to tell you how bad it sucked.
First and foremost, it's the same as all the other crap you've dished out on newgrounds. You just changed the pictures a bit, edited the (lack of) story and maybe added some new stuff or something. I'll agree the art is considerably better than for example that popstar one but it's nothing to brag about. You keep drawing them in awkward angles with weird characteristics. Also most of your character sport the same generic anime hair, just in different colors or partings etc. And I'm pretty sure you tried to rip-off a couple of hairstyles from some final fantasy games...
The navigation is pretty bad. I find scrolling the main screen really annoying. You were better off using that same old way you used to do it (where there was a town or something with clickable buildings) cause at least that didn't give people motion sickness and if I remember correctly it seemed to work better too.
Now obviously you're a weaboo, which probably means you'll keep subjecting people to weird unpronouncable 'unique' names. However, you don't seem to realise that if EVERY character has one, then they're not that unique anymore, they've become slightly canon.
I'm glad there's an option to mute because the ambient music you chose got annoying fast. How about some different songs?
Also there's no need for all the advertisements. I clicked the stupid maid thinking it had something to do with the game but nope, it's just you pushing your stupid book on people. That's just not classy.
Also the concept of the entire thing seems pretty shallow. It's not 'find' your soulmate, apparently in your game, you get to pick a soulmate out of a group of attractive looking females (and one male possibly). But a soulmate is not something you can actually pick. That's the biggest fail on your part. Also another research fail as insomnia is when you can't sleep, Cero seemed to sleep like a baby in the whole 5 seconds of the introduction. Which was probably the worst art I've seen in the game so far.
Surprised there was no alienation this time as usually you place a disclaimer that even though you purposely put your game in the adult section there's none of that and the people who came here from said section, who thought there'd be some actual adult content warranting its placement in the adult section, are big perverts and yadda yadda yadda.
You and your loyal sheep may think you did a good job but I find the characters dull and annoying, also quite ugly, even though that was probably your main focus, and the whole game quite bad. There's hardly any content, the girls are as insane as they are shallow, it's so generic and for all the time it took to make, there should've been a lot more content and a bigger introduction and more girls to pick from and better, more interesting conversation. For example, this just happened
"Angel looks at you with tears in her eyes"
I picked "What's wrong, wanna talk about it?"
and she answers "That's good to hear"
This girl clearly suffers from some form of autism.
Also pleasantly surprised you didn't try to garner pity and less honest reviews by claiming to have done everything by mouse. Like you're the only person on the planet who ever had to use a mouse to create flash. I don't know if this is 'cause you bought a tablet or because you figured everyone knows by now and I really don't care, I'm just glad you didn't go for that cheapshot again.
I think that's all now. I'm pretty sure the sheep I mentioned before will all downrate my honest review and/or try to get it removed because they're butthurt so I don't know how long it'll stay up. But it'd be nice if you actually pick up a few hints and tips from it before it goes south. It'd be nice if one day I saw a Bomee game that didn't have such generic characters blatantly ripped off of wapanesse culture, had an actual story, decent animation and music (the kind that is credited) and decent artwork.
Bomee responds:
the criticism is great and i agree on certain issues, but the hateful flaming is highly un-necessary.
artwork wasn't done by me but an award winning artist :) but i'm surprised you can't tell since you seem to know my crap so well.
and unlike someone else who does dating sims who does rip off graphics and game themes, all our characters are original creations.