Others - Dandy Boy Adventures [Halloween 2023 Special] [DandyBoyOni]

Difficult to judge this one fairly. Here's a short summary.

The pros are:
-Pretty pixel aesthetic
-Nice soundtrack
-Not an RPGM game
-Short
-Has a handful of good plot beats

The cons are:
-Game map is far too large for the amount of content
-Basic gameplay becomes a chore after about 2 hours
-The minigames are incredibly frustrating. The easiest minigame in my experience is the picture slide puzzle which took reading a wikihow article to solve
-Classic porn game error of spreading out content over too many characters, too many dangling plot threads, and the game/story never developing where you think it will go/want it to go.

In my heart this is a 2/5, but the music, art, and generally upbeat tone throughout makes it feel unfair to give this a bad rating.

I'm going to make this short. This game would get a perfect rating if not for the minigames. The story is fun, the quests are not too bad with the tips, and the art is unique and characters hot. The reason for my score is the minigames. At best they are incredibly obnoxious and at worst, which is frequent, they are broken. The developer is well aware that most players despise them and yet creates more. you are not good at making them, give up. i would easily give this game 5 stars and support if they were entirely removed but it seems to get worse every update. Play at your own risk as there is a solid chance you will rage quit.

[0.6.5.1 Review]

Playtime: 6-8 Hours

I want to clarify, this rating is looking at this game as a H-Game.

TLDR: Animations were consistently disappointing. It's not the greatest adult game for me. It is a very beautifully crafted game in an general sense though. You will love the story and characters. Still worth the play as a very casual experience. 4-4.5/5 for me if I was looking at it simply as a non-adult game.

As a regular game, I find it pretty enjoyable and it reminds me of Miniclip era games. It has a great vibe and lots of nostalgia. As a regular game, I think it's a 4.5/5 but if you're someone looking for adult content, I don't think this is the best game.

In a game sense, this game does have some flaws in regards to how ambitious it is with minigames. Thus, I feel a lot of the time the game detracts from its adult content and character development. Then, to make up for its adult content, it cuts out a lot of character development in the later stage of each character's questlins. You have a very, very slow start to a sudden arrival or horniness that's not explained too well. Yes, there's hints of lore but compared to the build-up of characters outside of sex, it feels sudden to be fucking immediately. Yet again, the game also makes things very grindy.

I'm fine with the grind but the next issue is the lack of diversity. I also relate to the development struggle and need to reuse some poses, but the rewards for players moving through character story arcs may feel repetitive at times in terms of sex scenes. Comparatively, to the rest of the game, the animations of this game are the weakest link. The art is NOT bad. It's just the animations were very underwhelming. It feels like we get 3 frames for all our work to get to a character's sex scene and due to the models being reused, it does feel like the same shot often. I am a fan of reusing models but I do feel the creativity the rest of the game has isn't given to the animations or lustful scenes.

The game should also hard-lock the player early game for the first school day with a slightly stronger guide because the exploration opportunities are pretty great for new players. That said, this isn't really a big deal.

My last point is that, if you want to have a great lust-filled session, this game isn't for that.

The game has great writing and direction. It is probably one of the best games on the site. The only reason I give it a 3/5 is primarily due to how high the developers set the bar for their own game and my expectations for animations and small random pieces of the game (such as getting stuck in the Halloween event as a bug, or the warehouse issue where you can get perma-stuck, or the UI complexity which could be improved a lot on even though it's adaptable).

The difficulty of the game is great. The challenges are fun and I played about an hour a day for a total of 6-8 hours with all saves combined.

Suggestions for Developers:
- It's fine to reuse animations for intermediate quests during a girl's questline. However, for a unique scene, I think the girls deserve dedicated animations which also hold secondary animations within them. (For example, Amy x Sunny would've been a great scene to have a double BJ -> a new angle of doggy and you should feel free-er to escape the VN overlay format for these scenes and cover the screen with pure animation and a text box).
- Less minigames. The minigames feel like they have more depth than the girls when I went through them. It'd be better to focus on holding strong to the character development writing skills you all have than to rush to adult content midway.

Amazing game, great gameplay and great art . Im giving the game a 4/5 but this will become a 5/5 with the next update. Its a 4/5 atm because this game's saves are not compatible with new updates, however the author has on patreon stated with the next update that will no longer be the case and its planned to stay that way until the game is finished so with the next update this game is a definate 5/5

Decent game and decent graphics, the story line is solid and the mechanics aren't the worst I've seen. All in all it is s solid 4 star game.
Unfortunatley it has the most annoying mini-game I'[ve ever seen outside of an NLT game and that automatically subtracts 2 stars.

I believe Dandy Boy is a pretty good game with very interesting estetique. Pixelish graphic looks very good, H-scenes are nice. Story and gameplay are very good aswell.

Art 4/5
Story - 4/5
Gameplay 4/5
Fapability 3/5
Originality 4.5/5

This game shows a lot of promise. I really like the retro art style they're going for, really reminds me of some older lewd games from back in the day. Character design and all the environmental elements are very well done. What bothers me though is the tedious nature of the gameplay loop not to mention the sadistic action based minigames that I get no enjoyment from at all. That isn't to say these experiences won't be improved and streamlined at some point, but the way they currently are, really prevents me from giving a higher score. A very unique game though compared all the others out there. Definitely give it a try if you are so inclined.

While being my 3rd favorite eroge ever, this game manages to achieve many eroges fail to do... MAKE THE GAME AN ACTUAL CHALLENGE.

While some people might take this as a disadvantage, I enjoy being rewarded after solving hard puzzles, not just solving puzzles in a few minutes to get the reward quickly. This game becomes even harder when you realize you have to play it only with one hand...

I would give this game 5 stars, but I am an asshole, and I like complaining, and secondly, I promised myself to give 5stars only to two eroges, one of them is on this site, and another one isn't even translated yet (Slice of venture origins, Popotan).

The first complaint I have is how large some parts of the map are for no apparent reason, I know this game is still getting updates, and it might make use of some of those buildings someday. But there is no fucking way there will be a use for every single building, some people might say it is just decoration, and it is making the city feel more like a city... And you are right... I just like to nitpick little details so I don't have to give another eroge 5 stars... and this eroge might actually get 5-star rating once it is complete.

Another little nitpick is the gallery, while being nicely made it doesn't show animated scenes, but just one frame of the scene. I would love to see the animated scenes in my gallery, but as I said this game is still in development.

Great game. Amazing artwork! This is the style of game I want to see more of. This would be a good game even without the h-content. The animation is amazing. Really should be more games out there like this.

My absolute favorite adult game. I love the art and aesthetic, plus the fact that the game is an actual game with missions and an actual navigable environment. I only wish it updated more often. Almost a whole year between the most recent update and the one before it.

My review for 0.6.5
Garbage. The art style is great and plenty of the characters look great but the actual game? I would rather wax my balls than play it. The minigames are so fucking bad and frustrating that I doubt anything can be done to fix them and just need a complete rework. I'm sure if I actually forced myself through all the bullshit I might get some hot cgs but I doubt I could get hard if I did because I would be so fucking frustrated at the minigames that, that would be all I could focus on. People obviously enjoy this but I don't get it. If the minigames are actually made fun then it could be fun but I don't care about potential I care about what I have and this? This is tedious and frustrating to an extreme degree.

-This game has the greatest engine I have ever played.
-The movement & physics are just fantastic.
-Instant {screen-change} load times.
-I never experienced a single bug.
-Several of the mini games are really fun. (Paperboy)
-The music slaps pretty hard. (It's great!)
-The dialog is well-written.
-The fap scenes are gratifying.

I really enjoyed playing this game, which in my opinion, is leagues ahead of any competition.

The stealth package minigame is one of the dumbest things I've seen on this whole site. And that's saying something considering what and how much this website hosts! Why yes I do love this awful minigame in that awful perspective and view. Oh and the other characters can see you through walls/objects. Fantastic addition.

EDIT: Even worse. A picture slider minigame. Who thinks these are ever a good addition? Especially when so poorly done.

EDIT: The minigames as a whole suck. Even the warehouse slider game can be a chore. No un-dos (especially bad considering the wonky mechanics and controls)

Nice art, but very bad animations, pacing for some characters is good but most of the stories are very tedious to get through, I couldn't get involved in them, and they failed to entertain me.
navigating the overworld is tedious and the minigames can be very frustrating when you just want to get on with the story.
+1 star for those thicc women, we need more of em in games.
I'd say this game is a very rough gem, it provides barely enough enjoyment for what it puts you through

quite good. in a way refreshing and unique (if not to compare to rpgms)

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enough content [0.6] 8hours or so
art style is fine. i actually didnot expect to like it. but chars have some degree of cutiness
no walls of texts (though no complex plots either)
there are cheats (need a dx code) and minigames skips
ingame tips and external walkthroughs
mc can run and use bus (i discovered the latter after some time heh)


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fem faces and bodies are rather alike. (the difference is obvious only between studs and milfs ofc)
need to get used to button navigation. overall tolerable. but id prefer to run on mouse (no option).
would be better with some qol like instant-teleport to bedroom , time skip and end-the-day options.
slider-puzzle (u have to do once) is not skippable afaik
fossil collecting quest is kinda demanding as well (rng-heavy)
no way to cheat stats like intelligence afaik (so if you avoid sliders u need to camp history lessons and remember answers)
tips are shown only for unlocked quests (so occasionally u may wonder what to do as there is no list of locked/inactive quests)

Love everything about this game but the minigames make me lose all interest maybe I'm the worst player alive but I refuse to do those 4x4 puzzles they where created by satan himself, will change my rating if the option to skip them ever becomes available.

EDIT 2022-08-29

Since my initial review, an update has been released. It was a pretty small update, but it added a little depth to the relationship with one of my favorite characters. It also added the ability to skip mini-games.

On reflection, I do like the mini-games, I just wish there was a lower difficulty setting. Most of them are really hard to the point of not feeling fair and games that aren't fair aren't fun.

At any rate, this is a good game. And it is a GAME, not a visual novel. The artwork is fantastic and there is some decent animation.

My only complaint at this point is that the updates have been infrequent. If this game is ever completed I'm definitely going to pay for it.

EDIT 2022-08-29

This is a pretty good game. I really like the artwork. In the first few minutes I thought, wow, this is a well made game. I think I'll go support the devs on Patreon. But after an hour or so, I wasn't so sure.

There's some simple animations, but better than nothing. The story is meh, but not horrible. There's a bit too many THICCC girls for my taste. I like THIC girls, but these are too THICCC and there's a bunch of them. There's not as much guidance as I'd like. There's times where you're wandering around in circles not knowing what to do next. Seems like it's best to do the quests in order to minimize that and you have to talk to everyone.

The big problem with this game and why it's not 4 or 5 stars is the mini-games. There's a variety and some of them are okay, but a lot of them are too hard, especially the driving one. I beat it eventually, but I can't say I enjoyed myself. There really should be a difficulty setting or a skip option. I went from really enjoying myself to cursing and stressed out and ready to delete the game in a span of 5 minutes with several of these mini-games.

Another small thing that drives me insane is that the completed quests never go away and start to really clog up your quest journal to the point that you have scroll past literally dozens of them every time you want to switch between Main Quests and Side Quests. It gets really irritating after a while.

Also, apparently there's very infrequent updates. I haven't been following this game for long, but it is currently mid December and there's been no updates since July.

This game has great artworks and animations. However, it is ruined by some of the worst control and gameplay mechanics I've ever seen, and without the ability to be able skip the minigames baffles me.

Awesome game! Feels fresh for an NSFW RPG that isn't made with RPGM. I like how the mechanics are kind of similar to that of RPGM's but a lot more unique with the design of the UI, characters, and everything.

Great graphics, fun gameplay, and a charming setting make this one of my favorite adult games.

Also a shitload of hot cg's seal the deal.

10/10 - Pick this game up ASAP and support the people behind it.