VN - Others - Dating Amy: Part 1 [v1.0] [GDS]

8.5-9 / 10.
Great game.
Light-hearted, funny, and fast-paced.

Pros:
-Everything related to visuals.
-Music.
-Flow, and tempo. Fast-paced. No drugging around.
-Dialogues are not the best, but pretty good for the chosen light-hearted comedy genre.
-Sex scenes are hot. Kinks are mildly diverse.

Cons:
-UI.
A hint for possible future authors: just make it in the damn ren'py. Or at least copy the functionality.

-Choices.
Not the worst, but pretty close to the bottom, yeah. One good thing is that it's such a quick game. But it's also not the first such nonsense from the author.
I should reiterate: the problem is not the system, but the choices themselves - and their outcomes.
1st: they need to be predictable.
2nd: they need to enhance the characters. Your choices - MC's. Consequences - other characters.

Overall:
Great game for the genre - that can be improved.

Really enjoyed this one, the writing, jokes, music - all greatly improved since I last checked this developer's work. The renders are high quality, expressions and movement of the characters feel much more natural than in the previous GDS games.

One thing I would improve is the save/load system or at least make any day replayable with set stats.

This should be a comic VN with absurd dialogue that tries to remain light and funny.

Pros:

• The animations are nice
• The models look ok

Cons:

• the dialogue sometimes is just incoherent and all over the place. The text also pops every where and sometimes in a weird manner which I'm not a fan of. I personally didn't find the game that funny but to each his own taste and you may try and like it.
• The UI in the game is very unfriendly imo. I had to close the game and open it again because I wanted to reverse my choice. The game doesn't let you to open any menu after you started playing, so you stuck until the next ingame day which is very annoying and I can't find the reason for this... I assume it some limitation on the development side.

I like the theme and tags, but to play in practice, this game is horrible. No saves between, before you can choose a decision. No gallery, no replay. No hints what you missed (f.e. what was the deal with Kaore?).

Two stars for the music, which is actually decent in this.
The poor rating is for a number of things.

• I find the interface of the game to be awkward. Not allowing saves early in the game, while choices are being made, forcing me to reload the game multiple times really was really annoying. The game also crashed a lot for me with a pop-up message.
• Only three save slots is also very frustrating. I get that some people play that way, where they do a play-through in each save slot, but not everyone does that.
• The characters don't really feel like people to me, they seem like simple reasons to show scenes of sex.
• The choices we make don't effect the characters in a believable way. For example, if I choose to smack the but of Amy, her sister probably should feel some sort of emotion, or have a reaction. Especially when you understand that the MC and Amy's sis were supposed to have come to some sort of arrangement previously.
• The renders don't have enough sub-renders where we see smaller movements and emotions of the characters.

Being a member of F95Zone you will realize that there are many devs that try to make choice style games and most do a horrible job at it, the games are usually riddled with bugs or the worst somehow the dev manages to make the game so random that you need a hint chart just to know what to do next.

This game does choices the right way with 3 elements that can change the outcome, (Romance, Chad and Smart Ass),, depending on their points you get options available to you. This means you get multiple playthroughs. The renders are decent and the animations are short but fluid and detailed. The game also keeps track of your progress, meaning after unlocking a scene the game will register it with a description, anything not discovered yet is noted with question marks.

Now the cons, the biggest issue with this game is that it's not polished. There are saves but you can only save after the day is done, so if you reload you load to that specific day, the problem with that is the game has no replay system so if you want to watcha a scene again you have to go through the game to do so which becomes tedious because you have to remember what choice to make..etc.. and if you missclick, too bad because unlike Renpy there is no backwards option. And finally the game lacks depth, meaning the dialogue is only meant to lead you to a sexual situation, another thing is the characters are a bit too smallish for my taste so I just played the game to pass time rather than anything, too bad the mom is not involved in this first part.

All in all I give it a 4 because I had fun playing through it and finding the extra scenes and there's a lot of potential of improving the gameplay in the next version.

The renders and gameplay mechanics are good. The story is gross. You're playing an alpha asshole who thinks cheating on girls is funny. Girls don't have emotions in this universe, they're just pretending because all they want is sex with an alpha. You also have to befriend another asshole involuntarily and you'll have to decide who he get's to fuck. Sharing is caring, bros before hos, and all that. This makes the MC completely unlikeable and the girls unauthentic and artificial, like dolls.

I liked this game a lot. Scenes are excellent, and so are jokes (some people dont like them, but i find them funny). This is a short game, but not every one needs to be 40+ hours long. The only complain that i have, it listed completed because its clerely needs a second part.

Notes:
Wrote a larger review then forgot this site has that thing where you click off and it vanishes... so just making this shorter and messier.

Keep in mind this a part 1 of season 1 and not a season 1 something I did not know.

Maker loves making saves only at end of day for whatever reason and might add basic options in future.
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-1
Too short and unfinished with unknown if will be, not enough animation or even fitting animation too what is said (ie O yes go faster animation does not speed up), and nothing special in other ways too make you "miss out" not experiencing this.

-1
Nothing special very average with focus of -> Bad Humor > Porn > Game > > Characters > Story.
This especially true in 2nd half of this short where it expects you to have played and remembered other titles
(Really Really should least just add a "flashback" that would add very quick and easy more sex + time to this and be QoL instead of goo play my other stuff).
And as many point out and why I put it first this is filled with pointless weak humor from over the top in story - dad talks - trolling a blue haired girl on not twitter if all was cut out besides losing 50% of the content you would really not lose out of anything else other then maybe a couple bro moments (I am pretty sure creator known for doing this like saves, but don't see why again unless he plans too try and become a stand up comic or something).

+1
Works no issue even save not huge deal as there not much to this
+1
2 Tsunderes and they made well enough even if basic they got a hint of the easy charm Tsundere's bring along with the other cast being typical enough porn gals (wish amy was slightly more reserved and had more to her but she a porn girl and that how they made for whatever reason).
+1
The visuals are pretty good, there is random background music, moans, decent amount of different images and the like (not just reusing 3 stills or anything like that) and no complaints in any of these.

I can't understand the negative ratings. Dating Amy is funny. You have to balance different factors to get two girls in one play-through. I enjoyed it and found it an ideal dating game. "Forced" jokes? Really? In a porn game? For free? When these critics produce a game, I will be very impressed.

The writing is plain bad, feels forced and unnatural, the jokes try too hard and are kinda incel-ish. The dialogues are really bad, Idk if this is how really humans communicate or its just me.

The graphic is good but nothing outstanding for 3D-CG games around here, it has animated scenes but are far in between. Overall, graphics are Ok.

The story is very bad, more than half of the scenes are you cheating on your girl or the girl cheating on you, the name of the game is very misleading in this regard.

Well, this is bad, unfortunately I couldn't find a way to enjoy this thanks to the writing, the dialogues feel very strange and the interactions between the characters is very artificial, the "funny" scenes are not funny, and the English is broken.

And little else I can say I was forced to close the game early thanks to this, not a pleasant experience tbh.

Another masterpiece from GDS, this time with almost-proper-english (tm).
Alot of sex, even some gaping, top notch artwork and very funny.

Multiple endings, easy to play trough them all, easy to get track of them, logical progression, non-grinding, fap friendly game play.

loved playing it.