VN Ren'Py Abandoned ValiDate: Struggling Singles in Your Area [v1.1] [ValiDate Game]

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Forten

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Jul 23, 2017
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I can put aside the art style,pronouns,LGBT,etc, but once I seen there twitter and kind of people they were and being all anti-white, it really a turn off. So much for so called diversity and quality.
 
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Bogojisem

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Oct 24, 2019
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Guess we're stuck with yaoi forever if this is the future of western gay games. At least the characters in those games are mostly cute and the developers usually aren't anti-white racists.
 

Tau_Iota

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Aug 22, 2018
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That's a fair point. I'm looking at it as "we don't allow kink-shaming" and being retarded is this game's central kink.

The posts I deleted were people arguing about political issues ("I'm from XX country, and that's not how it is" - stuff like that) and one guy calling the entire moderation team racists. All of this is off-topic.

If it were up to me, I'd remove this game, as well as several others from the forum. There's many games here I find undesirable on a spectrum from distasteful to flat out abhorrent. But they're not against the forum rules, and neither is this one.
This may be off-topic, but I just gotta say.
GOD TIER MOD. Giving your opinion, but maintaining the rules honestly best comment in entire thread
 

vlad420

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Nov 29, 2018
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Guess we're stuck with yaoi forever if this is the future of western gay games. At least the characters in those games are mostly cute and the developers usually aren't anti-white racists.
I don't mind gay blacks or trans gay men but a fat non-binary person who's sole purpose is to fill up inclusivity checks really doesn't do it...
There's so little goood gay content why do we have to endure the full ray of sjw bullshit when we just wanna jack off to gay stuff god dammit
 
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Higurashika

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Nov 15, 2018
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What a boring game. I can't stand pointless talking about food, or characters past when I don't know character, so I don't care about past.
 

whippetmaster

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Oct 4, 2018
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Sooo.. I played all the routes. Here's what I found:
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
You pick 4 protags.. a gay man, a straight woman, a genderqueer male, and a lesbian female. Only the lesbian has a choice of dates. There is NO imagery of sexual activity or even nudity. There is none of that. Only the dialogues and situations are of a sexual/adult nature because sex is briefly referred to in a couple routes. But stereotypes and tropes are everywhere here.. including the art and dialogues. It's intentional IMO to portray inner city art and culture. The dialogue is not blatantly racist but it does mirror real inner-city dialogue which may take getting used to for many of you. It's more about the frustration with the living situations and the complexity of it all as a young black adult coming out and that's part of the "stereotypes and tropes" I've referred to. Again, those not in the know or who haven't seen it like I have might not get that drift...
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All in all, I can see what you mean by racism and honestly, I think one of the dev team's comments hurt the game more than it should have. Yeah the art's odd, but that's inner city art. Even beggar of net uses it in "My New Life" and he's even got similar situations in there but without the viewpoint of being an young black adult who grew up in the city. That's why the dialogue is the way it is since it's a fact of life there. So it's ripping off the band-aid and showing you the ugly cut and it's repulsive.
In short, it's not the best game but it's also not the worst.
Personally I'd rate this as a 5 or 6 out of ten and if the dev team reads this comment, please consider doing more of a prologue to explain all this so it's not "wtf?" reactions or at least figure something out because not everyone playing this is an inner city black person. I'm not black but I'm a poor white dude who's lived in the ghettos of a couple cities. So I get a point.. a little bit. And I think you've got a point, devs. But again, it's a little different and raw compared to most porn games ppl are used to playing. Edited to add.. you could honestly do without the preaching in some parts of the dialogue but again, that does happen IRL. So it's tough to find a balancing act here. You either hit it or you don't.
 

babilon29

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Sep 5, 2017
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I have a gnawing suspicion that if I choose to date a girl with she/her pronouns I'll discover a dick in her pants.
u can bet your ass.....Oh wait But then people (maybe even whites) will love the game, which is probably not the goal of the game. Imagine the horror:ROFLMAO:
 

Suiko

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Jun 7, 2017
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twelve adults in their twenties attempt to overcome the harsh realities of capitalism and the daily work that wears them down
Not to sound like an old-geezer, but when my generation was in their twenties our biggest problem to overcome was trying to masturbate without out parents barging into the room...
 

Loqic

Royal Jelly
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Oct 26, 2017
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Not to sound like an old-geezer, but when my generation was in their twenties our biggest problem to overcome was trying to masturbate without out parents barging into the room...
Problems are there to be solved and doorknobs to be removed. That's how I kept my sanity during my teenage years.
 

louvrance1984

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Jan 8, 2018
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Pirates and pirates(?) of the z95 forum, please join me in a 1 minute of silence in respect for the moderators who have to do their job on this topic.......







Ok 1 minute is over, back to my pop corn and yes, the best desinfectant for bad ideas is sunlight....let them reveal their true self in broad daylight;I'm still not 100 in alchemy and in dire need for vampire dust(a cookie for those who got the joke).
 

KekKoo

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Apr 4, 2018
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Just found out about this due to the gay tag. All I have to say is, the depicted diversities (and more) in this game? I say this as unironically as possible, they do not claim this. That's all I have to say. Carry on. (I swear this game gives hardcore second-hand embarrassment :FacePalm:)
 
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ChiralKyle

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Jan 22, 2019
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Developer Notes said:
A beautiful array of artists of color's work to give each character their own individual feeling.
This is honestly one of the worst things about this game, not a selling point. The 6+ different art styles being forced together is immediately obvious, extremely jarring, and awful. It's like squirting chocolate syrup into orange juice to make it more sweet. It doesn't help that the BGs, writing, and most of the art styles look like shit. Did people actually get paid to make this?
 
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Vitklim

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Feb 22, 2018
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"On god fuck white people".

Can someone explain to me what that means? I'm trying to wrap my head around it. Does he/she want to fuck white people... on top of god? Or is that a typo, and it's actually supposed to say "Oh God, fuck white people". As in, she's a racist who really hates whites. Either way, I'm pretty concerned.
It's the latter of course, because your interpretation is actually funnier.
 
Oct 6, 2019
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Very good troll game, unfortunately controversy only goes so far. Next week no one will know about this garbage.
If this is a troll, then it is a rare example of trolling done correctly. Every nitwit who cares is pissed off. Idiots flush their money down the Patreon toilet. The controvery gets spread everywhere dirty games go. Mods have no excuse for deleting it, so it stays up forever. The devs themselves fan the flames whenever possible. All it needs now is furries, and it will be a proper lolocaust.
 
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