Dangerous Relationship

About halfway through Ryouhei's route, I was fairly optimistic that Dogenzaka had finally gotten it right. So what if Dangerous Relationship was cheesy with an outrageously silly premise? At least the writing was enjoyably fluid with a great translation by someone who's first language is clearly English. Toss in plenty of humor to keep things from getting bogged down in melodrama, and characters who didn't feel like cardboard cutouts of every other otome character, and I really thought I'd found the first solid VN in Dogen's catalog. And then things get bad, then downright atrocious before an oasis of amazing breaks out in the middle, then it slides right back to bad and ends on a disappointingly mediocre note. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=762211171 I've become something of a fan of the "celeb fantasy" otome sub-genre, and quite enjoy the escapism of vicariously dating rich and powerful men through these stories. There's truth to the idea that power is attractive, and that certainly holds true in these fantasies. What I find most intriguing is how someone who has power and money can lose themselves when falling for someone of lower status. Love changes people, even egotistical jerks, and witnessing that change can be quite fulfilling. So, even if the plot is silly, characters derivative, and writing loaded with smut, if a character progresses from selfish prick to someone I care about, I can walk away feeling satisfied. And so I dove into Dangerous Relationship with the hope of getting a little of that character progression I so enjoy....and I got it. I also got the most infuriating, rage-inducing, disgusting character I've ever come across in a visual novel, and a few horn dogs who had nothing else going for them other than being horn dogs. But it gave me Taiga. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=801606934 For a company that rarely gives us anything deeper than "tough guy is really a sweetheart underneath it all, " Taiga is an anomaly. He's the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who never stops being an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ even though he falls head over heels for the girl. He's the guy who's changed by love, but doesn't lose the essence of who he is in that change, and that's something I've been waiting forever to see in an otome game. What I find most incredible about the character is that he starts off in stereotypical fashion by forcing himself on the MC against her will (a running theme in this VN), but moves beyond that offense as his character develops. Ultimately, Taiga is an insecure little boy who yearns for love and acceptance after past rejections have emotionally destroyed him. He's this incredibly attractive fashion model who is constantly surrounded by beautiful people, and yet he only has eyes for the MC; not because she's perfect, not because the story demands it, but because she's seen the real Taiga and loves him for it. It's a beautiful relationship that isn't based on appearances but on who these two people are on the inside. That this caliber of storytelling comes from a Dogenzaka title astounds me. For as much as I love Taiga's character, I equally abhor Kei's. I can't even wrap my head around how anyone would find his personality appealing. He's selfish, egotistical, sadistic and a complete sociopath. His entire route revolves around him using the MC as a sex toy, which I admit may be appealing to a small number of readers who are into that particular kink; but even so, his personality is repellent even if you find yourself fantasizing about being abused in such a way. I'm not lying when I tell you that there's a scene where he [spoiler] damn near rapes her, and not in the "she's thinking she likes it, so it's really not rape" kind of way. The guy ties her up and sexually assaults her while she's scared and crying. That ♥♥♥♥ is NOT OK, no matter which side of the hemisphere you reside.[/spoiler] http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=779278593 /rage The other guys are marginally better, although their routes eventually degrade into sex scene after sex scene, even nice guy Mr. Comedian, which was incredibly disappointing for me. Too bad most of these characters' potential is wasted on non-stop screw fests (if only Ryouhei would've stayed chaste and innocent, he may have given Taiga a run for his money). Make no mistake, Dangerous Relationship is as raunchy and risqué as any of the VN-maker's other titles, probably more so considering the amount of sex that happens in just about every route. Fortunately, they mix things up a bit so that every sexual encounter doesn't feel like the same damn thing over and over again. In the end, the VN really does feel like a vehicle for smut, so if that's what you're in it for, you'll probably be pretty happy. At least the writing is creatively entertaining with descriptions that'll have you chuckling at times. Ultimately, despite containing one of the most despicable characters I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing in any medium, I cannot bring myself to give Dangerous Relationship a thumbs down - you have Taiga to thank for that. This truly is a situation in which a "mixed" rating would have served me well, but sadly, Valve doesn't seem to think it's needed. [b][u]So yes, I recommend Dangerous Relationship with the caveat that it's essentially mediocre erotica with a surprisingly touching love story hidden amid the garbage.[/u][/b] Take from that what you will. 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Like most of Dogenzaka titles, this visual novel is terribly written and has the most godawful characters [spoiler](I actually dare to say that the only character I liked a bit was Taiga. Even Akira, the supposed “gentleman”, was very bland to me)[/spoiler]. The art is okay, but it gets rather annoying to see only CGs of the guys kissing the faceless MC. The BGM… Good god, it’s so bad! It’s only 1 or 2 songs looping forever and ever and making you want to rip off your ears. I had to mute the game in order to keep playing it. The story is simple: the MC gets a job in the show business and she gets to know one of the guys better. That’s it. In my opinion the problem with this game isn’t how simple the plot is, it’s how fast things happen; It takes only 1 or 2 chapters for the characters to fall in love and to act jealous around each other. There’s no depth here, just the “ah I just met you and therefore I love you more than anything (and I might treat you like garbage because that’s the way I express my affection)” thing. Well, if you’re really desperate to play a girl x boy VN and you don’t mind all that, this game might be for you. But get it only on a sale, seriously. It’s not worth paying the full price. I enjoyed Taiga’s route a bit and I [b]hated[/b] Kei’s route. [spoiler]That man is a f*cking psycho. And the MC is very annoying in his route… She literally faints during their sex scene because apparently it was “very intense”. YEAH RIGHT[/spoiler] 3/10. Boring story, shallow characters, terrible music… You can get better otome games than this one.

This is just my opinion but I absoloutly HATE this game. I'll list the pros and cons so you get a better idea why. Pros: The art style is good but it's quite bland and forgetable compared to other visual novel/ dating sims that are on steam. The characters have clear personalities and they're all somewhat likeable. The storys take about 5-9 hours per route and you WILL need a guide. The CGs are decently well done but they are not professinal quality which you can get over. Cons: The story and pacing is TERRIBLE! The musicis also annoying and very repetative. You will need some advil on hand for all the headaches you will get due to the music alone. I think the best route to use to truely capture the essence of this game is Kei so I'll use Kei's route as an example. (Kei was my least favorite route by far) SPOLIERS FOR KEI'S ROUTE! Kei is the "a****** playboy" charater type in this game. It starts out somewhat normal with your character and Kei arguing (like in the prolouge) about clothes and such. He tells your character that he will wear the clothes if you BANG HIM!?! In his route, whenever theres a disagreement or anything major happens or a problem comes up, you end up just banging Kei. What the hell? [spoiler]Near the end of his route, his brother confesses his love and says he can treat you better (HIS BROTHER NEEDS A ROUTE!)[/spoiler] and what does Kei and your character do about it? They bang. Screw solving the problem at hand, lets just bang and everything will solve itself. Theres a lot of lazy writing in this and just useless things like this. What could have been a good route turned into a bang-fest. To be fair, not all the routes are like this. But in all the routes around the mid-way point or near the end, you'll start doing it like rabbits. (If you don't know then "doing it like rabbits" means a lot.) Some of the routes had promice but I was quickly dissapointed with the lazy writing and little to no real character development. The only development that will ever take place is one of the characters falling for you. Thats it. And even in the best end, the endings can still be dissapointing with how little some of them seem to care about you. A lot of the routes have this problem. Insted of finding a good way to solve a problem, you do something completely diffrent and lazily solve it as quickly as possible to get back to the main romance. If they actually took the time to figure out these problems and maybe have a bit of conflict, it wouldn't be so bad of a game.[spoiler] (Or you could just remove Kei and replace his route with his brothers)[/spoiler] If you are ok with dating sims that are lazy but somewhat funny at times then this is right up your alley but if you enjoy decent games, I wouldn't get this. (Unless its on sale for 2$ like how I got it) Its also a fun game to play with friends and do voices for the characters due to the bad writing (during the sex scenes I don't reccomend voicing it though. It could get very awkward) I also sort of understand why this has such mixed reviews. Some routes are more enjoyable then others with Kei's being the worst once again but if you can look past those flaws you MIGHT like it. If you are into otome visual novel games I highly reccomend Amnesia Memories or OZMAFIA!! They are much better done game with more interesting stories and characters. If you do however like the company that made Dangerous Relationship, then try the Men of Yoshiwara games. The characters and music go together really nicely and the stories arn't too bad. I also reccomend Nameless the one thing you must recal with 5 routes but once again, they are really well done. Edit: I went back to this game (to do a better reivew) and I forgot one thing about Kei's route. He always mentions in it that you are his "plaything" and nothing more. This never changes by the way. Even in the best end, you are still just a toy to him and he will never think of you any diffrently. Honestly, going back to this game just reasured me of my hatred of this game. Even after not playing it for months, the music stays with me. Thats how annoying the music got. I really can't reccomend this game to anyone! I am usaully am very good at reccomending otome games for diffeent people bassed on their taste but I really just can't ever even concider sudgesting this to anyone. This game is the Boko no Pico of otome gamess and I'm surprised more people haven't found this and critasized it. Also for those who have read this far down on my essay of a rant, thank you :D This took me way too much time and I really took it seriously. Otome games are kinda my life (I have no life) so it just made sense that I'd rant about at least something. But even with all my ranting and nit-picking, there are still worse games on the market or on steam for that matter. There are only maybe 3-5 really good otome games on all of steam which is just dissapointing. Dear Steam, give us more female oriented otome games plz! XD So to sum up everything I've said thus far, Don't get it, its lazy, annoying and just really not well done. If you do get it, Just skip Kei's route for god sakes XD And I can not STRESS HOW ANNOYING THE MUSIC IS!! UGH!

i will recommend this if it's on sale. i am big into otome with some smut and this goes all out on smut and i'm a fan. however, i recommend this with a TW, since there are some situations in which the MC is coerced or forced into sexual situations and that's no bueno. if that's your kink, then it's definitely for you. if that's something that is triggering, i'd heavily advise against this game.

A decent otome Background and CG are beautiful. I would of like more CG Though Each route takes about 3 hours to complete. I played Kei First ( What an A..Hole) But the other guys are actually really sweet they'll sooth your soul.

编剧跟这些男人给我坐牢去 ！！！！！！！！！

There are many things wrong with this company's stories, but this one has you romancing your rapist. No, seriously. During Chapter Two of Kei's route, he rapes your character. And you're supposed to romance him after he rapes her. They try to frame it as her choice, but he threatens her job, her income, her reputation, forces himself on her several times, then rapes her. He isn't a "bad boy," he's a rapist, an abuser. His brother makes it clear he's done this before to women unfortunate enough to have to work for him, so he's a serial rapist and abuser. Just... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ no. The others are... fine from memory, but Kei? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ no.

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总共5条线，一条线大概2-3h，除了昴以外我都只打出一般结局，但也不打算重打了。整体风格有些像早年的湾湾偶像剧，人物行动都很夸张，剧情比较白痴。可能因为篇幅太短的关系，感情进展非常火速，都是一见钟情型的，而且很多肉（没有黄图，只有文案）。缺点是明显的小成本制作，立绘衣服都很土，CG只有大头，BGM也很单调。因为肉多的关系，我是觉得这游戏非常棒欸，因为我好喜欢肉=w=……但我也很理解差评的姑娘们的心情啦，这游戏放到它出品的年代（2015年）都显得有些古早味，现在来看实在太老套了。 首先女主人设就很老派……逆来顺受的烂好人。然后剧情路数也是典型的男强女弱型。并且剧情中描写的明星，和当下内娱偶像完全不是一回事，如果以追星族的眼光来看这些男主，应该会被气个半死吧【苦笑】。好在这游戏的精华全在于肉（不是），也没什么可剧透的，简单评价一下我眼中的5位男主： 【凌平】：这孩子的线是最甜的，虐点几乎没有。明明是超人气偶像却是初恋，非常正统的阳光帅哥。啊因为太正统了所以也是最无趣的（对不起、凌平 【京】：这条线是调教系的！而且女主是被调教的，不吃这个类型的可以不打，哈哈。人物介绍里有点不对，京其实是处于职业生涯末期的过气演员，因为濒临雪藏所以整个人放飞自我、胡作非为。结果女主刚好是个抖M……两个人相得益彰（扶额 【大河】：这条线的情况跟京线有一丁点类似。大河虽然是非常受欢迎的模特，但是因为从小缺乏母爱，一方面迎合观众扮演阳光帅哥人设，一方面肆无忌惮的嘴臭、渴望有人透过现象看本质认可“真正的自己”，结果把自己弄成了别扭的双面人。这条线的女主也挺M的……没错，女主就是那个“虽然你对我很凶可我知道你是个温柔的人”的圣母（摊手 【昴】：呵呵渣男。但我最喜欢这条线了，因为好虐哦。这条线女主一直在纠结男主到底是不是真的喜欢自己，好痛苦好忧伤，我在屏幕前看得好欢乐~（对不起。另外明明设定是摇滚歌手，完全没看出来这孩子哪里摇滚了啊？ 【彰】：彰的笑容真的十分开朗，但是立绘衣服超·级·土。我受不了男人穿POLO衫。彰本人的人设可能是5位男主中最正常的一位，但是彰的线是最肉的，差不多见面就要做，化妆间休息室各种地方做，十分过瘾（不是 总之推荐给喜欢肉的美少女。不要被差评率吓到哈哈哈。如果是追星粉丝真的别代入自己偶像，这个游戏里的男明星全都超不敬业的，不要拿内娱去套哈哈哈

I'm really perplexed why this game has mixed reviews, especially in a genre like this by a publisher who has released games that about 10x less worth the cost. That's not to say this isn't a great game, it is. This actually makes my top 3 for character-driven otome games. Character personalities: 5/5 Unique, engaging, creative, and very different from what you often see in otome. These characters are fleshed out and unique. They have fascinating backstories that create who they are today as people and it goes so far beyond the expectation of archetypes in an otome. Very attractive designs too with good variance between the characters. Art: 4/5 The art surprised me in how subtle it is. There are the most subtle sprite changes that REALLY convey the mood if you are paying close attention to them and how they shift. It isn't just the same 4 images recycled, it's subtle changes to those base images in the eyes, the plush, the eyebrows, the mouth..all that really tell a story through the character. The backgrounds are generic but they at least look the same. Many otome change so drastically in art style for the backgrounds you can really see how obviously stock they are. Here it feels more uniform. It's a shame none of the sprites seem to have shirtless shots though, there IS erotica and it's odd to read when the character is still bundled up in 3 layers of clothing. Music: 3/5 It's not the worst I've heard, but it is generic and overused. Props for having some unique songs to certain storylines but all in all it's passable. Does a great job of setting the mood though. Story: 4/5 This is a modern, slice of life, short otome. You can only do so much with that but even with that limited content Dangerous Relationship succeeds far beyond games twice its price. This is more of a character driven plot, but they work so well together that I don't mind that the plot isn't EXTREMELY fleshed out. The character motivations and unwrapping of the layers makes the plot stand out far more than most otome games do. And I might also add, it doesn't feel forced or generic. Even series I love like The Men of Yoshiwara are so heavy handed and predictable that it gets tiring. Dangerous Relationship does not fall into that trap and I find that extremely refreshing. Side Stories/Extra content: 4/5 Same as story, it's more just character development and experiencing the characters more. The extra stories aren't terribly engaging as their own independent stories but they do offer more character exploration and I wouldn't have regretted buying any of them. I bought this on Steam so everything was bundled together, but had I bought this on mobile I likely still would have paid for the extra content and not regretted the purchase. Erotica: 3.5/5 I'm being generous here. Most otome's erotic is so much more limited than this, I'm giving it a 3.5/5 rating COMPARED to other otome. It's got the same limitations you expect from an otome where everything is vague. But, depending on your storyline you get a lot more of it than you usually would from an otome. It's still fun and engaging even if a little limited for someone who likes a bit more. A 4/5 rating may be a little more fair here but I play enough male-market dating sims to have a higher standard of sexual content than most otome can give. So I'm biased. Favorite storyline: Taiga Hands down. He actually has made my #2 spot of otome DS characters period. (#1 belongs to Rory from Voltage's Gangsters in Love). This was a spot held by Mamoru from Dandy Shot/Pub Encounter for a long time but Taiga has enough interesting layers to his personality and such a unique personality that have to give credit where its due. He may seem a little tsundere at first but I promise you he isn't in the slightest, his rashness just comes off like that before you settle into it. He's open, honest, and uniquely himself. Unlike the usual bad boy or playboy archetype in otome, he doesn't change when he falls in love with you. He will remain himself to the end and that's something beautiful lacking in very single other otome I've played with this character archetype. He has such a fleshed out and interesting personality that I find myself playing his whole path again and again just because his character is so much fun. Overall Value: 5/5. This game is cheap enough you shouldn't be passing it up. Even with its faults. Best Audience: This game is great for seasoned or new players to the DS genre. I think it sets a high standard that can lead to disappointment in other games if you're new, but it's still such a well rounded game I have no problem recommending this to everyone.