Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator

The Purrfect Date is indeed, the perfect game for any and all cat-lovers out there. You get to choose who to romance with, and with different cat breeds too. Date one, or all of them - there's many different endings to choose from based on you choices. The art and text are simple, and 2D in depth, but neatly drawn and the font is clear and readable. The characters themselves looks doodled, and in rough shape, but the backgrounds and environments can be very scenic and detailed. The beach at night and cat temple BGs for example. Besides the interactive content, there's also a few mini games you play too, depending on who you interact with. Music and audio is fitting, and there are options to adjust the visuals and sounds if need be. As an Indie game, the Purrfect Date does the job at being a simple, straightforward dating sim without being too over-complicated. And I like simple games, so I'd recommend trying it.

Do you like cats? Great! What about visual novels? Check! Animal torture? Got that too. This game should have warnings similar to Doki Doki Literature club. It presents itself as a goofy dating sim. It hints at "dark British humor" and a mystery. I'm not finding the humor, it's just dark with [spoiler] realistic descriptions of animal testing. [/spoiler]. So why does my account show 8 hours? I took lots of breaks with it running, and I had to play through it twice to get an epilogue that actually explained what the hell is going on. Why twice? Because I misclicked one time on the first playthrough when I was supposed to "rest". The consequence for doing that is that you [spoiler] get killed immediately [/spoiler]. Sitting through the game twice wasn't worth it, especially because there's no skip dialogue button, and the "perfect ending" epilogue is basically a 45 minute slide show. So here's the big mystery so you don't have to play or finish the game : [spoiler] A makeup company is running an illicit lab on a magical island because reasons. They use cats for animal testing. Plot forces you to participate in and witness things like kitten murder and vivisection. At the end, no one goes to jail, everyone just shrugs off the atrocities, and all live happily ever after, to varying degrees based on your dating choices. [/spoiler]

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I have more hours on this game than the deserves and I still don't have the last achievement, which is seeing absolutely everything. This would be okay if there was a skip function, but I have instead had to spam the space bar while multitasking to get to the options and hope that I find the missing couple of pages. My first playthrough or two was fine, but its so annoying that the last achievement takes so much time to get. If you don't care about 100%, its an okay game, the story isn't great by any means, no dialogue tree, just some scattered choices that (mostly) don't have much impact overall. The recon and research is all scattered so it doesn't feel like a linear story, the art is okay but I would have preferred if the full detailed pictures of the characters had the expressions instead of the smaller avatar images off to the side; its just not as visually interesting. The cats aren't all that interesting either, they have fairly stereotypical personalities and there's not enough story to flesh them out (plus collectively they are actively harming the player characters by infecting them with a cat curse, great starting point for a love connection) So over all, it gets boring and repetitive very quickly and the lack of skip function makes replaying to get achievements frustrating. The game isn't really worth the time.

Boring visual novel, the only quirk is that instead of anime girls you have anime cats.

I mean, I guess it's fine if you want to play a game where you date cats, but I didn't find the characters or the overall story particularly compelling. Maybe I'm just spoiled by Hatoful Boyfriend.

Cats? CATS! I could leave my review there and be done with it, and honestly it would be enough to recommend this game, but I feel like I need to explain myself somewhat, since this game is a tad bit weird in it's ... theme. When you first see the game you must be thinking to yourself, "Dating cats?! What the heck is this trash!", but I must say that the game really sells you the story so well that it will eventually make sense why you are dating cats. Obviously the game is all fun and, well, games, and doesn't really seriously recommend anyone to try bestiality. The game itself is a big cat pun and has a lot of fun dialogue and interesting art. Purrfect Date blends mystery, intrigue and wickedly black humor, to create the ultimate crossbreed between visual novel and dating simulator! It's a cat dating sim that is painfully self-aware of it's existence, and delivers sarcastic humor that makes it hilarious and totally endearing. You will play the role of 6 research assistants who have been shipped off to a secret remote location called "Cat Island". As dark secrets and events unfold, you will suddenly find yourself able to communicate with the island's feline inhabitants. And being the feline lover that you are with such well-spoken cats, the next logical choice aside your continued study of the island, is a little kitty romance. The game is definitely worth it for the price that it sells at, but 100% the game was a pain. There is no skip dialogue buttons or anything similar that would make your journey to 100% completion easier after your first playthrough. I figured a good way to use an autoclicker to click through the dialogue faster, but it was still a slog to go through when you had to read the same dialogue a few times. Nevertheless, it's a game that I really enjoyed and I do think it's a worth it experience for any cat lovers and visual novel enjoyers alike!

So I thought it is some weird furry game, but no, it is not furry, oh thank god...but it is weird, it is very weird, but fun weird.

[h1] Крайне неоптимизированная игра на Unity и без русского перевода [/h1] Мало того, что при старте показывает настройки Unity, так ещё в самой игре максимум 50 кадров. Хотя чему там тормозить непонятно - вся игра двумерная рисованная. Притом рисованная довольно криво, как будто у автора игры линейки не было. Персонажи тоже нарисованы довольно топорно. Так что даже при взгляде на визуальную составляющую уже и дальше играть не хотелось.

The inability to skip, select specific segments, or even player saves (there's an auto-save but that's different) force replays and tedium. And supposedly require seeing every bit of text for completionist stuff. Just give this a pass and read a book or watch a movie. Not sure what the point of naming the Player characters is.