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Raptor Boyfriend A High School Romance Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Do you ever wish to go back in time and relive your senior year of high school? Personally, I had an uneventful high school life, but Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance makes me nostalgic for a simpler time. In this dating sim visual novel, you play as Stella, a teenager about to embark on her last year of high school in a remote town. The year is 1997 and Stella and her dad have just moved to the quiet town of Ladle, Ontario after the passing of her grandma. She makes a goal to make her senior year the best year of high school. Determined to find new friends and a love interest, she meets three cryptids in Ladle High. Robert Raptorson, the skateboarding velociraptor, is the uber cool jock and school prankster. Taylor Tall-Toe, the brooding bigfoot, is a reclusive musician and Stella’s childhood camp friend. Day Lilly, a magical fairy, is a talented artist and honour student. I found Stella to be a likeable, relatable character. She suffers from social anxiety due to trouble making friends from the city she moved from. I think we all suffered from some form of social anxiety during our school days as it was a turbulent time. Stella’s plans never work out, but they always lead to hilarious and sometimes awkward moments with her crushes. Taylor the bigfoot was the first character I romanced. I was drawn to his brooding, yet warm, personality as it reminded me of myself when I was a teenager.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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He and Stella used to write to each other, and they both attended the same summer camp in Ladle. But he has become a troubled teen, and it was a bit of a mystery uncovering his secrets. It was rewarding to watch his character grow and open up as he got closer to Stella. In my second playthrough of the game, I romanced Robert. The raptor has a dark past of his own, despite being so positive and hyped up all the time. His relationship with Jessica, a side character, plays a large role in the story. Robert is definitely a fun, outgoing character that reminds me of the jocks from my high school. I haven’t romanced Day yet, but I’m excited to see how her relationship with Stella will progress. The artistic fae is a brain who seems to have some trouble with her creepy ghost ex-girlfriend, Ingrid. I’m interested to see how the dynamics between Day, Stella, and Ingrid will play out through Day’s storyline. The art in Raptor Boyfriend is amazing; it is hand drawn in a comic style and is quite unique. The animations also flow seamlessly and there are no loading screens. In addition, having a 90’s style acoustic soundtrack adds to the mood and ambience of the game. If I could go back in time and relive my senior year like the way Stella did, I certainly would! Without a doubt, Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance is one of the best visual novels I have played in a while. I practically played each storyline non-stop until the ending and wished for more.

Phone calls.

There is great diversity and queer representation. Even though the love interests are cryptids, their human personalities and backstories make this game an emotional rollercoaster. I hope to play more of Rocket Adrift’s games and will definitely support the Canadian indie company’s future endeavors. The next time I’m asked what I do with my free time, I’m going to load up the Xbox Store, and say this, this is what I do: I review games like Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance. I’ll look them dead in the eyes. And that’s when it will happen. Two other raptors will come from the side and gut them. Clever girl. Sorry, that image got away from us. But still, the point stands: this isn’t a game we’d proudly show to display our interests – it’s a visual novel where we get to woo not only a velociraptor, but a rad velociraptor from the ‘90s. His name is Brandon, and he likes to skateboard and prank people, like Denver the Last Dinosaur (deep cut, ‘90s kids). Not only that, but we can choose someone else as our partner, if we want. We can choose to flirt with a bigfoot, ghost or fairy instead. It’s a lot to process. It’s only going to go one of two ways, right? It’s either going to be twee and quirky, or aimed squarely at fetishists who, well, like making eyes at dinosaurs. But, the thing is – and we’ve been doing a lot of this recently – we have judged this book by its cover. We failed to spot a third path. Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance approaches its high-school storytelling earnestly and innocently, as a rite-of-passage visual novel. Think Life is Strange, chopped up into a visual novel format and with the odd dinosaur, and you’re there.Aquadine Switch NSP

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It is neither twee nor weirdly sexualised. Instead, this is the story of Stella, a girl (human, no scales) who has recently moved into the town where she used to go to holiday camp when she was younger. That detail’s important, as she has an old friend here: a camp friend who she stopped writing letters to, and is forced to confront. This is the bigfoot, Taylor, and he has been carrying a crush for Stella, which just adds to the awkwardness. But before you get to meet Taylor, you get pranked by the local jock and terrible lizard, Brandon, and cross paths with a bookish but antisocial fairy called Day.These four individuals form your love-quadrilateral, a group of soon-to-be-friends with an ample amount of sexual tension. You are the catalyst for them all coming together, and soon you are collaborating on coursework, traveling to ‘The Lake’ for drunken trysts, and getting high at house parties. This is very much a traditional American high-school upbringing, but with added ‘cryptids’. ‘Cryptids’ is the neat catch-all term that Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance gives its ‘unusual folk’. Ladle, the town where this all takes place, is a beacon for the outcasts of society, and that includes antlered people, ghosts, bigfeet and all sorts of others. It’s a reasonably well-handled metaphor for ‘otherness’, as Ladle is a place where an individuals uniqueness and queerness is hand-waved. If you are looking for stories where being different is celebrated.

Chill moments.

Then Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance is going to hit hard. The novel takes place over seven chapters (Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance tried to convince us that these span seven ‘weeks’, but the timeline doesn’t feel right). Stella meets with the crew, builds camaraderie with them all, and ends the day back home, at a kind of hub where she can choose to make some small, defining choices. She can think about a particular person while sitting in a bay window (which helps the game to understand who you’re fancying right now), and then phone someone to trigger a conversation or a branching bit of gameplay. The scenario in each chapter is surprisingly cyclical: an idea is pitched, normally by the affable, extroverted Brandon, and the rest of the introverted group grumble about whether they can face doing it. Lake-side jaunts, group projects and house parties are all considered, reconsidered and then eventually agreed on. But during the event, someone, often Stella, will perform a socially awkward feat and the outing will collapse in on itself – the group returning to their individual homes. It’s our biggest gripe with Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance. The chapters feel too much like templates. You can fit the above formula to most, if not all, of the different chapters. We’d have loved for it to shake off the shackles, be ambitious and go for something more freeform. There’s one section when Stella and Day split off individually and make drunk prank calls, and it’s a huge amount of fun.Rise of Nations Extended Edition

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We can’t help thinking that it worked so well because Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance had stepped off its own railtracks and tried something different. Our second biggest gripe is that it’s all a tad maudlin. Everyone is dealing with their own crap, which is completely understandable and acceptable. But absolutely everyone is dealing with their crap, all the time, and very visibly. Wounds are on display, and people keep poking at the wounds on other people. Often, Stella can return home after a terrible night with the gang, and we wondered if these cryptids were actually healthy for each other. We’re still not completely sure. What we are sure of, however, is that more levity would have been a strong medicine. The game didn’t have to be so introspective and downbeat, certainly when it has humour in its locker. Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance can be a very funny game, when it lets itself be. Let’s go further than that: Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance is an extremely well-written game all round, but it can drag and repeat, and with a better editor or an understanding of its issues, Rocket Adrift could be standing atop the virtual novel pile. Its peaks are that peaky. Even with the flaws, we reached the end of Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance with a deep affection for its shabby, lazy, endearing little characters.

A Vengeful Ghost.

They are all easy to love, once you get to know them, and we felt Stella’s pain at the prospect of not seeing Brandon, Taylor or Day again. In a dating sim or coming-of-age story like this, you want every character to have something to hook onto, and Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance’s hooks are so sharp they could be raptor claws. Don’t be put off by the gimmicky and quirky naming: Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance is a heartfelt visual novel, beautifully executed and with a soundtrack that could have tumbled out of Chloe Price’s record collection. If you’re drawn into high-school coming-of-age stories, then this will be your latest pageturner. Just don’t focus too deeply on how the story repeats itself. I’m obsessed with the paranormal. The older I get, the more interested I am in it. It started as a mortality thing, but has expanded past that into sheer curiousity. I’ll read what I can, watch what I can, listen to what I can. I’m very open to what others (possibly even the majority) would say is impossible. So if someone were to toss, say, a game about dating cryptids my way – you can imagine how I’d react. I believe my exact response was something along the lines of “OMG YES PLEASE!” And that’s how I ended up playing Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance, a visual novel about dating dinosaurs/cryptids that was recently ported to consoles by eastasiasoft. I’m not going to lie, though, I already had my eye on following the announcement of its imminent console launch.

Stella has just moved from a city to the small town of Ladle, in Northern Ontario. It’s a place where supernatural beings live side by side with humans. On Stella’s first day at her new school, she meets three potential suitors: Robert the raptor, Day the fae, and Taylor the sasquatch. Taylor’s name is a bit less poetic than the other two; they should’ve gone with another alliterative name such as Benny the bigfoot or something. Each suitor has a distinct personality. Robert is a popular skater boy, Day is more of a cerebral loner, and Taylor just gets more and more mysterious as time passes. The characters are each relatable in one way or another. Even the supernatural ones. The entire narrative is comprised of Stella’s memories as she tells her stories to her doctor, AKA her teddy bear. It’s a cute concept. She’s attempting to figure herself out, trying on different personalities like funny, flirty, or cool. She fails miserably at each. Stella is intensely afraid of just about everything, but failure seems to be number one on that list. She doesn’t want to let others down. She doesn’t want to let herself down. It’s very relatable. The relatability is actually what really draws me into the game. I feel seen. Since the game is named after him, I fully intended to date Robert in my first playthrough… but I was inexplicably drawn to Taylor the sasquatch. That probably says a lot about me, but I wonder what. The high school flirting nostalgia gets stronger as the story progresses.

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There is subtle and sarcastic humour scattered throughout the story. These traits make it incredibly endearing as well as funny. The best line of the game comes from Day: “never go inside a cave that speaks.” By the holidays, I’m finding myself deeply attached to these characters. When they’re sad, I’m sad. When they’re scared, I’m scared. There’s even a whole side storyline about an urban legends regarding a serial killer that does its dirty work on random Friday the 13ths for a hundred years. I’d complain that isn’t plausible (funny, I know) but neither is dating a dinosaur I can’t not talk about the face the scenario is completely unbelievable. I don’t mean the cryptids thing… I just don’t believe they could live freely in town without ever being spotted by outsiders and word of their existence spreading. Despite being in the title, the raptor doesn’t really fit with the cryptid idea of the other two suitors. It’s not supernatural or paranormal, it’s just historical. (This is touched upon at one point but it still nags at me.) There’s an entire conversation about why cryptids are drawn to the area, and it all lines up with what I’d expect. The writers seem to know what they’re talking about, at least on a surface level. Ladle’s residents, especially the supernatural ones, worry about the highway that will be built through the town because it will bring more people to the remote area. It’s worth noting that the (fictional) town is located in (the very real) Northern Ontario; anyone from Ontario understands how believable this is as our current premiere is literally obsessed with building new highways. For a fictional game about supernatural beings, it’s actually quite realistic in surprising ways!Cities Skylines

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