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Kaichu The Kaiju Dating Sim Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Okay, I don’t think when I started this job, dating sims would be on the menu. Least of all, Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating Sim. Coming from Squiddershins, this wholesome effort may be light on gameplay but delivers some cute, charming moments. The premise is real simple. You play as Gigachu, a giant dinosaur looking to find a better half. With a mate in mind, you can walk hand in hand as you smash up the world’s most famous monuments. A nice idea in practice, although a little short on time. Right off the bat, there is a lovely cosiness to Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating Sim‘s visuals. You travel the world with your date and the map looks bright and cheery with dozens of famous landmarks to destroy. The character design is wonderful with plenty of charming touches. There’s a lot of personality here and it’s needed as Gigachu starts their quest. The narrative is often framed as news reports. Rather than a distressed populous running for their lives, the watching audience seems engaged with Gigachu’s longing for a companion. These news reports are often generously packed with puns and the smattering of voice acting does well to add to the very relaxing tone. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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It’s playful, doesn’t take itself too seriously and, at times, it can give insightful commentary about Gigachu’s relationships. There’s a three act structure in which the military inevitably gets involved. They clearly don’t approve of the wanton destruction and possibly the inter-species breeding. It culminates in a scrap with a robot third wheel who ultimately looks to block your advances towards a happy coupling. In all, each romance will probably take twenty minutes to finish but there’s six potential soulmates who each have different personality traits. So how does Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating Sim handle it’s dating? Well, it takes a break from the traditional meter management and gift buying that other dating sims tend to trade in. Once you’ve picked your pronouns and a love interest it takes on the form of a speed date. You’re asked a series of multiple choice questions and how the other monster responds will indicate how well the date is going. These compatibility questions really let you know what makes your current flame tick and it can be satisfying to ace the exam. It’s a little barebones mechanically but the questioning does tie in neatly with the monsters’ various personality types.

LANGUAGE OF LOVE.

If they’re timid, they’ll more likely respond to middle-of-the road answers, extroverts like to be right out there. Your responses can either be considered bad, good or great. Positive answers see the landmark you’re visiting being smashed to smithereens in some quite affectionate vandalism. You’re not short on feedback from the news crew or other Kaiju. The personalities at play are pretty straight forward and it’s nice to see the game stick to a message of compatible relationships. It’s very wholesome and, whilst some of the answers seem obvious, there can be a little mystery to the dance of courtship. I find the opening act to be fairly easy. It’s an icebreaker and, like I’ve said, they’re not really trying to trick you with bipolar opposition. One answer is usually defined as great, one is good and one is outright bad. In these opening rounds, two of them is good enough to advance to the next date. You have a positive and negative meter to track. Once the former is full, you and your accomplice can wander onto the second act. Here is where deal breaker questions are introduced. The dates continue in the same format but the final question appears to take on more significance. The Last Hero of Nostalgaia

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I find whole dates will hinge on them so getting a correct answer can feel more crucial than in the first stage. It can be a little annoying to see a successful date turn on one misstep. As long as you’re paying attention, you’ll mostly avoid disaster. Alternatively, you could always rollback to a previous save. In times of crisis the game will allow you a safety save. In the third act, you’re putting together everything you’ve learned for one last stand. Mechachu arrives to break up the party but now they act as quizmaster for the conclusive act. Should you fail this, you have a second shot at redemption. Gigachu’s moment of contemplation allows you to gather advice from the other monsters. Here the traits you’re after are spelled out quite clearly, giving you something on an open goal. Whilst it does mean there’s not much challenge on offer, I don’t think the game really set out to do that. It’s more a comfy parable of how relationships should go. The player takes control of Gigachu as they emerge in search of a potential romantic interest. The first act is to stomp across the globe and engage with one of six other mega-mutants (ranging from a living magma-mountain to a non-binary sentient space mushroom) and then go on a date in front of a choice of different monuments.

DEMOLITION DATING.

The date consists of a single screen with Gigachu and their paramour standing in front of the monument while the love interest presents Gigachu with a series of questions and the player chooses from one of three reactions. Choose correctly and the date will end in a cuddle/kiss (as well as the destruction of the monument) and the relationship between the two will increase. Complete enough successful dates and the player will get through the high lows of the game’s acts and, hopefully, true love. Kaichu does a really good job with its story as it flits between people reporting on Gigachu’s travels and presenting the silly questions on each date. It does a good job of paying tribute to creature features of yesteryear while also adhering to the 3-act template of a romantic comedy (cute-meet, conflict/separation, reconciliation). The tone is light and breezy even while demolishing Angkor Watt or the Golden Gate bridge. High-concept dating simulators are typically my entrypoint into the genre, whether it’s Pixel Puzzle Makeout League’s pairing with Picross or Boyfriend Dungeon’s mingling with dungeon crawling. So when a kaiju dating simulator was on the horizon for Switch, my ears perked up. Batora: Lost Haven

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Surely Kaichu, a game in which you control a kaiju trying to date another kaiju, would be eclectic and weird and silly. Unfortunately, Kaichu is repetitive and flat, with the only saving grace being the comedy of the premise and presentation. The setup is amusing, presenting two news anchors relaying the events of playable character Gigachu pairing up with another beast and going on dates destroying world monuments like the Statue of Liberty and the Great Wall of China. When you go on these dates with one of six different kaiju, all you do is answer multiple choice prompts that have a great, okay, and bad response. They’re compatibility questions where you have to answer correctly as to what the volcano kaiju’s favorite animal is or if they prefer a younger or older partner. Clues to the kaiju’s preferences can be found in the news anchor’s presentations as well as just clever application of what a giant bird might prefer. Issues abound when over the course of several dates, you start to see questions repeat and it sets in that these cute segments of question and answer—while watching two monsters smash Mount Rushmore to bits and maybe kiss at the end—are all there is to Kaichu.

MONUMENTAL DESTRUCTION.

Everything is in the writing, which is amusing but repetitive and straightforward. Within 20 minutes of playing, I saw repeated questions. And the whole game is essentially six different sets of the same dates with different kaiju. It’s cute, but unsubstantial. It gets worse if you actually fail a romance. Flubbing questions will progress a broken heart meter that if filled, ends the game. Your option after that point? Pick up from a previous save. Go to that previous save and then, well, replay the same exact questions you likely already saw more than once already. It’s rough. To a degree, Kaichu is what it set out to be. A modest Kickstarter success, this was never pitched to be a massive, huge game. Even still, it’s not something I’d recommend to the majority of people. Unless you’re really into the idea of a kaiju dating sim that is actually just a set of trial-and-error multiple choice quizzes with nice animation, there’s no reason to take Gigachu on a world tour of destructive dates. We all know I love a good dating sim, so is it any wonder that I’ve been playing Kaichu – The Kaiju Dating Sim? It was said to combine my passions of weird dating sims and wanton destruction.

After all, you’re there to play as Gigachu, who’s searching for their kaiju love. You have six to choose from, and they all have different personalities and a selection of different pronouns. Speaking of pronouns, you can change Gigachu’s to your own preferences. However, I thought I’d stick to “chu” for this pink dinosaur. Gigachu can court one kaiju at a time, and you can take them to different historical landmarks to destroy them together. In a way, it is romantic, but it’s not particularly exciting after the third playthrough. You can only date one kaiju per playthrough, and it will only take you about 20 minutes to get through it. Each time you play the game, your relationships are described by two news presenters. They’ll tell you what your romantic partner is thinking and inform you when you’ve made a bad choice. It’s more of a guessing game, really. You only have three possible answers, and you can only respond in a way that’s either positive, negative, or neutral. But does the storyline ever change? Not really. You can go to different buildings, but each playthrough follows the same formula. It’s set up into three acts, and with each act, you learn more about your partner in a file. This file is then kept for the next playthrough.

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In addition to gaining further info about your partner, each act also sees the military aim to prevent your relationship from progressing. I had the same story happen every time, and it wasn’t a particularly exciting one either. I would have preferred it if there was a little bit more variation than changing the different monsters. After all, it got repetitive after having to do the exact same mecha fight again. To elaborate, the army sent a mechanised robot out to prevent your relationship from growing. While I wanted some conflict, I had yet to find a way that could defeat Mechachu the first time. Instead, you need to go back, get some relationship advice that doesn’t help from other kaiju, and defeat Mechachu again with the power of love. It’s incredibly difficult not to succeed in the final battle. Even when the military wins, you’re left separating amicably from your partner. It doesn’t take long to try again. After all, the levels aren’t long. You just need to pick one answer from three, and the presenter will tell you if it’s good or bad. Even if you don’t succeed, it’s a matter of trial and error. You can have a few bad dates in there, but you’re hit with a game over if you get too many. The good news is that all the questions are easy to answer. Grow Song of the Evertree

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