You can even craft gifts to give to your weapons, which raise affection if you choose the right one. Based on your choices, dates provide further insight into your character and give you a look at your weapons’ personal stories too. Boss fights provide a decent challenge, and the deeper you go into a dunj, the stronger even the common enemies become, but I never found the increased difficulty insurmountable, especially since my own character’s and weapons’ growth usually matched it.Īfter your affection with a weapon has risen to the next available level, you’ll be invited to go on a date with them somewhere around Verona Beach. Exploring a dunj until your health runs out lets you gather items necessary to craft stronger equipment, level your character up so that you have higher health and stats, and potentially open up new date events with your weapons that may allow you to strengthen them and further customize their individual abilities.ĭunj exploration is vital to advancing the story, and Boyfriend Dungeon helpfully keeps track of completed levels so that you don’t have to start at the beginning of the dungeon each time. Rather, you return to the surface with all of your collected items and recipes for crafting, and your experience points and affection levels remain intact. Even if your health reaches zero, there is no real “game over” in Boyfriend Dungeon. The more you traverse a dunj with a specific weapon, the further your bond with them increases, and there are even various “hang out” spots throughout the dunjs where you can converse with your weapon companion and possibly garner more affection with them.Įnemies appear on-screen, sometimes in droves, but I didn’t find combat to be particularly challenging. Combat mainly subsists of putting strings of combos together using light and heavy attacks while trying to avoid blows, though each weapon has its own unique playstyle.
Each dunj is a multi-leveled affair that you traverse with one of your weapon companions equipped, but you can change between all of the weapons you have access to after successfully completing a level before proceeding if you wish. The most significant gameplay component of Boyfriend Dungeon by far is dunj exploration. Should you ever decide you’re jonesing for a change in appearance while playing, you have the option to redo your customizations at any time thanks to the handy mirror in your apartment, which also serves as your base of operations. I was especially impressed by just how readily your pronouns are brought up throughout the storyline. You get to name your in-game avatar, select their pronouns (which include non-binary options!), and design how they’ll appear while traversing the world map and dunjs. Perhaps traversing the dunjs with weapon-people might also help you with socializing? Naturally, that depends on your actions throughout the story as you grow into your own alongside those around you.īoyfriend Dungeon starts with a simple yet surprisingly detailed character creator. Your character has also never been on a date or even a mere friendship outing before, so Jesse takes it upon himself to help you become more confident in that field. Certain people are born with the ability to turn into sentient weapons, and there are areas that have somehow evolved to become monster-filled dungeons, called “dunjs,” that can change depending on the inner fears of the person traversing them.īecause you arrive at Verona Beach without much of a sustainable income, you decide to use your ability as a wielder (someone who can’t turn into a weapon themselves but can use them in combat) to traverse the dunjs to earn money and face your personal demons with the help of weapon-people you meet along the way. Boyfriend Dungeon‘s world is much the same as our own, save for a few crucial differences. While in Verona Beach, you hope to find yourself and gain some independence. The premise of Boyfriend Dungeon is thus: you arrive at a small town known as Verona Beach, where the only resident you know is your helpful cousin Jesse. That is especially true in a world where weapons also happen to be extremely dateable people! The unique visual novel/dungeon crawling RPG hybrid Boyfriend Dungeon presents such a world, and it is overall a sweet and entertaining, albeit simple, experience.
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