Mind-Bending Dating of Fury Review

Mind-Bending Dating of Fury

Review

Story:
MBDF begins like any normal dating sim would. You're a normal, unassuming, slightly under-achieving high school student in Japan. One day, your friend makes a bet that he can date a girl before you. Obviously you're not going to let this happen, so you set out to find a special someone. The six girls you can date seem like standard fare for the most part: the hyperactive cheerleader, the clumsy violin player, the quiet and shy girl who's always in the library.

The game's name comes from the next part. You go on a date with your chosen girl, and everything goes fine for a while. You sit down, have dinner, and start getting to know her. This is when things become mind-bendingly weird.

The hyperactive cheerleader? She's been stalking you for the past four years. She knows where you live, has a diagram of your social circle, and knows where you keep your porn stash. She even has pictures of you showering.

The clumsy violin player? She wants you to buy her a new violin because she just broke her old one by falling on it. When you refuse, she grabs your wallet and makes the purchase with your credit card.

The cute introverted girl? She's a cultist who needs your head for a Satanic ritual. Your disembodied head.

And that's only half of the girls. The other three are even weirder (one of them's a tentacle monster in disguise).


Presentation:
It's a fairly well-polished dating sim. Every character portrait has a wide variety of expressions, and the backgrounds have lots of detail. The font is sometimes unreadable because its color is similar to the background. One character does use Comic Sans whenever she's talking, but the other characters use respectable fonts.

Sound:
Standard sound for a dating sim. The music tracks aren't all that bad your first time through, but get used to hearing them a lot because there are only 12 songs in the game.

Gameplay:
It's a dating sim. Read text, then click on dialogue choices to flirt with or piss off girls.

Replayability:
There are six different girls to date, and you have to start a new playthrough for each of them. Whether you'll want to replay the game, though, is subject to debate (I feel especially sorry for those who got the tentacle monster girl on their first playthrough).

Overall:
A game that takes the concept of a dating sim and makes it even weirder. The cultist and tentacle paths would be worthy creepypasta on their own. This would definitely be worth buying for your Otaku friend just to watch his reaction when he gets to the dating part. If you like being weirded out, this is definitely the game for you. If not, well, you should probably pass on it.