Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim

wanted to play this for awhile and was really excited about trading a key for it, but it's pretty disappointing, flat, and repetitive. it was fun and i originally thought it was cute and it made me smile. but then when i went to 100% it started to get tedious and irksome real quick. especially with the game's tendency to recycle questions. while some of the jokes are funny, the humor gets rather corny at times. there is no proper plot regression and every 'route' in the game is pretty much the same. i think the most fascinating twist in the game was the bird flu thing going on, but that was it. the art and the character designs are fun and adorable, however. i love how gigachu goes by chu/chus pronouns by default. on that topic, i like the diverse choice of pronouns too! just wish this game was better, especially since i love kaijus and think they're pretty sick. my rating, overall, is a 2.5!

Just a silly, cute dating simulator that I love. A plethora of pronoun options are available to the player, and the love interests (kaiju) are diverse in that respect, too. There's also neurodiverse representation and an ace-friendly route. Fun rom-com tropes are in play, and the game has a great sense of humor.

Um fofinho dating sim bem curto com kaijus! Contando com uma trilha sonora divertida e artes bem coloridas, infelizmente pode se tornar repetitivo pois não há muita variação de acontecimentos para cada kaiju, mesmo assim é um bom jogo pra se pegar em uma promoção se você curte algo no tema de simulador de encontros!

Very cute and short game. The bad endings were only slightly hard to get, but were simple enough in the end. I recommend not using any guides (unless you're stuck on deal breaker questions).

j'ai apprécié chaque instant quand j'ai abandonné l'idée de finir ce jeu et que je l'ai désinstallé

4/10 Really cute concept, really wonderful art and style and a very interesting and promising premise. Sadly, though the game does not live up to the expectations those things set. The game play is repetitive and boring. It seems mostly random what responses work and what doesn't. Also its strange that the locations on the map aren't really related to game progression/relationship status. This game would make much more sense and maybe have a better flow if the different locations were set stages each level of a relationship, perhaps correlating with the specific romanced monster that play through. The other issue is the writing, as a queer person I can appreciate queer games, but the tone of some of these dialogue lines is a very specific "queer therapy speak" voice which always comes off as a bit insincere and performative, especially in this context. It makes some of the dialogue and events seem impersonal. In a way it also makes the game way less interesting, since everyone handles their trauma and problems so well and maturely the game and dialogue is basically void of conflict/ anything happening at all really. Was really hoping this would be a cool game with monsters kissing with good queer representation. Instead its very repetitive and puts being "Wholesome" and cute over actually having any sort of compelling story in a game that almost entirely dialogue based!