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Jul 21, 2025
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Hello everyone and welcome to another
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episode of Not Now Nail Mom. I'm gaming.
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My name is Kay and on this episode we'll
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be doing a gameplay review of Date with
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Fox Girl which has a base game that is
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safer work and a DLC you can download if
0:34
you want the adult portions. I want you
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to know that this game's alltime peak
0:38
players is at six and the reviews are
0:41
mostly positive. For me, the base game
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was a negative. However, combine it with
0:47
the DLC and it gets a little bit better
0:50
if only because you don't have to read
0:51
any more of the story line. It's all
0:54
animation and sounds at that point and
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something most people are after when
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they purchase games from the Honey Bunny
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devs. It's short, has puzzles that get
1:02
moderately more difficult the further
1:04
you progress, and then ends with the
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DLC's bang.
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The blurb for this game states, "Have
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you ever wondered why you don't have a
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girlfriend? Or have you ever wondered if
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you will ever find a girlfriend?
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Sometimes it doesn't take much to meet a
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beautiful foxy girl. just go to a cafe
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for coffee and time and have a little
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perseverance and desire.
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As you might notice by now, I have set
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up subtitles and I think I might be
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doing this for my podcast episodes from
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this point forward just to help everyone
1:32
out that can't hear very well, but would
1:34
like to enjoy what I'm saying in regards
1:36
to all these weird games I play. Here's
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hoping it helps you along. Now, let's
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get into the review. As with most of
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these games, especially those from the
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game dev's Honey Bunny Studio, there's a
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short intro scene before the game
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starts.
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[Music]
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I think this is not only to provide a
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little jingle for you when you first
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boot up the game, but also because
2:25
there's no actual title screen to these
2:27
games. It clearly doesn't throw you into
2:30
the game, but there's no title screen in
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the sense that there's a title with a
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new game and settings choice.
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The settings and gallery options are in
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the top right. The settings having only
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an option for sound effects and music.
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And it's a little unclear because one
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symbol is a volume icon while the other
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icon is a musical note. Two different
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sounds, but they could have made it a
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little more obvious which does what.
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Also, you can choose the arrows beside
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the flag to change the language and then
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choose windowed mode or full screen with
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a button on the bottom. That one is
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actually fairly hard to see.
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Now, the scenes you can choose from have
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an image of the character all in a row
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with different outfits and slightly
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different poses, I guess, but you can't
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bypass the order. You have to start from
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the one on the left and move forward to
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the right. However, if you wanted to
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look further on at the images, there are
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these small arrows at the top to move to
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the scenes you can't currently see.
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Oh, and if you think you can bypass
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everything and go straight into the
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gallery, think again. You'll only see
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the images you've done or are on.
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Meaning, if you first boot up the game
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and go into the gallery, you'll only see
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the still image from the first scene.
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When you choose the first scene, there's
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a scene transition that's different with
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each game as far as graphics go, but the
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same concept. This scene transition
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involves Japanese sliding doors with
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watercolor, I think, images of cherry
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blossoms and a kitsune in the center. I
4:03
really like the kitsune. It's quite
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cute. So, once you're in the first
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scene, there is a puzzle to do. This is
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a very simplistic puzzle. For the first
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scene, you basically have two loops that
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you have to connect correctly. So, a
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cyan loop and then a red loop.
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And just move the hexagonal shapes to
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where you think they need to go until
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the image is complete. I find that these
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puzzles are a lot better for me
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specifically
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than the, you know, six piece puzzles
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where you just, you know, where each one
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goes.
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And it's just putting it there to act
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like a game. To act like you're doing
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something productive
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when really you're not. Once the first
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puzzle is completed, you get the
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achievement big blue eyes.
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And every achievement in this game can
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be obtained just through completing
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every single scenes puzzles.
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The base game only has six scenes to it.
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The not safe for work DLC adds another
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six scenes. So if you get the base game,
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you're not going to be able to complete
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all the achievements until you download
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the not safe for work DLC and complete
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that.
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So now we can see what the uh scene we
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have here is she works in the cafe, Box
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Bell Cafe.
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Her name is Mo
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and a boy named Quichi enters the cafe.
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So, she starts serving him and then they
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kind of hit it off. You know, the visual
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novel aspect of this game, the actual
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story, it's it's garbage. It sucks. I
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don't think I can even blame it on the
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translation being bad. I think just the
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writing in general is bad because
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everything seems repeated.
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You got Corgi saying, "Good afternoon,
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lovely fox. What would you recommend
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from the menu?" And she responds, "Good
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afternoon. I would recommend our gourmet
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desserts." And it's it's kind of a
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repetition
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constant.
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That's not even the worst part of it.
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This is just the first scene. So, Miko
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asks, "Do you come here often?" And
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Quichi says, "Well, not very often, but
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I would love to come here again if you
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let me.
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It's a coffee shop. Like, you're you're
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a customer. Come in whenever you want
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as long as you're buying something." So,
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Miku says, "Of course. I'm happy to
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welcome our regular guests here." And Ki
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asks, "May I ask for your phone number
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to contact you if I want to come here
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again?
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What? Why? Why do you need her phone
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number? And she didn't even give him her
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phone's number. She gave him the office
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the this place's phone number.
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So if he wants to come here again, he's
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going to call in, be like, "Can I come
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in?" Like this writing, the story so
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far. I just have you know as I'm talking
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through this review, I have a migraine
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and it's only going to get worse. Like
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I've already played through this game.
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I'm just going over the gameplay I've
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done the recording
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and talking about it and it's like I'm
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already frustrated
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and I can't even say that this is the
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worst visual novel game I've played cuz
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it's not.
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But this sort of sets up the scene for
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kind of coming together for their first
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date. So customer and server see each
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other, they have a nice little chat,
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they exchange, they don't even exchange
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phone numbers. He just gets her work's
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phone number and then he'll come around
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again to see her. And if you haven't
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noticed already,
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there are icons for when one of them
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speaks, both Miko and Qui. And it's just
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a generic fox face emoji and a generic
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person face, I guess, boy face emoji.
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They couldn't have put more effort into
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that.
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They just Googled some images of a fox
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face and a guy's face and slapped it on
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there. I mean, we know who's talking.
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So, instead of a large name plate being
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on top of the text box or something like
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that, we get a face of either a fox or a
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guy. The background's
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really good.
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I think the fox girls decent. I mean,
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she looks pretty good. Kind of droopy
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ears. Maybe she's just like kind of
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being shy with them.
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What I don't like is the tail.
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Like the tail in all of these scenes, it
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just looks like the girl is an AI model
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and they had an artist come in and draw
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in the tail afterwards.
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It just doesn't match the style.
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Completely different art style from the
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fox girl model. Plus, in this scene, it
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doesn't even look like it's connected to
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her back end. It's like it's coming out
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of her side. I don't think that's how
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tails work. could be wrong. I don't
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personally own a tail, so I'm just
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saying. As far as the movements of the
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character, I don't mind it. I feel like
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a little bit of movement is always
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better than having a still image, but
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still images are fine as well. It's just
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moving images seem to make things a bit
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more active in the scenario.
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The music is also pretty good for this
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scene.
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[Music]
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[Music]
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kind of background sounds as if it was a
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cafe and then some musical soundtrack
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with it. So, not bad in that regard. Bad
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writing, bad emojis,
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bad tail. The rest pretty darn good so
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far. Our next scene starts with a puzzle
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that's a little bit bigger than the
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first one. This one having three loops
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to match up instead of two. It's still
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fairly easy in the sense that you just
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have to match up the end loops on the
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ends of the puzzles at the right place.
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The next bit is a little confusing.
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Miku has finished her work already. It's
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stated that she has by the line after
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finishing work. But when she leaves the
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cafe and sees Kochi waiting for her by
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the entrance, which is weird in itself,
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how long has he been standing there? He
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asks her if she'd like to go on a walk
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with him. I'm trying not to put him in
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the red flag category here, but it's
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difficult.
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I get it. Some people are just lonely,
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but don't seek the company of others
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like this.
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Anyway, Miko states that she has to
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finish up her work now, which might take
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around an hour. Now, my brain is
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thinking she's going to wait an hour
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inside the cafe in hopes that he's going
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to wander off and go stalk someone else.
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But he doesn't. Here's where you see a
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good example of the repetition I was
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talking about. Ci, do you want to go for
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a walk with me? I know a great place
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where we can go for a walk. He's really
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shoving his eagerness to the forefront,
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isn't he?
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Oh, before we head to the park for a
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little walk, she did do an outfit
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change. And each scene does give her a
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different outfit. I think her outfit
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looks pretty nice here. Cute, but
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reserved, I'd say. At least her tail is
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coming out from behind and not her side
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this time. Honestly, I don't really know
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what to say about most outfits. I'm just
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a casual t-shirt and jeans person. I'm
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not in the no for styles. Our next
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puzzle features three rings, and I don't
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think it's bigger than the last one we
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did, just a different layout change. I
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will say at this point, it kind of sucks
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that the puzzle itself blocks the fox
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girl, even though you see her when it's
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complete anyway. And it's not like it
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hides anything from you specifically.
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It's just a personal annoyance.
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Ci states, "He's happy we agreed to go
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out with him." And that's a double-edged
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statement because we went out with him
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for a walk in the park. But I'm thinking
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his mind is thinking we're actually
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going out with him right now. Plus, it's
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not like he gave us much of a choice.
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And Miku isn't one to seem rude and
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brush someone off.
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He then thanks us once again for
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agreeing to go out with him, as if we
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already forgot that he's happy about it.
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Or maybe he's hammering the point home
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that this is a date to him and doesn't
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want us to miss that clearly bold and
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underlined point. He asks us if we can
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go to the park, and it's a place he said
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he wanted to take us in the first place,
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so why ask again?
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Also, I love the background here. We're
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not technically in a park yet, but we're
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in an area where Sakura trees are
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clearly in full bloom. She looks nice
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here, sitting amongst all of them. Corgi
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wants us to hold hands before we set off
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for the park, so people who see us
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together know we're together and all
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that.
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The next puzzle is bigger and might take
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a bit more time to figure out, but hey,
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you should know how to connect the loops
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at a decent rate right about now.
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This is a scene that I don't like. I
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think it's the only scene that I don't
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really enjoy being in just because going
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from the last scene with all the secur
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trees and then this one makes the entire
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environment look fake. I don't like the
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grass. I don't like the trees. The only
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thing good in the scene is our fox girl
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dressed in a kimono and maybe the picnic
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supplies all laid out, but you can't
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really look at that anyway. Cory T is
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just the sweetest man by giving us
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sandwiches and sweets to eat. Despite us
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being thirsty for his attention, he
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doesn't offer us a drink.
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The next puzzle is larger and adds in a
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fourth ring. This one is a light orange
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that might blend in a little too well
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with the background depending on
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someone's color blindness. I think I'm
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not sure why they didn't go for a color
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that was more noticeable because even I
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had problems remembering there was an
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orange ring on an orange background.
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Speaking us being thirsty before we
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finally got our drinks in hand. And I
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don't know where this place is and Miku
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states is her favorite place. I mean all
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we're getting from the background is
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outside two buildings. One would think
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it has something to do with the drinks
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in hand, but maybe not. A little
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clarification of where we are would be
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great.
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The both of us start to get a little too
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mushy for my liking, like someone making
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kissy faces at you and clinging onto
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your arm. I'm just not one of those
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girls. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind
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PD in general, but watching people
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obsess over each other makes me cringe.
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That combined with this writing really
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makes me cringe. Ki is wonderful and
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we're glad to be here with them wherever
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here is. and he states the same. Then he
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asks, "Would you like to drink something
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delicious from my bottle?" Boy, my
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eyebrows raise as boldness on that one.
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I know nobody's around. There's alcohol,
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but simmer down, my guy. Just kidding,
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you filthy minded folk. He's got
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Japanese green tea.
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So, they both share a drink and talk
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about seeing each other again once the
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day's ended and our date has come to its
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conclusion.
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In the next scene, our conclusion ends
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with us sharing our next encounter with
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Kochi in a bedroom. I mean, the main
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game features six scenes, and this is
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our sixth, which means the next comes
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with the not safe for work DLC, so you
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know what's going to happen next. But
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that's the upcoming portion. Let's stick
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to the here and now. This puzzle here is
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the biggest yet, and it's blocking her
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body enough that it almost makes you
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want to believe it's hiding something,
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but trust me, it isn't. This portion of
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the game is familyfriendly. Just two
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people finding enjoyment in each other's
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presence and going on a date that
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miraculously sealed their love for each
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other.
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We're so glad he came to our house. But
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really, was she expecting him to say no
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at this point? And then she mentions her
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garden and it's him with his delicious
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bottle all over again. He'd really like
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to see it, just like she really wanted
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to taste that Japanese green tea of his.
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This ending scene seems a bit shorter
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than the other ones we went through, but
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it's also a very sweet moment to end on
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with her leaning her head on him and him
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hugging her. The both of them looking
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out the window.
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After this, the game takes you back to
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the scene selection screen. And if you
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go further to the right, those are
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blocked with Miku's fox emoji face,
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which means this ends the safer work
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portion of this podcast episode.
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But for all you patrons of mine, let's
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not let this stop us. Well, I hope
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you've enjoyed this podcast review of
17:16
the game Date with Fox Girl. I wouldn't
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recommend the base game by itself to
17:21
anyone, but combining it with the Not
17:24
Safe Work DLC makes it a little more
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tolerable, seeing as you might actually
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be getting something out of it in the
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end. The base game is just so bad with
17:32
its writing. Wholesome, but bad.
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Hopefully, you enjoy the subtitles of
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this podcast episode. I'm very aware
17:40
some people have hearing problems and I
17:42
don't always annunciate my words when I
17:44
talk fast. Plus, I'm not actually
17:46
reading what's on the screen, so the
17:47
subtitles are helpful in that regard.
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But hey, maybe people would appreciate
17:52
this on videos where I do commentaries
17:54
as well. Not sure. In any case, I
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appreciate you sticking around for this
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podcast episode. And try not to get in
18:01
too much trouble when you're having
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bonding time with someone and have to
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say, "Not now, Mom. I'm gaming.
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[Music]
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