What If Your Girl Was A Frog, well then try not to croak while doing the leapfrog.
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Where can you buy?
- Available on Steam
Pros:
- DLC offers adult content
- Cute storyline artwork
- Simple puzzles
Cons:
- Not the best character models
- Short
Explanation to Negative Feedback
Not the best character models
I’m disappointed to say the two characters we get aren’t amazing in their quality, but I’m disappointed because it’s not AI generated, and if it was, they’d probably look great, and that knowledge is annoying.
The frog girl isn’t all that bad, honestly. Her costume has creases in it, she’s in different positions within different environments, but she doesn’t have that high grade quality to her. Maybe it’s her hair that I’m not a fan of.
The guy, though?
He doesn’t show up too often in the base game, but…yeah the artist half-assed drew him.
Short
Without the DLC added on, this is a pretty short game, seeing as there’s nothing to read and it’s just puzzles you’re completing to turn into an animated image.
It’s a con because you can press a keybind in order to auto-complete the puzzle you’re on, meaning you can just rush through to get to where you want to go, and let’s face it, that’s the DLC portion and not the base game.
Explanation to Positive Feedback
DLC offers adult content
The base game, I think, only has five scenes. The DLC adds an additional seven scenes, so this is going into the pros portion, since this is basically what the game was made for. Every completed image has animation to them and they look pretty good as well, with, uh, sound effects to complete it.
Cute storyline artwork
I don’t place this game into the visual novel genre, since it’s missing the novel portion, I guess? Meaning it has no words to it. Instead, the storyline comes to you graphically.
These are hand-drawn kind of scribble type of graphics, where we get small image clips of how and why the female frog decided to become a human and stalk this seemingly random guy. I personally love the style. It’s not cell-shading and it’s not soft-shading, but a color dabbing of shading going on. Like shading with a spongey surface, let’s say.
I can’t recall what kind of shading it is, sorry!
But aside from these scenes, you get the main artwork of soft-shading.
Simple puzzles
It’s sometimes hard for me to decide where the simplicity of puzzles land in the grand scheme of things, but I’m placing this in pros just because the puzzles are a bit different, despite being simplistic. Instead of normal puzzle pieces, they’re styled into hexagonal pieces, but the concept is the same.
Take one piece and place it where it needs to go.
Also, the puzzle pieces themselves are still images, but the background of the character your piecing together has motion to it, which can add a little bit of difficulty, since things don’t look quite as aligned.
Not Now Mom Podcast Transcript
This is the transcript of our podcast episode for What If Your Girl Was A Frog on Not Now Mom, I’m Gaming.
Seeing as this is a NSFW game, the full podcast will be available on our Patreon, but the transcript remains with censored words so you know what I have to say about it.
All links within this section do not pertain to the game itself, and don’t need to be clicked. They are affiliate links that take you to random products I think are interesting.
Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of Not Now Mom, I’m Gaming.
My name is Kay and on this episode we’ll be talking about the game What If Your Girl Was A Frog, which is a fascinating question to ask someone. I honestly don’t know what I’d think if that were the case, but maybe you’d just have to kiss her and see if she’d change back?
If you were even into kissing a frog, that is.
There is a hidden object game I’ve played that revolves around a guy being turned into a frog and a witch trying to smooch him if I remember correctly.
And also, this isn’t even the weirdest thing a girl could be. Kokonoe Kokoro is a game where the girl is a grasshopper.
Pick your poison, frog or grasshopper. Maybe frog for me, but I’d rather neither options.
Anyway, this game is from the devs Hunny Bunny, who also created a game we’ve already reviewed called Date with Foxgirl. In fact, they’ve made a lot of games like these ones, so prepare yourself for even more in the future.
They’re not bad, but…a lot of them don’t really go beyond the mostly positive rating, though this one actually has a very positive rating. I’m going to base this rating on one specific thing and that’s the fact that it doesn’t actually have a written storyline, meaning no crappy text to read through.
That’s just my thoughts on the matter though.
The blurb for What If Your Girl Was A Frog states this:
There was a frog. She was cheerfully croaking on her lake. However, she was not a simple frog, but magic. And so she got a lonely boy. She used her magic and started her adventures.
I’m not really sure what it means by “got a lonely boy” but…kidnapping is frowned upon.
Before we start with the review, we’re going to do the thing. Let the opening scene play out before us, like every other game by this dev does. It won’t explain the story at all, but you’ll get some of the images before you actually piece them together.
Which is actually a poor choice on their part, because now you know what some of the scenes are going to be without playing the game.
Oh well.
[scene]
That guy looked a little scared during that preview, right? It’s not just me?
Technically there’s no title screen you land on when you’re allowed to interact with the game, even though the title came up right before this part, and so I’d technically dock a star just for that. I feel like unless the game is well-known and iconic–such as with Final Fantasy 7 Remake not having it’s title, but rather the buster sword–you need a title for people to remember. Even if it’s just going back to the start of the game.
Instead, we have a pop-up where you can full-screen or not, adjust the volume and adjust music.
Honestly, I don’t really get either of these, and there’s nothing to tell you what means what, so you’ll have to figure it out on your own.
Very positive reviews, remember?
At least it’s got a cute pixel frog sitting on top of the pop-up window.
When you’re done with that, the main screen will have strips of images of what you’ll be piecing together when you’re on that puzzle screen. Note that there’s only five scenes you’re able to do in the base game. Further to the right, where the frog is, is where the DLC puzzles begin, and we’re not going to talk about those for YouTube purposes.
If you go into the gallery at the start, you can see a more transparent view of the images you’ll be seeing, but the only one that’s unlocked is the first.
Which isn’t actually a puzzle at all, but the opening scene so you kind of understand the storyline of what’s going on.
Also, I’m pretty sure all of Hunny Bunny games do this, but there’s a transition that comes along when going from one part of the game to another–like the main screen to the gallery and back again–but it’s two slats that come from the top and bottom and meet up in the middle to create an image of a frog with a strawberry on its head.
And the part that separates these two halves is the frog’s mouth, which I think is cool. When it parts, the mouth opens.
If you’re wondering about the strawberry, it’s because the guy in the game sleeps in a bed with a cover that has strawberries all over it.
When we start the game, we get the introduction scene that sets up the puzzles, sorta. There’s no words and no text, so you just have to watch it play out, and for anyone just listening and not watching, I’ll do a little explanation.
A frog is sleeping, a lone man is walking in the rain, the frog, using a leaf as an umbrella, watches him. He’s sitting in the rain, looking bored. The frog is sadly curious about him, gets an amazing idea, and jumps into his backpack. The man enters their home, takes off his shoes, the frog hops out of the backpack while he’s distracted. The man falls asleep in bed, the frog wonders why he’s sleeping, and gets another amazing idea. It becomes a wizard and casts a spell on itself to turn into a girl.
And here’s the first scene you’re going to puzzle together. A girl in a frog onesie standing in this guy’s bedroom while he’s asleep.
I was actually afraid this was going to be one of those puzzles where you have to flip pieces of the one beside it, but that’s not the case. You can just move one piece to wherever you want it to go.
And these puzzle pieces are hexagonal just to make them a bit different from all the other puzzle games out there. You’ll notice that the background has movement to it, but it’s not so difficult in this scene to piece it together. Or really, in any of the upcoming scenes for the base game either, so I probably won’t comment on them as they come up.
Just know they’re at the start to every scene.
The guy in this one isn’t so bad, though you can still see the lackluster quality of him since our main focus is on the female frog girl.
And she’s not even a frog!
She’s just wearing a frog suit. So technically we still don’t know what it would be like if our girl was a frog. Because by the looks of her, I’m pretty sure if you take that onesie off, she’s all human. And this is proven from the DLC scenes.
So the title of the game doesn’t make all that much sense.
As far as the scene here goes, I don’t know if she made it happen or if this guy likes both strawberries and frogs, but on the computer screen there’s a frog hopping up and down. The girl herself looks a little shocked that her magic worked in turning her into a human. And the guy? This poor guy is sleeping soundly hugging one of his pillows, underneath strawberry sheets.
He’s in for a surprise.
I mean like really, he’s in for a surprise, and maybe a heart attack, because in the next puzzle scene, she’s sitting on top of him and kind of petting his hair like she’s fascinated by it. He’s got that wide-eyed freaked out look and for good reason.
He probably doesn’t have a roommate. And now suddenly he does.
The next scene is a little sad and laughable, because all we have is our frogsie lady sitting on her heels on the bed, making a peace sign, with no man in sight.
He booked it.
He amscrayed as fast as he could.
And she doesn’t even realize and raised a peace sign as he peaced out.
Also, further proof that she’s not a frog is she’s sticking her human tongue out of her mouth, while also making cooing sounds like a baby. And clicking her tongue. But it’s the cooing that causes me a bit of distress.
The following scene is a bit more disconcerting.
She’s licking the window because there’s a monarch butterfly on the outside of it. Like, okay, she’s trying to act like she’s more frog than human by maybe wanting to eat the butterfly, but I still don’t buy it and you shouldn’t either.
At least she’s drawn a little heart on the moisture of the window, but I don’t recommend anyone ever lick a window.
Especially if you live somewhere close to the street where anyone can see you doing it.
Moving forward, she’s now in the shower, still in her onesie, but trying to squeeze the water out of her outfit. While…still getting soaked with water.
She has been in the rain before, right?
I’m starting to question her sanity at this point. It was eye-brow raising while she licked the window, but now I feel this is a confirmation that there might be something not quite right up there.
Also, why on earth is there a game boy advance sitting on the sink? Don’t bring that in the water with you, you fool.
…I do wonder what game they were playing.
It’s a mystery we’ll never figure out, because this is the end of all the scenes for the base game. The rest of the scenes are represented by downloading the NSFW DLC, and we’ll continue that in the patron’s section.
And that’s the end of it.
I won’t say it’s a horrible game. The art’s okay, and became honestly a bit better in the DLC portion, but maybe because that’s where they would want to focus with a game like this. The base game was just to prove something of a storyline, despite the fact that even that could’ve been better, given the title of the game and lack of an actual frog girl.
Plus, the dude ran off after the second scene of the base game and suddenly returns in the second scene of the DLC. Was it just because he liked what he saw in the first scene and figured hell with it, how often is he going to come across a girl like this?
My guy just needs to play some Kokonoe Kokoro.
He’d get a better looking grasshopper girl, just…don’t reject her.
If you know, you know.
But, I’ve blathered on long enough, and I’m curious to know your all’s thoughts on the frog girl. Would you mind her showing up out of nowhere while you’re snoozing, or is that a hard no? Smash or pass? Whatever your answer is, make sure mom doesn’t see it, and before she takes a look at your answer, quickly hide the screen with your body and say, not now mom, I’m gaming.
