While Hades gets easier as you learn to read your enemies and utilize your own tools and talents, Boyfriend Dungeon starts off pretty easy to begin with, and then cranks up the difficulty in lower levels of the dungeons by ambushing you with more enemies than you will probably ever be able to avoid at once. While in Hades you’re constantly upgrading your weapons and talents, collecting boons, making friends with the poor souls suffering through the afterlife, getting bullied into a killing competition with your date mate, trying and failing to rob Charon, and many other fun and completely ethical things you can be doing in the underworld, Boyfriend Dungeon relies on a leveling system to increase damage and health, and the only way to improve your combat skill aside from that is to improve your relationships with your weapons.Īnother aspect where the dungeon crawling side of things falls flat is, at least for me, the difficulty curve. Unfortunately, the fact combat feels similar also highlights just how shallow combat in Boyfriend Dungeon is. It also has that same effect of just being really hypnotizing once you hit your stride, up to the point you get distracted by the dog howling at a butterfly passing by two miles away and then promptly die. That’s not to say the combat is bad, exactly, so much as that it feels a lot like a clumsier, more stripped-down version of the same mechanics, to the point I often get the controls confused and end up rolling into an AOE attack I was perfectly safe from by trying to set an enemy on fire, or summoning my bug friend for extra help opening a safe. Which is appropriate, because my primary thought while dungeon crawling was that I would much rather be playing Hades.
I don’t play a lot of dungeon crawlers the only one I can think of that has ever left any kind of impact on me is Hades. My first exposure to Boyfriend Dungeon was when they announced it for the Switch, and I will admit, I was drawn in much more by the soundtrack than by the concept. If you intend to play it, and don’t want spoilers, this is the time to stop reading, and then hopefully come back later, after you’re finished. It’s not perfect – the closest to perfect a game has ever gotten for me, personally, is Disco Elysium – but it’s a cute, charming dating sim/dungeon crawler with a diverse cast of unique and interesting characters that I feel handles it’s main plot fairly well, if a little clumsily. this bit has inspired multiple, very loud rants on its own. This will not come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, or has been secretly viewing my communications, particularly over the last few weeks the two things I talk about most since getting my copy have been Boyfriend Dungeon and Pacific Rim (2013), a film I have seen often enough in the last couple of months particularly that all of my housemates can likely quote my critiques of its sequel by memory in their sleep.
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