The Bloodriver Saga v0.04

My neighbor's dog started barking at the exact moment Bakugo's character sprite did that thing with his eyebrow. Perfect timing honestly. This game is a mess and I mean that as a compliment. A My Hero Academia parody that asks what if Deku got his quirk from some sketchy dude instead of All Might, and then just runs with it into full harem territory. The writing is rough, like someone typed it at 3AM while fighting with their autocorrect, but there's something weirdly compelling about watching this version of Midoriya navigate through the girls of UA. Tsuyu's scenes caught me off guard. Her tongue gets used in ways that would make the rating board have a collective stroke, and the dialogue during those moments is so blunt it almost loops back around to being artistic. Almost. Ochako's path has this moment where she's floating upside down and the game just commits to the physics of that position without apologizing for it. Mei Hatsume shows up with her usual gadget obsession except now the gadgets have... secondary functions. The art style wobbles between surprisingly decent character renders and backgrounds that look like they were salvaged from a geometry textbook. Sometimes a character's expression will shift mid-scene and it's genuinely expressive, other times Bakugo looks like he's staring into the void of his own existence which, fair. I wish the harem interactions had more overlap instead of feeling like separate routes that never acknowledge each other. There's a scene where multiple girls are in the same room and I got excited for some chaos, but nope, the game just picks one and ignores the rest like they ceased to exist. The sound design is whatever, just some looping tracks I muted after ten minutes to play my own playlist. Probably should mention the isekai tag but honestly I forgot what part of the game that even applies to. The whole thing runs on Renpy so you know what you're getting with the interface, save slots everywhere, right-click menus, the usual. Got stuck on a dialogue loop once where Bakugo kept threatening to explode my face and I couldn't tell if that was a bug or just his personality.

• tsuyu asui
• isekai
• ochaco uraraka
• mei hatsume
• katsuki bakugo