The first dungeon in the game is Verona Beach’s hot shopping spot, Verona Mall. That word is what made me choose to keep the text messages as part of my game, and I’m so, so glad that I did. I realized that my hang-up with choosing “No” was that Kitfox purposefully included the word “supportive” in this warning. All I have to do is press A, I thought, but something in me wasn’t allowing me to do that. I sat staring at this screen for a long time, with the “No” option highlighted. Whatever the reason for the inclusion, I appreciate its existence. It allowed players to not have to see potentially triggering content, or to allow us to have our in-game experience more closely match our real-life experiences. Assumedly to keep people like me (and anyone else who might not want to be reminded of their mother for any reason) in mind, the developers, Kitfox Games, allowed players to turn off the texts from Mom entirely. But to me, one character stood out above the rest, even though we never even get to see her, and some people might not ever even interact with her.īoyfriend Dungeon’s “Mom” character never physically appears, and is represented solely by text messages you can read using the in-game phone. The story it ended up telling was a much more intense and nuanced one than I initially expected it to be, and I’m grateful for a lot of the things that it helped me learn about myself and the way I want to be seen by people I have relationships with, romantic or otherwise. The game uses dungeon crawling to further your bond with potential partners, as well as the more traditional route of meeting characters for dates with dialogue trees and gifting options. Provided by Kitfox Gamesīoyfriend Dungeon is a game that, from the marketing, looked like a fun, easygoing dating sim with an interesting twist on the actual dating mechanic.
Realizing that not everyone fought the way we did, and that some people are even friends with their moms, was more unbelievable to me than some of the things I had seen in any game.
Seeing other people’s relationships with their mothers, fictional or real, good or bad, has helped me contextualize all the different facets of our relationship with each other. I’m discovering this from all kinds of places– from my friends, social media, TV, movies, and my personal favorite, video games. I’m also finding out that the things that I thought were normal were actually pretty abnormal. It’s now the third holiday season where we’re not talking to each other, and I find myself thinking about these memories a lot more than I used to. I remember rushing around our different apartments while I was growing up, and putting up as many decorations as we could find the second we woke up on December 1st every year.
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