ValiDate: Struggling Singles in Your Area

ValiDate: Struggling Singles in Your Area is an upcoming visual novel game developed by Veritable Joy Studios. It is scheduled to be released in June 2022, but a demo can be played for free.

Plot
ValiDate is a visual novel in which you maneuver yourself through the twisting paths of young adulthood.

Set in the Jercy City area, twelve struggling singles in their twenties navigate through the trying ordeals of capitalism to find meaning in their lives. Includes a hint of love, cosplay, and even mediocre mixtapes in the mix.

With 12 playable characters and over 60 routes to choose from, there will be about 70-90 hours of content, depending on how you play it. We don't know if you be reading fast or not. Whether your decisions are good, bad, or just tremendously shitty, you’re going to have a great time falling in (or out) of love with these characters.

Why It Struggled the Game

 * 1) The art-style is very inconsistent, with some of the characters being drawn in a semi-realistic art style and some being drawn in a simple art style, which results in the characters looking out-of-place as if they don't belong in the same game if they were put in a scene together. The reason being is because the game has a lot of artists that are working on it which could've been solved if they could've at least gotten most of the artists to do the characters designs and concept art and one to do the character artwork and sprites.  This however was only promotional material, and they have since updated the sprites as their project got funded.
 * 2) Awful and unappealing character designs for most of the characters. Almost all of them, such as Catherine, Bigs, Rocky and Anoki, look like OCs that originated from Tumblr and the fact that the game was made by SJWs really shows.
 * 3) SJW Pandering:
 * 4) * The game's developers were accused of racism, most notably towards white people, for having a cast of 12 POC characters and having only 1 white character in the game.
 * 5) ** They were also called out for having stretch goals on their KickStarter page that says that they were going to add a white person named Keaton if they reached $32,000 and one that says that they would remove Keaton (whom they just added into game) if they reached $100,000. Afterwards, they made a tweet mocking the detractors (which they later deleted) that criticized them which shows they can't handle criticism.
 * 6) ** Another example of the developer's being anti-white is that the descriptions on one of the character's bios (Anoki) literally reads "On god fuck white people".
 * 7) ** They are also shown to be racist towards Italians (which is Keaton's nationality by the way), such as posting an anti-Italian meme on the game's official Twitter account asking people to retweet if your account isn't a safespace for Italian "people".
 * 8) ** Some characters don't even look like their respective native origins, for example: Rocky and Yolanda are both black yet they're supposed to be Chinese and South Korean respectively according to their bio cards.
 * 9) * A lot of the text in the character bios which can be found in one of the examples in WIS #6 are a huge example of this
 * 10) The backgrounds that are used in the game are actually real photographs that were placed in filters, which comes off as lazy.
 * 11) False Advertising: A plot summary on the game's website says that there are 12 characters in the game, yet there's actually 13 characters.
 * 12) Terrible and cringeworthy dialogue such as:
 * 13) * "You enter the salon without thinking. All of the stylists and patrons are black, and you know you've made a mistake."
 * 14) * The character bios also have descriptions that look like a middle schooler had written them
 * 15) ** Alonzo
 * 16) *** "Your angle and yuor devil🧘" (yes we know that there are typos)
 * 17) ** Anoki
 * 18) *** "On god fuck white people"
 * 19) *** "Cosplaying a kin is just wearing your everyday outfit"
 * 20) ** Arihi
 * 21) *** "Marriage is a scam created by the government to make people rely on others."
 * 22) ** Ashlie
 * 23) *** "Saying poggers to numb the pain"
 * 24) *** "Calling people slurs on the internet isn't very gamer of you"
 * 25) ** Biggs
 * 26) *** "Openly bi and ready to fly"
 * 27) *** "Good bussy"
 * 28) *** "Best PUS driver on da block"
 * 29) ** Catherine
 * 30) *** "Country girls make do"
 * 31) *** "Touch her Beebie Baby collection and both she and her 4-year-old will drown you in tears"
 * 32) ** Emhari
 * 33) *** "Bitches love drama in the workplace until it involves them."
 * 34) *** "Lesbians born after 1994 can't cook, all they do is eat ramen, buy 7 wedding rings, eat hot chips and cry."
 * 35) ** Inaya
 * 36) *** "Stim blogger during the height of 2014 Bumblr"
 * 37) *** "They say blocking is the best way to win an argument, but that's just cowardice talking."
 * 38) ** Isabelle
 * 39) *** "Liked Spamilton before it was cool."
 * 40) *** "No longer likes Spamilton."
 * 41) *** "Bitches be singing all the time and wonder why people call them birds."
 * 42) ** Keaton (pictured above)
 * 43) *** "Is gay, does crimes"
 * 44) *** "Aspiring eboy"
 * 45) ** Malik
 * 46) *** "Trash-ass mixtape, kill your producer."
 * 47) ** Rocky
 * 48) *** "Fellas, is it gay to plan your wedding with a man you just met?"
 * 49) ** Yolanda
 * 50) *** "Bitches say they love poetry and then go after emotionally available men, sis you're worried about the wrong Dickinson!"
 * 51) Aside from the racism, the developers have also done very terrible and controversial things.
 * 52) * Very recently, Danulmao (the head director of the game) insulted Valorant: Agents of Romance (another dating sim game) on Twitter because the existence of games like Valorant are the reasons why ValiDate isn't being funded and that publishers won't take their game seriously
 * 53) * The ValiDate Team supports AAPI, yet their game ironically has two Asian characters (Rocky and Yolanda) that were both black-washed
 * 54) * The developers also can't take criticism shown by making a meme mocking the "racist" people that criticized their game saying what society would be like if people would stop "complaining" about their game

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