While it has some great presentation, art, UI for uploading your own characters built-in, and fantastic voice acting... I dunno, I suppose it's not really what I was expecting? It's disappointing.

Foremost, BBY DON'T HURT ME is not a desktop companion. The desktop mode is just the character repeating one of their very few lines every 15 seconds or so while annoying icons appear for you to click to either raise or lower an "affection" meter. This is exactly the same for the fullscreen mode, too; there isn't really a difference. There is no functionality to the "companion" at all.

The "anti-dating" part is also extremely basic. Watching the trailer, you might expect there to be a VN story of some kind, but there isn't much of anything in that regard. There's a "love" and "toast" ending for each character, based entirely on clicking the right icons popping up on your screen to either fill or empty the affection meter, respectively. This results in a simple graphic and a forgettable resolution to your "interrogation" with that character. All there is to understand about the story is the 'premise' blurb on the store page, and the few lines in those resolutions.

Speaking of dialogue: There's nowhere near enough lines for any character. They very, very quickly run out of new things to say and start repeating themselves, and the content of those lines isn't redeeming. The VA's delivery is pretty good! But there isn't much substance to what they say, and is kinda just nasty. Like yeah, they're supposed to be bullying you--and maybe it's on me for expecting something more erotically-charged--but this ain't it.

"Scars on your wrists? Try fighting a real battle." like whaAT??? That's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WILD thing to hear when I'm hoping the hot buff wolf man will call me his pathetic pup. These ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are just mean with zero eroticism.

Bursting at the seams with machine-generated garbage. With this decision, any artistic integrity the game *could* have had was shoved head-first into the toilet where it belongs.

I love zhis applee- appla- appacation... very good!

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I recommend playing without validating anything in the notebook after the first required page. It's more challenging, a little weirder, and far more satisfying.