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the definitive completion of the snuppy artistic statement 

Dog Days Dog Daze is about the sweet taste of neethood where the days collapse into an impenetrable haze and every “meaningful” thing you do is quickly subsumed into it. Some girls are fated to die, others to relapse, to just kind of be there, to be really annoying or even to do as the tags indicate and daydrink; Dog Days says none of these things are really worse or better or even distinct from one another.

What makes Dog Days compelling as a story despite this nihilistic attitude is that it's aware that all these struggles still feel real and painful and world shattering in the moment. The actual events of the plot are less dramatic than the apocalyptic scale of She Was Swallowed By The Sun or the cascading shitshow of Loner Dog but do any of the girls involved know that? And because of that even if nothing is really learned and no one really changes much the plot remains compelling (with one unlucky exception but who cares about her).

Dog Days is also very compelling as a companion piece to Loner Dog because of how many synchronicities between the two works there are. Girl colours seemingly act as archetypes in this twisted snuppy world. Is this eternal return? Does it mean anything? Do material conditions determine history? You aren't going to learn the answer to any of these but the whole experience adds an interesting texture to the work.

Visually everything is spectacular. Portraits burst out of their square layers and hang a layer over the dialogue, full character art cards are equally compelling little portraits of the girls, and the city background we repeatedly return to has sinkdog. Like any true visual novel the backgrounds are blurry photos. The soundtrack is a similar star.

One area where the game has unfortunately regressed compared to its predecessor is how it uses the visual novel format. Loner Dog was full of fun uses of the text box, popups of images and more. Noni bashing her head into the concrete and the text box shaking and being left off balance was amazing. Dog Days by comparison is far less experimental - about on the level of She Was Swallowed By The Sun with how it plays with the format. Unfortunate but as far as I can tell a consequence of the smaller scope.

Read this NOW

Delaying reading this for it to be day and to have alcohol

Will report back

Also has the assassination route been changed? It doesn't seem to work anymore

Found the new path and both endings
Great and vivid and painful writing as with the rest of the game
Am I glad I was able to understand it? Both the (para)politics autism and futureless child living in the liberal technocratic parent's-rights-to-rape-children impvrivum halves of it? I don't know 

I loved the original version and am curious where to find the new stuff
Given that the original six paths were split based on international alignment and domestic policy evenly I kind of have no idea where to look

sybau

A nice little game that does a good job at accurately conveying the kinds of inter-transgirl conversations you end up having when meeting fellow trannies. The topics discussed here are some of the exact ones i've talked about with various girls. Also a fan of the presentation, it made watching two girls sit on a bench compelling to watch throughout

It launches properly now! thank you for the fix

Trying to play the windows version of this but it always crashes on the godot logo. Opening the console i get this error:
WARNING: 'res://game/assets/environment/houses/house_01/house_01.glb': In external resource #0, invalid UID: 'uid://il2l04f0lbxs' - using text path instead: 'res://game/assets/environment/houses/house_01/house_01_house_01-img.png'.

This review addresses some very major events of the game that you should not spoil yourself on. please play loner dog before reading this, i give it as full of an endorsement as i possibly can.

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This was one of the most painful and beautiful works of art i have ever had the joy of reading. the music, both the cgs and character portarits, the aesthetic of this game is seared into my mind. the dithering is really fucking cool too. but enough about the beauty, on to the pain.

These are some of the most painfully real characters i have ever witnessed. every girl in this story is a real person, i've witnessed the patterns and archetypes of them many times before in my life. i know almost all of these girls without having met them. almost all of them are good people (fuck leah), and yet they continue to hurt each other. you can't blame anyone here for being like this, for being ruined girlthings with destructive habits. yet that only makes seeing things fall apart all the more painful. no one deserves any of this.

On a lighter note about the character writing, its really fucking funny too. i love these idiots so much.

Haley was both one of the most cathartic and wounding characters i have ever encountered. seeing her felt liberating. for so long i had felt like what was wrong with me was a unique failing, it was something i had never witnessed in other people, it felt like the act of exposing the fact i was like this to anyone else would destroy me, would actualise the fear of abandonment. they would revile me for this and be completely justified. getting to witness someone else that was like this changed that. there are so many thoughts i have had that she expressed nearly verbatim.

But god, seeing her was also so agonising. getting to witness her tearing apart her life, be abandoned by the vileness of the world and the apathy of those who claimed to love her, watching her realise her lack of a purpose or drive. all of this felt like watching it happen to me. the version of my self that lived in a worse life, that didn't have someone to love it, would have ended up like this, i can see it so clearly.

Deciding to read this with my wife was a great descision, because i think witnessing haley's suicide alone would have broken me for days. both of us agreed that it felt like watching me die. the same was true for the funeral service and the burial. seeing this happen to her is the strongest deterrant i could ever find for letting myself get worse.

Much like she was swallowed by the sun, this made me way weirder. that game helped begin the process of de-repressing my sexuality, of letting me realise that i am in fact this weird. loner dog sped up that process, make me realise that i am undeniably this much of a freak and i love it.

please never stop making art for fucked up girlthings like us <3

girl what the fuck did riley do

Not finished yet but oh my fucking god I am the most Haley coded girl of all time, another Snek classic

Made the urge to wrap my girlfriend in my wings so much worse, completely worth it though.

Reading this with my girlfriend (who commented below) was one of the best choices I ever made both for myself and our relationship. This is a beautiful and crushing work of art that made me so much sexually weirder, in the best way. It touches on something about being a trans girl that barely any other works of art manage to capture, it feels real in a wonderful way. Hearing Moonlights (interludes) still makes me cry, and I hope it always will. Yuripeak.