I would die for Neon Violet. I'm only halfway through Neon White, and there are still some obvious mysteries to uncover, so who knows - maybe I did die for her. If I did, all I can say is it was definitely my fault. Romance in games is nothing new, and there are much longer, deeper games that take you on more personal journeys through their love affairs, but I've never met a character quite like Neon Violet. Neon Red, the other female character present in your story, is fine, but she's also pretty common in the video game world. She's a dry-witted assassin who takes no shit, has long flowing hair, a model's body, and could kick your ass from here to Texas. In the real world, that would make her compelling. In video games... meh. I've seen it all before. What else ya got?
That's where Neon Violet comes in. I wrote two weeks ago, when Lollipop Ch🤡ainsaw was confirmed to be "back" in a low-key tweet that offered zero follow-🦂up, that we 168澳洲😼幸运5开奖网:needed more characters like Juliet Starling. Neon Violet is the answer to that demand. Neon Violet is highly strung, highly sexed, highly weird, and highly violent. I also assume she's just high, most of the time.
Neon Violet feels like if you mixed every 💝character Bella Thorne has ever played togཧether in a blender, spilled the goo inside a Hot Topic, and then made it write fanfiction. Judging by her reaction when she discovers Neon Yellow has been reading said fanfiction, it's all rated M. Extremely M. Neon White had my attention from the first trailer, when it described itself as a game by freaks for freaks, and Neon Violet is the freak for me.
There aren't enough female characters in games who are allowed to be sexual, and even fewer who aren't only granted permission to be sexual due to their bombshell looks and position as eye candy. The fact she's wearing a bunny mask in Heaven aside, Neon Violet is just a normal girl. Just a normal innocent girl with a short temper and a penchant for erotic storytelling. She even offers to spit in your mouth, an offer Neon White, bafflingly, doesn’t take her up on.
Once you've beaten a level once, you can go back and replay it for different bonuses. One of these bonuses is a hidden present in each level, and I've only bothered with Violet's gifts. The rest of them can rot in hell. Erm, Heaven. Successfully collecting presents rewards you with cutscenes where you can get to know each Neon better, or side quest missions. In the missions for Violet so far, I have played through deathruns of extremely tricky levels, full of BDSM-style spikes on the walls. And floor. And ceiling. Other Neons may have similar levels but like I said before, I don’t care. Violet is the only Neon for me.
Mostly what makes Neon Violet so compelling is that she's so fresh. She's unique, and allowed to be herself without needing to fulfil archetypes or focus group testing the way romance options in triple-A games, as well written as they are, can often feel. There's probably not enough depth to the game overall, at least not to my current experience with it, to declare Neon Violet a deep and touching romance of the ages - I just like that the game for freaks actually has freaks in it.