Click here to view the MyCandyLove website (American Version).
Click here to view the S weetCrush website (British Version).
Click here to view the S weetCrush website (British Version).
Note: Apologies that this is quite legnthy - and has quite a few pictures too. There is a handful of online games out there that are aimed at girls, so i'm going to jump over to those games since there's quite a few of them - and although a few of them seem like clones of eachother, they are actually very appealing to teen girls and I admit that i've spent quite a bit of time on some of them - i'll tell you which games I have spent time playing when I get around to reviewing them. For now, I will be reviewing MyCandyLove. Now, I have signed up to this game before as a school friend of mine told me to sign up a few years ago, but I never ended up playing. Although this is not on many social world lists - since it's not technically a social world - it's one of those games where you click things on the actual website and there are a lot of other people doing the same thing. Right now, there are 3209574 users signed up and 495 players online. By the way - you can only be a girl on this game. I signed up as a male to see what would happen, and my avatar is still a girl. So even though i'm called Mihile, I am a lady. Oh well, I'll have to be fem!Mihile, haha. Once you have signed up, you can choose between 3 hairstyles, 12 hair colours, 12 eye colours, and you can use left and right arrows to toggle between eyesbrows, eyes, mouths and accessories. After that, you choose your star sign - that's a first out of the games i've reviewed! It says "Your star sign will have an affect on your game.". Interesting. No idea when Mihile's birthday is, so i'll go with my own star sign, haha. Now that i've made him-- uh, I mean her.. It's time for the tutorial! The tutorial girl - not sure what her name is - tells you about action points, you use these to do actions such as moving. You get 10AP per day you log on, and if you run out you have to buy more from the bank. She then makes you waste 2AP by going into an empty room, then another 2AP to exit that room. She also tells you about the currency, what you can do with it and how to get more, and teaches you about flirting. You are then sent back into that room to practice your flirting and there is now a guy called Dimitry in there. I didn't feel like flirting so he got mad and left - then the tutorial girl got mad at me for it, oops. The tutorial continues, telling you that you can obtain items for missions from rooms. After that, the tutorial is finally over! |
I haven't actually said yet - incase you haven't already realised, this game is an online dating sim! As the name suggests, a dating sim is basically a simulation game where you can win over the heart of virtual people. When chatting to NPC, it appears as it does in dating sims and visual novels - with an image of your character next to your chat options, and the person you are talking to in the room infront of you, along with what they're saying.
The map for this game looks very nice, whoever made it did a good job indeed! Since you don't actually bump into real player - only virtual dateable boys - there aren't many areas.
I decided to check the clothes shop out first since poor fem!Mihile is walking around in a vest, shorts and slippers. After buying long boots, a miniskirt, a crop top, and cat ears, I went to get my photo taken for my school ID.
You have your own bedroom - i'm not sure what the extent of decorating is but I kept the elephant statue from earlier so I put that on my desk. You can use the wardrobe to change your clothes, the door to exit you can view your photos are on the wall, your items are in the draw, rings in the box, check objectives in the book, look at your messages on your phone and play games on the DS-looking handheld console on the edge of the bed.
After walking around the school some more, I was invited on a date with Nathaniel but to go on the date I need to buy a date outfit which I can't afford. Since I don't want to wait until tomorrow to continue, I decided to waste some of my money on scratch cards to see if I could get enough. After mainly winning nothing from the scratch cards, I decided to stop and figured it'd just be easier to log on everyday until I can carry on - since this isn't something I would spend real money on.
Like I said - there are other users on this game but this game doesn't focus on being social with real people. However you can search for other players, view their profile, add them as a friend and send messages to them.
This is a very cute game, and I think I may log on for the next few days to get some more money so I can see how the dates work - if I make any nice progress on this game then maybe i'll post a follow on review with how the game is once you get into it. The thing about this game that probably discourages a lot of members is the fact that the game goes very slowly unless you're actually willing to spend real money on it - which i'm not.
Like I said - there are other users on this game but this game doesn't focus on being social with real people. However you can search for other players, view their profile, add them as a friend and send messages to them.
This is a very cute game, and I think I may log on for the next few days to get some more money so I can see how the dates work - if I make any nice progress on this game then maybe i'll post a follow on review with how the game is once you get into it. The thing about this game that probably discourages a lot of members is the fact that the game goes very slowly unless you're actually willing to spend real money on it - which i'm not.