And that, my friends, started what I would call the downfall of this game.Įpisode 40 came out. It just felt weird.Īnd after that, they didn’t stop: Blackmail, dating apps, condoms, STDs… all written with about as much grace as a naked man covered in lube trying to walk on ice.
To me, this episode felt like those PSAs from the 90s trying to get you not to take marijuana while having Bugs Bunny tell you so. Remember, the game, up to this point, has been pretty ridiculous and not serious at all. My Candy Love was always an unrealistic, romance-based game with no real plot, but with the last few episodes, the tone changed completely from dumb to dull.įor example, after a few chill episodes of theater and romance, you are hit with a new episode: Nathaniel, the blonde one, has been going through physical abuse from his father, and you have to help him. If your story is serious, you can’t just go and slap a comic relief on that bad boy and expect it to go well.
#MY CANDY LOVE MANGA FULL#
If your story is supposed to be funny, you can’t just go full serious out of nowhere. Here is a writing lesson for you: Find a tone, and stick to it. But then, something happened: The writers delved into serious matters. I like the stereotypes and the almost fantasy-like vision of high school. To this day, I still like the fact that the story is kind of ridiculous and out of touch. The problem is, it is so anchored in our childhoods that all of its flaws are okay. And, if you’re like me, you still kind of do. The “high schoolers” don’t really act like teenagers, neither do they look the part, and the story has no conflict or interesting things to say. We all loved it as twelve year old girls, but now that we know better, we can clearly see that, well… it’s pretty horrible. I think the same happened with My Candy Love. In it, the Critic talks about how Halloween culture loves Hocus Pocus, which wouldn’t hold up in our current culture because it’s not that good, but because they watched it as kids it has a certain charm. Now, of course, the Critic didn’t say anything about My Candy Love, that would be kind of odd considering his main audience, but we can learn a thing or two about one of his videos, the one about Hocus Pocus, to be exact.
#MY CANDY LOVE MANGA MOVIE#
If you have no clue of who he is, he is a movie critic(somewhat) who makes videos about old but popular movies and all the bad stuff that’s in them. Why did we love this game that was clearly not written with that much love or talent? Let me direct you to a critic that I believe most of you know: the Nostalgia Critic. Was My Candy Love really that good? The writing was stiff, the characters were stereotypical or empty at best. Whichever it was, you loved that darn game, and you would play it even after it was finished!īut really take the time to think about it. Or perhaps you spent hours upon hours chatting up with other fans of the game on the forums about whatever was popular at the time. Months upon months were spent searching for the students in Sweet Amoris High School, looking to finish the ridiculous missions of this game. You started up the game, and ever since, every day of the many years to come, you would log back in. And just like that, click! and you’re in.Ĭhances are you probably named yourself something like EmoQueen, or xX_beautykills_Xx, because that’s just how the internet was back then.
Then, you see this ad: It’s pink, it’s shiny, and it has three beautiful boys: A red haired hottie, and blonde smart one, and a beautiful, charming white-haired man. You’re probably playing a dress up game, or just a standard game on Y8 or Coolmathgames. Something like MCL but more mature! It just had to be good… but why is it not?įirst, let’s start with how most of us discovered My Candy Love: Imagine you, at the ripe age of eleven years old. For a while I was also one of the annoying people who screamed betrayal at every new thing I didn’t like(we’ll get to that) and when they announced the new version of the game, Campus Life, I was thrilled. I loved this game with all of my might, and I wanted to create something similar when I grew up. I still have the first 3 tomes of the manga(even if their quality is less than absimol) and I got the first artbook when it came out.
Now let me tell you, I was an active participant in this fandom for a very long time. You might still follow this game, like many of the original players do to this day. It looked to be the perfect game, especially for the ones of us getting into anime and manga, due to its heavily anime inspired style and feel. Flirt with the boy of your dreams! they said. If you were a twelve year old girl in 2010, you’ll probably remember those ads for a game called “My Candy Love”.
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