In Doodle Date, you date your drawings, so I dated Aerith from Final Fantasy
I’ll be real with you all, I haven’t been high for a very long time. Probably since mid April. Playing Doodle Date, however, gave me almost exactly the same feeling. Let me tell you a story about how, at 3am Saturday morning, I felt so sleep deprived that I decided to draw Aerith from Final Fantasy 7 as my ‘dream date’.
Created by Nick Lives, and included in the bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, Doodle Date sucks you into the world of your own doodles. This alone is a concept that made me blink a couple of times, the dry grit of lack of sleep and the desire to find out more, causing an unpleasant whirring noise in my head.
“You can date your doodles,” was what the game was selling to me. “Alright, whatever.”
I am not a good artist, and after thinking about who I could draw, I eventually decided Aerith was possibly the easiest option.
So, I drew Aerith.
Aerith in this game is called Sketchy for some reason. Despite being in control of what you get to look at, Doodle Date just doesn’t give a damn about letting you have the reins over much else. I can kind of appreciate that. At least Square Enix won’t sue me for drawing this masterpiece.
Anyway, now that I’ve drawn Aerith – I mean, Sketchy – it’s time to get dating. These dates draw (hell yeah) to a close fairly quickly because well, there’s only so many times you can draw Sonic’s teeth before it gets old. Of course, there are other characters you can draw, including a flirty waiter. I obviously made said flirty waiter look like Cloud Strife. Here he is:
I know reader, I know.
After drawing the sexiest man alive, I realized that Aerith was getting incredibly mad that Cloud was existing in my general proximity. This was the weirdest fanfiction I’ve ever managed not to write, so props to Doodle Dates for that one.
As my dates with Aerith continued, I noticed that the drawing who had pulled me in in the first place, my very first doodle Claire, also seemed to be making heart eyes in my general direction. To be honest, I was fairly tired of stringing Aerith along knowing what would happen to her later on in Final Fantasy 7, so I let her go and started a love affair with Claire.
This game was already weird, but Doodle Date decided that it wasn’t content in just making me make out with my own drawing, oh no. I was to draw Claire as, you know, one of those french gals… As the artist I am, I merely drew two circles with another circle on top and called it a day.
If you’re waiting for a time where Doodle Date starts to make sense, then you’re just not going to enjoy this game. It laughs at the attempt of making sense, which in all honesty, I can relate to in regards to trying to write a sensible review out of it. That said, it isn’t completely nonsensical. There are moments where you’re like ‘damn, that’s deep actually’ but that’s all they are, moments. Or your mind trying to make sense of everything. Hell, maybe it is all nonsensical after all.
Would I tell you to buy Doodle Date? No. Is it fun? Kinda. Will I play it more than once? Definitely not. Why did you, then? I wanted Aerith to be my girlfriend, obviously.
THE VERDICT: 2/5
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