Socially Awkward

WARNING! ACHTUNG! LONGREAD!

What can I say about this visual novel after reading Tom and Maccoon routes? What does it feel like? The best word to describe it, it's lively! 

Top-notch quality of animations, clean artstyle of visuals, cringy humor (which I am guilty to be fond of, every interaction with John is simply hilarious), both charming and authentic characters creates a truly dynamic atmosphere of 90's romcom-sitcom.

However, Socially Awkward has is it problems and one of the major is how unbelievably swiftly relationships develops in this FVN. NEXT PART MAY CONTAIN DIRECT/INDIRECT SPOILERS, BEWARE!!!!

Tom route is great. It does a fine job in revealing Jayce (MC) character, showing darkest moments of his past life, him being unloved, mentally attacked by his own father. It explain why Jayce is so conscious about ski hat being put on his head, it is to hide any connection with the pain of the past, with his cruel parent and the very reason he became Socially Awkward. 

And in the darkness of past senior boy Tom was a ray of hope for Jayce. He was only person ready to relief our cat friend's inner misery, absolute lack of confidence and self-hatred. 

But some events, as it happens in the flow of life, divided this two. 

In Tom's route after finding out this events were a complite false made up by Jayce's father, lion and cat finally reunites as friends. And, I mean, even they didn't do that, they still had a lot of memories to share with each other. However... Turning from friends to lovers in 48 hours, then having ZeKs in a public place? I didn't quite get that.

Tom is a brave guy for sure, he seize every opportunity. But this is too much even for him. I am talking about his enormaously fast transformation from "wholesome friend of childhood" to a guy who is doing provoking reciprocating moves in the public gym with his hips to seduce his own friend.

I mean, it is a queer furry visual novel, every characters we have to interact with in it seems to be queer. But even for the world like this, I think it's not really a good idea to joke around this way in the public even if you slightly value your reputation. Such moments makes this story a little more funny and a lot less believable as well.

The only other of routes I've read is Macaroni's. What can I say about? It's considerably less well-written in terms of uncovering Jayce's personality and character than Tom's. It does not explain Jayce's socially awkward nature. I am aware that this novel still in developing and this might change drastically in the future.

However, in my opinion, there is a potential to uncover Mac not only as Jayce's (who seems to the corniest dastard in the Wild West) queer phantasy but something more complicated. Also this route has a lot of John's shenanigans with David, which is just amazing to witness. :)

And finally, talking about Jayce, someone may call him embarassing, I'll call him both cute and socially awkward. He is an embodiment  of cute and lively nature of this game, being funny, true to himself and actually socially awkward person. Not always finding right words, sweating in conversations.

My verdict for this novel is 7 Jayce out of 10, which is "Cool read". Certainly looking forward for the next updates and intrigued with possibilities it could offer us.

P.S. I need to make a small revelation here. All my life I seem to enjoy furry content and stuff in any form of it, the very concept of an anthropomorphic animal is very exciting and pleasant for me, since I find animals being so amazing. And most recently, I am fond of reading furry visual novels for the same reason, especially after watching Keith Ballard's essay on Adastra. It is a whole new world for me, so many masterfully-created stories full of artistic spirit! 

Although there is not so much of straight furry novels (I am straight or may be bi, yeah. Is there actually a good straight romantic furry novel that exists? Even one where you can date a girl? Saying not to offend queer people out there, you're just want to be appreciated and loved for who you are :D ), it's almost every time a refreshing and cool experience.

I would be happy to interact with furry community more!

I love this game but I’m so sad that I can’t play it anymore because I have an iPad not an android cause I gave my old tablet to my niece

Well i was playing Rask n John route(s) and i got a problem the program said

jhonPortrait/sleeping/1.png gone and i re download this game 3 times now
pls someone help me 

I've played many fvn's in my time, and this one by far is one of my favorites.

The stoy was cute and fun, and I'm so sad Rask, David, and Maccon's route aren't longer and hope they're expanded on in the future.

So yeah 10 out of 10 easily!!
(Rask and David>>>)

being 100% honest, i wasnt a super big fan of the writing style and jayce's personality. i found myself cringing a little too hard at jayce's jokes. but the wide variety of expressions, the BGs, and the other characters makes up. its an extremely nice game to look at. tom is my favorite route so far, and david is my favorite side character. 

This is the first Fvn I have played that Use alot of expression 
And How I really love it like it gives the character more life (Idk how to say it)
Anyways I really love this fvn.

keep up the good work

There's so much expressions in this game I love it so much. It's got so much animations it's very lively. The demon eyes animation is so smooth it actually fascinates me.

其實主畫面音樂還挺好聽的😳但0.24那首被改掉了 有人有來源嗎._.

I'm sooo excited for the update!!! :3

To anyone who's wondering when the game will update, the creator has set a goal for next month. Source: Patreon.

I need an update NOW!!😭

When is the update?

During the parts where Jayce is dreaming, the shaky text animation really slows down the game, also causing more crashes.

I legit just started reading this and I'm cackling over the art style and animation.  It's so well done!  I have such a crush on Tom...  I look forward to continuing it :)

Una historia sin duda vital, debe ser vista por todos los que puedan, sin duda alguna es una de ls qué motivan a impulsar $$ sus tramas, acciones, arte, es todo excelente exquisito

Recently downloaded, been getting lots of crashes and I'm not sure why. Pretty annoying but I think I can manage. :P

Comedy done right!  Had me laughing so much!!  Love this VN and I can't wait for more.  MC is low key my ideal man.

cant wait for the next update

I literally had to play the game 2 times cuz it's just amazing, Tom tho 😍🙀

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I will only download this because I am Socially Awkward 

(haha get it? I said the name of the game. Laugh please the police are onto me I'm trying to act like a comedian so they don't find me)

Rask the type of guy to say "jolly good show!" (I am into that)

RASK SUPREMACY

I loved the VN but I'm surprised that there isn't a finished or semi-finished route for John yet, since I saw him he's been my favorite character, I hope for an update soon <3 John supremacy 🛐

I don't know why but everytime I play it goes back to the main menu is this a bug I don't know how to fix this I need help I need to see tom he's so fine😏

Your writing and animations truly are a treasure and make me smile and laugh out loud! Thank you! I love the story and characters and cannot wait to see what you come up with!

absolutely beautiful, love the humour and generally the art style. TOM SUPPREMACYY!!!

loved it cant wait for more <3