Such a Guy Review

You play as Zane Zheng and open a guesthouse on the coast with two male friends. But finding people to stay in it will take effort and outside help. After a serendipitous rainy night, six women begin to orbit the guesthouse, which lets you build a connection.

All six love interests are fantastic. Your landlady, Ki, likes to drink but helps where she can. The previous guesthouse resident, Zoey, plays the guitar and appears hostile, but has a kind heart. A cheerful and energetic local surf instructor, Layla, wants to help by bringing more tourists. The talented artist, Mina, is having a creative block but you can help each other. A young marine researcher, Ivy, tries to keep your spirits high. And a travel blogger, Erica, wants you as her slave before she’ll remove a negative video.

The game provides time to learn about characters before the romance shifts into full gear, which makes it a fantastic slow burn. Some keep their feelings hidden, others are directly friendly, and a few are pure romantics. The game keeps the mood light and breezy, like a real joyful adventure. Some of the dialogue is hilarious too, depending on player choices.

It offers insane variety. You will visit many places around the coast, like mountain paths, shopping centres, a bar, beaches, and a water park. It swaps both the location and love interest rapidly, which is a strength but can also produce whiplash. One part with Zoey involved warehouse exploration, hiding from a guard, and searching for items. It is one of the few times where you stick to someone for long enough and the game would have benefited from more of this. This nitpick is just as much about wanting to spend more time with characters as it is about the game jumping around.

Based on affection levels, you unlock natural encounters between chapters. These are awesome and help build affection. They are not on the normal timeline so if you want to do things differently (or pick another), it requires manually navigating back to a previous chapter. Endings and the phone also lock navigation progress, which is a bit annoying when replaying.

Such a Guy offers a mammoth amount of content at a high standard. It takes 7 hours to run through first and around 20 to see everything. There are several endings per love interests, including some regretful ones, but a few are a bit short. The game is nearly all live audio and the 4k videos look great. Unfortunately the game crashed quite a lot for me when replaying it. That said, if you only play a few games in the genre per year then Such a Guy should be one of them.