Created by GXDev, Cheek 2 Cheek is described as a visual novel and dating sim inspired by Bob’s Burgers’ Tina Belcher’s “fondness for butts”.
The game, made by writer Dream Sequence and artist Adam Rickert, also drew upon visual novels like Hatoful Boyfriend, Long Live the Queen and Song of Saya for inspiration.
Like in Hatoful Boyfriend, you’re looking for love… but rather than doing that with pigeons, you’re doing it as a butt, interacting with other butts. Tina Belcher would definitely be proud.
“In my mind, Tina Belcher is the ideal audience and author of visual novels,” said Dream Sequence in a recent interview with Polygon. “She’s a hopeless romantic and has a deep appreciation for character-driven narratives, as seen with her various erotic fan and ‘friendfiction.'”
“Her wild imagination can display real down to earth moments that still manage to operate with a logic all of their own. Also, like many other visual novelists out there, she has preoccupation for specific regions of the human form. Finally, the visual novel medium would allow her to express her unique vision by herself. She wouldn’t need a huge team of people who didn’t ‘get her’ in order to make something special.
“More practically speaking, we found that Tina’s butt obsession was the perfect way to draw attention to how the visual novel genre will often sexually objectify specific characters without alienating potential audiences. Early on, there was the temptation to make the game filled with dicks so giant that they would make Tom of Finland blush in an effort to flip the script on how frequently artists in the genre draw female characters in an overtly objectified manner.”
The game features 11 different endings, all up.
Those who want to give the visual novel a try can download it for free, here.
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