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Raptor Boyfriend is a rare coming of age story that actually respects teenagers

Pray the fae is gay

A group of friends in a car being in Raptor Boyfriend. The driver is the player character, a normal human. The front passenger seat is a Black woman with pink hair and dragonfly-ish wings, and in the back is a raptor in a backwards baseball cap and a wolfman
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I really do not play enough visual novels these days. Raptor Boyfriend has been sat on my hard drive for at least a year, and it won't be the last. Historically, I have fallen hard for two kinds of VN: emotionally probing character dramas like Eliza and Watch Me Jump, or gentle and slightly silly comedies like Laura Silver and Camp W. The jokey dating-sim-but-everyone's-a-talking-table type vein never quite grabbed me. Unless Monster Prom counts? Hmm.

Raptor Boyfriend is more the lighthearted comedy kind, but with through lines on social anxiety and navigating confusing coming-of-age relationships. It is also not actually about having a raptor boyfriend.

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