Giant Wishes

Genre: Visual Novel

Players: 1

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Review:

Giant Wishes, originally called My Giant Friend, is a Visual Novel released on PC in 2022 and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2023. It tells the story of a young woman, a flower shop owner named Runi, who hears tales about a giant woman living atop a nearby hill, and decides to visit the giant herself, with a vague and poorly thought-out goal of somehow gaining the respect of the men in her village.

Hoo boy… where to even begin with this one…

Well, first, I’ll start by saying that Giant Wishes is an “ecchi game”. Characters are depicted in static 2D anime-style images unclothed, in the middle of graphic sexual acts, which the story describes in vulgar detail. If you’re sensitive to talk about certain body parts, sexual acts, or body fluids, this won’t be for you. In fact, even beyond that, Giant Wishes gets into some really fetishy stuff. Giant fetish, naturally, but also spitting, foot fetish, trampling, butt stuff, D/s, body worship… and other odd fetishy stuff I would struggle to describe.

Here’s where I say that I neither favor ecchi games nor judge them for what they are, I only look at whether the game itself is good, and whether the ecchi content seems suited for the rest of the game. At least for that latter point, it’s hard to think otherwise, because this entire game seems to have been created as someone’s fetish fantasy story. That said, the fetishes here are so odd and niche that I’m not sure this game will have much appeal to even the kinkiest of Visual Novel readers.

However, limited appeal isn’t the real issue here. The big problem with Giant Wishes is that it is astoundingly poorly-written. The author’s grasp of English is so bad that it is frequently difficult to understand what they’re even trying to say. This story is seemingly intended to be at least somewhat humorous (the vaguely whimsical soundtrack makes this much clear), but the poor writing makes it come across as weird, awkward, and uncomfortable at best, and often kinda’ creepy. Like… I feel like I’m reading the work of someone who was writing about their own very personal fetishes by typing with only one hand, if you catch my meaning.

Even beyond the quality of the writing, the story is just all-around bad. The characters are inconsistent and don’t seem to make any sort of sense. Runi clearly starts the story with no actual plan what she wants to do, and as things progress she makes choices that seem to run counter to her goals. The giant, Lady Blerog, seems to not only have wildly fluctuating mood swings, but even her attitudes about what humans are to her seems to change on a whim. And Runi’s feelings about Lady Blerog, even given her own motivations, don’t seem to mesh well with Lady Blerog’s relaxed attitudes toward murder.

Look, I make it a point not to judge others for their fetishes, but the deeper I got into Giant Wishes, the more awkward and uncomfortable I felt. It’s not just the odd and niche fetishes on display, or their seemingly personal nature. It’s not just the author’s horrid grasp of the English language. It’s not just the inconsistent tone and character motivations. No, the issue is that the farther I got into this Visual Novel, the more I felt like it wasn’t meant for my eyes. Or yours. Or anyone’s, other than the author’s.

And maybe that’s not the case, maybe this game’s creator truly thought that there would be an audience for… whatever this is. But I have to think that audience will be virtually microscopic. Because even if you have… say, a giant woman fetish… I can’t see you enjoying all the poorly-written story around it, the spit-bath scene, the repeated talk of murder and cannibalism, the weird fixation on gardening, and the struggle you’ll have to make to even understand what’s going on half the time.

Like I said… I don’t think this game is for you. Or me. Or anyone.

tl;dr – Giant Wishes is a Visual Novel about a woman who ventures out to the rumored lair of a giant woman to somehow prove herself to the men in her town. This is an ecchi game that is extremely explicit, and while that in itself isn’t terrible, it gets extremely fetishy in niche, weird, and uncomfortable ways. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the author’s grasp of English is absolutely terrible and the story is poorly written with inconsistent tone and characters. Even if you’re down for a fetishy story, I do not think you’ll find this worth a read.

Grade: F

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