Y’know I was genuinely mad when Trigga Warning made it to top three, I was crushed they took Amelia’s spot but they won me back with their final performance with the Transformers/Gundam tribute. Sides Amelia won fan favorite any way so… shrugs
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When i played the game, i was just hoping to catch the saboteur. i was surprised when i was able to win Drag Star! alongside Dorian. i’m also glad that i was able to reconcile with Amelia.
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Thank you, Joshua!
I would LOVE that!
If it happens, I’ll let you (and everyone) know. Good or bad
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This game seriously surprised me! I actually didn’t think I’d enjoy this cause I know so little about Drag. I appreciate the little dictionary you wrote on the stats page because I was going to that and google constantly to look up words and phrases. However, it never bothered me that much. I started reading it and I honestly couldn’t stop. I kept thinking there’d be a time skip but I got to enjoy every single episode to fullest. I got used to the humor quickly and I was loving the narrator by the end.
I played a sweetheart Drag King with mostly charm and athleticism. I won but I was actually disappointed I didn’t get the Congenial prize XD I really loved the characters though. There were a lot of them but as the story went on, I felt like I knew most of them pretty well. I adored Scandal. As soon as he was introduced, I was worried he’d be eliminated early, but he stuck around the whole game (although I needed to get him uneliminated at one point) and made the final three! His character arc was fantastic. I also really liked Trigga, Amelia, and Dorian. My favorite episode was the filthy cooking show episode, I was not expecting what happened at all. It’s always great when I’m playing a game with a big smile stuck on my face.
I’m happy to see you’re doing a sequel too. The only things I was disappointed with were the lack of romance (I’m a romance junkie) and I kind of wanted the option to name my gender outside of Drag like some of the other contestants did, but I understand why it was left out. This game was stuffed with so much content, I stayed up way too late last night playing it. I’ll definitely be getting the next game when it comes out!
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Kelly Squalor (is my actual drag name)
Kelly for Kelly from “Shoes”
And Esme Squalor is my mom
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Okay, achievement questions. Here’ll be spoilers, avert your eyes:
- How to get fan fav and miss conthingy?
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i remember from beta that it was possible for Crystal to be the saboteur. Has that been removed or am i just failing to get it?
I made an account just to come on here and say that Evan J. Petersen, you are a great writer and you know your stuff.
I’ve played a lot of Choice of Games novels and I have a variety of interests.
Girl, you slay! I would’ve paid at least 3.49 
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“forced diversity” = the National Guard escorting the first black students attending an all-white high school in Little Rock, AK in 1957.
That’s the only use of the term that makes any sense to me. After that…all it means is someone made something you don’t like.
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I like what the author did. Witty narrators who interact with your choices always make for good fun! The pet names, the banter, everything worked well into creating this cocoon of endearment/lightheartedness that cradled us as we read through.
Alas, I personally had trouble immersing myself into the story. I couldn’t connect to the characters. I’d intended to play a cross-dresser going into the game, but when I looked around upon being presented with the gender choice just to make sure, the “usually but not always” tidbit in the stats screen (drag definition) convinced me I could simply just play as whatever I wanted AND get to use the corresponding pronouns! So I did that. Yet, as I progressed through the other characters’ introductions, I came to realize that all I knew of them was their projected persona, a façade not unlike my protagonist’s own. I felt disjointed then. The uncertainty of the word “usually” had been a boon in my character’s creation, but it was now instilling a degree of vagueness in what mental image I had of the other contestants, and my own, I suppose.
In hindsight (because I sat down and wondered what went wrong in my case), I believe no prose, however well-written, can replace the dimension human eyes provide when you look at/interact with someone, be it during lgbt parades (for me) or elsewhere. Sure, their identified gender would remain unknown until tehy confirm it, but there’d be that… something, that connection, the beginning of an understanding as to their identity. That’s what I struggled with in the [demo of the] game; I couldn’t get a grasp on the characters, couldn’t invest myself in them.
In any case, I still think the writer did a great job, tackling this theme in such fabulous style! I might not have seen all that was on offer, but the responses through *page breaks were hilarious, and I loved the trolly choices we were allowed!(where other games might have retracted into “just kidding, pick again”)
From Narnia, with love.
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At first I, like, vehemently disagreed with you but then… the more I thought on it I realized that I kind of agree. On the one hand, I love that the game focuses only on the characters, including our player character, as their drag personas since it is a competition and because it does a lot to represent that drag can be done by anyone. However… the fact that we have these moments with the characters while the cameras are looking elsewhere or at the hotel, moments where we are clearly being people not drag personas, discussing the competition from off-set, discussing personal lives it’s like… unfortunately, I think what this game is missing is humanizing the characters out of drag. I have to agree. There’s no replacement for reality but a helping hand for our imaginations is plenty good.
I believe there’s firm grasps of the main characters’ personalities (the contestants who stay on long enough to leave an impact) both as their personas and as just people. Having their dialogue and personalities be so clear is obviously excellent, but the scenes out of drag feel a little hollow in that the lack of a description of what they are like without their bravado and binders and lashes kinda leaves a question mark on who they really are, even if their personality is demonstrating it. I feel like the only characters I really feel I understand both in and out are Trigga, Scandal, and Darling Ricky kinda and that’s because we get a clear picture of what they are like out of drag. plus, sometimes one of the fun things about drag, especially drag on TV, is seeing the dramatic contrast between someone’s appearance in and out of it. Having the gender fuckery plain and in your face. Really seeing how much someone transforms.
am i making sense? i get the feeling i’m rambling (since i’m rushing to leave the office lol) might delete this later if it’s nonsensical
Edit: I’m finally rereading it and don’t really feel I worded myself correctly. I do still wish we’d gotten a bit more of a look into our own identity, to summarize
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Separating the stage personality from the personal identity is essential for the story to succeed in presenting the Drag Culture. When you, as a viewer think of RuPaul’s show, you think of the contestants as their stage persona and not their private self. To get at the essence of what makes that so special and something to celebrate, I feel the author was forced to go down the path of focusing on the stage identity of both the MC and NPCs.
The behind the scenes cameos and hotel vignettes were much more related to these show’s “glimpses” into such… the contestants, including the MC was still on stage and in front of an audience and it was clear that these times the MC and others could not let their guard down.
For the game to be as successful within the reality show aspects there really was no other way of doing this.
The epilogue was the first time we actually see the MC as a private individual outside of their stage personality and I hope that the follow up title will explore more of the actual production and behind-the-scenes aspects of the scene, so we get to know the returning NPCs on a more personal level.
tldnr - I think the game was too short to be able to explore every aspect and that it succeeded better because it was focused on the stage-craft side of things.
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I see this game as a prologue a open Window to a world is new to most of people. So present the show inside a tv show makes all focus in the drag not the out drag except the epilogue. It is promising that epilogue to open new bigger games that cover both in an out.
Still the kid mentoring and the possibility of helping other drags and be a inspiration is great .
Just for the fun of it, I named my drag star Omellete Du Fromage aka Fro’.
His catchphrase? *Insert wrestling announcer’s voice
LETS GET READY TO SCRAMBLE!!!
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I love that! It’s eggcellent!
Mine was Glam the Rock Johnson. I actually plan to perform drag karaoke in the town I currently live at, so that game was a blast to play 
Character-wise I had a difficult time, because there where so many people 
but I think this makes sense in the format of the show and especially the late-game was really enjoyable.
One thing that alienated me was that your sister was a default person to be included. I felt like she was a very flat character that just popped into existence out of nowhere (well, at least her reason for existing as active element in the story was a bit: ok, we need a supportive figure, lets slap that on)
It was weird that you did not have the choice to not have her around in the end (with your dog, before the final).
My favorite part where the concepts of all the drag looks available and all the other character’s looks and different styles.
I felt like Dianne and Moment where vastly forgettable, which made Dianne being director in the RHPS themed episode a bit awkward in my mind because I could not remember anything about here before that and then she immediately left.
I do not know whether I just selected choices that did not lead me to such a path, but I kind of felt like there was a lack of emotional depth in the play-through I played. I felt like the problems or break-downs of other chacters like Trigga’s or Scandal’s insecurity’s were way too easily resolved and the stakes weren’t high enough?
Also, is there a way to support Molly X emotionally and help her?
Also, also: It felt weird to me that there as only the asexual-aromantic option and not an asexual-romantic option? Also, I think including asexual-visibility in the marry-screw-kill (errr kiki, kaikai something something I forgot 
) would be really cool! Just a small nodd to that?
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Realized while going through the Malice in Wonderland stunt that a golden opportunity was missed for what to wear for the Walk of Flame:
“I’m a dormouse, duh.”
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it might just be that i’m not trying hard enough/correctly, but how do you lose the competition (aside from being disqualified) or fail a challenge?? i want to play through a lipsync aside from the one against amelia and the finale’s 
I think it’s unfortunately impossible to lose before that. (that’s a weird sentence)
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Drag contests are not political it is far from choice of games making a political statement to release a game that in real life is 100% for entertainment value. Adding LGBT ace non binary people wasn’t political we exist in real life therefore deserve to play in games especially ones centered around self insert. There were plenty of choice of games however where you the “hero” had to make political choices that had far reaching consequences of entire species, villages, of people heck even the world. Drag star wasn’t great imo but far from a political statement. Don’t like drag? Do not read it. Plain and simple. It’s so stupid how cog makes these games that have shown you how to use or not use empathy, compassion, your moral compass and this is the game that bothers people!? Absolutely stupid.
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