Office Lovers

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Aromance game with a female protagonist for those who'd

like to experience the thrills of a secretive office romance.

Available in Japanese, English, and Simplified Chinese.

The Story

You are an employee at Viola, a major corporation in the cosmetics industry. While you've been devoting your time to working on new makeup, your own makeup has suffered as a result. Needless to say, love is nowhere in sight.

Suddenly, you're assigned to work on a new project that's been assigned to develop a new product in time for Christmas. While working alongside her superiors on the team and an energetic co-worker, you start to get more in touch with your femininity...

Before getting into different characters, I feel I should point out that they all bang the MC in the office, multiple times, and very few of those times does she actually want to. She gets into it enough once they start that it is borderline rape rather than outright I suppose, but it still was incredibly problematic. This is a problem with basically all Dogenzaka Lab games, so rather than individually talking about their office escapades, just know that that is a thing that happens every twenty minutes or so XD.

No, there is no reason to play this game. None of the routes are so fantastic that you would be missing out on anything by not playing. The game costs $16 when not on sale, and by no means would one get $16 worth of entertainment. I wound up getting it during a Steam sale for $4ish. I did get $4 worth of entertainment, so at that price you probably would not feel ripped off, but even so, it is not a good game. If you are going to play a Dogenzaka Lab game, My Secret Pets is also the same sale price, and it is much better. Pick that one up instead. Office Lovers is definitely a game you can pass.

Such a fantastic episode. My wife and I were laughing throughout, as opposed to a chuckle or two last week.

I loved that Stanley got the most animated we've ever seen him (with the possible exception of Pretzel Day) when Pam started chanting "No more meetings!"

Classic - a definite all timer I think. Pam's "who is it?" realization was terrific. I think everybody had a part in this one didn't they?

(as for Ryan - I haven't seen it yet - did the hat have any sort of connection to Basterds?)

I absolutely loved this episode - and it definitely made up for last weeks mediocre-fest.

I think Jim being pixellated when he realised Michael knew what car Pam's mum drove is my favourite Krasinski comedy moment. (Overall, it's gotta be the scene where he and Pam find out she's pregnant - in what I'm certain is Sacred Heart hospital.)

"with Dwight no longer hero-worshipping and sucking up to Michael;"

I guess that's what made it funny to me. Dwight genuinely finds Blind Guy McSqueezy hilarious.

I also loved Creed's righteous "come on, man" upon finding out about Michael and Pickle.

I agree, this episode was fantastic. The Office never really played this kind of tension and I was legitimately on edge throughout.

My only problem is that, we the audience truly like Michael, warts and all. I was genuinely sad when he said, "Well, what's so wrong with me?" Because it was pretty rare self-awareness on Michael's part. And after that, Pam's continued reaction could have been over the top. But they played it perfectly and even awknowledged that Pam might be going over the top.

Alan, in the first bullet point you wrote, "If Jim can always beat him, and, on top of that, if Jim is now blatantly Dwight's superior, then that relationship is two one-sided to be as funny as it once was."

Two should be too.

Awesome episode, and as always, awesome review.

I generally like he Office a lot, though I wouldn't say it's my favorite comedy, but I haven't enjoyed an episode THIS much in a long time.

The writing was terrific, but it was all in the acting, and the fact that we've known these characters for so long, made all all the nuances so impactful. And this episode was all about nuances of expression and of reaction, with payoffs on things that have been building since the beginning of the show.

Even the small things worked - as you said, Alan, Erin, a character that I frankly wrote off when she came on board, added to the proceedings, with a small, yet story furthering role.

I hope they keep this momentum going.

(This is the first time I haven't erased the episode from the DVR, because I want to see it again this weekend.)

I thought your jump teaser was going to be "as soon as I start dating her harder." I laughed my a$$ off on this one. All-time classic, for sure. Creed weeping over the beautiful aria absolutely killed me. So did Angela's bitchy glee over Pam's misery. Michael dating Pam's mother is going to be a rich comedy vein to tap.

Ryan is a magnificent douche bag, one of the most enjoyable jerks on TV in a long time.

I also thought this was one of their all-time best, especially as it gave every cast member at least one quality line or moment.

Jim's reaction when Michael was able to name Pam's Mother's car literally made me clap my hands with laughter...loved this episode.

The entire atmosphere of the show seemed off kilter with Pam and Jim so out of sorts which I am sure was intential and made the episode even more entertaining.

One last point no one else has mentioned: you have to love smug, bitchy Angela.

Oh I forgot my one comic Book Guy momment. The joke about how their paper mill in South America(?) was poisoning people bugged me a bit because in a past episode they made another joke about how Dunder-Mifflin is basically a midddle man. They don't produce the paper; they just resell it. Still, just one geeky momment was outweighed by a lot of funny.

Great, great episode, but I thought Pam was overreacting to the extreme last night. I understand that her overreaction was part of the plot, but Pam's character has started to get bitchier and bitchier for some time now, and her insults at Michael in that meeting were a little too over the top for me.

Loved it.

What I liked most about the fedora was that we caught glimpses of it long before it was commented on. I probably would have liked it better if it had continued to be unexplained. It really needs no explanation--Ryan is exactly the kind of dude to wear a fedora. Then again, Kelly asking him a "personal question" about his fedora was also funny in its own right.

There was a lot of great facial-only comedy from Stanley and all the background players. Stanley was really animated throughout the conference room scene, an awesome contrast to his usual indifference. Creed's reaction to the aria was hilarious, and Andy's was, as well. Very in character.

Another thing: Dwight being upset that given Michael's new proclivity for dating Office mothers, he didn't choose Dwight's first. Heh.

I am trying to imagine Dwight's mother, and all I'm getting is Rainn Wilson in a wig, wearing some kind of denim/prairie dress contraption.

but I thought Pam was overreacting to the extreme last night

I agree Pam was overreacting but she's pregnant - that comes with the territory. I think it's to the show's credit they aren't beating us over the head with it but Pam is still acting - and looking - the part. (

I am trying to imagine Dwight's mother, and all I'm getting is Rainn Wilson in a wig, wearing some kind of denim/prairie dress contraption.

I imagine the same thing except the fabric is burlap a la Lucy and Ethel.

Michael asking everyone what's so wrong with him finding happiness... totally manipulative. And effective. Seeing people's faces change and turn on Pam's decent into madness was very well done. Except of course for Keven who immediately went for the fist-bump.

I also laughed seeing Ryan wearing the hat in the conference room before they'd said anything about it. (Though it didn't look like a fedora to me.) One of the first times I've laughed at a Ryan bit in a long, long while.

The Michael/Jim lashing out at Toby was one of the best things they've done this season. I laughed so much.

Lastly, I love how they handled the network mandated inclusion of propaganda with Dwight's story of putting down hundreds of pets.

This could be the best Office episode ever. If not ever, at least in the past 50 years. When Oscar said his mother was in a wheel chair, I couldn't help but think "That really wouldn't stop Michael, would it?" And telling Pam in the conference that one day he might be her father and her boss, I'm surprised Pam didn't kill him where he stood. Pregnant women are crazy!

Pam over-reacting?? Imagine if your parents had just gone through a messy divorce and your mom hooked up with your boss at your wedding, who you really didn't even want there in the first place! Far from over-reacting. If I were in her shoes, I probably would have tried to strangle him, consequences be damned!

What a great episode after such a dud last week. I love that Pam reverted to the angry kid or teenager who's upset with her parents (I particularly loved when Pam screams at her mom into her phone and Jim is terrified to approach her with hot chocolate, then Michael scolds Pam for her mom in the conference room scene later), but that she was relatable because no one wants to see their boss get together with their mom. It's twisted, yet Michael seems to have no clue about this.

I still maintain Dwight's certifiably insane, though the whole thing about wanting to introduce Michael to his mom was hilarious to me (as was his freaked look at the camera when he found out he was sleeping with Pam's mom as he was doing the "blood gushing down" thing to Michael).

The Office wins Thursday night by a mile. I wonder if wearing a fedora automatically makes you a douchebag...I'd like to buy one just so I can remove it in elevators when women are present, like Don Draper would.

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