I wanted something more lighthearted after that last one, so we’re ending this month’s celebration with the game that topped my list of weird visual novels, My Girlfriend is the President.
When an alien ambassador accidentally wipes out the Japanese government, she buys herself time to restore them by brainwashing the entire world into believing a nearby girl is the president. And that girl… is your best friend and neighbor!
My Girlfriend is the President is insane.
The protagonist is one of the few characters let in on the truth about what’s going on due to his immunity to the brainwashing. Almost everyone else considers it to be entirely normal that the president (of the United States of Nippon, because the aliens were a little confused about Earth’s governments) and her cabinet are a group of teenagers… and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
From random English lines to surreal military parodies to Pokémon and JoJo references, it’s filled with weird bits of ridiculousness that kept me entertained.
(And while at first you might think the game has some odd typos, it’s actually a case of them avoiding real country names, so you get things like Rusia and Ameriga.)
Earlier this month, I talked about how a lot of “weird” visual novels lack a true soul. This one, thankfully, has a soul. It has heart. It takes a ridiculous premise and runs with it. My Girlfriend is the President isn’t a bunch of wacky ideas thrown together to be quirky, but a full comedy that will take you upwards of 20 hours to complete.
Parts of this visual novel follow a familiar path. You have the ditzy childhood friend, the sudden arrival of a rival (in this case, President Putina of Rusia; your childhood friend is President Ohama), characters cooking for the protagonist, awkward romantic misunderstandings…
…and in the middle of all of these familiar tropes, you’re also trying to pass bills, dealing with politics, and getting swept up in disputes between aliens such as the loli alien gamer scientist Qoo Little-Little.
The romance parts are a little slow, but the rest of the story is absolute nonsense in the best way possible.
Now, it’s an eroge, and as far as I know there is no all-ages version, so you have to be okay with a lot of sexual humor and some explicit sex scenes (but you can skip through those if you don’t care to read them).
I wouldn’t recommend My Girlfriend is the President if you’re looking for a serious plot, and I wouldn’t recommend it if you’re looking for deep, meaningful love stories, but if you want a wacky comedy filled with ridiculous moments and absurd situations, it might be what you need.
I still need to finish up my remaining routes, but My Girlfriend is the President turned out to be the perfect way to wrap up our first ever Celebrating All Things Romantic month!