Ikiisoge! Instant Lover (a.k.a. Live Fast! Instant Lover in English) is a Japanese freeware game which was released in 2020 and is an Affectionate Parody of Dating Sims where you, as a high school boy, must make someone his girlfriend within a minute or die in an explosion.
The story begins with the Player Character's encounter with a goddess, who chooses him to save the world by... make someone his girlfriend in a minute. If he doesn't make it, he will die in an explosion. Thankfully, the goddess has something useful for you: an Hourglass of Life, which allows the player to add a minute in the game. Unfortunately that item can only be used once, so in order to use it again, he has to find another one.
Compare Half-Minute Hero, a Role-Playing Game with similar core premise.
And boy... this visual novel is weirdly hilarious...
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This Visual Novel provide examples of:
- Comical Overreacting: The main appeal point of this game. The player character himself often shouts hilariously.
- It's a Wonderful Failure: Played for Laughs. When the time's up, you'll given a hilarious game over screen of the player character dies like a memetic Yamcha's death scene.
- Medium Awareness: After the goddess' introduction at the beginning of the game, the player character notices the timer at the upper-right corner of the screen, realizing it wasn't a dream.
- Multiple Endings: There are 7 endings, only one is a rather disturbing Bad Ending.
