YMMV / Angels with Scaly Wings

• Adorkable:
  • Remy is a cute, friendly, white dragon. He is also quite clumsy, shy and somewhat socially inept. On top of that, he wears rimless, round glasses and seems to be into computer games (more specifically, Japanese RPGs).
  • Lorem wants to interview the protagonist about what real humans are like, and squees when given their number. If player suggests that the only reason that Lorem can't shapeshift like mythical dragons is for lack of trying, he's visibly disappointed when it doesn't work.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Did Anna really spare Amely's egg out of pure pragmatism or was she simply unable to bring herself to kill an unborn child she'd come to care about? Her words and frequent apathy would suggest the former, but her expression, the fact she bothered to name the child and leave it on a doorstep, and the fact she's never shown herself to be that ruthless anywhere else in the game suggests the latter.
  • Additionally, Anna routinely claims that she's never really had friends and that the protagonist is the only person who was ever genuinely kind to her. But Angels with Broken Hearts reveals this to be false, as she had a pretty healthy relationship with Maverick. And part of the reason she broke up with him in the first place was because she didn't want him to have to watch her slowly die from cancer. So it's possible that another major reason she avoids getting close to people is because it wouldn't be a lasting relationship anyway due to her condition, so she spares both herself and them the pain that would come knowing she does not have much time left. She even goes over this in her fourth date when the protagonist asks if she likes them: She doesn't outright say no, she simply states that whatever would become of it wouldn't last.
  • With the prequel in account, it's now a question of if Reza genuinely became a monster or if his lost memories may have resurfaced and he remembered he was one. While Reza seems helpful and competent, he is established as having likely worked with the immoral MegaCorp responsible for creating the dragons and directly contributing to the end of the world to begin with, due to his artificial arm.
  • Isabel from Angels With Broken Hearts seems to be helpful to Reza and the community at large...but she's very willing to resort to the Cold Equation if needed, and admits her own survival means a great deal to her and she's willing to throw other people under the bus for it, and has. She's also implied to have resentment towards her father and a need to prove herself, and implies she hides how far she's actually willing to go for her own survival. She also states if no one else could go to dragon world, it'd fall on her to do so, which has left a number of fans believing she might be the 'not nice person' implied to do the Evil Ending if the player doesn't in another timeline, and questioning if she might be manipulating everyone, Reza included, to her own ends.
• Angst? What Angst?:
  • In Remy's Good Ending, Remy's adopted daughter Vara gets killed by Reza. In the moment, he sheds tears of grief. However, since the epilogue takes place weeks afterwards, he seems almost entirely over it, and even wants to adopt a new daughter.
  • In Bryce's Good Ending, Bryce is never shown blaming the protagonist for killing Maverick. Since Maverick was trying to kill an unarmed culprit and exploited Bryce's injuries to do so, it's possible that Bryce worked through those feelings by the time the epilogue happens.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: The "romancing a dragon" aspect is pretty much the main thing most people know about the game, if the reviews on the game's Steam store page is anything to go by.
• Common Knowledge:
  • The track Guitar is often attributed as being Adine's theme. While one usage of it does coincide with her appearance, it plays several times throughout Chapter 1, and it has no particular relation to her.
  • The game is often seen as a straight dating sim with one review even saying the selling point is to 'bone/get boned by a dragon.' The game's name was actually changed from its prototype name 'Dragon Dating Simulator' precisely because it'd evolved to the point the creators felt it no longer fit, and of the dragons, only three explicitly become romantic with the protagonist (that being Bryce, Anna, and Remy), and of those three only two actually have sex with the protagonist. Adine and Lorem never explicitly go past a platonic relationship with the protagonist. In fact, the player can flat out refuse to ever get romantic with any of the dragons with absolutely no consequences and still get all their endings.
• Fanfic Fuel: The fact every timeline where the asteroid is stopped diverges into its own timeline provides a lot of this, as the end result of each could lead to very interesting outcomes. This is especially true of the timeline where one version of the protagonist remains in Adine's Good Ending.
• Fridge Brilliance: The reveal in the prequel comic that Reza's dominant arm is a cybernetic considerably stronger than a normal human's explains how he managed to kill several dragons with a knife in the main game despite most of them being much more physically powerful than a human.
• Fridge Horror:
  • Anna's worst fear is dying alone and indeed in her 'good' ending, the protagonist is the only one who's there. This raises the question of where her parents are and why they won't even show up when their daughter is dying of cancer. This implies they're either dead or, as per Anna's statement no one ever really cared about her, something potentially worse.
  • In Remy's 'Bad Ending', the protagonist initially wants Remy to come back in time with them. Izumi shoots it down, but given she'd taken to murdering the protagonist's past self each loop to prevent complications, if she hadn't and Remy had gone back, Izumi would've likely murdered his past self as well.
  • The prequel reveals the attempt to blackmail Anna in the main game wasn't the first time Damion has pulled that stunt, but the Fridge Horror comes in with what he tried to do when he thought he was in control. Damion acted like he wanted to be her boyfriend, had sex with her, and then proceeded to get angry when she was too busy for a date and only then reveals his plan to try and force her to. This has very disturbing implications as to what Damion had planned...
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Damion crossed it back in Angels With Broken Hearts by attempting to exploit Anna's condition and the fact he's the only one she has left to turn to in order to try and make her his slave. His attempt to blackmail her in the game shows he hadn't actually learned anything.
  • Reza is a monster regardless of route, but any possibility there might be a shred of good in him flies out the window when he kills Vara, a child, in Remy's route.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The player can potentially walk in on Remy having hung himself.
  • While she reveals she's dying, Anna is clearly on the edge of a psychotic break from the sheer stress of her situation and if the player didn't talk her down, might have snapped. Her expressions don't help.
  • While Miles' relationship with Maverick and Anna in Angels With Broken Hearts is nice, there's a scene of Miles eating a fish almost like a wild animal and he spends the rest of the scene with blood on his lips. While unnerving, it also alludes to his degenerative disease that will eventually turn him into a feral Serial Killer. The fact that started this early with no one noticing adds an undercurrent of dread to the whole thing, especially later when Anna described him as like a 'wild animal' during sex.
    • And then it happens for real and the audience is treated to the lovely image of the partially eaten corpse of his fourth victim.
• Player Punch:
  • The death of Anna at the beginning of Chapter 3. Unless you've spent enough time with her to prevent it, most players will get this outcome on their first or second playthrough, motivating you to go back and fix it.
  • If Bryce rushes first into Reza's hideout in Chapter 4, he immediately trips a wire and gets killed by an explosion. If you did well in the investigations, you get the choice to convince Bryce not to rush in. However, if you still make the wrong decision, Bryce will be dead because of your actions. The game will even prevent you from savescumming, forcing you to live with the results.
  • Remy choosing to hang himself. This is the only death that is directly caused by the player having a bad relationship with someone. To make matters worse, you're given no option to pursue Emera for her role in driving him to the edge, since she's an influential politician and you have no proof.
• Popular with Furries: It would be more surprising if a dragon dating sim somehow wasn't popular with scalies.
• The Un-Twist: The true identity of the culprit is... Reza, the number one suspect. Since you find out the truth in the first playthrough, the "murder mystery" aspect of the game vanishes afterwards. The only exception to this is in Bryce's Good Ending, where it's revealed that Izumi has taken Reza's place, making Reza innocent. Played With, as the actual mystery is more why Reza is doing this.

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