History YMMV / PerfectMatch

** Several players have voiced that they are starting to prefer Dames over Damien due to him being more emotional and friendly, as well as feeling sympathetic for him. Even people who aren't romancing Damien have stated that he seems easier to get along with, and feel sympathetic for him as well.
* EvilIsSexy:
** Cecile Contreras for some fans, who find her attractive. Even InUniverse, Kai is given several opportunities to flirt with her or comment on how hot she is.
** Harley is also this for some people, because of their stylish clothing and reckless personality.

* ValuesResonance: The theme of unethical use of AI and the corrupted corporation that would use them to replace humans is especially more relevant in 2023 than it was in 2018, with the advance of AI and unlicensed use of creative work to feed the AI.

** Despite being the CEO of Eros, Rowan West barely makes an appearance and delegates most of his villainous tasks to Cecile.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Depending on your choice in the final conversation with [[TheDragon Cecile]], she can either be just as gleefully evil as Rowan or [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regrets her action]] but thinks that she went too far to turn back.

** Outside of the three main Love Interest, fans also ship Kai with Alana and Cecile. However, both of these ships' popularity took a huge hit with Alana's [[spoiler:SixthRangerTraitor action, though it fired up again with her reappearance in Book 2, and offically becoming an LI]] and Cecile [[spoiler:[[KickTheDog slapping Damien when he was captive]]]].

* FranchiseOriginalSin: This is the Choices book that introduced the concept of "gender-customizable love interests", a concept with has gotten more scrutiny over the years, due to them being less developed than non-customizable love interests by default. However, it's much more tolerable here, since Hayden's personality is customizable as well (opening up plenty of unique dialogue options), and Kai meets them through a dating service, which is a completely understandable in-universe explanation for why their gender is customizable. Furthermore, there are still other love interests available (both male and female, regardless of Hayden's gender) if you choose not to be with Hayden. Compare this with Choices stories released as little as two or three years later, where the gender-customizable love interest is the ''only'' love interest, their personality is watered down to fit both male and female options, despite them still acting male-coded in some cases (i.e. Mayor Dixon from ''VisualNovel/BabyBump'' and Kit Jackson from ''VisualNovel/{{Untameable}}''), there's little to no in-universe justification for them being gender-customizable, and some stories make it so that the main character ends up with them, no matter what.

** [[spoiler:The reveal that Damien was swapped place with Dames during the escape from Eros is highly controversial in the fandom. Some are relief that the person they interacted with and potentially chose to romance for the majority of the first book is the "real" Damien while others highly derided this twist for turning a Premium Choice to have sex with Damien into a BedTrick (along the writers's [[DoubleStandardRapeSciFi callous treatment]] of the situation). Others bemoan the [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot wasted potential]] of having Damien to be a robot the entire time]].

* FoeYay: Kai has the option to flirt with Cecile even after discovering Eros's true nature.

** Sloane Washington. Her fans like her for her adorkable personality, intelligence, understanding of social anxiety, and determination to do as much as possible despite her limitations. They also express their disappointment that her [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter storyline and potential for character development are severely sidelined by Pixelberry's bias against female love interests by having other characters steal her limelight]]. Her detractors think she's a GeniusDitz who's naïve to danger and that her social anxiety isn't portrayed realistically.

** Sloane Washington. Her fans like her for her adorkable personality, intelligence, understanding of social anxiety, and determination to do as much as possible despite her limitations. They also express their disappointment that her [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter storyline and potential for character development are severely sidelined by Pixelberry's bias against female love interests by having other characters steal her limelight]]. Her detractors think she's a GeniusDitz who's naïve to danger and felt that her social anxiety isn't portrayed realistically.

* {{HSQ}}: [[spoiler:Hayden and Damien's RoboticReveal, especially the latter for being a truly shocking and surprise twist that worth several replay of the book]].

** Damien Nazario. His fans view him as a cautious friend/love interest who has your best interests at heart. His detractors view him as an over-the-top cynic who looks for the bad in every situation and can only have fun if there's alcohol involved. It doesn't help that he treated Hayden and Steve rather poorly throughout the first half of the story and never properly apologized to them.

** Harley is also this for some people, because of their good looks and reckless personality.

** Sloane Washington. Her fans like her for her adorkable personality, intelligence, understanding of social anxiety, and determination to do as much as possible despite her limitations. They also lament that her [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter storyline and potential for character development are severely sidelined by Pixelberry's bias against female love interests by having other characters steal her limelight]], and think her detractors too often dismiss her social anxiety as PlayedForLaughs because of her gender and ethnicity giving Pixelberry an excuse to sideline her. Her detractors think she's a GeniusDitz who's naïve to danger and felt that her social anxiety isn't portrayed realistically.

* {{Narm}}: The Berlin safehouse looks like a quaint cottage befitting a fantasy-themed tourist attraction despite its location on the outskirts of Berlin, one of the most modern areas in the world.

** Sloane Washington. Her fans like her for her adorkable personality, intelligence, sweet love confession, understanding of social anxiety, and determination to do as much as possible despite her limitations. They also lament that her [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter storyline and potential for character development are severely sidelined by Pixelberry's bias against female love interests by having other characters steal her limelight]], and think her detractors too often dismiss her social anxiety as PlayedForLaughs because of her gender giving Pixelberry an excuse to sideline her. Her detractors think she's naïve to danger, constantly shunning human interaction, a DitzyGenius despite her high IQ, her social awkwardness exaggerated to the point she could be mentally challenged, and her love confession to Kai forced and cringy. Even the things she says are interpreted as either endearing or weird.

** The blonde female character model of Hayden is generally considered the most attractive.

** Despite being the CEO of Eros, Rowan West barely makes an appearance and delegates most of villainous tasks to Cecile.

** According to [[http://lizzybeth1986.tumblr.com/post/180639427432/hi-lizzy-how-are-you-what-did-you-think-of-the this blog post]], Sloane's potential to be a great character in her own right has been derailed by other characters taking center stage on her scenes, whether free or premium.

** Sloane Washington. Her fans like her for her adorkable personality, intelligence, sweet love confession, understanding of social anxiety, and determination to do as much as possible despite her limitations. They also lament that her [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter storyline and potential for character development are severely sidelined by Pixelberry's bias against female love interests by having other characters steal her limelight]], and think her detractors too often dismiss her social anxiety as PlayedForLaughs because of her gender giving Pixelberry an excuse to sideline her. Her detractors think she's naive to danger, constantly shunning human interaction, a DitzyGenius despite her high IQ, her social awkwardness exaggerated to the point she could be mentally challenged, and her love confession to Kai forced and cringe worthy. Even the things she says are interpreted as either endearing or weird.

** Harley. There are some players who like them for openly flirting with Kai while other players despise them for being a psychotic criminal who gleefully acts on Eros' behalf. When Cecile alters their programming, essentially killing them, players are split between being furious at Cecile or being rejoiced that Harley is gone.

** People are split as to whether or not there should be a third book. One group believes that there's more of the story to tell given that Book 2 ends with Khaan and Sloane turning Eros in a different direction and Keegan (Kai's robot duplicate) leading a group called "The Unity of Liberated Matches". Another group believes that the story had a stisfying conclusion and that any unanswered questions are left up to player interpretation.

** Outside of the three main Love Interest, fans also ship Kai with Alana and Cecile. However, both of these ships's popularity took a huge hit with Alana's [[spoiler:SixthRangerTraitor action, though it fired up again with her reappearance in Book 2, and offically becoming an LI]] and Cecile [[spoiler:[[KickTheDog slapping Damien when he was captive]]]].

* FansPreferTheNewHer: [[spoiler:The fandom all rally behind Damien's new character design in Book 2 that includes a beard despite it was because of his capture by Eros]].

* RewatchBonus: A lot of scenes took on a new meaning if you replay if you knew about Eros's true nature as well as [[spoiler:Hayden's and Damien's RoboticReveal]].

** Damien Nazario. His fans view him as a cautious friend/love interest who has your best interests at heart. His detractors view him as an over-the-top cynic who looks for the bad in every situation and can only have fun if there's alcohol involved. It doesn't help that he treated Hayden and Steve rather poorly throughout the first half of the story.

** Sloane Washington. Her fans like her for her adorkable personality, intelligence, understanding of social anxiety, and determination to do as much as possible despite her limitations. They also lament that her [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter storyline and potential for character development are severely sidelined by Pixelberry's bias against female love interests by having other characters steal her limelight]], and think her detractors too often dismiss her social anxiety as PlayedForLaughs because of her gender giving Pixelberry an excuse to sideline her. Her detractors think she's naive to danger, constantly shunning human interaction, a DitzyGenius despite her high IQ, her social awkwardness exaggerated to the point she could be mentally challenged, and her love confession to Kai forced and cringe worthy. Even the things she says are interpreted as either weird or endearing.

** Sloane Washington. Her fans like her for her adorkable personality, intelligence, understanding of social anxiety, and determination to do as much as possible despite her limitations. They also lament that her [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter storyline and potential for character development are severely sidelined by Pixelberry's bias against female love interests by having other characters steal her limelight]], and think her detractors too often dismiss her social anxiety as PlayedForLaughs because of her ethnicity giving Pixelberry an excuse to sideline her. Her detractors think she's naive to danger, constantly shunning human interaction, a DitzyGenius despite her high IQ, her social awkwardness exaggerated to the point she could be mentally challenged, and her love confession to Kai forced and cringe worthy. Even the things she says are interpreted as either weird or endearing.

* BrokenBase: [[spoiler:The reveal that Damien was swapped place with Dames during the escape from Eros is highly controversial in the fandom. Some are relief that the person they interacted with and potentially chose to romance for the majority of the first book is the "real" Damien while others highly derided this twist for turning a Premium Choice to have sex with Damien into a BedTrick (along the writers's [[DoubleStandardRapeSciFi callous treatment]] of the situation). Others bemoan the [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot wasted potential]] of having Damien to be a robot the entire time]].