YMMV / Fox Eye

• Awesome Music: This circle lacks a composer of its own, with the biggest exception being Fox himself composing the chiptune soundtrack of Sufferer. Instead, all other soundtracks are premade songs from other circles that Fox Eye searches for and collaborates with for permission to bring their music into their games. Nonetheless, a lot of the music does well to fit into the settings of whatever game they're put into, from the upbeat and surreal fantasy music heard in the lighthearted Aqua Cube, to the dark, foreboding, and suspenseful music that can be heard in the Survival Horror Sacrifice Girl, to the Hope Spot climax music used in Holdover, appropriately titled Message.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: With all that has been said about Fox Eye's Author Appeal and Signature Style on the main page, the games have naturally become popular with aquaphiles due to the underwater fantasy theme of the circle, just as Fox intended. However, a major part of the appeal of this circle includes a huge emphasis on drowning perils that all of the games encompass with an Oxygen Meter, and realistically vocal and verbal cues of oxygen distress. While Fox Eye's games have proven to be enjoyable in each of their own rights, with cute and attractive anime-styled character designs of its girls and pretty underwater visuals and artwork to match, the high amount of focus each game has on putting their heroines in constant dangers of drowning (to the point of fetishism, including some of its heronies actually getting a kick out of nearly drowning themselves or just pretending to do so) can be very disturbing and off-putting, which is further attested by several of their games having Nightmare Fuel pages pointing out how graphic their drownings can be. Even without knowing about the circle's fascination with this form of peril, the fact that all Fox Eye games have an Oxygen Meter at all, let alone as the developer's top-billed mechanic, may be enough to turn people away from playing them, since having limited air in Video Games tends to be seen more as a Scrappy Mechanic rather than the timing-based challenge that all Fox Eye games intended to also offer with it. Fox himself has often put up a preemptive warning to detractive would-be buyers and fans to reconsider playing his games.
• Good Bad Translation: Several games are translated into English by Fox, himself, but his English tends to falter at times (due to Japanese being his native language), leading to a lot of broken English in these attempts. For a few games, he hires someone to translate the games into English for him. However, not every game has gotten this treatment, some games (such as Sacrifice Girl) have little-to-no text to translate to begin with, and the games that have been translated by the following professionals may still contain some occasional hiccups in their English scripts (just not enough for it to be too incomprehensible, though):
  • DeafDefiler translated Holdover's dialogue after it was initially released with with a rather-broken English script, thanks to using its custom text feature, but this also means that players can further improve the script, themselves, if they wish.
  • Aster translated Blue Port J, which has one of the largest scripts of any Fox Eye title. However, the original Blue Port remains untranslated due to Fox having several difficulties preparing an English manuscript for the game.
  • Later on, The Topless Girls Club became the most consistent group that Fox Eye collaborated with for English translations of their games, having translated BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret, Karin's Skin Diving Diary! plus, and all five of the games contained in the Fox Eye Limited Game Collection.
• Les Yay: This circle delves into Yuri undertones this time to time, usually in artwork showing girls that are close friends in fanservicey moments, such as bathing together or posing together in bikinis. This includes pairings such as Cassis and Lorile in Water Leaves, Mana and Yurina in Hades Vanquish, and Natica and Sandy in multiple material, but especially in the titular Underwater Rescue. The latter couple seems to be the most popular couple for Fox to use for this, since they can share an Underwater Kiss as an Oxygen Meter gameplay mechanic in their titular game, and further material involving them, such as this manga-styled New Years Day 2020 strip, often shows more moments of them kissing, though Fox insists that Natica is straight.
• Moe: Pretty much every single heroine in this circle is adorable in their own ways. Some artwork just simply has a given one enjoying the sea life in peace and bliss, or showing off a cute pose at the player. This also includes the heroines that are completely capable of kicking ass.

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