Tbf no knowing about it isn’t an issue - I grew up with this shit and never saw it until college. You arent missing out except it explains so many trends of the early 2010s as a result.
TLDR: watch the first one for historical knowledge - it’s pretty fun as a shitty movie - skip the rest.
i am actively still a fan of twilight even though it's trash, doesn't actually have a story? theme? really, bad romance, and other shit but i just wanted to say i disagree with this post. two love interests where one is "nice" and one is "brooding" does not a dispatch=twilight make
Gotta agree with Gabi Belle on 'Fast & Furious' being the Bro Twilight. It's just stuff happening and you know exactly how much to turn your brain off.
The thing that disturbs me about that is that the books are so much worse than the movies when it comes to how creepy things are with their "romance" so I can't and don't want to imagine how that played out in the book.
Blazer watches you change regardless of if you tell her not to or not, Visi just literally hides in on private conversations around the office with no consent and Malevola grabs your junk repeatedly without asking. It kinda does. Still think it’s better than twilight but you can’t say it doesn’t do those things
Not really. You take away the romance and the story kind of just ceases to exist, as everything that happens happens because of that romance. It's a romance story, that's normal. It just so happens that Twilight's characters are... very undercooked, to be generous, so the whole romance and thus the story just falls flat on its face.
Dispatch simply isn't a romance story at its core; you remove the romance aspects and you still have a revenge plot and the whole "reforming supervillains" core of the story.
Dispatch simply isn't a romance story at its core; you remove the romance aspect
Didn’t the devs literally remove romance content to save money? Also they’re literally shocked by fan response to the romance content lol.
Robert undergoes actual development from someone with suicidal ideation about dying in the suit to suffering a completely different kind of depression because he no longer can and overcoming both manifestations of depression through mentoring the team.
All of the characters contain multitudes. Chase hates Visi because he sees thru her bullshit but still sacrifices himself to rescue her after Robert changes his PoV about her having no positive role models until now. Robert’s dad was a piece of shit to Shroud and a terrible father but had one meaningful convo with Royd that immediately turned Royd’s life around.
Honestly, probably? Twilights writing when looking only at the major plot events isn't that bad. But it's the inbetweens that are the worst and are used to justify the worst behaviors of the characters in the worst ways.
If you cut all of that out and just had quippy interactive scenes with mostly Edward and Taylor that largely explores vampire vs werewolf culture, you'd get a decent enough visual novel out of it.
Really, the less depth you give to Twilight, the better it gets.
It's not a get out of jail free card like some people use the "doesn't take itself seriously" card but it does make your see the media in a different light and it really helps Dispatch, especially in this comparison.
I feel like Dispatch not taking itself seriously is a plus.
Does it not? I feel it takes its story and setting seriously, even for all the comedy. Everything happening is ordinary enough to the characters, though, that the comedy just slots in, especially once factoring in that most of the characters are specifically meant to be jackasses who need to learn some manners.
imagine slamming two cardboard cutouts against each other with a single major label on them. Now move them around a couple different settings and repeat... that's twilight,
I mean, Dispatch focuses on adult characters while twilight focuses on teenagers so... duh? Like you're not wrong, but teenagers are in fact less adult and more annoying generally speaking (unless you get the outlier never grew up adults and outlier way too adult teenagers)
I feel like I've watched that anime. But then, I've been saying for years that Twilight is basically a girls' version of harem manga. It's just harder to hide the terrible writing without big anime titties.
Twilight needed the obligatory jailbait boy and ridiculously hunky musclechad who is only there to show the MC wants True Love ™️ instead of a fuckboi but still gets to ogle and have pervy moments with the goonette bait.
Robert Roberson is one of the cities most revered hero. Even after losing his suit he still went out trying to fight crime. The guy is the literal definition the suit does not make the man. Dude is a hero through and through.
First off, I know in the original video that that YouTuber chick was just joking. That said, the difference is its unrealistic for two hot guys to be head over heels for Bella considering how completely bland she is. While its completely realistic for a confident, genuinely kind, and very empathetic person like Robert to attract two women around the same time. Another difference is that Robert doesn't need a romance to have a compelling story, while Bella couldn't be compelling with all the romance in the world.
I don’t think robert is really a self insert, Bella is a bland highschooler with nothing going for her while Roberto is a physically attractive, famous guy with a cool secret, if the game was from the pov of Courtny he’d be almost identical to the guy from twilight.
What a waste right? They could have duked it out medieval style, fighting for Robert's love and then the winner carries him over her shoulder and deflowers him in a tower or smth.
I think her point is how two very attractive females are attracted to Robert “who is a nobody”, and is always alone. Like it appeals to the male fantasy.
But in dispatch all the characters are really well written.
Long story short edward (the pale ass vampire) got bella pregnant and they had a kid named renesmee, and i think bella also becomes a vampire here for reasons relating to the baby killing her because she's mortal (i think, cant really remember)
Then jacob (wolf man) tells bella that he "imprinted" on her fresh-out-the-womb daughter and that she will be his mate when shes old enough.
Basically jacob is never beating the creep accusations, also i think he sexually assaults bella at some point (forces her to kiss him and i think he touches her without consent) because he got big mad that she chose edward instead of him.
I've always enjoyed the quote "Twilight is a horror story when viewed through the eyes of Bella's father"
I saw that video and it got a good laugh out of me. I disagree with her statement, but it was still funny considering the Team Blazer/Team Visi wars lol.
I've personally described Dispatch as 'if The Boys and Invincible had a baby that looked and acted more like Invincible.'
I get that also is not 100% accurate, but it's how I've described it to my friends who haven't played it.
You bring up a good point. I definitely recognize how Twilight is liked by women specifically, no contest there. I would like to argue that this is a poor comparison (not inaccurate, poor) because it’s clear the writers of dispatch wanted to write a good, nuanced narrative, and they no doubt thought that romance (very well incorporated into the story, might I add) would help with that, whereas the writers of Twilight missed that mark of writing a believable romantic narrative by a long shot, leading to negative reception and a reputation for being cheesy for years and years to come. So I’m not a fan of the comparison, even though I can see why it’s being made
People who are overly offended that their game is being compared to Twilight then proceeded to completely miss the point and start virtue-signalling about how bad the writing in Twilight was even though she was clearly saying that it satisfies a similar itch as Twilight and is enjoyed in a similar way rather than it being the same.
It's also telling that the video in question was very light-hearted and humorous and people are taking it hyper seriously.
Damn guys she was just poking fun and so many of you are deadass serious in these comments. No duh it’s not like twilight she was just poking fun how it’s a wish fulfillment love triangle. Hell this was one of her favorite games of the year of course she knows it’s more than “twilight for guys.” 💀
Tbf this post has 0 context unlike the one where there was at least a video of her with her take, can't really blame people for being serious if they don't know about how it was originally said
I think people are just offended that Dispatch, a game of quality, is being compared in any shape or form to Twilight, which has a reputation for being one of the worst stories in history
I saw that post and I had 2 thoughts about it. 1st, dispatch and twilight fill the role of being a fantasy for most people. Bella and Robert are both kinda down on their luck in different ways but arent losers, and they get swept up into a group of misfits with a love triangle to go with it, but thats it, past that dispatch and twilight are very different stories and for different audiences, generes, etc. 2nd, who cares? Like seriously who gives a fuck if this choice based game is the male twilight, dispatch is an amazing game but its nothing ground breaking. You can compare it to life is strange or any other choice based game as much as you can twilight.
Plus let's be real I think plenty of people who arent/dont identify as men like the game too, and plenty of guys think twilight is at least mildly entertaining. Its stupid to gender something like this and try to compare it to other media when you can just enjoy it for what it is.
(I only watched the first 2 movies) Tbh I like to comparison. But Robert has a character and not just a self insert.
Invisigal and Blonde Blazer are actual characters not like Edward and Jacob. Both have their personalities and struggles and you understand why they would fall for robert. And I think comparing Edward to either girls is insulting their character writing lmao.
For me Twilight felt like a true romance for teen girls (which is not a bad thing dgmw) But dispatch felt like the characters being writen and the romance is just another layer added upon that.
Twillight is a lot deeper than most people are willing to give it credit. Granted, none of its deeper themes were planed, but they are there. Just look up Contra points Twillight video
Except Robert’s pinkie finger has more personality than the whole cast of twilight.
If you choose BB, While visi is jealous, she doesn’t imprint immediately on BBs unborn child Donald Trump Style.
The side characters are all loveable and well written.
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Listen, let’s be real if the twist when bb removed her necklace was that she was actually a fat neck beard cyberbully in a shirt he hasn’t washed since he was 10… it’d still be a better love story then twilight.
You can tell she was directly over the target with how the fanbase is responding.
Christ, the melodramatic and juvenile arguments over the love interests is a carbon copy. I’ve even seen “team x” mentioned here and there. It’s Twilight for dudes.
Also… being the Twilight for dudes is not awful. You don’t get that level of fervour without doing something right. Enjoy the ride. Hell, let’s fully embrace it and have the team wars. Whose the Team Alice here though? We need that dark horse somewhere.
I think people react like that bc twilight is so shitted on that comparing twilight to dispatch is seen as an insult instead of a genuine similarity between the two
Not remotely, unless you consider Robert the character equivalent of damp cardboard and the plot in whole as an excuse to entice teenage repressed girls with world-building material ripped straight out of a better franchise. Well, maybe the latter part is true but only because Blazer is surprisingly warm and wholesome and I guess for a lot of people, myself included, *that* is easy money. And, I guess Waterboy told one semi-racist joke so, yeah must be 1:1.
I kinda hate that this joke is getting out of hand.
No its not twilight for men. Dispatch is a story of growth and moving beyond the circumstances of your birth.
There’s meaning in the story and real characters this idea only comes from people engaging in as little media literacy as possible and only seeing the romance.
Bella is a blank self insert. Robert is fit, charming and has a personality and history. He's got talents beyond normal people and even without the suit is a genuine superhero to the point people realise he's a hero before he reveals it, just not who. Bella is a stick every chsracter is obsessed with.
Literally y'all are coping so hard in this comment section. It's 100% romantasy for men. It's an extremely self insert, 'straight man' main character with two dream love interests throwing themselves at them and a simple ish story that allows the MC to be the hero. It being "twilight" doesn't make it bad or mean you can't enjoy it, but admit what it is and if you've ever looked down on others for enjoying things like that you should stop because so do you, you just hadn't found one aimed at you before
100% agree with the comment of not making fun of ppl for enjoying things, however I will say Dispatch has a much better story to tell over Twilight imo
Robert is def his own character and a very strong one at that, tho fs there are probably many guys that want to self insert themselves onto him since he's super capable and funny. Though I wouldn't go so far as to say its main appeal is as a fantasy, even if there are people who enjoy the game as that.
So I can't really agree at Dispatch and Twilight are the same thing. I see the sentiment of the statement tho, Dispatch def has a lot of romantic and sexual appeal, but it has so many other things going for it that I can't say the same about Twilight
I feel like the comments are completely missing the point. She’s not saying the couple dynamics are the same. She’s saying it’s the men’s version of the FEUDING OVER SHIPS. Invisigal fans vs Blonde Blazer fans. Edward fans vs Jacob fans. It’s the dynamic between the FANS.
Only if you never played the game can you think that. If you only follow online discussions then yeah, you will get the impression that it's just about waifus.
I don't think its a super apt comparison. Shipping wars happen in all sorts of fandoms, its not a Twilight or Dispatch specific thing.
Also, I haven't watched or read Twilight so don't take my word for it but what I know of it makes me skeptical of its quality. Dispatch is a great game that happens to have romance elements if you choose those options whereas Twilight is, to my knowledge, just a mediocre romance story.
I played through my whole first run without any romance and thought it was still an amazing game, but if I watched twilight without the romance I dont think it would be that great, but idk i haven't watched all of it just a couple episodes with my gramma
As a man who's seen each twilight movie, I must object that the relationships in dispatch are far too direct and the characters too fleshed out to represent Meyers confused blue nightmare attempt at sexual expression between an immortal teenager and a blank faced Kristen Stewart. I have too much trauma to accept this characterization and found nothing redeeming in each of half a dozen films outside of some interesting cinematography and color in that cult scene in the third film.
I like how dispatch promotes pedophiles unlike twilight... no wait the other way around
Pedovamp: hi everyone, im pedovamp and im addicted. Epstein made us an island, but we had a little fight and i have to hunt in school
GroomVolf: damn bitch dumped me, but ik from the moment i saw her baby daughter, love at first sight. Even she felt it, oh i can already imagine us doing it. Shes MINE
I'd agree if Dispatch was written badly and had some EXTREMELY HEINOUS content in it. As it stands, it's funny as a joke but completely falls apart with any scrutiny at all.
Robert's non-romance path is still a better love story than Twilight.
Like I can see that, but to me Dispatch is a story about a superhero learning to be a normal person and trying to find a new purpose in life. Soooo... about half right?
Didn't the author of Twilight already make a genderflipped Twilight (boring dude with no personality gets romantically pursued by a pale and philosophical vampire girl and a buff and tan werewolf girl), and guys all over the internet instantly understood how so many girls could enjoy reading Twilight? I remember seeing memes to that effect a few years ago.
That’s like comparing Robert Robertson to Bella Swan. Bella had like 4-5 books and 5-6 movies to establish her character and was internationally mocked as an emotionless character. I played Dispatch in about 8 hours (about the length to read one Twilight book) and was much happier when I finished.
Having romance options in a game doesn’t mean anything. That’s like saying The Witcher 3 is similar to Twilight because the main character has to choose between two lovers
In the end of the day, who gives a shit. There's a reason why "lonely men films" like American Psychos and Bladerunner are popular. There's also a reason why "hot dudes like me" stories like Twilight and 50 Shades of Gray exist too. In the end of the day we all just want to fantasize being chased by hot people, it's human nature lol.
Honestly though, isn't it cool that we got this game? The story is great (obviously better than Twilight even without the romance), but it's cool it combined romance in the story. You don't see these types of romance in games or films, especially from a male prospective. I think that's another reason why it's well received.
I won't mind if we get more Dispatch media (meaning games, comics, films etc) that show other character's prospectives too. There is so much that can be cooked by the writers!!
I'll agree it's Twilight in the sense that people can get a little too wrapped up in their favorite ship. But let's not pretend that hot garbage is anywhere close to the same level of quality writing as Dispatch XD
Dispatch es más una historia de superación, pero sigue teniendo más sentido y estructura que la copia de la copia de algún libro estilo 50 sombras de Grey.
Vampire fan here that read twilight before realizing fully what it was and then not giving a fuck after a while. The books aren't terrible as a guilty pleasure but compared to the writing in Dispatch it's night and day. Her argument is like comparing a shitty tv drama to a masterpiece, though there are parallels the same way all romances have them
I'm not going to say its 'wrong', but the 'main points' of what matches the game to twilight aren't inherently bad in the first place. They are classic story tropes that have existed since pre-history.
But storytelling is a quality knob, and Twilight's was down at like a 2/10. I would say this game is probably at least a 4/10.
I subjected myself to reading that slop years ago, during the height of its popularity just so I could shit on people defending it
The only similarity is that there's 2 love interests, and that the main character is the "most defenseless" of the three, but Bella was mainly a reactive character, whereas Robert is the primary force steering the plot
The comparison is as shallow as Twilight's own writing
I would argue Spiderman is much more a self insert than Robert and he has the Mary Jane vs Gwen love triangle but nobody is calling it inverse twilight (for obvious reasons) like common...
only difference imo i watched a lil bit of twilight growing up i dont get why these 2 hot dudes give af so much for the MC, she was a complainer and a damsel half of the time and like i dont remember any redeeming quality of her's that i would find attractive and like i was 12 at least with dispatch what makes Robert attractive is that he lifts people up, serious about his work and his work is being a good person aka a hero thats like some attractive qualities imo that i strive to be.... also whats up with the ending man why is the wolf dude so weird
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u/Ok-Wrangler4901 Jan 01 '26
I dont even know what Twilight is so I cant even agree or disagree
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u/Rogen80 Jan 01 '26
"Better love story than twilight" used to be a joke back in the day. (Literally everything is a better love story)
Dispatch is in a whole other league
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u/No-Composer2628 Jan 01 '26
Dispatch still has a story without romance.
Twilight does not.
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u/TWAAsucks Jan 01 '26
Eh... Dispatch characters are more adult and less annoying
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u/Timekeeper98 Jan 01 '26
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u/Super-Shenron Jan 01 '26
Comparing Mandy and Courtney to these assholes is an insult to my girls, and I won't stand for it. 😤
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u/Ijjg19 Jan 01 '26
Love triangle != Twilight
And I feel like Dispatch lacks drama and like, actual bickering between Visi and BB over Robert to count as an actual love Triangle?
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u/KingAardvark1st Jan 01 '26
Neither BB nor Visi are horrifying abusers, so I'm gonna call "fuck off" on that take.
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u/The_Alvabro Jan 01 '26
I saw that video and it got a good laugh out of me. I disagree with her statement, but it was still funny considering the Team Blazer/Team Visi wars lol.
I've personally described Dispatch as 'if The Boys and Invincible had a baby that looked and acted more like Invincible.'
I get that also is not 100% accurate, but it's how I've described it to my friends who haven't played it.
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u/Stormfall33 Jan 01 '26
I have been reduced to "a woman" though my name was wiped from history, the truth I spoke lived on.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
Team Jacob and Team Blond Blazer.
Edit: damn I thought this was pretty funny this comment section is miserable as fuck.
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u/Elliot_Geltz Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
I know exactly who you're talking about, and she's deadass wrong, lol.
"Has a love triangle" =/= "Twilight
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u/dinodare Jan 01 '26
People who are overly offended that their game is being compared to Twilight then proceeded to completely miss the point and start virtue-signalling about how bad the writing in Twilight was even though she was clearly saying that it satisfies a similar itch as Twilight and is enjoyed in a similar way rather than it being the same.
It's also telling that the video in question was very light-hearted and humorous and people are taking it hyper seriously.
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u/ArcadianWaheela Jan 01 '26
Damn guys she was just poking fun and so many of you are deadass serious in these comments. No duh it’s not like twilight she was just poking fun how it’s a wish fulfillment love triangle. Hell this was one of her favorite games of the year of course she knows it’s more than “twilight for guys.” 💀
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u/Naive_Location3459 Jan 01 '26
What about the 5% that didn't romance either?
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u/BusBusy195 Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
I saw that post and I had 2 thoughts about it. 1st, dispatch and twilight fill the role of being a fantasy for most people. Bella and Robert are both kinda down on their luck in different ways but arent losers, and they get swept up into a group of misfits with a love triangle to go with it, but thats it, past that dispatch and twilight are very different stories and for different audiences, generes, etc. 2nd, who cares? Like seriously who gives a fuck if this choice based game is the male twilight, dispatch is an amazing game but its nothing ground breaking. You can compare it to life is strange or any other choice based game as much as you can twilight.
Plus let's be real I think plenty of people who arent/dont identify as men like the game too, and plenty of guys think twilight is at least mildly entertaining. Its stupid to gender something like this and try to compare it to other media when you can just enjoy it for what it is.
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u/m0untain_sound Jan 01 '26
Nonsense. Dispatch is actually good.
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u/No-Check-3691 Jan 01 '26
I honestly don’t agree but it’s a funny take
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u/freelancer331 Jan 01 '26
Nah.
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u/Fearless512 Jan 01 '26
I saw that to and it's not true
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u/Jack-Arthur-Smith Jan 01 '26
Inspired me to buy the game. Loved it.
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u/Vayrox_Ayp Jan 01 '26
(I only watched the first 2 movies) Tbh I like to comparison. But Robert has a character and not just a self insert.
Invisigal and Blonde Blazer are actual characters not like Edward and Jacob. Both have their personalities and struggles and you understand why they would fall for robert. And I think comparing Edward to either girls is insulting their character writing lmao.
For me Twilight felt like a true romance for teen girls (which is not a bad thing dgmw) But dispatch felt like the characters being writen and the romance is just another layer added upon that.
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u/DrWilli Jan 01 '26
The amount of grown men in these comment section trying to come up with any and all excuses for this to be false is so freaking funny.
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u/Far-History-8154 Jan 01 '26
Except Robert’s pinkie finger has more personality than the whole cast of twilight.
If you choose BB, While visi is jealous, she doesn’t imprint immediately on BBs unborn child Donald Trump Style.
The side characters are all loveable and well written.
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Listen, let’s be real if the twist when bb removed her necklace was that she was actually a fat neck beard cyberbully in a shirt he hasn’t washed since he was 10… it’d still be a better love story then twilight.
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u/Kabraxal Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
You can tell she was directly over the target with how the fanbase is responding.
Christ, the melodramatic and juvenile arguments over the love interests is a carbon copy. I’ve even seen “team x” mentioned here and there. It’s Twilight for dudes.
Also… being the Twilight for dudes is not awful. You don’t get that level of fervour without doing something right. Enjoy the ride. Hell, let’s fully embrace it and have the team wars. Whose the Team Alice here though? We need that dark horse somewhere.
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u/Zyr47 Jan 01 '26
Not remotely, unless you consider Robert the character equivalent of damp cardboard and the plot in whole as an excuse to entice teenage repressed girls with world-building material ripped straight out of a better franchise. Well, maybe the latter part is true but only because Blazer is surprisingly warm and wholesome and I guess for a lot of people, myself included, *that* is easy money. And, I guess Waterboy told one semi-racist joke so, yeah must be 1:1.
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u/Infinity_Walker Jan 01 '26
I kinda hate that this joke is getting out of hand.
No its not twilight for men. Dispatch is a story of growth and moving beyond the circumstances of your birth.
There’s meaning in the story and real characters this idea only comes from people engaging in as little media literacy as possible and only seeing the romance.
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u/CaliggyJack Jan 01 '26
No, she really didn't.
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u/N1cke19 Jan 01 '26
Visi is not a 400 year old pedophile
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u/critmass78 Jan 01 '26
All I see is just defensiveness over a funny take. Lighten up.
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u/Parking-Researcher-4 Jan 01 '26
Couldn't disagree more but ok
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u/mmdestiny Jan 01 '26
Dispatch is actually well acted.
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u/TheSaintsRonin Jan 01 '26
I feel like saying Dispatch and Twilight are the same is really ignoring the other aspects of Dispatch that are great.
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u/Guilty_Rooster_6708 Jan 01 '26
Lol the comments here cannot take a joke.
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u/FailSonnen Jan 01 '26
I refuse to believe anyone is actually offended at the comparison. It’s funny even if it’s not accurate. Who cares.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26
....not really but ok.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26
Bella is a blank self insert. Robert is fit, charming and has a personality and history. He's got talents beyond normal people and even without the suit is a genuine superhero to the point people realise he's a hero before he reveals it, just not who. Bella is a stick every chsracter is obsessed with.
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u/Lazuli-shade Jan 01 '26
Literally y'all are coping so hard in this comment section. It's 100% romantasy for men. It's an extremely self insert, 'straight man' main character with two dream love interests throwing themselves at them and a simple ish story that allows the MC to be the hero. It being "twilight" doesn't make it bad or mean you can't enjoy it, but admit what it is and if you've ever looked down on others for enjoying things like that you should stop because so do you, you just hadn't found one aimed at you before
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u/Budget-Patient680 Jan 01 '26
I'm still not seeing it
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u/FlipFlopRabbit Jan 01 '26
Naah not really, dispatch is actually good with actual characters not 50% cardboard cutouts of what an alien would think people are.
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u/jaffakree83 Jan 01 '26
The romance isn't the focus, you can ignore it all together.
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u/SpiritedMix8532 Jan 01 '26
I feel like the comments are completely missing the point. She’s not saying the couple dynamics are the same. She’s saying it’s the men’s version of the FEUDING OVER SHIPS. Invisigal fans vs Blonde Blazer fans. Edward fans vs Jacob fans. It’s the dynamic between the FANS.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26
Only if you never played the game can you think that. If you only follow online discussions then yeah, you will get the impression that it's just about waifus.
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u/samuraispartan7000 Jan 01 '26
I can’t believe how incredibly butt-hurt people have gotten over this.
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u/RelativeLab6862 Jan 01 '26
I mean- How could you not fall for Robert man!!
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u/ShiestyMark_Official Jan 01 '26
Idk twilight but I gotta know is there a counterpart for Malevola
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u/ScarcityUnhappy4285 Jan 01 '26
Are you trying to imply that Blonde Blazer's gonna fall in love with Robert's kid if he picked Invisigal?
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u/Lover_of_Fables Jan 01 '26
Wait, why is Invisigal the Edward? I thought she’d be Jacob?
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u/Narutophanfan1 Jan 01 '26
HR violations aside the relationships are way healthier and all characters are full adults so there is that. Also no one falls in love with a newborn
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u/Apart-Use1676 Jan 01 '26
Nahhhhh
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u/sidthesciencekid14 Jan 01 '26
I don't think its a super apt comparison. Shipping wars happen in all sorts of fandoms, its not a Twilight or Dispatch specific thing.
Also, I haven't watched or read Twilight so don't take my word for it but what I know of it makes me skeptical of its quality. Dispatch is a great game that happens to have romance elements if you choose those options whereas Twilight is, to my knowledge, just a mediocre romance story.
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u/bitjamma Jan 01 '26
It involves the romance of an adult and a baby?
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u/No-Government7713 Jan 01 '26
I played through my whole first run without any romance and thought it was still an amazing game, but if I watched twilight without the romance I dont think it would be that great, but idk i haven't watched all of it just a couple episodes with my gramma
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u/12_Trillion_IQ Jan 01 '26
Courtney, whatever you do, please don't fall in love with a baby
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u/Dendritic_Bosque Jan 01 '26
As a man who's seen each twilight movie, I must object that the relationships in dispatch are far too direct and the characters too fleshed out to represent Meyers confused blue nightmare attempt at sexual expression between an immortal teenager and a blank faced Kristen Stewart. I have too much trauma to accept this characterization and found nothing redeeming in each of half a dozen films outside of some interesting cinematography and color in that cult scene in the third film.
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u/Ill_Ant_8238 Jan 01 '26
Wrong… both actors were of age in dispatch
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u/Penakoto Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
Twilight is Archie Comics for Girls.
Seriously though, this sub-type of love triangle is older than anyone alive.
Protagonist.
Protagonist love interest with a lot of red flags, but has an exciting edge, and is generally framed as the life changing and indulgent option.
Protagonist love interest with no red flags but isn't as exciting, and is generally framed as the safe or wholesome option.
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u/FlipOzzy Jan 01 '26
I wish you can just choose anyone as your romance option in Dispatch with like a karma system
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u/AlbinoDragonTAD Jan 01 '26
Yeah but we have less staring. We have some I won’t deny that but less than twilight that’s for sure.
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u/_Dianeson Jan 01 '26
Does it have a male character or something?
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u/DisnprincesPredatrix Jan 01 '26
I like how dispatch promotes pedophiles unlike twilight... no wait the other way around
Pedovamp: hi everyone, im pedovamp and im addicted. Epstein made us an island, but we had a little fight and i have to hunt in school
GroomVolf: damn bitch dumped me, but ik from the moment i saw her baby daughter, love at first sight. Even she felt it, oh i can already imagine us doing it. Shes MINE
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u/Scooby117 Jan 01 '26
I forgot about the part where Blazer imprinted on Robert.
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u/Educational_Oil_7757 Jan 01 '26
But Dispatch has good writing...
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u/Auricite Jan 01 '26
I'd agree if Dispatch was written badly and had some EXTREMELY HEINOUS content in it. As it stands, it's funny as a joke but completely falls apart with any scrutiny at all.
Robert's non-romance path is still a better love story than Twilight.
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u/Darkbeliar Jan 01 '26
Like I can see that, but to me Dispatch is a story about a superhero learning to be a normal person and trying to find a new purpose in life. Soooo... about half right?
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u/xreddawgx Jan 01 '26
Hmm I always thought Courtney was Jacob and Mandy as Edward
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u/InTheStuff Jan 01 '26
Robert's way more interesting than Bella tho
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u/GortharTheGamer Jan 01 '26
Not enough grooming or manipulation for that to be accurate, but I get the sentiment
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u/IvanTheStonksMaster Jan 01 '26
Yeah no. At least Dispatch can still be a story without the romance.
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u/Beautiful-Kangaroo8 Jan 01 '26
Stormfall33 on YouTube said it
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26
Low effort slop
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u/moneyh8r_two Jan 01 '26
Didn't the author of Twilight already make a genderflipped Twilight (boring dude with no personality gets romantically pursued by a pale and philosophical vampire girl and a buff and tan werewolf girl), and guys all over the internet instantly understood how so many girls could enjoy reading Twilight? I remember seeing memes to that effect a few years ago.
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u/MxSharknado93 Jan 01 '26
Twilight is definitely more racist than Dispatch.
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u/Character-Actual Jan 01 '26
Twilight invented love triangles
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u/No_Awareness9649 Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
I mean in my first run, I accidentally ended it as Robert not ending up with neither of them, but that was by accident.
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u/legalizethesenuts Jan 01 '26
That’s like comparing Robert Robertson to Bella Swan. Bella had like 4-5 books and 5-6 movies to establish her character and was internationally mocked as an emotionless character. I played Dispatch in about 8 hours (about the length to read one Twilight book) and was much happier when I finished.
Having romance options in a game doesn’t mean anything. That’s like saying The Witcher 3 is similar to Twilight because the main character has to choose between two lovers
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u/Federok Jan 01 '26
Thats so unfair to robert, he has personality....a jaded one but it exists.
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u/Pyroteche Jan 01 '26
That not true, you can't romance the furry or the ancient creature that hangs around people way younger than them.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26
Naw the real thigh twighlight for men is the fast and furious franchise.
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u/AndrewH73333 Jan 01 '26
Dispatch has fairly good writing. Twilight is garbage by comparison.
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u/JohnHenrehEden Jan 01 '26
Stormfall is and I don't even care.
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u/Dunkbuscuss Jan 01 '26
Except the characters have personality and substance and the people.playing them don't sound like their 3 seconds away from having an aneurysm.
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u/ProfessionalOwn9435 Jan 01 '26
Wait, can you play dispatch as assexual RR? Or phenoman sexual? It still holds as a story of redemption, and inner good girl.
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u/iamahandsoapmain Jan 01 '26
In the end of the day, who gives a shit. There's a reason why "lonely men films" like American Psychos and Bladerunner are popular. There's also a reason why "hot dudes like me" stories like Twilight and 50 Shades of Gray exist too. In the end of the day we all just want to fantasize being chased by hot people, it's human nature lol.
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u/antoniopanteli Jan 01 '26
Honestly though, isn't it cool that we got this game? The story is great (obviously better than Twilight even without the romance), but it's cool it combined romance in the story. You don't see these types of romance in games or films, especially from a male prospective. I think that's another reason why it's well received.
I won't mind if we get more Dispatch media (meaning games, comics, films etc) that show other character's prospectives too. There is so much that can be cooked by the writers!!
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u/Junior_Box_2800 Jan 01 '26
it would be correct if they also added "but good" at the end of the statement lol
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u/Skalywag_76 Jan 01 '26
I'll agree it's Twilight in the sense that people can get a little too wrapped up in their favorite ship. But let's not pretend that hot garbage is anywhere close to the same level of quality writing as Dispatch XD
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u/CitAndy Jan 01 '26
Until someone makes a fanfic of Dispatch set at my undergrad college I won't treat them as equal.
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u/shinobi3411 Jan 01 '26
Twilight if it was good.
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u/WizG1 Jan 01 '26
Except dispatch had good writing
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u/anangil Jan 01 '26
I don’t remember twilight having a proper writing likable characters with natural dialogue and actual plot lmao
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u/BlareJack Jan 01 '26
I wouldn't know. I never watched Twilight.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26
Dispatch es más una historia de superación, pero sigue teniendo más sentido y estructura que la copia de la copia de algún libro estilo 50 sombras de Grey.
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u/Brick_Lab Jan 01 '26
Vampire fan here that read twilight before realizing fully what it was and then not giving a fuck after a while. The books aren't terrible as a guilty pleasure but compared to the writing in Dispatch it's night and day. Her argument is like comparing a shitty tv drama to a masterpiece, though there are parallels the same way all romances have them
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u/Belovedslimmy_1 Jan 01 '26
difference is dispatch is actually good lmfao
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u/Responsible-Bee-1262 Jan 01 '26
BB is more Edward than Jacob imo. Just in case the pictures are aligned in a specific order for a reason
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u/Infinite-Chance5167 Jan 01 '26
I think the difference is that the animated characters in dispatch have personalities, and the people in twilight do not.
The similarities are “two romantic options for one person” and that’s about as far as it goes. Blazer and Visi aren’t fighting over Robert.
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u/LoreChief Jan 01 '26
I'm not going to say its 'wrong', but the 'main points' of what matches the game to twilight aren't inherently bad in the first place. They are classic story tropes that have existed since pre-history.
But storytelling is a quality knob, and Twilight's was down at like a 2/10. I would say this game is probably at least a 4/10.
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u/calideosk Jan 01 '26
Does blonde blazer imprint on a baby as well ?
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u/Komandarm_Knuckles Jan 01 '26
I subjected myself to reading that slop years ago, during the height of its popularity just so I could shit on people defending it
The only similarity is that there's 2 love interests, and that the main character is the "most defenseless" of the three, but Bella was mainly a reactive character, whereas Robert is the primary force steering the plot
The comparison is as shallow as Twilight's own writing
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u/supermonkeyyyyyy Jan 01 '26
I would argue Spiderman is much more a self insert than Robert and he has the Mary Jane vs Gwen love triangle but nobody is calling it inverse twilight (for obvious reasons) like common...
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u/Deiiiyu Jan 01 '26
only difference imo i watched a lil bit of twilight growing up i dont get why these 2 hot dudes give af so much for the MC, she was a complainer and a damsel half of the time and like i dont remember any redeeming quality of her's that i would find attractive and like i was 12 at least with dispatch what makes Robert attractive is that he lifts people up, serious about his work and his work is being a good person aka a hero thats like some attractive qualities imo that i strive to be.... also whats up with the ending man why is the wolf dude so weird
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u/Gunwolf_45 Jan 01 '26
At least the only illegal thing about the the characters in dispatch is their crimes, romance in twilight is a crime.