First of all, the AI art is damn good. Like the best NSFW AI art I've seen in indie games so far. You really know what you're doing (unlike most people who use AI and end up with cheap-ass horrible art that's worse than having no art at all). So bonus points for that.
Now for why I subtracted three stars:
a) You don't have many events at all yet in-game but already made a mistake that would have been easy to spot if you play-tested your own game: The dialogue for the xmas and office events is mixed up. When she tells you she wants to do office-themed shots, you get the xmas pictures and when she tells you she brought two xmas outfits, you get the office shots. That's just a plain careless oversight. Furthermore, while the AI art is great, the writing sucks. It's unimaginative, plain and boring. I lost interest after a few lines. So the events honestly fall flat compared to the picture-hunt in town.
b) Bad design choices:
- The bad writing mentioned above.
- The fact that events (which are supposed to be a core aspect of the game it seems) are not repeatable but also the only pictures that do not show up in the gallery. That's just a plain odd design choice. Why make those pictures not part of the gallery, but all the random ones in town are there?
- The town is unnecessarily grindy since you can get the same picture repeatedly, meaning you could grind the town dozens of times and still only get half the pictures since most are repeating (I did it a good number of times and still missed tons of pics). I gave up after filling around half the gallery because I got 90% repeating images so finding the remaining ones would have taken forever. At that point it's faster to just cook my own AI-images.
c) I use a desktop computer with high-end hardware that can run any given AAA game without issue. Yet this game makes my PC heat up massively and my cooler has to work at full capacity. That's a sign of an extremely poorly optimized game that is extremely strainous and wasteful of resources and thus just bad for your hardware. For people with average hardware running the game will probably be difficult while for people with lower-end hardware the game is likely a plain overheating risk for their device. The game's graphics and content really aren't on a level that justifies how much this strained my hardware.
Those bad things aside, I do like the idea with the small explorable town, having to sneak up for pics and having to check windows. Sometimes the warning sounds that you were spotted after screwing up fire off without an officer in view though.
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