Man, you all have really upped the game (literally and figuratively) with the past two updates. Having a blast so far. Really evolving into something great. The new positions in the Monsutra... bruh. Pure gold. Even outside the porn stuff, the photography scoring is IMMENSELY better than it used to be, the storyline is starting to take shape, and the logs are building up the lore. Oh, and thank you for the hip lamp! Really looking forward to watching the game grow!
A couple QoL items I'd love to see as someone that's put in way too many hours running around Sapphire Island but understands that player wants can't always just be indefinitely added to software development cycles:
- A way to see Malous' physical form without having to look thru the camera (perhaps a future quest where the player finds a mysterious item that allows the player to control Malous' visibility?). A simple menu toggle would suffice (a la Jamie's dong), but having the player "control" Malous like that would be fun too.
- Most Monsutra acts end and fade to black right at the climax, would be nice to have a couple seconds of "cooldown" after climax before fading to black and resetting the player. Like "spit roast" after climax the characters all just seem to relax a bit, although I've noticed I have to toggle the skip as they just stay that way if I don't!
- The facial expressions in some of the new Monsutra acts are phenomenal (i.e. throat swab, middle management, the smirk on the girl on the right in full gape, even in an original like knight is a favorite). I'd love to see the facial expressions be more expressive across the board during Monsutra acts. Overall they're great, some of them the girls look a bit bored, would be so much more immersive if the facial expressions were all more expressive.
- I miss the pink moon button. I don't think I've come across a threesome act outside of the pink moon event, so trying to fill out the Monsutra takes a lot of spamming the skip time feature to get to the next pink moon. I know it's based on the full moon and it's every 14 in-game days, but would love if it was more frequent, OR maybe if nighttime becomes inherently more dangerous for the player to be out walking around? Like, once it's nighttime the girls just become even more "active" if you get what I mean?
- The bees. They tend to dominate wherever they are. Would love to see them less horny all the time, especially during pink moon events they seem to be everywhere. IDK, they just don't do anything for me, pie-in-the-sky I'd love a toggle to disable them altogether, haha. Or mute their constant screaming.
- Love the new profile loading screen with the photographer IDs. Would love to be able to delete saves from here. I have two pre-v023 saves that keep showing up (somehow, not sure how they're still showing as they're not in the same location where the game was installed starting with v023) that I'd like to get rid of via the UI if possible.
- So mean to tease the tigress on the homepage here on itch when she's not in the game yet! I tease, but also, seriously guys, I want the kitty haha.
A couple minor issues I have noticed:
- Every so often I start an interaction with a girl and my character stays fully clothed. If I move the camera my player moves with the camera, and if I just tap the skip button the player immediately pops out of the animation and the girl crumples to the ground. Trying to figure out if it's certain acts or if it's just random but haven't figured out any sort of rhyme or reason to it yet. Re-engaging the same girl after she resets tends to work fine, this issue doesn't immediately repeat itself.
- The character collisions during Monsutra acts seems to be a little more off than it was previously. Stuff isn't lining up quite right, more in the newer positions but have noticed it in some of the old ones too. But hey, I know you were focused on the demo release, I'll take the new acts and wait for them to be polished up :)
- In the cave on the east side (Furloin nest?), I can pretty consistently fall out of the map just by standing or moving in the area in the screenshots below. Exploring the locked areas has been pretty cool (so cannot wait for the new biomes!) but wanted to make you aware.
