First off let me begin with my first impression. I genuinely ADORE this game! You guys have done such a great job and I can see the potential for this game to be God tier, honestly. The character style, quality of art, consistency, bravo! I would love more animated sex scenes if possible though haha. I am fully aware this game is only like 60-70% complete, but I want to give 2 of my honest criticisms and recommendations to fix them.
1. I just played through about 11 hours of the game and the biggest thing that bothered me was the mismatch in pacing between the money I have and where I am at in the game. To be specific, the skill tree passive that allows you to idly sit and earn money is overpowered. By week 4, I was already drowning in more money that I needed and I did not even begin leveling my passive skills on that specific skill tree until 9 level ups in. I just BARELY got Anna to heart level 2 and I am already with too much money. It made me feel like taking pics, gaining followers and subscribers for her page was a waste of time when I can just sit for a few mins and earn a ton of money. I highly recommend toning it down by either increasing the amount of time needed before you earn cash. Going from 1 minute to 3 or 4 mins. OR by decreasing the amount of passive income per minute from the max of 1200 down to 600 or less. Seriously, I felt like I had end game amounts of money before I was even 25% through the game. I wasnt even at Christmas and I'm buying anything I want. I would love to at least be forced to live through 1 year in the game time and experience all there is to off before I feel like I can buy ANYTHING and there is no point to earn cash. This game is called starmaker, so I figured revenue should primarily come from the page for Anna and gain more income that way as long as you manage it well, which is more challenging yes, but also more rewardind. Going through an amazing game like this with great events and characters, just to passively buy up anything I need without doing anything to earn it was a bummer.
2. I'm sure you guys are already aware of this so it might be a moot point, but some of the quests don't "complete". I've trained with Phoenix in the gym at least 40 times WITHOUT FAILING the pump mini game. Both regular training and super training, and yet the quest never completes in the quest book. If there is something else supposed to be done other than what is already written there, then there needs to be more explanation or foot notes. Or if the quest CANNOT complete because I chose NOT to go her route and have sex with them, then it needs to clear the quest out from the quest book, so that its not hanging there as if there is something I can do to finish it. I'm not sure the cause of why it won't complete, but its confusing as a player.
If you guys are already aware of these things or thought about them, then pay me no mind, I just think it would REALLY immerse the player more in the game play. The best adult games I have ever played not only had good characters and story, but amazing game play as well. Earning money is such a huge portion of the game play, please don't make it mindless zombie easy.