As somebody who played for a few hours, here's my experience and honestly the biggest problems i saw (warning, a lot of text):
I discovered this game thanks to manlybadasshero, I loved the concept and looked at the comment section to see if any comments advice would get me anywhere, I saw the one that anything below 100 is just really seeds mostly and it gave me the idea to just only ever spend either 100 or anything over it
This was pretty much the loop for the first hour, I felt pretty intrigued, not because she was really changing or anything but because I liked seeing what the vending machine would give for the price range I was going for at first with each item (100), I got to a pretty solid point to where I was keeping her alive while also getting a lot more of coins (I think the most I got were around almost 4000, that's because I kind of neglected her needs and just kept going with the items I had to see how much I would get before she started looking thin like how she did in manly's video for most of the time, it was mostly so i could do a massive spending on items to see what would change her)
By hour 2, i was feeling kind of down because I realized that no matter what I did, she wasn't really evolving and I started thinking it might had to do to with letting her starve after all those items like how manly did to see if it would give some kind of different art, but I left tha option out because it just felt risky and like a waste of time to let her be close to dying for it, but things got pretty interesting when I just said "fuck it" and consumed all the seeds I had randomly gotten before during the 100 price point, that's where I got my first phase of the evolution (I'm guessing most endings have phases, I got through like 3 but we'll get into that right now, back when I downloaded it didn't have as much comments so I didn't have much to go on)
Instead of the phase being something scary or weird, it was actually pretty cute, it's like she looked happier and honestly it had me thinking I was finally going somewhere visibly, and then she evolved again and I thought I had finally discovered what it was (I have no idea what could have been I think maybe the seeds because the gameplay doesn't really tell you much unless something happens and you kind of gotta guess what changed it)
And I was like that for a while because she would be almost starving, like at 10% and that's where I would immediately feed her something before it actually affected her for her to de-evolve, but by giving her food she went back to phase 1, I have her some food again and she went to phase 2 again, and it just felt like a loop of decisions of trying to go somewhere with basically no info and just me guessing but also taking no notes because I wasn't really sure what was doing it
Until I consumed a certain item and she evolve into phase 3, she had these muscles and it felt like once again I was onto something and I thought maybe it had to be just consuming the exact same item all the time, but here's where I realized the first major issue:
If going by one certain item all the time is the clue to it, it's not really the best because you gotta get lucky with the wide variety of items there is and how getting some of them feels like 1-100 chance sometimes, I spent a lot of coins trying to get the same item with no result and I was going by the same exact point of coins I got it before for (either 200 or 300), and while this may be the way to finally find out, you gotta keep in mind she keeps starving and could de-evolve any time by herself so it feels like a race in between you and actually getting somewhere with the food before you gotta do twice what you had to do once
And that's really what at most I got because she just completely de-evolved by herself when I tried to give her rare items because she got back to phase 1 and I tried to keep going but it didn't really go anywhere, so I went by the seeds (I held onto them in the first hour because I thought they would do somewhere at some point and that's why by hour 2 I just gave them to her because it didn't really do anything and i wasn't gonna spend more time if the seeds were the thing)
So the main criticism is that the game feels really slow, like painfully slow even for players who have a lot of patience, getting an ending feels difficult (i didn't get one because by the time she went to her normal self i just knew it would be 2 extra hours of trying many things to just get to one point and then nowhere), and you're kind of lost most of the time despite trying different strategies, I was even more lost back then since there were only like 3 comments and two were criticism to how slow the game went
Nothing really happens to you if you just try to keep her alive so it just feels like a constant waiting of time for nothing because like I said, I was for like 2 hours with the same exact appearance because I just was keeping her alive hoping at some point something would change her, so maybe that was on me because I held onto the seeds because of her dialogues saying she maybe should hold onto them to see what would happen
And the biggest issue, the game is like a back and forth of trying. To the point I had gotten, I just had seen 3 appearances and with a lot of luck because I kept trying different things and none of them worked out for me (consuming A LOT of seeds, trying to go for the same item, it took too long and she would de-evolve, and others), it feels like you really gotta try to go somewhere and even then it feels like the only possible endings you could get are either her starving, the police catching you or you continuing for who knows how long and you don't really get access to the library (I'm guessing because I haven't died yet, i can still continue, but i was hoping that while I was still alive maybe the gallery could give me some clues, so I have no idea what that looks like)
And this is all for my massive yap session covering my own experience, I feel like the game has potential, the artwork is pretty interesting and that itself can keep you playing because of the intriguing sensation of when or what is gonna make something happen, of hoping for something massive to change after a certain amount of time of just being alive, but the issue is that it just doesn't, at least not for somebody who started with not much information other than 3 comments and this game page itself, I feel like it needs some major changes for it to actually thrive with the concept it has without feeling like way too much time spent for nothing, I'm honestly gonna keep checking just in case it gets that update because I still have high hopes for it and I feel like since it just released it can still get some pretty good changes :D
