I've played through the story so far and I've certainly enjoyed it. Though, there are a couple of points which don't really make sense to me or which could be improved on.
Off the top of my head, those are (slight spoiler alert):
- When you meet Rika, she tells you about 3 other houses, which still function, mentioning how she will talk to you about them more the next day. However, they aren't even mentioned again, before you fully gain her trust, which storywise probably takes a couple days/weeks. Which is... kinda bad in itself, given Rika's urgency for her own mission.
- After Rika goes to bed the first day, we 'check' on her (Our character is a creep - at least he seems to be aware of that). Unknown to our character, she is awake. And yet, this doesn't come up again, like at all. We simply gain her trust by spending time with her, even though she should kinda mistrust us due to this point alone.
- There doesn't seem to be a way to tell the time of day. There seems to be 3 or 4 times each day (can't remember right now, probably something like morning, noon, afternoon and evening). Would be nice, if some way to tell the time would be added, though I guess it's not absolutely nessecary. More of a personal preference, really.
- Some scenes were shown as completet as soon as I reached th requirements, but I hadn't seen them yet. They played at a later time.
- After some scenes with Rika, I couldn't change the location. I had to perform a random action in the location I was in to 'unlock' the other locations again. I assume this is a bug, though I'm not entirely sure about this.
- There was this optional mission, I believe it was called "Explore Boundaries". Does it do anything? Do I need to do that stuff to unlock everything and to "corrupt" Rika? Because... the way the player character acts is certainly disgusting and I would rather not do it.
- As someone else already mentioned, the "Home Explorer" mission seems to be bugged.
- After playing through the story and continuing in sandbox mode, I went on a supply run. Afterwards I had the Gatcha option, which wasn't really explained. The cards don't really do anything, as of now, right? I couldn't really see anything about them. After pulling the Gatcha and clicking on resupply, I had a blackscreen, with sounds as if another Gatcha was opened. Seems like a gug to me as well.
This was everything I can think of, off the top of my head. More than I than I originally thought there would be. Like I said, I really enjoyed playing your game and I will continue doing so, once you release an update. I hope you see this as the constructive criticism it is meant to be. You don't really need to change anything, after all the game is good as it is and maybe every point I've raised is intentional (apart from the mission bug at the very least). I couldn't possibly know.
Please continue doing the good work!
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Hello!
Thank you so much for taking the time to write all of this. I really appreciate it, no worries, I always welcome feedback like this! It honestly helps me improve the game a lot, especially since I’m still learning both the development and rendering side at the same time.
Let me go through your points one by one:
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The 3 houses Rika mentions
You’re right, this was supposed to lead into an actual scene where Rika asks you where to go next. That scene did exist… but I accidentally deleted it during development (rookie mistake 😅). Definitely planning to restore that because it makes way more sense storywise. Thanks for catching this!
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Checking on Rika at night
Yep, that one is intentional. The “awake but pretending to sleep” part will tie into Chapter 1, so it’s not forgotten. Or why she was non-chalant about it.
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No way to tell the time of day
That’s actually a UI bug. On the top-left (beside Tuesday | Room Name | …) there should be icons for time of day, but I forgot to swap the placeholder text out. Good reminder for me haha.
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Scenes marked complete before watching them
I’ll look into this more closely. Could be a timing/flag issue, thanks for letting me know!
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Getting stuck in locations after some Rika scenes
Yes, that’s a bug I’ve been debugging as well. You nailed it.
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“Explore Boundaries” mission
This is 100% optional. You don’t need to do it to unlock anything or “corrupt” Rika. Corruption has its own system (which I also forgot to link properly to the companion stats 😅). So feel free to skip without missing content.
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“Home Explorer” bug
Confirmed. Already fixed via hotfix, but since it wasn’t game-breaking I held back on pushing updates until more content is ready.
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Supply run & Gacha
Correct, after the prologue, supply runs are purely optional. The gacha system itself is still being implemented, so right now it doesn’t affect anything major. In the upcoming mini update, you’ll have the proper gacha screen and rewards. As for the black screen after resupply: could you tell me which device you’re using? That’ll help me replicate and squash it.
Additionally there was also a duplication bug regarding the supply run. So i'm pretty sure you'll experience this aswell. But this has already been fixed.
Once again, thank you for such a thoughtful write-up. I’m really glad you enjoyed the game so far, and feedback like this makes it so much easier for me to refine everything. More updates (and fixes) are on the way, I’ll keep everyone posted via Discord/devlogs.
Glad I could be of help!
Yeah, I forgot about the little boxes next to the day and room name, should have suspected that to be meant as a way to tell the time.
The scenes that are marked as completed before watching them are only the ones that trigger automatically. Since they still trigger anyway it isn't really a gamebreaking bug, just harder to track which scenes have already been seen.
Glad I don't have to do the "Explore Boundaries" mission to see everything. At least the narrator (you :p) agrees with me on these scenes.
Regarding the Supply run & Gacha, I'm playing on PC. I don't know, if I'm even supposed to be able to click on resupply. When I close the Gacha screen without clicking on it, I can't reopen it. Which might be another bug, I honestly am not sure if I have more than 1 supply or not.