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Hi Dev,


Good effort so far. One little thing I have noticed.

There is a weird timing issue related to the first date. Just played up to the set up for the first date,  in my case it happened on day 25,  Friday. The scene starts with the MC getting out of bed saying it was his day off and Fuyuka uses her key to come into the apartment, noting it is Sunday. There is some dialog about clothes & sparrows and other stuff and eventually Fuyuka accepts the idea of a date with the MC at the park, provided she has other clothes. Then there's a time warp and we are back to Friday day 25 again. (I encountered another one of these elsewhere in an earlier version of the game and if I find it again I will log it.)


I don't know how hard this is, but perhaps it is worth considering synchronising the day of the week with day related event triggers, so events like this cannot happen unless it is their target day, in this case Sunday. That would be way less jarring.

Another suggestion I have is to be a bit less rigorous when it comes to rent collection if you have imposed an event on the player. Not meeting rental amount is fatal, and it can hit a player hard if they have just made a big purchase late in the week (TV for example) and are planning to recover money by working double shifts for the rest of the week when wham, the game hits them with an event where they lose an opportunity to work and earn money. If they don't have enough savings, as a result of an unexpected event, the player find themselves out of the game on rent day. Even a recent save does not always fix this. It is too late to save once you are in an event.

Also the rent constantly rises without warning. Real life has enough of this kind of behaviour, we don't need more in our games.

Finally that r*pe scene early on is pretty brutal and caught me napping. Otherwise, BB is a pretty sweet and gentle game and when I tried that path as an experiment the resultant play came as a shock. Too nasty for me by a long way. I guess it should be obvious really as a stupid decision to make, and will be never playing that path again.

Regards,

Hi there, thank you very much for the suggestion and opinions.

I have noticed the inconsistency between events, I would definitely check it in the near future. Since the release of the game I have received a lot of bug reports, so currently I'm fixing bug here and there.  

I understand the rent system might be a bit annoying, I will try if there is any improvement I can make about it.

Really appreciate for your feedback!