Post by Bluhdwulf in Project ARK : PROLOGUE comments

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Holy Crap! I was expecting a typical VN but what I got was so much more. Only on day two atm, and already loving this. The animation is great, the futuristic designs and layout of the ark is awesome and really enjoying the RPG feel this give off.

Awesome work so far. Definitely plan to keep playing this one. Please keep those updates coming!

**EDIT** Just finished the prologue, and while the gameplay was definitely enjoyable, was honestly a little disappointed in the absolute lack of H-Scenes, or the ability to have any meaningful dialogue with any of the wandering characters.

Also slightly confused as to why the combat scenes were done with Risa instead of my own avatar.

Other than that, it was definitely fun, albeit very early stage and short.

nekoboxgame3 years ago (4 edits) (+1)

Hey Bluhdwulf, thank you for the optimistic feeedback. There are couple of things that we want to address with the lack of H-scene.

1. H-Scenes are unlocked on particular H-Roid when their heart level reach certain level. The higher the heart level, the more echi things player can do. We want players to climb the rope to enjoy the view instead bombarding them with an instant H-Activity with little effort.

What you see in the prologue is just a demonstration to the players that H-Scene exist within the realm of our game.

Each H-Roid have a different requirement to be unlocked. But for most, they can be unlock by completing the H-roid story/quest line.
This give us time to work on the story for each H-roid, finding VA and preparing their models for customisation.
Meaningful dialogue and story quest to deepen the bound with the wandering H-roid will open when they are unlocked =).

The game is all about building bound with different type of characters and personality =)

Unfortunately we are at the stage where we just begun, so only Risa is unlocked. We just had a voting pool on patreon for the next character unlock, so expect another character to interact with on the next build.

2. Originally we use the avatar for combat as well, but we decide to follow the footstep of other anime combat game where the player is the captain commanding a group of girls. This way the player can switch characters in combat with all of the H-roid they unlocked.

Please note combat is a small part of the big picture. We actually took out the combat on the current build because it needed more work. As a small team with limited funding we are still miles away from our goal but please do check us back every now and then for updates =) or join discord to see weekly update.

Thank you, have a great day!

Bluhdwulf3 years ago(+1)

Thank you for the detailed response.

I naturally assumed you'd need to build a rapport with the H-roids in order to acess the ecchi scenes, but I'm guessing that the option to do that with Risa is pretty limited due to the early stage of the game. After I completed the prologue, I tried talking with Risa and could only talk with her once before the talk option was greyed out, nor could I find any shops that sold gifts (Assuming they have not been implemented yet) I tried sleeping to pass the day, and it would not let me. (Gave the dialouge "I'm not ready to sleep yet" or something like that) Without being able to improve relation with her, I just decided to do the firework scene and end the game.

Aside from that issue, I really did enjoy the game and look forward to the next release.

Oh, BTW I noticed that once you tell an H-Roid follow you, you cannot make them stop. They blocked me in the elevator a few times, and I had to reload the game. Just thought I'd bring it to your attention. An option to make them stop following you might be a good idea.

Thank you for the awesome job you are doing so far though. I'm impressed.

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