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This is a fun game but... ugh i dunno. It would be a LOT better if the player had a bit more control over who to persue. Like, right now the redhead tried to make out with mc, i had mc knock it off cuz for my first playthrough i wanted to focus on goth chick, goth chick and redhead had a big argument earlier an mc found out that goth chick made out with redheads crush. So, as payback redhead pulls mc into a room and starts making out with him. When he stops it she cries and runs off. Gee, i wonder why.... (mc is incredibly thick not to figure that one out. Not exactly top marks in college smart.) At this point were forced to follow redhead. But thats stupid. Shes a bitch, fuck her. I wanna go do other shit and ignore her. But there is no option to do that. And since i have 0 investment in redhead the whole thing feels like a chore.

Repeat for the whole scavenger hunt. We get the big blowout argument and, instead of getting some form of closure we get a stupid scavenger hunt where mc doesn't even get to chose whichever girl he wants to team up with.

I hate being rude, and i dont mean to sound it. I really enjoyed everything i played to and including that blowout fight. Dialogue is funny, characters are semi realistic and eventho i usually prefer more roaming elements in these games and time sometimes seems to go a bit too fast (as in id like to do more in a day than 1 scene) i think most scenes are between a 7.5/10 and a 9/10. Thats really high marks for me.

KatanaVN1 year ago(+2)

Some understandable critique, however do keep in mind (from what I've seen on the deleted comments) that the game is a non harem that will slowly start to branch out a bit more. There is many things that I wish to convey to the player and that the player will have to see, both here and in some future episodes. Initially, when I was just starting to write the episode 1, I had huge ideas of making the player have absolute control, but that's completely impossible, especially for a single person working on the game.
Not to mention, one of the biggest complaints is the complete opposite, players disliking that so much content can be missed due to choices and going with one girl instead of the others.
Overall, there is no perfect balance where everyone will be happy, but I'll try to have a balance that I both find best and what most people should be satisfied with. Unfortunately, that balance won't satisfy everyone.

Satanic_Black_Metal1 year ago

Wait deleted comments arent deleted for you? Well... now im embarrassed. I promise, just a knee-jerk reaction and me trying out The Kraken rum for the first time after being a beer drinker my entire life lol.

I dont get the "content can be missed" comments, i mean fair play, we all enjoy different things and the world would be a boring place if we all liked the same stuff . I mean imagine a world where everybody was a adam sandler fan. Yikes. But being able to miss content means there is replay value. You can play it again and have a completely different experience. I value that a lot in a game. Like, last year i bought guardians of the galaxy on PC. great game, awesome score. But, it had a barely functioning newgame+ system so i played it exactly once and that was it. Great game, but it barely registers my awareness of awesome videogames. Mass Effect Legendary Edition on the other hand has nearly 700 played hours on it because of replay value.

I can see how complete control would be a really big pain in the ass to make. I don't envy the people behind BADIK and CK because of the level of choice they have to carry forward with each game. So i get that its a lot of work and you have to create a lot of different paths. So i understand that isnt really realistic. If i were to boil my "complaint" down it would be that MC is too stupid. Anyone could see from the context of what redhead was trying to do to goth chick by trying to ride him. I mean mc was there during the blowout fight where it was revealed what goth chick did to redhead.

I also chose to ignore redhead's advances (i did have to start the game again when i figured it out when goth chick whispered about not wanting to meet her and having redhead said "say hi to goth chick for me" ) so imo it made 0 sense for mc to follow redhead up to the roof. He should have gone to goth chick since every choice ive had mc make was to follow her path.

Anyways. enough Karening for one night. You've made a great game so far and i really enjoyed it. Sorry if i came across as rude.

ljhgvlygfl;yg1 year ago

Just my two cents but it amazes me that criticism here is better expressed & better recieved than, well, most places.

GJ both of you.

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