Curious that I come here and see another person has just posted a massive wall of text that I largely agree with =)
I’ve just player through 0.55 and must say I had a good time. Art and sound design was pretty good and the story was enjoyable. I do have a few notes on things that stuck out to me, they range from minor bugs to musings and general personal opinions so feel free to take them or leave them.
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In regards to bugs, I had a couple instances of missing assets. Both face assets, one of them was
kiahead hairup skepticaltalk
and the other notice ended up being displayed in the middle of the screen behind a headless maria, so I couldn’t read it. It was one of her “on the side scenes” (I THINK futa) -
I also had a spook after having Chloe procure the herb for Kiara’s potion. While Iris kept telling me “oh great, she’s back, let’s talk to her” she was nowhere to be seen for a bit, which made me afraid her flags got messed up and she just wasn’t going to spawn in again. Luckily it fixed itself for perhaps that needs a quick check
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Gameplay wise, the futa side seems to be missing the “reverse” potion, so right now the change is permanent unless you mess with Content Flags. This sounds unintentional from in-game text.
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Also on Futa issues, Maria’s on-the side regular scene becomes unavailable if you make her a Futa. This prevents the gallery unlock with no clear indication as to why. Something that can mislead a player here is that Charlie only has the one set of unlockables so it WOULD seem like the game accounts for it? Perhaps a notice on the unlock hint would fix this
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Finally this game has a “problem” with money regarding progression. Big quotes there because it depends a lot on what is your plan moving forward. Reading your latest devlog this seems to already be in the lone to get bundled up with some rework but the gist of my opinion is that Money ends up playing almost no role in the game. You get plenty of money from the bar, weekly rent is largely a drop in an ocean and very quickly you run out of things to spend money on so it’s never a resource you need to take into consideration, especially considering how much else there is to manage your time with, the real resource. It just makes the whole angle in the beginning of the game talking about resource management and whatnot feel a bit moot. Once again, not necessarily a problem, just depends on how much you want resource management to play a part in the game
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Content wise, it’s cute well produced stuff for the large part. This is where it gets very much into personal taste kind of place but I do feel there’s an overabundance of “cartoonishly innocent girl with body anxiety and self esteem issues”. Maria, Camilla, Charlie and Tirria all fall under this category very neatly whereas Beth, Kiara and Alice all have at least the second part. So while the girls are visually different, the relationships you build with them are all very similar. Sacha and Vera are the two big standouts here. As an entitled pri… I mean, a player I would hope for more variety than just visual when engaging with a harem-themed game so perhaps this is something to consider for future content.
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Also content wise, it seems to me like you’re very very concerned about people’s negative reaction to futa content? Honestly, the game asks you like three times if you want it and gives you the option to disable it at any time so the correct answer is “just click no, lmao”. What I feel that maaay have translated to is a kind of cautious half-hearted approach towards putting that in the game. Maria, Alice and Charlie all can have their dicks, okay, but it’s like the game is a bit embarassed about the whole proposition. If you’re going there, just go all in, give Sacha a dick so she can facefuck the MC and people offended by the thought are free to “click no, lmao”. I myself am quite indifferent to it, it looks like it, but a bit disappointed at this “embarrassed vibe” the game ends up giving
But yeah, once again, really nice little gem. I look forward to where this keeps going, had a great time and have high expectations. Congrats on the great work so far