I saw thumbnail of your game on f95, so congratulations on that.
I am not into VNs, but it being comic based and about sexy robots sure got me intrigued.
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Gave it a playthrough.
I did not connect with it at all, so I hesitate to give any real feedback on most things; I'm clearly not the intended audience and I don't feel confident in what's a bug and what's a feature. On a technical level, everything seemed to work all right, and I had no problems figuring out how the game worked.
I'll say that the game feels like it focuses a little too much on describing things in text, which really slows things down and wastes the high-quality art in places because you're too busy reading to look at it. Like, you don't need to write down that it's weird that jackhammer noises are coming out of the kitchen for a simple cup of coffee when the player has both audio and visuals showing it happen.
It'd be a hell of a change at this late stage, but having the narration in text boxes inside of the panels might actually be worth it.
Thank you for your feedback! Sadly, as the writer of the project, I am naturally biased towards the text being prominently displayed as a central component of the game. I do see where you're coming from, though! It would be very nifty if we could somehow fuse the two together, but I feel the ship on that has, sadly, sailed...
Yeah, I got the feeling you were coming at this from a text-only background. Even though the ship has probably sailed on making it an actual comic book, I think you'd still benefit a lot from doing an editing pass to remove stuff that the art is already telling the player. Although you should probably do some A/B testing with a few select scenes instead of just taking my word for it.
Intro is gorgeous, so is the menu screen, general lore seems somewhat interesting. Character designs are spot on. Add the space button as an additional option to further dialog.
Music is serviceable so far. These cutscene images really are wonderful, stylish and expressive.
Show/hide environmental functions are cool .
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