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Ok, I just played this.... and it is... pretty cool. Simple post-apocalypse story... .BUT graphically beautiful, and well written.
I really enjoyed the MC's growth. The supporting characters were amazingly well written, the ambience was just so good, and I REALLY loved that it seems like there is a Harem option.
I DO have ONE recommendation though, if you want to sell this on Steam when finished. I say this as someone with 1000s of hours in AVNs, and with almost 500GB worth on my PC right now.
I strongly suggest you watch some adult films. No, for real. No just ANY though, watch some of the more renown, high quality productions: Andrew Blake, Phillip Mond, Mario Salieri, Michael Ninn et al... and watch how they 'Shoot' scenes. Composition. Angles. Lighting. Perspective. Pacing. Phases.
That was the ONE let down in this game. For the MAJORITY of the game... the stills in the sex scenes were explicit... but the ACTUAL ANIMATED scenes...were 'Soft Core'.... as in, no explicit. By the last few scenes, when you'd settled in to the... the building you made home.... they WERE explicit.. but still only ONE angle, top down, cutting off the LI's head.
TBH, they were not particularly erotic or sexy, because of this. Now, this would not be a problem.. if not that kind of game, or even if that part was secondary. But those relationships, that attraction, the intimacy.. culminating in passionate moments torrid and primal... were key to the story and the MC's development. And they were treated as such too, I would say, given the menu options, and how much was put in to letting the player decide what to do with LI the MC was with at any given time.
In that case, I would suggest there will be many players of this fine game, who would expect the sex scenes to be of the quality of the rest of the game. Unfortunately, at present, they are the weakest part of it. They are well done.. but artistically... in terms of their erotic value, they fall short of the best games in the genre. I do not mean to be rude, but the level of quality of such scenes in the very best in the genre, is what you will be measured by.
If this game improved those it will be one of the best in the genre.
Is there a walk-through for this?
The gallery... is.. OK... for a game so early on... BUT.... most of it... is NOT Adult Scenes.... and the Scenes there are, are all locked, save one I managed to unlock.... but I am not sure what choices I am meant to make. I redid some... but still did not get the paths I needed.
What? There was some Familial RP scenes removed? Ok, that seals it, Imma give this one a miss.
The Dev wants it on Steam so badly I guess, and they now bork at that stuff.. which is crap, they should be ashamed... pandering to Karens, but that's life.
When the game is FINISHED, I guarantee you, someone will release a patch to reenable it, but just the fact that it is not here NOW, is enough for me to pass hard on this.
Pitty, AVNs were ALL I spent my money on, on Steam, until last year when they removed Incest themes. F*ck those c*nts.... hope the dev puts a proper version, all taboos reinstated, here one day, I might buy it then.
To some extent... but again... it depends how perverted things get. How depraved and dark the sexual content is. I will check those games out, but if they are no dealing with kinkier stuff.. if there is little to no... incest, forced power dynamics, hard BDSM, inappropriate workplace behaviour, Lolli kink play, Degredation Fetish stuff... and so on and so forth... then they would not actually be examples on par with this game. If they are as dark as say, Raptus, then perhaps you are right. I will have to look and see.
Where are these games? Where can I find them?
This was OK, basically, it is JUST Netorare or Netorase.... basically if you try to play this, with the Male MC as a Chad, keeping women.... there is almost NO content. Like... maybe half a dozen vanilla Married Couple f*ck scenes.
If you want the MC to be able to have a harem or poly path... he kind of can....but only two scenes. He forms NO meaningful relationships... just doonts one and gets oral from another.
The ENTIRE game is aimed either Netorare or Netorase to the point that the 'Love" path is JUST TOKENISM which CUTS MOST CONTENT.
So personally, I would, were I you Dev, I would just CUT THAT path, and make it ABUNDANTLY clear in this listing, that this a CUCK GAME, with almost NO content should you go down the non NTR of any kind route.
Are we going to see the promises, and I feel they are that... made regarding... the family.... ahem.. dynamics.... kept and made good on, any time soon?
I feel like they have been teased right the way through the game... but are being drawn out, left to hang.. in favour of less.... taboo... intimate relations.
That is fine. But also, promises must be kept.
Fair enough. I will pass then, pregnant women are not attractive in the least to me tbh, this was such a good harem/family taboo game the first time around, which the mandatory pregnancy ruined... at least mandatory pregnancy sex scenes, ruined. I had hoped the sequel would be post-pregnancy, and more about... anything else... as long as it resulted in copious amounts of sex with all the ladies
So, I always had everything, too low, to have any Non Scripted interactions with the women. All the time. I would visit them at work, or in their rooms... and ALWAYS everything was always TOO LOW.
I saw NO way to change this. I bought them things they asked for, I always talked to them, I unlocked all their content... but no matter what, there was NO option, always greyed out.
This game was OK. I wont say good, because of seemingly abortive storylines, like Vivian and MC's claiming the blonde Police secretary as their shared sub... (and indeed, said blonde actually being the reason behind it, conspiring with the MC to trick Vivian in to it).... ONE scene.. then nothing... that for example, is something I consider an established narrative arc thereafter in games like this, and something which should have been an explored dynamic with WAY more Mommy and Daddy Dom punishing their Bad Girl (or what is the point, tbh? The whole thing could have been skipped, just tokenism).
BUT, a reasonably good game, very OK.......
.....except for THAT bit, not being able to have ANY interactions outside scripted events because my SL or RS was too low... I do not even know what that is, but it ruined the game.
It made the game just SOOOOO pointless.
Here I was, having established a Harem, moved them in one by one, made it clear they could waltz around in skimpy clothes or none at all.... taken them all sexually, at least once, with their very keen interest in it being more..... and then nothing. I could not enjoy my Harem, because the interactions which seemed to lead to more, to enjoyment... were GREY, even though I did everything I could for the women.
Maybe I missed something, but kinda no cool. I will hold off rating this one, and perhaps try to find out what I did wrong, or else it will be a ugly one.
I got back to the Farm where the girl with red hair is.... and I have to go to church? Something like that. But I just wind up stuck in Free roam, she is her room, but sends me out.... and I cannot do anything. Cannot leave the house, cannot activate anything but pictures... which do not do anything.. etc etc
I might check that one out then, thanks. I find Romance/Monogamy AVNs just too constraining unless there is one or two standout exceptional LI's that exalt themselves above all others.... or even just one or two mediocre, average LI's.... among a bunch of wholly unappealing ones.
I will check out Reclusive Bay instead and see how it looks, thanks.
I am just double checking.... having tried to replay the game..... I still only get one.... kind of... adult scene ....and... an abortive cunnilingus scene with.. ahem.. eyepatch cougar.... at the vert end.
Is this all there is? It looks like I have missed things... but I cannot make them happen, is it me, or is this all there is for now?
Yes after the train journey, back in her room, there is a little moment... then done.... and back to the hub screen... and nothing. And yes, there was a lot of content, I would gave forgotten everything in the early intro.... so yeah, just having a quick pop up, explaining the end of the content for now, and then a banner saying so on the hub screen, would be epically useful
Great game, but can I make a suggestion?
After the arena fight thing with the red head.... the game just seems to end... without warning, or explanation.
I finished the first part of the gorgeous blondes arc, the one who becomes your partner.... but I had no access to any other ... I think they are guilds? Except the one she is with.... and no... what I think was personal stories.... I think I got one of them.... I was going back and forwards between book looking icon, and the icon that opens up more icons which I assume are guilds...... but when the Gladiator fight ended... that was it.
There was NO MORE ANYTHING..... nothing accessible.... I was just stuck on the like... the base screen, at the ... desk, is it? But I got no message saying this was the end of the content, save my game, etc either. I have no choice but to assume that for now, early doors, this is the end of the content, but I think there needs to be some proper indication, the game needs to say this, so we know. I spent half an hour going through the gallery, and my stats, etc clicking things, round and round, trying to get more content, because nothing told me there was no more.
I really hope you'll include one from now on, for each updates end.
Triggered much old fella?
You are full of shit. Not all women, not even CLOSE to all women.. not even a significant minority of women, call heterosexual intercourse RAPE. NOT, the actual neurological processes, the way electrons fire off in the brain, the way we think memory works... is NOT different between men and women, no matter what structural differences, and those differences are commonly held by most experts to be less compelling than the similarities of neurology between the genders.
Boomer? Yeah, I am GenXer, so YOU ARE a Boomer, even if you are an early X'er too.... simple.
You are paranoid as fuck ya tool. No, 9,000,000,000 are NOT CLAMOURING FOR WAR... most people DO NOT WANT THAT, they want PEACE, it is just your skewed perspective. In a world MAGA morons and Hard Right reactionaries are given platforms through technology, these things seem real. THEY ARE NOT... the world is at more peaceful now that ANY TIME IN HISTORY.
Also, NO, we are doomed long before even 1000 years if people like you had your way.. but fortunately, we are NOT allowing that... we are doing something about it. The US might be going backwards, but the rest of the world is taking the task of healing the planet a lot more seriously, and combine that with the 'Long Peace'.... we SHOULD, so long as we let people like you die out... manage 10000 more years just fine.
And can you please stop quoting Every Child? That did not exist in Australia. My English is good because I am NATIVE SPEAKER, does NOT MAKE ME AMERICAN. Jesus Christ, talking to you is like confirming every negative stereotype about the place though.
All you have done, is successfully convince me you ARE a tiny dick sociopath.
You have no understanding of what the word theory means scientifically, you espouse contested talking points as facts, and you ignore anything you find inconvenient and claim that it is not a fact, so does not matter, just what this feminist sucking snowflake lesbian lover thinks, right?
God, it like every Mano-sphere goon social media personality that shows up on my facebook or YouTube in one manifestation of unjustified rage. Sorry the world has moved beyond your privilege and entitlement, and others have more voice and profile now..... but that does not mean you should be so angry, but fuck me dead you seemingly are.
Also, I am not gay, but considering how confidently you use the term Faggot... I think I know what kind of person you are, I know what you'd call me if I told I was black, for example.
And you call me Pathetic?
I am done, you are disgraceful person. You should be ashamed of yourself... but you've shown your ignorance, and I suspect that means too ignorant to even be that.
Talk it up big guy.
If you graduated college and think misogyny and conservative middle America bullshit is good.... ma and pa and apple pie and leave it to beaver coca cola patriots day circle jerk brainwashing is the America you want, then I guess college failed you, and you should hand in your degrees.
The scenarios you present are both simplistic and contested, and your are wrong about the absoluteness with which you proffer the argument.
Higher functions, neurologically speaking, bio-chemically speaking.... might have variances based on the biochemistry, Testosterone levels V Estrogen levesl..... though everyone has both.....but the base emotions, the base instincts, the based thought processes and the way the brain transmits data... is THE SAME for ALL HUMANS.
But feel free to cite IQ... as contested as that is. Feel free to cite University education, even if that is a reflection of socio-cultural and economic factors that do not correlate to IQ at all. Feel free to espouse tenuous talking points which are not universally accepted, and deny the effects of millions of years of evolution, both physiologically... but also socio-culturally among human kind.
Given some of the idiocy you are espousing, I can understand why you might cite prehistoric justifications for your arguments.
And NO... I did not grow up with the Internet, I did not even own a computer until I was in my mid 20s, and NO, I was not a product of policy you cite, as THAT IS AN AMERICAN POLICY, but as I would expect from your replies, you've gone for the American Defaultism so common online.
I do not know what Twitch is, or a Thot, and that you KNOW those terms my 20 something nephew has to decode for me, because I do NOT, makes me wonder. You used the word Simp before, too.. again I had to look that one up. You are talking 'meninist' terms like Alpha and Incel and shit, things, again, I do not even understand because that is NOT PROPER ENGLISH, though to be frank, as an American, I am not surprised you use made up words.
I do not have a PhD, what are you talking about? Why would I claim that? Do you kids lie like that all the time these days? Also, I have heard of Dr Phil... but I have never seen his show, again, it was not really a thing here, but again, you make assumptions and your American defaultism means you did not anticipate this, but it does take some the bite out of your lame attempts to talk smack.
As for Rosie.... I did not like that I was being guided to be with a gronk fugly... even guided... and turning her down, might make her upset.... I do not get what you do not understand? Having to hurt someone, first thing, in a game.... especially and AVN is a dickish move by the dev, and should not have been a thing here. Simple as that. I play AVNs that are Harem or Poly, and was told this game WAS. THEN I SHOULD BE EXEMPT FORM THAT SHIT. Not sure how that is so hard to figure out? Again, are you sure you have two degrees?
Mate, you sound like a bitter, insecure, neo-con goon boomer, and it is hilarious, but also a little sad.
Oh, btw, the likelihood of Arc ship colonization, of the kind your tin foil brain envisages, is pretty much not going to happen, or be pointless if it does... since the Speed-Time Exponential Curve theory is pretty much agreed upon by most astro-physicists and aerospace engineers as a solid reliable theory, and Arc ships would likely be redundant. In fact, there is even a theory as to when the prime, optimal, time would be for us, to attempt to launch a near lightspeed ship..... about .. what... 1100 years from now, give or take. THAT ship, would make it anywhere before ANY colony ship.
Learning to consider the world from the view of others, learning the matters and issues and hurdles that others face, is not an attack on you. It might check your privilege, and to Heteronormative, Cis Male, White Boomer American man, THAT might FEEL like an attack... but you need to let go of that all that rage and hate friend.
As I said, I am no kid, and if I am not your age, or older, I would not be too many year behind.... but I have a feeling that you are the far more grumpier angry old man, between the two of us. I would feel sorry for you, but you have two degrees, so I guess you are smart enough to change, and not to do so, is a choice, right? In which case, OK boomer? IDK what to say, maybe a penis enlargement might help you? To be as insecure as this tripe you've spewed demonstrates you to be, I think that might be something which really helps?
Can we ge some more hosting....... I downloaded from Mega.... but it spazzed out.... so I had to download it AGAIN... but then I have exceed my free mega DLs, so was told it would take three hours+
Went to Google.... there was too much of a queue... and I could not download..... and still cant.
I was looking forwards to this update, but Mega is a crap-shoot, and Google requires you to get lucky half the time, or it will tell you there is too many people trying to download or the file is too big.
You're talking to me like I am younger than you, but I am probably older. I have produced plenty of.... testosterone.... in all kinds of women, or all over all different parts of them..... and I have found MOST women, are not inspirations for Jerkish behaviour, quite the opposite. Even in long term relationships. Though I admit I have only had a small number of those, third now, been years, first two ended by circumstance even "love conquers all' mentality could NOT conquer. But the reason they lasted and last still in the third case, is women are glorious, just flawed as much as men are.
Sometimes it can be just too confronting to strip away the everything, and realise that PHYSICALLY, not even just physiologically, women and men are closer to the same than different. There's a blob of rubber squishy stuff called a brain, with all these tentacles coming off the tail it has called a spinal chord, called nerves.... and that is what the rest of our body IS... a carriage come life support machine.....solely evolved to keep that alive. Strip away the chassis, and women and men are both the same. One is slightly different physically, governed by certain chemicals over others because it is designed to procreate, gestate, and incubate, then give birth, the other is designed to inseminate.... but that bloody bit, and the tentacles ... are what we all are.. men and women... and the thoughts inside that blob, the animus, the 'Soul'... is the same for a woman, as YOU.
Realising that, unless you can call yourself perfect, you soon see the nonsense the meninist types go about in regards to women being to terrible, as idiotic.
Irrespective of what Rosie IS, she makes her thoughts clear, she is chasing you, and has feelings for you, and wants more.
When confronted with a person making any effort for you, even a stranger you have only met in that moment, if it is NOT your instinct to care about their well-being, so long as YOURS is not threatened and that is a priori understood....then yeah, I question your heart, sorry.
Even for a game character, even in a game which I barely care about, even having only played it once and almost forgotten everything about it.... when confronted with that stimuli, in that scenario, I would appreciate options which allows me to avoid having to take an action which would be hurtful to someone, when it is in a scenario whereby I cannot be sure they deserve it or know if there was any other way. Not if the only choice to is to take that action, or be constrained by NOT taking it... which being tied down by a preordained LI in a game like this, DOES most of the time.
And yes, I DID expect a game with a HAREM path, to BE ungated, without consequences. When it was NOT, I rated this game negatively for it. So what? YES, YOU ARE RIGHT, I EXPECTED THAT... and?
For me, if a AVN is an AVN, all the adult content either needs be ungated, or guide you towards the flags which ungate it. So if it is a Romance AVN, that content might be consequential, and some what gated.... but then it should also be guided to a degree (a game like The Neverwhere Tales is TRASH because it SO PUSHY and constricting, and forces you to have limited scenes, with ONE love interest, and makes you pay a cost often even for doing that... but it definitely guides you, and makes it clear this aint no Harem or Ploy thang.... where as a game like Artemis, IS a monogamy romance AVN... but NEVER makes that clear, and in game, is BRUTAL and savagely hard locks paths and deadends gameplay for ONE slip up... making it even TRASHIER because that shit is SCUM CENTRAL, by POS devs if it does that).......OR.... if it is NOT a Romance AVN, but HAS a Poly path, or full Harem ending.... then that should be accessible SOLELY on the basis of your efforts with each LI.... without ANY drama or uncomfortable moments.... sorry, that is my position (so a game like College Bound is a failure because there is a definitive POLY pathway to a degree.. but you are stuck with a preexisting partner you have to wait to go full Space Cadet level tard, before you can be rid of her on HER terms, without being a C*NT.... but a game like Where It All began is MUCH better... well it has F all content atm... but narratively speaking... because whilst you begin the game with an LI, you can immediately suggest an OPEN RELATIONSHIP, which SHE ACCEPTS, avoiding the BS drama and consequences).
I will NOT play ANY AVN which DOES NOT have at a minimum a POLY path, and that is why I played this one... I pretty sure posted somewhere and asked was it Romance or Poly/Harem and was told it can be either.... so this shit is a SIN for such a game.... subjectively, YES I PERSONALLY expect that NOT to be a concern in ANY game even with OPTIONAL POLY or HAREM pathways. Create your Drama some OTHER WAY if you are going to make a game with THOSE pathways open. If there is those consequences, and that drama, and you as a player need to be confronted with emotional consequences, that BREAKS the Harem/Po;y fantasy... so you actually DO NOT have a Harem/Poly game... it is a gimmick, my like Dilemma of Devotion, a game where there is technically such pathways, but taking them fucks you over and ruins the game and locks you out of completion.
And NO I did NOT jump at the chance to date a munted gronk like Rosie, one of the least attractive tubby fungus LI's in ANY AVN..... you want to run at me like you are some sage, and have game, but you found her attractive just because of engorged udders... you are the pleb, sir, not me. Like so many guys I know of limited class and character, who have limited standards, you will literally fuck anything.
I will not, which is the OTHER reason I hated being forced in to Rosie's arc from jot.... if she was actually attractive, I might not have minded, but most of the girls in the game are 5 or 6 at best... and she is a fucking 3. But you call ME a Simp?
Take a walk snapperhead.
IN WESTERN culture, and the English language, NTR, or Netorare, is synonymous with Cuckolding, which in turn, is commonly, in modern sexual fetishism, seen as meaning in the presence of the Cuck... that is, watching his partner taken by another.
In Japanese culture, it is describing where a character's lover or partner is seduced by someone else, leading to themes of betrayal, jealousy, and heartbreak.
The Hooker is NOT the MC's Lover, or Partner, or Wife, just someone he felt sorry for, and had sex with once... I do not class that as 'Lover' or 'Partner'.... and he is not present when she works, watching, and she is NOT SEDUCED by ANYONE, it is TRANSACTIONAL, she offers her body for MONEY.
IN NO WAY is this Arc NTR, You are only right in saying it is not up for debate. It is not, you are wrong, simple as that.
I am not a cuck, or a simp, I am just mature enough to understand most of the time, you are NEVER the first man to fuck any woman you sleep with, and most of the time, until you are in an expressly committed relationship, mutually agreed upon... she is likely fucking someone else too.
THAT is reality.
The implication of women being property in your position, is terrifying. I bet you think YOU OWN THEM once they fuck you once right?
Take a walk snowflake, what a fucking sissy prissy little wimp you are.
NTR is when someone you are with, gets with someone else, in your presence.
We, the MC are NOT 'with' this character.
We as the MC do NOT see her have sex with anyone else.
We are not, therefore CUCKED, and this is NOT therefore, NTR.
If you live in a world where you imagine the women you've had sex with, have NOT had sex with anyone else, you are delusional, and snowflake, who should just STFU or go eat a bag of cement and harden the f*ck up.
The only people who will not play a game with a prostitute as a character who happens to be a LI, are sheltered, egomanical, snowflakes. The Dev is under NO obligation to TAG this as having content it DOES NOT HAVE, to appease the whiny little snowflake bitches that are so easily triggered THEY SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING THESE GAMES, like you.
Literally NONE of the ones people claim are worth JUST the story, have proven been to me.
Some of the most 'famous' of the 'story rich' adult games out there, like Being A DIK, or Acting Lessons, or Leap of Faith, or .... any.. I mean I could name at least 10 more I tried for rave reviews.... and they are all FAILURES.
People like to try that old chestnut "Adult does not just mean porn".... but in GAMING, certainly in Game retail/hosting.... it DOES.
I can name perhaps 30+ games, marque products from AAA+ studios, which deal with any combination of sexuality and sexual theory, depression and assorted other illnesses mental, suicide, homicide, assorted trauma and the causes, r*pe, CSA, CV, slavery, violence of all kinds, organized crime, systemic corruption, drugs and the causes and damages of drug use, and every assorted fetish and kink you can imagine... which DO NOT have 'Adult' or 'Sexual Content' or 'NSFW' tags on game sites, or warning labels of a kind on hard copies.... ....because ADULT in this sense, DOES MEAN EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT.
Often times, in MANY jurisdictions, that is a LEGAL definition, and WHY they must HAVE those tags available to devs and studios on their sites.
So that old 'its not that kind of game' is weak and wrong argument... the A part is ESSENTIAL and what sets an Adult game apart from any others.
So if it is a game like Acting Lessons with almost NO sexual content.... then the guy should have just CUT IT, used symbolism, shadow play, implication, retrospective confirmation, or just good old FTB, all the tricks of old Code Hollywood... and the story would NOT have changed, been the same. That fails as an AVN.
If it is a game like Being A DIK where there is a 'nature of the MC' system... but that does NOT open up any other way to play, no matter what, even being a Dick, and not a Chick of the DIK's....but rather you are still hemmed in to a monogamy Romance story, with limited sexual content.... that too fails as an AVN.
If it is even a game which is kind of epic on all other metrics, like Nephilim, but has appalling sex scenes, in a game otherwise so good, they should look like they were made by Michael Ninn or Mario Salieri... but instead look like some early 80s, videotape, carpeted wall garage, amateur smut lords cheap shit made to sell out of a van or in the classifieds of B grade porn mags... which unfortunately that game does.... THAT fails as an AVN.
If the game is one like Artemis, where it is never made clear you are playing a monogamy romance, and all the adult content, even it being plentiful and of good quality, is locked behind narrow pathing there is no in game direction on, whereby also ONE misstep can hardlock and dead end access to not just some, but almost ALL content.. which can happen in that game... that fails as an AVN.
I have only every played a small number of Adult games, which actually have amazing stories, and WORK as AVNs, and what made them worth playing, was the fact the devs CLEARLY cared as much about the Adult content, as the rest of the game, and KNEW what an AVN is, understood that A part is at least AS important as the rest. And went the extra mile to make sure there was both excellent quality, and quantity of sex scenes.
Games like Ripples, and Eternum, games like Pale Carnations, and Oppai Odyssey, and of course, games like this.
Most games on Steam of this kind, are dismal failures, which is why Itch is my go to source. Here you have more diamonds than chunks of coal, but on Steam it is, sadly, the other way around.
Is this also pregnancy focused? That was the one thing which ruined the first game for me.. that pregnancy was NOT optional.
The last half dozen scenes being with forced pregnancy, women all distended by it.... was not great.
I also really felt SHOW, DONT TELL, applied to the epilogue scenes.... every woman who joined the Harem, should have had a mini chapter dealing with their integration in to it, and with a hot H scene finish... but I would not even consider THAT a black mark against the game... but the inability to turn off pregnancy, even if that is the Kink of the game, was a crusher.
However, if THIS game is NOT going to force my harem to get all distended and fat bellied... then I might still give it a try despite my bad experiences with the last game.
OK ... I got a point in the game which made me rage quit.... because there was NO OBVIOUS PATHS to me.
After the raid Torsten covertly manipulated in taking place, and the skull and bones wearing goblin things attacking.... from that point on.... there was a whole lot of things which COULD have happened... but there was NO CLEAR PATH to them happening.
I could have gone somewhere with Astrja, and met her real mother. Apparently (also I could have slept with her in the Ice Cave Castle thing... but the option f*cking greyed out, with NO REASON)....I could have been informed Lizgard was leaving and she said goodbye to me... but whatever made that option happen was missed to it did not.... and.. and... I cannot even effing recall.. like... f*cking half a dozen things... and also.. after saving her life, the date, and making her happy... I still got nowhere with Sonja.. nothing increased.
I am f*cking stuck with Astrid... and I do NOT WANT ASTRID.... I want every other woman in the game aside from Astrid.
BUT there was NO OBVIOUS paths to them.... the choices never tell you what they do... what they lead to.. like ALL GOOD AVNd DO, and pursuant to that, I am hours deep in a game where I have only slept with one chick... ONCE... and it is not even the one I want.
I understand why a path like Mathilde would close if you chose Astrid/Astrja over HER when she is confronting the Carpenter.... though IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE GOTTEN THERE, there should have been more obvious ways to seduce her and make her compliant than I seemed to have found.... but OK... make me choose.
But everything was going well with EVERYONE else, including the main Sisters.. not JUST Astrid... BOTH.... from what I could tell... but apparently that was not the case.... making the most genuine, logical, good, respectful, caring and considerate choices one can make... which was my go to, since I always had to roll back when I tried anything else... lead to me losing multiple people from my game, and loosing my relationships with many too even if they are still around.
BUT I DID have to rollback, MOST of the time, I tried any choice or action that was NOT realistic, nice, good, moderate, and considered.
I am done, but I avoid the savaging I would normally give a game like this, in my rating and review... I will ask this question: IS it actually POSSIBLE to keep everything and everyone somewhat centred? Is there CHAD MC FIXES ALL path, is there Poly paths re relationships, is there a way to avoid losing huge amounts of ground with people even if you misstep once or twice?
If there IS NOT, even if only one you have to replay over and over again to find, or luck out and stumble upon... but there is also NO obvious way to predict an outcome of choices... then as cool as this game is, and the story, and the graphics, and the hot women.... it is still a disappointment.
I played through a fair bit of this game, in fact all there is so far, and there was quite a bit to it, but tbh, in the whole playthrough, I did not get one complete adult scene.
There were some boobjob scenes, and oral scenes, and some heavy petting.... perhaps some thighs at some point.... but it was quite a bit of time playing, and NO full adult scenes?
This game is interesting, and visually stunning... but it felt like it made a LOT of promises it DID NOT KEEP.
In fact, I felt like there were enough moments with .... ahem.. eye-patch... and ... streamer... and ... assistant.... that they constituted PROMISES.
There was PLENTY of time for ONE of them to be KEPT.
There is a story here, the title says it all.... that is to say, the conquest of our fair maidens IS NOT in and of itself the entire point, like some AVNs. Nor is the key hook some 'Chosen One' narrative surrounding the MC, with a sexual twist, which requires him to f*ck every woman he can to grow his power... something else that is not uncommon. But the thing is, in THOSE kinds of AVNs, were the sex is the point of the game, or there is sexualized narrative CORE to the story and development of the MC and his progress.... the downside is the slow burn pacing and the hardcore gating of the adult content because otherwise the game could end after half an hour.
In a game like THIS, where that is NOT the case.... I really cannot see why so many Devs gate the adult content until deep in to the game, or even late early game. The argument might be that there is a tease side for the anticipation, and if things are given up early, that leaves nothing to look forwards to.... but that is ONLY ever the case if the conquests are a 'one and done' type deal, you get with one woman, and then move on to new one. Some games DO go that way.... but they are TRASH games.
This game has a story independent of the deepening sexual relationships between the MC and certain women in his life, those women and bedding them, are not key gateways to the MC's development and progress, and sure as hell hope they are not meant to be single serve encounters.... which means I really should have seen what the adult content looks like, in FULL, by now.
I understand this game is not finished, but still, that is a big red flag for games like this, tbh. Usually it means either A: the dev does not consider the A part of AVN as important as the rest of their game... or B: is going to back load the adult content and most of the game is going to be very limited in the amount there is. Both of those things ruin an AVN in my opinion.
The former becomes weakness of the game, because the better the game, narratively, better the writing, and better the visuals, better the overall package... and this is overall great.... the more it HURTS the game when adult content is mishandled through its brevity, poor quality, or continued absence... and this is likely to happen if the Dev does not consider at least AS important as the rest of the game. The latter, well that is even worse, that makes me personally feel like it dog and bone tactic... a dev feeding crumbs, and promises, to make sure everyone plays their game right through, and if you are good little player, and get deep in to the end game, you get the honey.
I truly hope all that teasing was all there is, and from here on going forwards, there is reasonable amount of adult content, full, explicit, at a reasonable per hour of play metric. This game deserves that.
Not a bad start.
Seems wasteful though, a bit of good gameplay here, but hot women, and AVN, and the only scene was a dream scene... well I guess the...,. arrow...scene.... was precluded by a scene... but that one was not interactive.
If this goes along at this rate, with this quality it will be a great game, I am hoping the quality stays this sharp moving forwards.