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Like the atmosphere and setting.  Would definitely like to see more.

A few suggestions for improvement: 

1) Ability to control x, y look sensitivity would be beneficial.   Y was too slow for me, while x was zipping around so quick it was giving me motion sickness.

2) The run action is in general too slow and doesn't last nearly long enough to be of any use.  This is especially egregious as the sound causes instant detection.   

3) Monster in first area is way too sensitive to sound and much too fast for the size of the area and the slow character movement speed.  I essentially got stuck in this area, as I would either try to move while crouching and eventually get caught by the AI randomly patrolling or would try to walk through and get detected. 

Enjoy update, but unable to select any starting blessings...

If it helps, here's some feedback from someone whose previously played the game: 

Every character has a major sex scene after they lose in a coliseum battle, which consists of them being the centerpiece of a orgy.   There is typically some level of bondage/fetish play involved with all of these.   The Lion/rabbit haven't been in a coliseum battle yet, but will likely turn out the same.  There are also minor sex scenes after certain events and missions.  

The dating system isn't complete, but presumably allows you to romance specific character(s) for additional sex scenes, though that is TBD. 

Most characters are muscular, but not exaggerated.  Some characters are chubby, but not to an overly extreme level.  

The story is linear and the characters are more or less set.  This is not an rpg, where you get to choose how the characters act to a significant degree.

I doubt there was much thought put in character names beyond them sounding exotic and/or having a passing connection to some element/personality trait of a specific character.   The inclusion of slavery was probably added as it was ubiquitous in the ancient world, so would make sense for it to be there, and provides quick, readily understood  character motivation(s).   The story is very obviously against slavery and doesn't sexualize/fetishize it.  

If there's any major reason to not purchase this game, it would be that the game has been in development for many years and takes an extremely long amount of time to make any progress in the main story.  For what's already there, it's probably worth the price, but I would not expect it to be fully completed.  

Really good game! 

Short, but good.  

There's definitely some inconsistencies in how characters look from the AI generation, but overall does a nice job of showcasing how the technology can be used to improve VN games.   

Look forward to seeing your future works.  Hopefully scenes in your next game will be longer with additional images.

Really enjoyed the game.  Can't wait to see more!

Agreeing with ali_ath72 that the game seems  unusually difficult.  

It feels like the difficulties are actually one setting above what they say (i.e. easy is more like normal, normal is hard and hard is impossible).  I think adding in a very easy mode would be beneficial to get players used to the controls.  In order to still encourage players to go to harder difficulties you could either cap the scene progression at lower difficulties or add a special end scene at higher difficulties (assuming this isn't already done).

For people struggling, I did find that reducing the game speed to 3 helps a lot.  At default speed, the beats aren't on the screen long enough to really see what's coming.  At lowest speed, they bunch up together too much, making it difficult to tell the order.    

In-regards to simultaneous beat inputs, I would suggest making them different colors from normal beats.  That would make them much easier to tell them apart from rapid successive inputs, which become more common at higher difficulties.  Also, since people have 4 fingers, it would be fun to see instances where you had to press 3 or 4 inputs at once.   Dance rhythm games only stopped at 2 because people only have 2 legs.  

The game is about halfway done and none of the romance routes are complete.  There should be romance routes for Max, Rune, and Burry.  There will likely be routes for Alan, Teak, and Thistle as well.  

So far, the romance routes follow the general flow:

   1) Intro (Complete)

   2) early day/afternoon (Complete)

   3) bath scene (In-progress)

   4) Nighttime (In-progress for Burry only)

   5) Ending (sex) (in-progress for Burry only)

Almost all the characters currently have some level of lewd content in the game.  Though some can be harder to find.

The game also keeps track of what events have been completed or not.  Completing an event can unlock additional content in other routes and/or past events in the game.  If you can't see something, it may be because you haven't yet done something else in the game.  

Wanted to like this game, as I liked the original text game, but really can't  recommend as is.

The combat system is unbalanced to the point of unplayable.  Even with platinum sword and armor (which takes way too much grinding to get), you still eventually run into enemies that can still knock a 3rd of your health off in one shot.  Additionally, if you go the full corruption path you lose all your special combat abilities that prevent bosses from steamrolling you.  At that point many enemies become virtually unbeatable without absurd amounts of grinding.  

Ironically, the entire combat system could have been axed from the game without losing much content.  The entire premise is about the main character becoming corrupted by a lust curse, so it would have been better to just focus everything on the paladin's interactions with the sexy townfolks, either him struggling to remain pure or giving in to lust.  

As is, you spend hours grinding to make it through the combat portions only to get a lackluster sex scene without pictures.  

TL;DR - Combat is broken and unnecessary.  Weak payoff.