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Generally great game so far, but I have feedback on the LLENN episode:

I don't know how much work the extra UI options and save states would take, but LLENN's episode has a disproportional amount of play time between chapters and mid-play-session save stats compared to the previous episodes. For example, in other episodes the "facility maze" portion would have been chapter 2, but when I quit after reaching the "obvious checkpoint" I found out that it was still chapter 1. I don't know how many chapters you would need to divide it into to get it "balanced" (I haven't completed the facility maze yet) but I highly advise making the additional divisions so that players can reasonably jump to at least the vicinity of the scene they want.

Related to me not completing the facility maze, the design of the maze has a huge chokepoint in the middle of the map, such that by the end it requires an inordinate amount of RNG (typically acquired by waiting in a nearby hiding spot for excessive lengths of time) to get through without being automatically caught, let alone without being spotted. In addition, the laser minigame's timer is too short for the combination of length you have to travel and being sent back to the start if you get hit - I got hit on the first laser due to misunderstanding the hitboxes, then ran out of time before reaching the chest despite no further mistakes and a good pace. On top of all that, getting the four other keys was about 45-60 minutes of gameplay (my routing had key #3 being the claw machine since I hadn't realized the implications of the layout, and I needed to get back through the chokepoint to get the third "unguarded chest" key then back through the chokepoint AGAIN to reach the laser room). Despite this time commitment, after failing the laser room once and being unable to get through the chokepoint without being caught a couple more times, I fully failed the stage and got set back to zero keys which did not feel good, especially knowing that if I walked away and came back later I would also need to do the initial scene to get back to this stage.

To address that portion in particular, I would advise altering two things: the laser room with the goal of allowing at least one mistake, and adding at least one alternate path to each of the east and north wings to eliminate the chokepoint RNG check. I believe that the facility maze's time to complete will become reasonable enough for the full reset on full fail to be okay if you don't spend half your time trying to find an opening to get through a single cramped intersection.

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As far as I can tell you can cleanly add resistance to the sandbox by making it one of the settings. Something like a behavior section where you can set her to behaviors ranging from "stiff" (actively holding herself in the position you place her in, no restraints needed once the position is set), to "resisting" (her actively fleeing as much as she is able and attempting to escape her restraints - though actually allowing escape would probably require a complex system). I imagine the middle points include "limp" (current behavior) and "squirming" (small movements that make tying more difficult and cause her to move around in bondage but don't really constitute attempts to escape). This being a behavior setting that can be changed during the game also supports "RP scenarios" where you tie her up freely and then watch her squirm.

As for reactions, "dynamic reactions" is definitely difficult but adding a setting for the player to have her facial expressions be one of neutral, happy, horny, sad, angry, and afraid would greatly expand the range of emotional tones that players can set.

Final thoughts: a handful of anchor points would be nice, i.e. being able to "attach" her hips or head to the fuck machine so that when it's running it actually fucks her, or being able to attach ropes to her hair without bands around her whole head.

Game seems great so far! My two cents are:

1: as the game has  "restart floor" function, I assume it stores your state as of the start of the floor somewhere. Have that persist past the game session and add a "continue" function to the main menu that calls that same dataset.

2: add an open mouth gag (ring gag is the simplest), potentially entirely replacing the ball gags, so that the goblins don't have to ungag her to use her mouth!

I don't know if the hotfix didn't fix it or if there was an issue with the file not being updated correctly again, but non-collar equipment is still being destroyed upon winning a fight.

I've been loving the game so far! Minor issue with the Itch page: the devlog one day ago is titled for being the public release of 0.2.2, but the text of the devlog says that 0.2.1 is what's being made public and as of now the file under the Windows download is named 0.2.0.

In addition, said file has the same town UI as previously when it was supposed to be overhauled in 0.2.1, indicating that the file is probably still actually 0.2.0 rather than being mislabeled as such.

Thank you!

May I know what kink(s) are planned for inclusion, if any?

May we get a list of current and planned kinks somewhere, please? I already have a firm (albeit not absolute) grasp of my preferences, and would like to know if a game fits those preferences without having to play through it first.

Not sure if this is a file name issue or a "how you submitted it to Itch" issue, but the Windows version is labelled with "macOS" and the Apple version is labelled with "windows".

The game needs "RPG Maker VX Ace RTP" to run, but I can't find a matching name in the files or on Itch.io. May I get pointed in the right direction?

According to the opening scene's notes the storyboard is still being worked out, but considering that Max's goal is to chase down the succubus he either wants to thank her or ask her to take the curse off, the latter seeming more likely to me. So the curse is almost certainly non-consensual. Other than that, currently provided information does not allow us to tell how "into" any of this stuff Max is.

Luckily for me I figured out that I'm gynosexual rather than heterosexual a pretty good while ago, otherwise this game would definitely have raised distressing questions.

Not sure where tf the thing she's talking about for question 1 is supposed to be, but the answer is "cactaur". There's five elves in the school splash panel, and there's a tiny mlp doodad in the tent at the very beginning of level 1. Most of the color words are super confusing synonyms, but the top right one is another word for poppy - a red flower, and also the answer. I think that the one about Max' shirt is either not fully implemented or a trick question, since the shirt doesn't change during the gallery and I haven't noticed it change during gameplay, and it asks you which thing HASN'T been on your shirt.

Minor self-correcting bug report: Got to the mystic desert in the browser version, saw the mirror pop up and hit it with a punch. The game brought up a struggle prompt that didn't react to my press while max did his idle animation. Not positive but I think the timer might have stopped? After 10-ish seconds a ghost came along and overrode whatever was going on with its own struggle, then the game worked as normal.

Losing then replaying the fight like you said fixed it, thanks!

I tried fighting them to make sure that wasn't the issue, game-overs still didn't show up for me. I'd defeated the statue before I even noticed that the sequences weren't there, and the capture sprites are available, but the game-overs aren't there.

In case it's relevant, I did use the pre-installed save file to save some time since I'd played through a previous version of the game.

Great work! I love the game, although I can't find the bandit or lamia game-overs in the ankhrono.

One detail that I find hilarious-yet-fitting is that game-overs where the party is used as batteries, their captor tends to become a local menace. Game-overs where the party is brainwashed, their captor tends to become a regional menace. In the game-over where they get a light hypnotic suggestion that retasks them instead of rewriting anything, though, they take over the flipping planet. Really shows how big of an impact they would have if they weren't content with what they already had.