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Maidens of Power features one of the most successful implementation of a controlled sandbox format. I like how you allow players to choose distinct storylines and then converge them when the time is up as a linear story, not to mention some exploring for easter egg specials. 

The skip time to event is innovative and definitely beats senseless clicking often seen in other sandboxes. 

Somehow you've managed to avoid the usual pitfalls with sandboxes - e.g. Deviant Anomalies / Seeds of Chaos (story logical inconsistencies all over), Euranasia (mindless clicking waiting for something to happen), Wartribe Academy (drifting w/o a central theme) 

Keep up the good work and looking forward to the unveiling of the last 3 maiden. Thanks!

Yea same here. I thought Once Lifetime was the apex of adult VNs, then I started Eternum... Holy smokes.

I'm now forcing myself to slowly play through it so that I don't suffer withdrawal symptoms too long waiting for the next update.

Indeed I'm afraid this approach doesn't work too well for VNs, better to have consistent volume across.

Alternatively, you can go the same route as Eternum and tone down the BGM volumes only halfway through the 18+ scenes.

Cheers!

This is very impressive. I like how you have borrowed good elements from Eternum with acknowledgement, but also  injected your own flavor and interpretation into story telling.

The characters and background rendering is pleasing and more slanted towards surrealism than Eternum and combined together with good use of lighting, shadow and angles, create a unique ambience that I have not seen elsewhere in other VNs.

I've only started playing a couple of hours and so far the story shows potential. Only thing I would feedback is the background music volume is sometimes inconsistent. I found myself adjusting headphone volume time to time for a normalized experience.

Looking at the comments below, it seems like yourself and/or many of your audience is Chinese which  explains why the feel of this game is very East Asian. 

Please keep up the good work and hope to this game develops further and becomes another classic.

Got to comment you have an interesting concept, but a few very critical things I think is very important to fix in the next version:

1) You need some sort of trigger to announce to players they have reached the end of the current version. I didn't even know I have reached the end of this version. 

Wasted a lot of time grinding through the days to get enough money to buy a cell phone and information on Youko only to have nothing happen. I only found out this was the end after reading online. 

So here's a public service for everyone playing, version 1.0 will end after you have unlocked all the scenes in Raven, Ryouko, Mika and Youko.

2) There are a lot of grammatical errors throughout. While I understand English ain't native to everyone, many of these errors can be picked up by a basic grammar / spelling corrector. Perhaps you can consider running the script through them.

3) There's something weird with the animation rendering in Ryouko's sex scene. Pussy is much whiter than the rest of her body and looks like  a cut & paste job, might wanna correct that.

4) Try to provide an option for player to automatically use up all their remaining energy for strength when they choose sleep. It's pretty pointless to just keep clicking and watching MC do pull ups everyday.

5) You probably need some way to make more money in the next update, otherwise the game drags out for too long just to raise money to buy stuff. Maybe the pipe screwing workshop can generate more money, otherwise everyone will just skip.

Once again, thanks for the effort so far.