Not sure what that says about me, then. He mostly reminds me of Kazuma from Konosuba. Not someone I would necessarily want to be friends with but he's entertaining. I want to see him succeed but I also like when he fails.
It helps that the player has plenty of opportunities to make him less of a jerk. He'll always be an ass but you can keep him from being an asshole. If that makes any sense.
Enjoyed this game quite a bit. I fully expected the MC to be a putz and a loser but he's proven surprisingly likable. All of the characters are great, really, a well-rounded cast. Ruru in particular is a breath of fresh air. She actually seems like she's rooting for the MC most of the time and while she's a manipulative demon she gives genuinely good advice and character development. Very much looking forward to MC getting more involved with things, he and Saranhil are adorable together! They've got that "two halves of a whole idiot" energy.
Played this game way back in version 0.1 and just found it again. I have to say I'm really loving it!
The H-scenes are a little wonky, in some the face doesn't match up with the body. But the story is amazing! And the monster, transformation, and superpower art is simply incredible.
Fight scenes are so hard to do in visual novels and you've made incredible use of a very limited format. I seriously feel powerful and deadly when I manage to make all (or most) of the correct choices the first go around. And on the flipside I feel downright silly when I make the wrong ones. But that's part of the fun!
So the writing is largely good. Characters are interesting, plot is fairly standard but engaging, just a few punctuation and capitalization errors here and there. Only two issues really stand out to me:
1. The animations are really uncanny. They tend to just jump out of what was a still image and that can be incredibly disconcerting. I about jumped out of my seat the first time what I thought was a still image started moving.
2. A lot of the choices aren't really choices. If you're given two options and one of those will lead to an immediate game over you might as well not have included a choice at all. It's pretty clear there's a direction the game wants you to go and many of the choices just feel like window dressing. I'd seriously considering either reworking where you're given options or possibly just making the thing a kinetic novel.
I give it a 3/5 so far.
Decent amount of content for a first release. Took about 2 hours for me to get to the end, got stuck a couple times. The only real complaint I have is the black orbs are a little ridiculous, I assume those are a placeholder? If so, it's fine. If not, I'd seriously consider replacing them with sprites.
Overall, a solid 4/5 for writing, art, and dungeon diving. Great start!
I was stuck there, as well. If you're at where I think you are, go back to the room with the six switches and the three mobs circling around the three rectangles. You need to go to the right hand corner where there's a path leading to a small room with a large black pit. There should be a bridge to cross the pit now.
I downloaded 0.15 but when I get to a certain point it sends me to the "Thank you for playing 0.13" ending card. I started a whole new game and skipped through that only to get that same ending card again. Is this a bug or is that the end of the content? It's the same end as when I downloaded 0.14 so I figure it shouldn't be.
The point where I'm getting this is on the vacation when the woman walks into your room and mentions her daughters (sorry, trying to avoid spoilers).
This game was absolutely fantastic. The writing was cute and funny, the characters were adorable (foxes!) and sexy (everyone else), and the combat was surprisingly engaging and intuitive. I loved collecting all the different dresses!
The only real downside was several of the puzzles were frustratingly vague about what you had to actually do. I solved the Roman Numeral one by pure luck, could not for the life of me find the clue.
Overall, solid 5/5 game.
