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I thought writing some feedback after finishing might be useful for other players? So, here goes!

Technical: I had a an unable to save error with the public version (0.6 at the time) from day 1, so no progress was possible. This didn't happen with the 0.7 beta

Liked:

* positive, friendly atmosphere

* funny at places

* self-discovey of the protagonist is not as illogical as usual. She gets support all the time, which is a step beliveable than usual.

* I like the different body models used, not everyone is 90-60-90.

* no stat grinding! Plus 1000 points!

Didn't like:

* there are days when there is nothing new (ie. new scenes are unlocked at a specific day). It can be confusing when the unlock is related to a mandatory visit to school, but you do not know when it will happen, and you gotobed-gotobed-gotobed for some days.

* to me, the cast of characters is a bit too similar to each other, especially after everyone is okay with their own kinks. Everyone is supporting, everyone is friendly, but I realized that they often (but not all the time!) don't have a defining characteristic outside their sexuality, or if there is any, it is not used in dialog. A characteristic what never comes up, is like it's not there. It is probably late to change this, but it could have been done even with keeping the positive atmosphere in mind. For example have a lady with OCD who comments on things with this in mind, a metalhead-rebel, a snob who is nice but lives in a bubble, a "good doesn't mean nice" character, and so on.

Alltogether, a good job! I think the main selling point is the positive-friendly atmosphere, which is very rare in games with a female protagonist!

after enjoying the game I thought it would be a good idea to write about it.

Liked

* characters have easily recognizable personalities

* some rarely seen character types (Reba is literally "white trash beautiful, trailer park queen" from the Everlast song. But how often do you see a lady like this in media?)

* tone in general seems positive. a kind of... Gilmore girls for dudes, with sex? I like that there is no violence/blackmail and the likes

* dialog-plot-lewd ratio seems well thought out and optimal. It's not an endless tease like some yuri AVNs, and not "oh I tripped and fell dick forward into a lady" like some other AVNs.

* many characters to choose from, everyone will find a few interesting ones (me: Mari as undisputed No1, while Mi-Cha + Ms. Welch + Kendra share second place). Surprisingly there are ladies in the game who interested me despite me not liking their design (Kendra, Reba), this is very difficult to pull off

* the writer actually knows how to be funny, and how to write fun, sarcastic characters. That's a great plus!

Didn't like (not that much honestly, I guess some of these are related to the game being unfinished)

* some characters only have an initial hook (which _are_ interesting!), but no further developement afterwards (Suzy and Kendra seem to suffer from this after their initiaul hook is "solved")

* I don't know what it is with AVN writers, who ruin perfectly fine characters with tragedy? I really liked Kendra until the "acting lessons plot twist"

* some repeatable scenes repeat too often. The one which first comes to my mind is Tammy+Suzy after a date.

Alltogether one of my favorite AVNs, definietly a TOP5! Biggest strength is probalby the well-written cast of characters.

Highly recommended, good job!

probably not the best place to ask this, but could you recommend similar games to play, while waiting for an update? Thanks!

rich story and 18+ content that is actually real and not some fake production geared toward the male gaze

Can you perphaps recommend games like this? Apart from Love Bakudan, I mean :D Thanks for considering!

"For the music, I'm assuming you mean instead of/in addition to the current music?"

The current music is okay. No problems with that.

But I was thinking that at some scenes, where you want to evoke a specific atmosphere (like a heartfelt conversation, or a party scene), you could use some music which feels like college comedies.

I dunno, but for example Blink182, Offspring and such remind me of these movies. (probably due to my age) Obviously these well known bands are a no go, but I think it is possible to find similar to these in tone.

When I was looking for free pictures for a tabletop RPG I did go through a mountain of "free for non commercial use" pictures to pick out ~30 I wanted. I think it took me about 20-25 hours to find those. So I understand that this would require lots of investment from your side.

I'd love to do even more body diversity, but I am somewhat limited by the engine I'm using.

I do miss curvy ladies from visual novels, but I understand the limitations you have :) This is still better than most of the VNs from this perspective though.

I'm so glad you liked the balance between characterisation and lewd scenes

For some reason this balance is not that common, even though I would think it makes sense?

Most games female protagonists are usually either well written but super innocent, or nonsense corruption games where the protagonist is irrational.

Good job, congrats! I think you just found a niche which is rare in gaming. (nicely written characters + female protagonist + some lewd)

Liked

* female protagonist

* game is a nice middle ground, the classmates are quite interesting, but there is also adult content. (usually one of these, lewds or writing is missing)

* I usually hate minigames, but these stat increases with classes grew on me. I don't know how much work it took to make this not annoying :)

* I really like that the PC starts off as inexperienced, and you actually have to advance. Most games start off the PC with a natural talent level of a succubus

* I really liked that there is a variation in body models used, not everyone is a "super slim, but cup D"

Room for improvement

* music I think. There is awesome, royalty free music out there, which would add to the experience. This would especially add to the university feel, if you choose punk/ska/etc. But I understand that it takes an ungodly amount of time to dig through the trash to find one good song. You might want to use the fans for recommendations tho :D

there must be beter tools to search, but something like this:

https://licensing.jamendo.com/en/royalty-free-music/search?qs=query=tags_idstr:%22happy%22+AND+tags_idstr:%22rock%22+AND+tags_idstr:%22percussion%22+AND+duration:[0+TO+180]

* if you can find it, even bigger variety (like curvy or buffed) in body types would add I think

Really nice story and world building! 

Looking forward to the final release.