I think there's a bug with the curtain in the Infirmary? When I click on it, I get the following dialogue:
Dahlia: I'll ask you not to go in there, thanks.
Player: Was it always this small though?
...Which is a total non-sequitur, and also some of the other comments are making it sound like the brat is supposed to come out from behind the curtain. I also noticed that the player's dialogue is the same as when you interact with the medical diagrams? It's weird.
I see a lot of potential, but the late game is... kinda boring. The issue for me is that it's very easy to get a batter over 100% accuracy and to give them enough strength that every one of their hits is a homerun. For example, you could get the Dream, give them a lead weight and/or an ogre bat, and now you win every game forever, with just one batter.
It's a minor thing, but I've noticed that if you're playing a non-binary character, NPCs will still call you things like "good girl". I'm not personally bothered by it, but it nonetheless seems like an oversight that doesn't seem terribly difficult to fix.
On a related note, I've noticed that there are no non-binary NPCs? Again, it's just something that really ought to be there, but for some reason isn't.
Great game! I like how you get the ability to dash when you switch to playing as Yaga. It lets the game get more difficult without feeling unfair, while also showing that Yaga herself is a more experienced tunnel runner than Ula is. Very elegantly done!
I did run into a problem with the lightning traps on some of Zmora's levels, though -- The telegraphing "[!]" sign shows up kind of early, so there's like a half-second delay between the sign appearing and the trap actually going off. During that half-second, I found it very easy to miss that the sign appeared at all, so I often got blindsided by those traps.
Otherwise, the girls are cute, the controls feel sharp, and the game is extremely fucking challenging in just the right way. I can't wait to see what you make next!
[Spoilers ahead for the very end of Rahi's story, for anyone reading this]
I really, really hate that in Rahi's story, you're forced to choose between enslaving her and marrying her. I don't really like either option at all--Being a slave-master feels awful to me, and I prefer the dynamic of two dedicated friends having casual sex without romantic subtext. I don't mind that these options are there for the people that want them, but what really gets me is that the game forces the decision on me. At every other point in the game, if I encountered something that gave me The Ick™, I always had the option to just... Not Do That. But for this specific thing, the game turns to me, the player, and says, "If you want to complete Rahi's story, you must do one of these two options." And for me, that really sucks. I'd just like to see some kind of "stay friends" option, where you and Rahi just keep doing things as you were before. Maybe there could even be a scene where she and the player, platonically, talk about the journey they've gone through.
I really do like this game! The gameplay is enjoyable, the writing's not half bad, and it has a good balance of smut versus gameplay, something I've seen a lot of porn games struggle with. But for me, this moment in particular really sours the rest of this otherwise great game.
Great game, captivating story. My favorite parts were the conversations with the people trapped inside the marbles. Those moments of human connection with souls who know that they themselves can't be saved, but who nonetheless try to help you find whatever solace can be found in this broken place... I only wish that there were more of those conversations.
I'd love to see more of this world, but I understand if you consider the story finished. What's in this game can easily stand on its own as a self-contained story.
