I mean... I was already eager for updates because the story is interesting and the interactions are entertaining, then I was made more eager by previous teasers and learning about the use of Substance Painter. Now I'm made more eager as things continue to improve and look just that much better than before!
Hope things go by smoothly for you and that you also have a Happy New Year!
I'm so glad the player got to see how Avis' side of things continued after where she stopped with MC. My imagination was already running wild with all we were told up to that point and it would have made of one hell of a cliffhanger if it were just left at that!
Can't wait to see what future chapters have in store, hope things go by smoothly for you!
I'm sure I've said it before but poor MC. Gonna be a bit chubby by the time the ending comes around with how much his plate gets filled up and then some lol.
Machi's new look suits her pretty well! Or at least I think it does, maybe we just haven't seen her enough for her old look to be cemented in my mind but you get what I mean. There was another VN I played that eventually changed the hair style of one of the characters and they just never looked right to me since then.
Substance has such a cool and powerful set of tools, I don't blame Adobe for scooping them up but, man. Sucks that it became a subscription service. Am very much looking forward to seeing what more you do with them!
I'm sure I've said it before but the humor in this is just too good, it's difficult to pick my favorite moment. Easily between MC Overcharge with Koko again, or Yusei's lower half dangling in front of that window though.
I noticed a minor bug:
When Shuu says "I have a favor to request ..." the textbox has MC's name there instead of Shuu
Maybe! That's something I also thought but still kind of feel like it was before the story for a couple reasons.
At the start of the game after we return home from school we receive a text from an unknown number apologizing for earlier. We didn't know who it was so they just dropped it. After the 7 Minutes mention I figured that maybe she asked for his number and never did anything with it til that issue with Shelby at the start.
Then there was that little bit with Skylar at the party (maybe the same party?) before the game started.
Oh! Right, that's what I was going to mention!
I love how MC is still using the picture of Suzu he got from Touka for her picture in his contacts. I dunno how it'd come up but just the thought of Suzu's reaction to seeing that her contact picture is one where she looks particularly grumpy is hilarious to me
Mhm. Lots of things are used to skirt by it that just ruins dialogue, but that's just the most common. I've even run into a couple where they use "best friend" as a replacement. Didn't think anything of it til
But...! [MC] we're best friends, our love is forbidden!
Immediately confused (Especially when the MC and "best friend" look nothing alike) and then it clicked.
You can usually tell when they're using their relation seemingly unnecessarily in responses to people.
Your "complaints" would carry more weight if you weren't so hostile, so willfully ignorant and if you actually were a Patron. Mostly the first two things though.
Like last time you're just coming off as an entitled child who refuses to understand and is just sitting there screaming in the middle of the store "MOMMY I WANT THIS NOW!!" and wondering why they aren't getting their way.
I think what I like most is that even if you don't do something the scene is still unlocked, but just incase that doesn't happen you're prompted at the end. Wish more games did that so you don't have to start a new save or load an older save just to fill out the gallery for whatever reason one may have
It can be a little difficult to make out the text from the background at times. Especially if there's a bright scene or just anything with the color white behind it. One solution would to have a black outline for text so it's easier to distinguish from the background, the other would be to have a text box.
Outside of that though, I'm looking forward to episode 3! Hope things go by smoothly for you!
That went tons better than I was expecting it to tbh. Almost makes me think of it like a king's gambit scenario. I love that, aside from all the shocked looks, not a single soul seemed to care about what happened with Gob and Yob.
Old Man Jiro really wanted to catch up with Uraha with the questions left for MC. Although, even with those, I can't help but be more curious about Machi lol
This was so much longer than I was expecting. There were so many moments where it kind of felt as though it was gonna fade to black and let us know that this was the end of the update. So much that happened and to unpack!
I think the biggest criticism I have though is that I wish there were translations (Whether it be afterward or in smaller text underneath the word) for what was being said. Especially when Uryuom was tossed into the ring. Personally, it really pulled me out of all that was happening because I had to open up a translator on the side and toss in what was being said if I wanted to understand what was being said and going on. It'd be one thing if it were minor flavor text that didn't matter, but it was a whole conversation and what seemed to be an important event (Especially with the teaser for Chapter 4!).
I think there's a typo in the walkthrough.
When it comes to the section when you're bowling with Anna it says that any answer is fine for her millionaire question. Meanwhile actually only one of the answers gives the player any points with her. Shouldn't that be the option in the walkthrough since it gives points and the others don't?
Now that you mention it, yeah. Happened as I was flipping through all the girl's pages making sure I didn't miss anything. Thought if I clicked it I'd get a hint about a decision I missed and that's when I discovered that happening.
After relaunching and trying without first going to Camilla's menu it doesn't happen
Kinda regretting not checking this out months ago when I seen it gaining popularity... On the other hand though I also wish I played it when it was finished because it's so much more interesting than I was expecting and I really wanna see how things progress. Especially considering things ended right as they were getting really interesting!
Can't wait til we're able to pull the stick (Let's be real, it's probably a whole branch) out of Rachel's ass though. I know she means well but god damn she's so annoying and overbearing. Almost as unlikeable as Mika and Brian at the moment.
Really wish Itch would add spoiler tags so I don't need to make a comment needlessly long just to not spoil people. Though, it's probably a minor spoiler all things considered since I think more people would be surprised if it hadn't happen than it had.
I think that bruise Lucy had might've been overlooked. On Day 9 we see it and it's still pretty large and a brown-purple, then on Day 10 it's as though it was never there in the first place. I dunno if there's any faded ones you can use but I thought I'd mention it just incase
Find it hard to believe that this is your first game with how good things are. For starters the story is interesting and kind of makes me regret checking this out when there's only one chapter available, I didn't want it to end just yet!
The renders and lighting are also great! Usually the first few chapters of some games have a little too much bloom or characters look as though they're made of plastic or something. I didn't notice anything like that though.
Ontop of all that, the characters all actually feel different, too often do games come out where everyone looks different but all seem to have the same personality and mannerisms.
As though all that isn't enough, the options menu gives more options than the vast majority of VN's I follow! Off the top of my head, I think the only comparable one is Stormside. I do kinda wish there was also a little audio cue for the Glitches when you have the hint option enabled, they can be easy to miss at times. Though, I did find 75% of them so I suppose I can't complain too much.
Some minor things I noticed during my play through:
I think that something was accidentally overlooked during the intro.
Lucy mentions that she was surprised she was one of MC's emergency contacts when he set them up when buying his new phone. Then shortly later Lucy notes how when he was found after the accident his phone was broken.
If his phone was broken the hospital staff wouldn't be able to access his emergency contacts, right? Unless he listed them as one to the doctor to have on file themselves after an appointment or something.
When Lucy, Anya and MC are sitting down to eat pizza and MC talks about repaying them Lucy is the one speaking but the render is of Anya with her mouth open to speak.
I know this isn't meant to be a harem game, but man. It's difficult make a choice about which character you want to hang out with when they're all interesting.
Edit: So, in regards to the door. When we select to force fate and it says "love interest (0/100 complete)" what exactly does it mean? It doesn't quite make sense to me, for me it says 0/100 for everyone except Angie who is at 40/100.
I thought it'd be based off the points for each character (Eg since I have 4 with Saki in this save I'd expect 40/100 for her and since there's just 2 with Theresa 20/100 with her) but it doesn't. I don't understand lol
Ah, nevermind. I see now. I suppose I'll put a pin in continuing for now til things are more fleshed out.
I don't really mind rewrites or reworks, honestly I think they're kinda necessary in a lot of cases when it comes to your first game. Once you're more familiar with what you want from your story and what you're working with you can refine things that maybe could've been better or be represented better for those new to your game as a whole.
I saw that Light of My Life was able to have a 7gb PC and MAC download, and only have a 1gb Android download. If I can figure out how to do that, I won't have to split the game each season and make y'all do more work downloading and all that crap.
I think your best bet is to talk to some of the folks over on F95Zone if you haven't already. Some of them have game compression down to an art form and can probably point you in the right direction.
Looking at the WCA post over on there, someone compressed S1 down to ~575MB.
I'm sorry, I really tried to make it through all the available content but I just couldn't. I'm just repeating what has already been brought to your attention, but the translations and proofreading desperately need some work.
The screenshots look great, the description and what little of the story I played through seems interesting. It's just too troublesome to make sense of what's being said most of the time.
I think this is a title I'll try again in the future once some more updates come out
Nah, I'm sorry about my constant fanboying lol.
Answers to questions that increase the number of questions has become a common theme and I'm all for it. Even replaying has a surprising amount of value just from all the little details that can easily slip by or that you never thought much about before.
I'd be surprised if I didn't enjoy an update for this though, to be honest. This game has been a hell of a rabbit hole since I first downloaded it, all the way back when the cliffhanger was Miko saying "Kerfuffle".
Maaaan, you consistently give me too much that I can't help but want to comment and think about all at once. Obviously not a bad thing since that means you're doing a great job, but still!
I just wanted to reload an earlier save for the Ninja Space Hamster I missed and wound up noticing what seems to be foreshadowing with the dream Suzu was describing last update.
I hate how much sense it makes while at the same time feeling like such a red herring. Between what we learned from Uraha and the crazy old man waaay back in the start of the game it makes me wonder about MC and Miko again. If true it just begs more questions though.
If Kana wasn't amused by the wife shenanigans with Nagisa I can only imagine how she's going to take the news this time.
This is either a typo or my brain isn't big enough to understand but during Yuna's Event - Big Karp Energy there comes a point where she says "I'm that's not even mentioning how my sister will worry...".
I'm assuming it's supposed to be something along the lines of "And that's not to mention how my sister will worry..." ? Maybe not exactly that but I imagine that's similar to what's trying to be said?
Also, just noticed when going through the Main Characters Tab the Likes and Dislikes for Sakura are there but not the "Likes:" and "Dislikes:" bit
I think the hint for Ami's "A Shade of Me" is wrong or missing something, despite raising her affection to 5 and going to the Bar in the Evening it wouldn't occur until after Saori's "Mamihlapinatapai". After that I was able to start it.
To say I'm disappointed by reading this would be an understatement. I don't know if you still check or use Itch but I already touched upon what I thought of the game itself in a review I had left.
My disappointment isn't for the state of the game itself, it's for your attitude as a developer.
When you noticed things not going as you wanted you didn't take a step back to re-evaluate the project, to take notes of things that could be better. You didn't go back and touch up earlier parts of the game when you learned of better ways to do things, or better ways of writing.
Instead you decided to blame other devs for having more popular projects as though if they didn't exist yours would be more popular. I'm sorry but that's just not how these things work.
Who are you to say they didn't work as hard as you did? How could you possibly know that? Even if that were true why is that any reason for you to rush out half-assed content that you're probably not happy with and your fans wouldn't be happy with?
Reading through this post has left such a bad taste in my mouth makes me want to lower the rating I left. I truly hope that with your next game you do better, both with the game and with your attitude toward development.
