Is it weird that for me some of the things that get put on pause mid-update are more of a cliffhanger than the cliffhangers? Cause as curious about the ending I'm way more curious about the bunch of notifications MC's phone had.
I imagine he'll probably get a bunch more with the number of students out and all happen to be with him at the same time lol.
Not saying the engine is perfect but I rarely ever encounter errors in the games I play that use it. It's no small number either, I'm following 153 games that use it.
There sometimes is an error but, in my experience, it has always been from the developer missing something or doing something in a weird way.
Haven't played this since it came out back in 2021 and I'm happy to see that it's just as good and interesting as I remember it being! I think the only thing I can complain about is that I wish I had more to play through.
Although, I do have some have a minor gripe or two. I mean, I suppose you can argue MC's head is still spinning because of everything that went on in quick succession but it's still crazy to me that the conversation basically went:
MC: Does that mean I'm not fired?
Susan: Of course you're not.
MC: Thank you
*moments later*
Susan: [details about a job he'll be doing with Sue]
MC: I was under the impression I wasn't working for you anymore.
Then he's surprised to see Sue even though he was told moments before that he'd be working with her on a delivery. Just... What?
It also feels like Lily did a total 180 in regards to Sam from S1 to S2. Perhaps that's just how it looks on the surface and it's far too soon to make judgements on just yet but I've still got mixed feelings about it.
Just went to complete Dora's first event where in the morning we need to talk to her during class.
If it's not a bug I feel like we may be missing an event or two for context, because it turns out when I go there in the morning, I'm instead pulled into an event with Patricia, a character I hadn't even met yet. During which we learn that MC has a job (Whoops, 2 in-game weeks before we ever went to do it, lol), not only that but one of the students he teaches threatened to get him fired. Another character who we haven't met yet but after learning that they threaten MC you'd think that we would have but it isn't until after the event with Patricia that we do.
Edit: Wait. This has to be an oversight because during Selena's second event there's a check for if Patricia is met and if she isn't MC will instead assume she got through to Selena. Unless we can somehow do our job before meeting Patricia?
I know I'm not the first one to suggest this (Three other people suggested this by a quick search!) and I likely won't be the last, but it'd be so nice to have spoiler tags. Right now if you want have something hidden as a spoiler you kinda need to sit there and spam new lines or just blabber longer than you really need to just to hide something under "View Rest" and you shouldn't need to do that.
We have the whole kit. Quote, code, bold, italics, strikethrough, lists, etc. The one thing we don't have is one for spoilers and, if I'm being honest here, it's a little frustrating! Especially when giving feedback about the story of a game or reporting bugs to the developer of something, or even just communicating with other users who may be stuck or want to discuss what happened in a game!
I'm replaying since it has been quite a while since I last played and I'm a little confused. Was the bit with Sasha and Anton's room event removed? I get Sasha to 14, Prim to 24, and after I get Layla to 20 I'm immediately brought into the conversation you'd normally have with Sasha after the event in Anton's room.
Sasha speaks as though the crash happened but it hadn't and there's mentions of interacting with a green firefly but that definitely hadn't happened either.
Looks as though a line was missed during translation.
During the event when we return the letter to Charlotte she says:
Es posible que Mr.Nam se cuente en el muelle ahora mismo.
Despite the game being set to be English
Later on after the scene with Juliette there was a mix-up when talking with Charlotte and Sophia where he asks Sophia.
MC: What about your husband?
Should be father.
Totally unrelated but it looks as though everytime you creampie Yui the value of it for her goes up twice instead of once like it does everyone else. Not that it seems to affect anything as far as I'm aware but thought it worth mentioning just in case.
Personally, I wouldn't pay them much mind. Seems they often miss the point or misunderstand (or just outright miss the point of) a number of characters and the story being told in general.
I stumbled upon them from another comment which lead me to look at their collections to see what they thought of other titles. Wanted to see why they feel the way they do for games they have in their "Games to stay away from" collection, especially knowing that a few of them are better than most VN's you can find here. Kind of expected better.
Man, we get hit with both left and right hooks. The funnies then immediately with two feelsbad situations right after. I think the bit with the slimes and Rattles was my favorite part of this update, it was already funny and then kept getting funnier as it went on.
I think it'd be suuper nice to have translations for what characters are saying in another language as smaller text underneath the word. That whole bit with Celeste then later again with Koko having no idea what was being said was meh. If you want to follow along with the conversation and possible story of characters you gotta tab out and open a translator for each and every message til they start speaking in the language you're playing in again. That's if you can tell what the language is or if what you're using to translate can tell! With the conversation with Koko I hadn't a clue and I guess neither did Google because it was saying Chinese simplified one moment, Albanian another.
Probably already fixed in 0.13 but just incase:
During the event where Mia is instructed to walk in the park with the MC she doesn't use the name the player assigned, instead she thinks "(REN, YOU DON'T REALIZE YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE PARK)"
When you first talk to Stacey and MC is talking about updating the computers her response is misnamed.
MC (should be Stacey): When did you want to do it?
I've seen this pop up a few times and I regret not checking it out sooner, it was faar more interesting than I was expecting it would be. Maybe it's just because I jumped in as there were 7 chapters but they felt looong as fuck, not that I'm complaining. I think that's a huge positive for this game and all the twists and turns it takes you on.
There were soo many moments where it felt like I was going to be hit with a "Save here, see you next update", though I think I only felt that way because I was so invested I would forget which chapter I was on.
For me I think the only thing that'd make this game better than it already is would be if there were more chill moments between MC and the love interests. It has been one hell of a rollercoaster since MC was awakened, not that it's a bad thing. Just with Chapter 7 when we're catching up with Amy really made me think of how long it had been since we last interacted with them in the first place, know what I mean?
Can't wait for Chapter 8, hope things go by smoothly for you!
Another VN I wish I checked out after it was more developed. I didn't want it to end just yet with how interesting things were and getting even more interesting by the minute. Was debating with myself whether or not to wait til 0.3's release before checking this out and with all that has happened I kinda wish I did with all I want to see next!
I think what I'm hoping for most with the next update is that we can clear things up with Lilah. That was equal parts painful and frustrating (For me it was more frustrating than the ending of 0.2), Sadie's comments about it especially. I mean, I get she doesn't know about the amnesia situation, but still lol.
Ignoring the grammar typos I'll just point out the main ones (Probably fixed in v0.3 but just incase).
I think the most hilarious one was with MC and Cora. After the whole initiation business when they're talking dirty to each other the names get mixed up for a few lines and makes it sound like Cora is meant to be a futa lol.
Cora (Should be MC): But I'm the one who's going to fuck you good now.
MC (Should be Cora): I confess after feeling how good you re with your hands, I'm excited to try out your other skills.
MC (Should be Cora): Let's see how good you are with your cock.
There's one when MC is talking to Nina after the second memory flashback. After telling her about the confrontation with Cora she mentions that it was her son that was taken, but Nina then mentions lucking out with situation with Cora's daughter.
Another I noticed was with MC, Skye and Tracy.
Skye: Angel was already trying to steal your client, MC (should be Tracy).
After Helga takes off her dress MC comments how her body is perfect.
MC (I should be Helga): I'd only look like this with you
Or at least I think it's meant to be Helga saying that. Makes sense given what was just said and what comes not long after.
When MC tells Helga "One day I'll take you there, you can be sure of that." he doesn't actually say it, it's more like quick note that literally says "MC For personal reasons, I can't go there right now"
During the cocktail event there's spacing missing when Cora says
"AndMCis... a boyfriend?"
When MC talks about Nina's ability in the combat class she says to not exaggerate and the next line is mislabled as Nina.
Nina (Should be mc): I'm not exaggerating.
After MC is freed and starts to fight Isai
MC (Should be Isai): Do you really think you're going to leave that easily?
I usually avoid NTR or Swinging/Sharing games, especially if there's a Romance tag attached as well. I decided to give it a chance after seeing that it's optional for the exception of the side characters. Even then, I was surprised to see that you still get some choice about some of that as well, or at least there was a choice for one instance of it (Maybe there's more that I missed or am forgetting). Not to say that you'll always get the choice but there does look to be choices some of the time.
It's still early on so there isn't that much there at the moment, but what is there is pretty decent and well written! I think if you liked The Headmaster, or Dropout saga you'll probably like this.
I will say, I'm glad when Emiko was re-introduced she became a Main Target and not a side character. Although we haven't seen much of her yet but I probably would've hated if she was re-introduced as a side character.
I do have a few questions though:
As much as I like the current HS2 models I think I like the Blender one just as much, if not more, and can't wait to see what all the other characters look like once they're done! I can't figure out who I'm more eager to see next, Luna or Nobume.
I do have a couple questions:
With the new models I imagine you plan to go through the first 6 chapters and redo the renders. Will that be done with the chapter 7 update or will we be getting a remake of the first 6 chapters then chapter 7?
Totally unrelated to the new models (sorry!), just something that I noticed the other day and this is the perfect time to ask. Is this no longer a harem title? Noticed there's no longer the 'harem' tag on here or on F95 and I could've sworn that it had it before.
As always, looking forward to the next update! Hope everything goes by smoothly for you!
Admittedly haven't been following this all that closely since I last played but I can safely say that I'm more interested in this now than I was then.
The story was already interesting and had plenty of mystery about what we could expect from characters and how the story would progress. With how it was presented this time around I think its made all the more interesting, especially with this whole 'aura' aspect!
I know it's too soon to reveal but I hope we meet Vi again, I think she easily became my favorite character even though we didn't see all that much of her yet!
Honestly, this was my second time giving this title a chance. I want to like it and didn't want to make a comment that's solely about things I think could be better because it looks like it has a lot going for it but I ran into so many things to leave feedback about I kept getting pulled out to add to this comment.
Something that made things a little difficult to get into the last time I played was the translations and proof reading. They were a bit rough the last time I played (last October or so) and while they've improved in some areas they're still the same in others.
For example, when the player first goes to interact with Hayami they're met with "Tell me, [mc name]".
Personally, I think that although the font used looks nice what's holding it back is that there's no lowercase letters with it. So it's as though everyone is yelling at each other all of the time. For anyone reading this, press A (Sorry, I don't know the mobile equivalent for this menu!) to select a font override if you don't want characters yelling at each other.
I think MC has a clone or something because, from what I've seen there's two of them. The first one we are introduced to has white hair and it doesn't cover their face all that much. Then when reading together with Kioko in the library we suddenly have black hair and bangs that cover the top half of our face. Just... What?
Some sort of event tracker would be nice. I had no idea what to do or where to go after the prologue ended. I kinda just wandered around aimlessly afterward trying to find or start events/interactions to work toward.
I think the biggest thing is that the listing for this game is constantly deleted and created again with each new version. I totally understand why since other games do it as well, but the difference is that they keep a "Main page" (See Total Maidness! by OnionCuttingNinja as an example) so that you can still see feedback left by other users and news posts about previous versions. That's not to mention ratings left for this also disappear and kind of makes rating this feel pointless since it'll be gone in a few weeks time anyways.
Admittedly I didn't make it far but just some bugs/issues I noticed when playing:
I didn't mean or want to make such a long comment but especially since it makes it look like I'm just pointing out the negatives but, like I said above, I just kept running into thing after thing. Sorry for such a long read!
After reading this recent news post about another game I follow I thought it worth poking you about since Patreon will probably give you a hard time about the same thing with Hina. Hopefully they won't but a heads up just incase couldn't hurt
