Ren'Py - A Ghostly Desire [v0.8 Alpha] [Sitho]

It never cease to amaze me how much effort some of these porno devs will put into taking all the fun out of playing their own games! No sane, functional human adult is going to waste time with long tracts of abysmally designed gameplay and mind-numbing 'story' just to see a few decent renders and animations. Gameplay and story that from what I can see could easily have been made better and simpler with very few changes and probably less effort.

The bane of indie development is the lack of effective external criticism/correction and hence devs implementing very bad ideas they came up with and think are really cool/clever. This game exemplifies that predicament more than most on this website that I've played. I mean the dev himself admitted to putting a random timer as the trigger for quest events. WTF?!

I spent 15 minutes putting a travel bag, an empty box, a dustpan, and a picture frame in their God-ordained locations around a house. The PC actually told the empty box 'you should be fine here' after putting it down. That's right, the hero of this story talked to an empty box. Are you fucking kidding me. The English writing/dialogue in general doesn't get much better than that.

Not going to waste more time detailing why the quests, UI, dialogue nav, resolution etc. are stupidly, unnecessarily complicated and/or bad. Tldr - don't bother.

Absolutly fantastic game, great graphic, excellent story plot, perfect characters, one of the best game ever played! Very nice the new kind of playabilty, a new era for point-and-click games!
Can't wait to play the next version!

The game's animations and visuals are usually excellent and the game hasnsome good potential but its so slow, walking around the whole time to get 2 scenes that were dream/memories. It just seems like the dev doesnt value the player's time.

Some ideas to fix that would be to make the walking faster, tighten up the rooms and reduce all the random shit like shelves and dish racks that add nothing to the game, or to just make them uninteractable.