1. Not sure how you felt this. You got plenty of decisions on how she acts, her motives and the type of mother you want her to be. The developer did say on his Patreon page that he was wanting the player to act more as a "narrator" than the mother herself so that could be what you felt and personally, I prefer it.
I think the two underlined parts are exactly why it's problematic to me. Wanting the player to act more as a narrator means we're a viewer, but making decisions would mean that we're the character. It contradicts one another because decision making is not something the narrator should be doing.
2. Pretty vague critiques, the son was fine. A young teenager going through hormones who likes big MILFs and video games. He wasn't douchey at all and if anything, felt very real. The daughter is your typical teenage daughter, again, she felt real. The father was a workaholic husband who seems oblivious to his wife and her needs, again, that's a pretty real situation. All of the characters felt real and that's what made this game so damn good for me.
And as I've mentioned in my original post, it might be realistic, but it doesn't give good experience to play through when the characters are annoying. Son wasn't douchey at all? How is he not a douche for calling his sister a slut in front of the aunt and her husband while in the car without even any single hint of a slutty thing she did? That came out of nowhere. Same with the daughter for straight up accusing her brother as pervert regardless whether he did something or not. Then the husband with him having straight up e-peen contest with the aunt's husband. Holy shit, the husband has such a loser's attitude for always feeling that he needed to one-up the rich guy when nobody was talking about it. A contest against his imaginary rival.
Once again, realistic? Sure there are plenty of people like that. Enjoyable? Not at all. Those are the kind of people I don't really want to hang around with. That's why I said that when someone created characters for video game, why create characters that aren't likeable? Especially considering the family members are the characters that are going to be involved with
Overall, i'm really baffled at a lot of the critiques. This isn't directed at you personally but more in general with some of the comments on here. People always bitch and moan about half assed cash grabs where the dialogue goes something like the mother seeing her sons boner then instantly sucking his dick within the opening seconds of the game, so along comes this game with a clear focus on build up, realism, detail and just overall content with fantastic renders to top it all of, and people still complain. Just goes to show that you really can't please everybody and nor should the developer try to. He has a clear vision and I genuinely feel that he's sitting on a gold mine with this game.
All in all, I feel like I've played an entirely different game to everyone on here. This game was fantastic and I genuinely hope the developer takes these extremely vague "criticisms" with a grain of salt.
I actually thought there are way more people who praised the game than the ones who critiqued it? Even in my own post, sure I listed 3 things that could've been done better, but sometimes I felt people focused on that and simply skipped the part where I said that it's the best demo and one of the better games out there.
I think this is moaning on a very high level!!!
1) Yeah, English is not my native language but for that I think it's pretty good and understandable even if there are few no "perfect English phrases"! Actually the words you've mentioned I couldn't even find in my script except of "bath tube" and this is also not how it is written in my game! It is written bathtub! I know that it's "basketball court" and "soccer field/ground/pitch"! But these words are not even in my game! If yes, please tell me the scene!
2) I absolutely can't understand why you think the characters are annoying! All characters have their own personality! Son is shy, reserved and just acts like a normal teenager! Daughter outwardly cool and cheeky. But inwardly rather shy and insecure! She acts like a little princess and can't stand her brother. Mother is an intelligent, sporty, middle-aged woman who acts and thinks reasonable and loves her kids than anything else. She is not that reckless like her younger sister but also not shy! Currently she's a little disappointed about her sexual life situation with her husband. Furthermore she knows how to defend herself. Her sister Patricia is just a spoiled, reckless and cheeky woman who can't take anything seriously. Etc., etc.
I don't know what you are expecting how they should be? Like the family in that Eddie Murphy movie "The Nutty Professor"???
This is kind of disappointing that the reaction of being critiqued is so aggressive.
1. The ones I mentioned are not even all, but here's the screenshots of "soccer court" and "basketball field". I'm not going to bother trying to find all one by one, especially since it's made in RPGM which makes it even slower to replay the game trying to find the part. All I'm saying is that I wish the script is proofread a bit more. If you don't care about it, sure, that's fine too, it's your product after all, you can do whatever you want to it. You don't have to say that those words are not even in the game, when
they actually are. It only showed that you couldn't even search for it from the script you have.
and honestly, there are
TONS more that I didn't bother screenshotting.
2. If you're a mother and you have to experience what happened in the car on the way from the airport to your house, do you enjoy that? Stuck in a car with a son who openly called his sister a slut in front of your sister and her husband, while your daughter kept on going crazy fighting back, and your own husband having a fight with imaginary rival about who has more money. If that is not annoying, I don't think you understand what annoying is.
But it's ok, I'm just moaning on a very high level here. Keep up the good work, champ.
