NOTE: the updates/changes log for v0.09 says " This update completes playable day 10 " which I now understand is incorrect.
I was really enjoying this game for quite a while. I like the renders, and the characters, and the story to be honest. However, at some point, I took a step back and realized how little has actually happened in it. I appreciate that the dev wants things to feel "realistically paced," but that's from the perspective of someone INSIDE the game. Meanwhile, we've been playing this thing for three years and to the characters in it it's only been
ten (18?) days. THIS is why these games are usually NOT realistically paced.
(EDIT: I would LOVE to see a dev that just occasionally throws in some transition lines like, "two weeks later," "from then on stuff like that just seemed to keep happening to her," "time passed," "things went on like that for a while, until... ," "and then, later that year," or something along those lines. Boom. Realistic pacing for the characters, and practical pacing for the audience.)
Do you ever wonder ... if people support this game just for the fan-art thread?
Seriously, this is the only game I personally know of that had so much good fan art they had to build a whole separate Ren'Py game just for the fan-art. Is this what happens when you manage to create a loyal fan base and then don't give them anything?
So, to sum up. I really like this game, but I've taken to only checking in on it like twice a year.
There are some things I wish were different, but I very much want to see it continue anyway.
How about, maybe, a bonus gallery with non-canon sex scenes in it? That'd be cool.
... I just thought about it again: it's been
ten (18?) days in game time. He wants the story to feel realistic. Can you picture any normal, mentally well-adjusted, faithful wife and mother without any weird kinks or atypical ideas about morality that would suddenly be jumping into bed with jerks she doesn't even like, her own family, the barely legal neighbor boy, or random college kids she met on the street after
ten (18) days of "well, that was unexpectedly awkward" stuff happening? I doubt it. How about after
two three weeks? How about a month? Let's say one month is long enough to throw self-esteem and morality out the window and risk her marriage and career. At this pacing, that would mean another
SIX YEARS (okay, like one or two more years?) of game development. So, as I see it, the options for the dev are as follows:
- Accept they will be making this game for
many years a long time to come while always getting complaints about lack of content
- Give up and start over with a new project (I'm just admitting it's an option! PLEASE DON'T ACTUALLY DO THAT!)
- Surrender to the norms of the media platform and speed things up a bit as naturally as possible
- Have something traumatic happen that suddenly breaks her mentally and causes her to act out
- Include a non-canon bonus gallery
I'm guessing they've already accepted that first option, but frankly I'm rather partial to the last two.
