I was a huge fan of Striving Forward, sad to see it die but I am glad the characters will live on through this. Time to check it out, falls right in my strike zone.
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I mean how dafuk am I supposed to make a sandwich? does matter the combination is always wrong!!
Mom was right :c
- Aug 19, 2018
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Oh great not only a sandbox but a grindy one with mini game bullshit.
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I'll always defend sandboxes in that they CAN be really good when done right. There's potential to do so much with them. But the real issue is how often they turn into something like this where it seems to just be a boring affection grind full of tedious mechanics.
Yes dude, the way I want to interreact with the cute ghost girl is purely by buying her gifts, guessing what flirt options match her mood, and figuring out how the game wants me to make a sandwich. All for "+5 affection" and absolutely no meaningful dialogue or interactions.
It's so easy man. Just give me the freedom to do events in the order of my choosing and keep up with the writing for the actual events and story. That's literally it. The cupid dating app and maybe more stuff like that is fine even to break it up, but you just don't need all this other meaningless bloat. Sigh.
Yes dude, the way I want to interreact with the cute ghost girl is purely by buying her gifts, guessing what flirt options match her mood, and figuring out how the game wants me to make a sandwich. All for "+5 affection" and absolutely no meaningful dialogue or interactions.
It's so easy man. Just give me the freedom to do events in the order of my choosing and keep up with the writing for the actual events and story. That's literally it. The cupid dating app and maybe more stuff like that is fine even to break it up, but you just don't need all this other meaningless bloat. Sigh.
- Jan 3, 2019
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Well i dont get the sandwich option as all i've got was pancake,smoothie etc, even if i get it i still dont want to play a guess game choosing which is right and wrong and getting punished for not being able to move forward with the story, mini games should be optional and at least giving a hint, not everyone eat sandwich if you trying to be a smartass just to let you know.
- Dec 26, 2022
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Well according to the dev the Matchmaker stuff doesn't involve any Love Interests but eh I was personally more interested in Striving Forward
- Jul 28, 2021
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Honestly , you have very good models , story wise idk .. i started to get bored so i was just clicking and going forward ...i was not even paying attention anymore .
I dont know your other games and such , but you have a real potential game in your hands , specialy with such beautiful girls and models that I ( personaly) havent seem in others vn's . I dont know what happened to your other game to be "abandoned" ( as i had read some comments here ) but i have tried thisone and to be honestly with you , seems you have all the right materials/tools in hand and you dont know how to use it .
And for ME im very sad , i really wish i could play this game and see all the moments , all the connections , all the attachements , all the stories you wanted to tell with each of those beautiful girls , but sadly for me i lost completely interest in it even before something really big happened.
I may keep a eye out to see if something change and the game becomes more interesting .
Anyway... i really wish you a good luck with your project , hope you can achiev what you want .
I dont know your other games and such , but you have a real potential game in your hands , specialy with such beautiful girls and models that I ( personaly) havent seem in others vn's . I dont know what happened to your other game to be "abandoned" ( as i had read some comments here ) but i have tried thisone and to be honestly with you , seems you have all the right materials/tools in hand and you dont know how to use it .
And for ME im very sad , i really wish i could play this game and see all the moments , all the connections , all the attachements , all the stories you wanted to tell with each of those beautiful girls , but sadly for me i lost completely interest in it even before something really big happened.
I may keep a eye out to see if something change and the game becomes more interesting .
Anyway... i really wish you a good luck with your project , hope you can achiev what you want .
- Jan 14, 2020
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why are you getting bu*thurt? did you develop this game?
Also why some people always bring this point of "make one yourself"? so to critique the food someone just had they have to be a chef? or to critique a movie they just saw, they have to be some oscar winning director? i dont have make my own VN to critique a VN here on this website.
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Man, l really like striving forward, I hope this one have decent protagonist like striving forward.
- Aug 19, 2018
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Did you just censor the word butt, on a porn site?
- May 24, 2021
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I will never understand a game having a huge amount of content that isn't sandbox, just to randomly toss it in, and it's never refined -and as a disclaimer, I downloaded this before the sandbox tag was added. There are plenty of good sandboxes, with simple navigation, that has a nice look. This is not one of them, at all, and buggy as usual, getting stuck and not able to progress in event/mini games. The premise was good, but the actual writing also seemed weird to me, like when he met his partner there would be inner dialogue agreeing with what she said, only to then repeat the same thing to hear, just slightly different? Maybe I'm nitpicking, but there's a lot of work for this game to be enjoyable. Good luck
- Aug 8, 2018
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I played it for the Milf Rose and was happy to notice that she'll make an appearance in this game, Until the sandbox popped up. Dont care how many clicks it takes, I'm not about to spend hours grinding for the same recycled pngs with slight variations of dialogue. Sandbox is made for Mfs with a LOT of time on their hands and like to get their balls stepped on, miss me with that crap. I hope the devs takes into consideration and implements a VN mode.
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The sandbox in this feels wholly unnecessary, and I normally wouldn't rage on and on about it being a thing because sandbox CAN be good if done right, but the implementation here is just really damn poor. The entire thing just feels like a tedious grind with pointless minigames that aren't really relevant, fun or entertaining. It's almost like the game is actively trying to push people away from the premise, like seriously why the hell are we playing guessing games to advance affection with answers that change based on mood, it's stupid tedious and makes it feel like you have to memorize answers to get by like we are taking some sort of test.
Like hell even if you were so adamant on the stupid af guess game, you could just make it auto choose the right answers or highlight them if you have already discovered it before. Or better yet make progression not be tied to stupid grind fests at all, it's made even worse because there is quite literally a timer on your actions and honestly the grind got irritating fast enough that I didn't bother to check if there was a way to actually increase the efficiency on lust since you basically need it for everything including actually being able to continue playing the game. Feels like it is setup to make you want to cheat and what would you know there is a cheat for the game, THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY MONEY FOR on the patreon despite the game not doing nearly enough to incentive this.
And it's a damn shame to, story wise it seemed interesting with a lot of growth and the character models are all pretty high quality as well, felt like this could actually be enjoyable but here comes bullshit sandbox. And usually that isn't a deal breaker for me but the execution here is just so fucking bad it's almost headache inducing.
Like hell even if you were so adamant on the stupid af guess game, you could just make it auto choose the right answers or highlight them if you have already discovered it before. Or better yet make progression not be tied to stupid grind fests at all, it's made even worse because there is quite literally a timer on your actions and honestly the grind got irritating fast enough that I didn't bother to check if there was a way to actually increase the efficiency on lust since you basically need it for everything including actually being able to continue playing the game. Feels like it is setup to make you want to cheat and what would you know there is a cheat for the game, THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY MONEY FOR on the patreon despite the game not doing nearly enough to incentive this.
And it's a damn shame to, story wise it seemed interesting with a lot of growth and the character models are all pretty high quality as well, felt like this could actually be enjoyable but here comes bullshit sandbox. And usually that isn't a deal breaker for me but the execution here is just so fucking bad it's almost headache inducing.
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There's probably a way to make a good sandbox porn game, but so far I'm not sure I've ever seen someone do it.
If the gameplay is sitting there bored clicking through meaningless things, wasting hours of your limited time on earth, without actually feeling anything, then there are literally a million better things to do.
Sandbox games seem to always be tedious, repetitive and do not respect your time.
I thought the prologue was promising - but the sandbox came out of nowhere and killed it for me.
At this point I think sandbox game designers just fundamentally do not even understand what a game is, let alone how to make one fun.
If the gameplay is sitting there bored clicking through meaningless things, wasting hours of your limited time on earth, without actually feeling anything, then there are literally a million better things to do.
Sandbox games seem to always be tedious, repetitive and do not respect your time.
I thought the prologue was promising - but the sandbox came out of nowhere and killed it for me.
At this point I think sandbox game designers just fundamentally do not even understand what a game is, let alone how to make one fun.
Boring. Screen after screen after screen after screen after screen after screen where NOTHING interesting happens. One flicker of a nude picture, then screen after screen after screen after screen after screen....
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That was the idea lol, pissed people off so much and making them spend money on his patreon to cheat.