Review of Adventures of Willy D v1.1.0
The very first version of this game I played is v1.1.0 and I had never even heard of it before. I've played many games on this site in the past 2 years and this game has been around since 2017, so I don't know how I missed it.
Pros:
Content. There is a ton of it. I guess the main storyline is done and some side stories are still under development, but there is no denying the game has a lot of content to play through and it's what you would expect it to have after 5 years, and it really helps to cancel out all of the game's shortcomings.
Neutral:
1. It's designed to have a gaming experience, but the experience itself is kind of a mixed bag. The typical quest system is OK and most of the quests have sexy rewards. However, most of the gaming is the "Where's Waldo" experience of looking for photos and dolls in various locations within the game world. The photos/dolls/etc. have no impact on the game itself, they're just like optional achievements, in other games. This is an adult game, and I just don't fathom how adults actually like that kind of gaming experience, but I won't knock the game for that. The puzzles are also childish. There were only 3 or 4 puzzles that were worth playing through, and even they didn't make very much sense.
The developer makes a couple of jokes in the dialogue about some of the tedious searching players go through looking for a specific character, or a trophy, and how the game has no concept of time, etc. At least he realizes some people will think the gaming experience is lame.
2. The story is really shallow. There's some subtle humor, but it's not very funny. I suspect most of the humor was simply lost in translation. The ending to the main story was really the only thing that made me laugh.
3. Scenes with less-common or more-controversial fetishes such as netorare, swinging, MMF threesomes, and even anal should be optional to make the game appeal to a broader audience. If the developer is in this to make money, that's just good business.
Cons:
1. The MC is ugly AF. Ok, aren't we all, but this is a gaming fantasy, right?
2. The models and renders are low quality and grainy.
3. The size of the game 28GB. TWENTY-EIGHT GIGABYTES!! That's just stupid. Even more stupid given the low quality of the renders and the low-quality fake 3D world. The bloated game size is either pure laziness or a severe deficiency of the game engine.
4. The lewd scenes are boring. They are more robotic than erotic. The dialogue during the lewd scenes is either cringy or boring.
5. The game has terrible spelling/grammar errors of most adult games, including he/she errors that make the dialogue hard to follow.
6. The game technology/mechanics are literally the worst I've ever experienced in playing over 300 adult games. Seriously, worse than garbage.
- Walking is painfully slow, even the fast-walk is slow, even looking around a room is just barely faster than walking.
- Animations repeat for too long. Sometimes the entire animations can't be skipped. Sometimes animations can be skipped, but doing so skips to the end of the scene instead of to the next part of the scene.
- The animations of picking up dolls, picking up photos are painfully slow. I can only be thankful that the developer didn't make animations of the MC taking off and putting on his clothes or I'd be playing another month to finish the game.
- The main storyline is very linear and the game forces players to intentionally trigger story progression by selecting a specific but meaningless dialogue item in a conversation. E.g., ending a conversation with "Bye" then the MC going to work does nothing, but selecting "Bye, I'm going to work." causes the story to progress. Really, the trigger should've been something else entirely.
- The user interface is a buggy mess. Examples: The menu doesn't open when dialogues are active. This game has either severe lag or intentional delays between almost everything. I experience 5 hangs where I had to kill the game and start it again. The mouse cursor disappears when there is a dialogue between characters, but players can still move the invisible mouse cursor. Why not just leave it visible so at least players know where it's at? I had one point where the MC was permanently walking around with the words "That's Miss Sky's car" over his head, even after saving and reloading. I had to load an old save to get rid of it. There are very obviously race conditions in the underlying code and clicking too fast between two user interface operations can easily expose bugs. I'm suspecting the laggy behavior is intentional to reduce bugs due to race conditions.
- The Zoom in/out feature during lewd scenes changes the size of the people but not the rest of the objects in the scene.
7. I think this is a case where the game has been in development for so long that the game technology and mechanics are no longer relevant. The size of the game, the low quality of the renders, the slow/laggy performance, the terrible user interface--they're all indications that this game was left behind by newer/better game technologies.