Ren'Py - After Dark [v0.24.2] [Bozavest]

Updated rating to 3 after giving it a second go with a clear head.

Initial review (whats left of it at least): Models Looked great honestly which makes me sad that I cant see anything past what is basically the first story mission. CO: get 5 strength (i have 39 now), introduce yourself to your class ( I have talked to everyone at every-time in every location, even out of class but still in school), Talk to Kitsune at night (she just says the same thing about working out).

Update 1: I can progress now that I have given a second attempt after calming down a bit. My main issues are with 2 specific things right now. Doing anything in the school is a chore. Navigating is ok to an extent but I found out there are not clearly marked things to enter and move around to in the school not on the quick nav menu. Things I only found my swiping the mouse across the screen repeatedly to scan. (FIX: add every location to the quick nav menu).

My main issue is still knowing what to do. The "Story" section in my eyes at this moment should not exist. it holds no useful information and can just be a portrait of the playable character in the "Quest" menu instead of its own separate menu. Everything useful is in the quests area. This is where it becomes a tiny rant.

Issues:
1. Clicking through multiple UIs just to see what I have to do next for a person is highly annoying.
2. There is no clear navigation in the quest menus. You select a character and by what I see there is nothing indicating what happens when you click anywhere. First time I ended up closing the game to get out of the menu due to only swapping between characters, which had no indication but you can still click the invisible portraits of the other characters in the background. Then I just randomly clicked top left by the day and it took me back.
3. There are too many characters to be having this convoluted of a quest log checking system.

FIX:
1. take it out of the menu and make it an interact-able like the map or time skip. Speaking of time skip, while you there please add a way to skip whole days since everything only happens on the weekends. Clicking skip time repeatedly just to go to sleep to do it all many more times in a row is annoying as well. Just make the bed always interact-able and have sleep always available as an option.
2. clearly place an X or a close button to people know where to click to leave.
3. If not all quests are made visible from the one screen just add arrows to navigate to next or previous character to see/check for quest updates.

I love the writing, and the very diverse cast combines with that to make this an easy five stars from me. Still definitely in the early stages, and I hope the supernatural stuff ends up meshing well with the more mundane school life and people well. The cast definitely seems plenty large as it is- I hope the dev prioritizes more stuff for the current characters over adding too many new ones.

After Dark, an incredible VN with a great story, awesome characters with their own personality and their own little quirks and backstorys. Even tho there is a bri*ish character and the story so far is pretty short, I still had a lot of fun reading the story while sometimes cringing and chuckeling. The start can be a bit long for the ones who want a quick fap, but I highly recommend playing and reading through the story and the dialogue.

(Disclaimer: i cant say anthing about music/sound cause i play all NSFW games without sound and i am sorry for any misspellings, english isnt my first language)

I love the concept and the initial setup of the game, but I'm not a fan of a few of the character models. I understand the developer's attempt to create unique characters, but some models feel a bit off(So the 4 stars instead of one). It's still early in development, but I have high hopes for this game. Good luck, Dev!"

I like the introduction so far, and I like the models in this game. I am looking forward to seeing more of the characters and story develop with future updates. I hope when the game eventually gives you choices they will matter. This game has potential and would benefit a lot from having a quest tracker.

Has a good start and the designs are great. An early start of something that can eventually be really good if they put the time and effort into it. Definitely not as polished as other games yet and that's ok for now, but would really like a way to track characters affection or quests, and as of right now, at least to my knowledge, there are no sex scenes, but like I said, no way to know if I missed it without a quest system in place. Still, I will keep this on my radar and look forward to the following releases.