On one side, the game has an undeniable level of VISUAL polish. UI is incredible. The path viewer in-game is also incredible. The renders are all also very good.
On the other, the game lacks direction. The Storytelling is hair-wrenchingly annoying at times (you're forced to play a character that's basically a dumbass sociopath and there ain't much you can do about it); there's no real overarching story and every girl feels fairly independent (a common yet still underwhelming aspect of most of these pick your girl type games); some routes "exist" but even choosing the other option is stupid as they are either not yet implemented OR simply have a stub of content compared to the other (usually darker/morally corrupt) route.
The puzzle minigame could be interesting but it uses AI Art. Solving a puzzle is where I'd like the drawing to make sense and be real-world coherent. It is not. Thankfully, it starts off piss easy to the point it's more of a chore to do it than anything else, but it gets annoying later on.
Lastly, an issue - perhaps THE BIGGEST issue - with the game itself is how it plays. The developer is clearly good at what he does from a programming standpoint. Unfortunately, that did not translate well to his game loop. To view scenes, we need resources, that are drained every time we continue a character storyline. We can recharge these resources at Night Time, at the end of each day. The resource grinding is disgustingly boring and it gates you out of continuing character content for no real good reason. You could try skipping time so you could get back your resources faster, but the skip time button has a cooldown which can be lowered with items but is still a hassle to go through. Turning on dev console will then make the game unplayable by accusing you of cheating.
No one would try cheating if you used an actual decent gameplay loop.
It's clear the programmer/developer of this is in a constant war of trying to keep you inside the game with it open in a shitty loop where continuing scenes is gated behind a resource-based, time-based system... that no one gives a fuck about - obviously as if they did, they'd just play the game and not attempt to cheat or skip it - so he tries to keep you from bypassing it. There's no real reason to. The game is made worse because of it as the Dev attempts (and ultimately of course fails as is usual with anti-cheats) to make you interact with the game the way he envisioned it.
Unenjoyable.
On the other, the game lacks direction. The Storytelling is hair-wrenchingly annoying at times (you're forced to play a character that's basically a dumbass sociopath and there ain't much you can do about it); there's no real overarching story and every girl feels fairly independent (a common yet still underwhelming aspect of most of these pick your girl type games); some routes "exist" but even choosing the other option is stupid as they are either not yet implemented OR simply have a stub of content compared to the other (usually darker/morally corrupt) route.
The puzzle minigame could be interesting but it uses AI Art. Solving a puzzle is where I'd like the drawing to make sense and be real-world coherent. It is not. Thankfully, it starts off piss easy to the point it's more of a chore to do it than anything else, but it gets annoying later on.
Lastly, an issue - perhaps THE BIGGEST issue - with the game itself is how it plays. The developer is clearly good at what he does from a programming standpoint. Unfortunately, that did not translate well to his game loop. To view scenes, we need resources, that are drained every time we continue a character storyline. We can recharge these resources at Night Time, at the end of each day. The resource grinding is disgustingly boring and it gates you out of continuing character content for no real good reason. You could try skipping time so you could get back your resources faster, but the skip time button has a cooldown which can be lowered with items but is still a hassle to go through. Turning on dev console will then make the game unplayable by accusing you of cheating.
No one would try cheating if you used an actual decent gameplay loop.
It's clear the programmer/developer of this is in a constant war of trying to keep you inside the game with it open in a shitty loop where continuing scenes is gated behind a resource-based, time-based system... that no one gives a fuck about - obviously as if they did, they'd just play the game and not attempt to cheat or skip it - so he tries to keep you from bypassing it. There's no real reason to. The game is made worse because of it as the Dev attempts (and ultimately of course fails as is usual with anti-cheats) to make you interact with the game the way he envisioned it.
Unenjoyable.
