UPDATE: I wanted to lower the rating on this game to one star. Why? Besides being more of a barely anything at all tech demo, it's been in development for 4.5 years. That's way too long for so little progress. So even if this game is being "revived", the track record shows that in almost five years the only thing accomplished was adding a room asset, two characters, a third person controller, and some wardrobe and avatar customizations that were probably just a plug and play asset and totally unnecessary and done badly.
Aiee Story 0.0.6
I'm not crazy about the skin texture of the girl. She's uniformly the same color and I don't like the color of her skin. Her hair is a bit bland, but it might be okay if her skin texture was improved. She doesn't blink at all. Her tits are small, but not everyone likes them big. I just wish that she looked and acted sexier. Her outfits are nice though. I especially liked the default black outfit she was wearing. But yeah, her skin and hair are lackluster. Japanese women are some of the whitest skinned women ever, and she is darker than that, but her skin just doesn't look vibrant enough. It needs some sort of detail or pigmentation in some areas or something. I don't know.
The MC's baldness looks strange. I think that it would look better if he had a shaved head appearance (1mm hair) instead of a shiny bowling ball, Mr Clean look. The MC doesn't look all that great either. His skin looks bad as well. Both characters look lackluster.
The only impressive thing is how great the two rooms and furniture look. If the characters were every bit as impressive as the apartment and furnishings, then I could get excited. We can't interact with anything in the apartment yet. No TV remote, TV, books, fridge, stove, drawers, doors, lamps, miscellaneous items. It's just a walk and stare demo at the moment.
The sex scene placeholder was horrible. There was a speed adjuster on the bottom right that looked not at all intuitive. Some more unintuitive buttons on the top right, after you click on a Settings icon, that let you change the color of her hair, eyes, skin, etc. And also change her clothes. Personally, I don't think that I want to adjust a girl's skin or hair color or change her clothes while having sex with her. She shouldn't be wearing clothes when I'm having sex with her. Let me adjust her clothes and appearance some other time, but not when I'm having sex. Oh, the bottom left had controls to rotate and move the girl around. You can also move the characters up and down. I felt like this was a complete waste of time. All of it. All that sex scene placeholder stuff. Because it was designed poorly. I don't want to change the appearance and wardrobe outfits when having sex, and good sex scenes shouldn't require me to rotate or move characters around. The sex positions should already be in place and then I can press a button to switch to another sex pose or another room location.
The popup dialog windows and buttons look bad.
I think that the girl mimics my movements some because I walked four steps backwards from her while she was facing me, and she turned around so her back was facing me and she took four steps backwards too. She doesn't really do anything interesting at all in the game. She bends over to look at a bookcases. The rest of the time, she's just awkwardly moving, turning, and facing walls and windows. It's not like this other game I played where the females were washing dishes, cooking, eating, taking showers and baths, sleeping, working out, watching TV, fixing things, sunbathing, etc.
I was surprised that the game was 5 GB for basically nothing but a room and WASD movement. But the room looks great and I really like 3D games with WASD movement a lot, so hopefully this game will become something one day.
You have to press F1 to see the controls, because there is no Main Menu with a main menu button that lets you see or change the controls. The controls were not what I was expecting either. You have to press LCtrl to crouch, when I am used to pressing C in most games. To toggle between walk and run you press C. I'm used to Shift being the key to run, and instead of toggling it should be hold down Shift to run and let go to walk. Why would anyone need to crouch or run in a small room anyway? The LAlt to move the mouse is horrible. If you are trying to change her clothes and you press LAlt to move your mouse cursor to reach certain buttons to change her clothes, your camera will also move at the same time so you might end up staring at the ceiling or the wall instead of at her.
I wish that the developer would have put a ton more effort into the sex scene stuff before releasing a demo because the only other thing besides the room and the characters is the sex scene stuff and it was done so badly. And I can't get excited for the MC or Aiee. I kinda feel like this game is not going to go anywhere, but I hope the developer proves me wrong. I'll check back in six months or a year.
I hope that there will be full control of the camera when not in sex scene mode. Like Second Life style where you hold down the LAlt key to both zoom and orbit and hold down LAlt + Shift to pan. So you could be clear across the room but you can zoom in on the freckles on her face or have a look in the kitchen sink. That would be cool.
If you see these low three star ratings, don't think that the game is doomed to fail. They are just reviews of a demo. The game is in the very early development stage. We are just criticizing the parts we don't like and the game might change a lot after that and really develop into something nice. I hope that the dialogue will get a lot better and that there will be an interesting story too. But only time will tell. Sorry if this was a badly written review. I'm just lacking energy at the moment.
Aiee Story 0.0.6
I'm not crazy about the skin texture of the girl. She's uniformly the same color and I don't like the color of her skin. Her hair is a bit bland, but it might be okay if her skin texture was improved. She doesn't blink at all. Her tits are small, but not everyone likes them big. I just wish that she looked and acted sexier. Her outfits are nice though. I especially liked the default black outfit she was wearing. But yeah, her skin and hair are lackluster. Japanese women are some of the whitest skinned women ever, and she is darker than that, but her skin just doesn't look vibrant enough. It needs some sort of detail or pigmentation in some areas or something. I don't know.
The MC's baldness looks strange. I think that it would look better if he had a shaved head appearance (1mm hair) instead of a shiny bowling ball, Mr Clean look. The MC doesn't look all that great either. His skin looks bad as well. Both characters look lackluster.
The only impressive thing is how great the two rooms and furniture look. If the characters were every bit as impressive as the apartment and furnishings, then I could get excited. We can't interact with anything in the apartment yet. No TV remote, TV, books, fridge, stove, drawers, doors, lamps, miscellaneous items. It's just a walk and stare demo at the moment.
The sex scene placeholder was horrible. There was a speed adjuster on the bottom right that looked not at all intuitive. Some more unintuitive buttons on the top right, after you click on a Settings icon, that let you change the color of her hair, eyes, skin, etc. And also change her clothes. Personally, I don't think that I want to adjust a girl's skin or hair color or change her clothes while having sex with her. She shouldn't be wearing clothes when I'm having sex with her. Let me adjust her clothes and appearance some other time, but not when I'm having sex. Oh, the bottom left had controls to rotate and move the girl around. You can also move the characters up and down. I felt like this was a complete waste of time. All of it. All that sex scene placeholder stuff. Because it was designed poorly. I don't want to change the appearance and wardrobe outfits when having sex, and good sex scenes shouldn't require me to rotate or move characters around. The sex positions should already be in place and then I can press a button to switch to another sex pose or another room location.
The popup dialog windows and buttons look bad.
I think that the girl mimics my movements some because I walked four steps backwards from her while she was facing me, and she turned around so her back was facing me and she took four steps backwards too. She doesn't really do anything interesting at all in the game. She bends over to look at a bookcases. The rest of the time, she's just awkwardly moving, turning, and facing walls and windows. It's not like this other game I played where the females were washing dishes, cooking, eating, taking showers and baths, sleeping, working out, watching TV, fixing things, sunbathing, etc.
I was surprised that the game was 5 GB for basically nothing but a room and WASD movement. But the room looks great and I really like 3D games with WASD movement a lot, so hopefully this game will become something one day.
You have to press F1 to see the controls, because there is no Main Menu with a main menu button that lets you see or change the controls. The controls were not what I was expecting either. You have to press LCtrl to crouch, when I am used to pressing C in most games. To toggle between walk and run you press C. I'm used to Shift being the key to run, and instead of toggling it should be hold down Shift to run and let go to walk. Why would anyone need to crouch or run in a small room anyway? The LAlt to move the mouse is horrible. If you are trying to change her clothes and you press LAlt to move your mouse cursor to reach certain buttons to change her clothes, your camera will also move at the same time so you might end up staring at the ceiling or the wall instead of at her.
I wish that the developer would have put a ton more effort into the sex scene stuff before releasing a demo because the only other thing besides the room and the characters is the sex scene stuff and it was done so badly. And I can't get excited for the MC or Aiee. I kinda feel like this game is not going to go anywhere, but I hope the developer proves me wrong. I'll check back in six months or a year.
I hope that there will be full control of the camera when not in sex scene mode. Like Second Life style where you hold down the LAlt key to both zoom and orbit and hold down LAlt + Shift to pan. So you could be clear across the room but you can zoom in on the freckles on her face or have a look in the kitchen sink. That would be cool.
If you see these low three star ratings, don't think that the game is doomed to fail. They are just reviews of a demo. The game is in the very early development stage. We are just criticizing the parts we don't like and the game might change a lot after that and really develop into something nice. I hope that the dialogue will get a lot better and that there will be an interesting story too. But only time will tell. Sorry if this was a badly written review. I'm just lacking energy at the moment.