I was incredibly excited about this game, as the music is great, art is cute, and the combat is flashy. Sadly, the more you play, the worse it gets. The platforming in this game is absolutely dreadful, having some of the most floaty and least responsive movement tech imaginable.
This games biggest flaw is how hard it's trying to be an intense game that you have to genuinely play. Were it made well, I'd be all for it, but it's just not. The music sets the atmosphere incredibly, really making me want to play as intended, but the spell casting system is as basic as it is gorgeous. Attacks are constantly rendered useless by the environment, have essentially no tracking to circumvent the former mentioned issue, and don't have independent keys for quickly casting. In a word, it's clunky.
Dodging is some of the worst movement I've seen in quite some time, especially from something as visually polished as this. You can block by holding shift, and dodge by pressing shift while moving. That being said, you can't activate your block and then dodge. The biggest issue with this is that you also air dodge the same way, and air block the same way. Blocking deletes all moment, meaning you plummet like a rock. You also go almost no distance when dodging, but the game immediately gives you several platforming sections where you MUST clear a gap that's almost wider than the distance you can dodge. If you jump at all, you die. If you miss, you lose time. Then, you're given more of the same terrible platforming and have to fight floaty controls and terrible movement tech.
The demo really hyped me up for this, but gameplay is bad enough to kill off any 'excitement' I've gained. As for the H content, it's REALLY a mixed bag of quality. So far, it seems most of what you get isn't much more than "touching", the only penetrative thing I've seen so far being the pits you fall into/get sucked into. Other enemies so far either shoot out little eggs that go in you and make you fall over, or just grab you and squeeze. The lewd content so far has been really lackluster, which is just a huge let down. Top that off with horrid controls and this game just falls flat.
Again, the music is gorgeous, the graphics are flashy and captivating, and the art is adorable! The h content, however, is incredibly lackluster so far, and the movement feels absolutely wretched. I'm not trying to control a train, but it sure does feel like it.
This games biggest flaw is how hard it's trying to be an intense game that you have to genuinely play. Were it made well, I'd be all for it, but it's just not. The music sets the atmosphere incredibly, really making me want to play as intended, but the spell casting system is as basic as it is gorgeous. Attacks are constantly rendered useless by the environment, have essentially no tracking to circumvent the former mentioned issue, and don't have independent keys for quickly casting. In a word, it's clunky.
Dodging is some of the worst movement I've seen in quite some time, especially from something as visually polished as this. You can block by holding shift, and dodge by pressing shift while moving. That being said, you can't activate your block and then dodge. The biggest issue with this is that you also air dodge the same way, and air block the same way. Blocking deletes all moment, meaning you plummet like a rock. You also go almost no distance when dodging, but the game immediately gives you several platforming sections where you MUST clear a gap that's almost wider than the distance you can dodge. If you jump at all, you die. If you miss, you lose time. Then, you're given more of the same terrible platforming and have to fight floaty controls and terrible movement tech.
The demo really hyped me up for this, but gameplay is bad enough to kill off any 'excitement' I've gained. As for the H content, it's REALLY a mixed bag of quality. So far, it seems most of what you get isn't much more than "touching", the only penetrative thing I've seen so far being the pits you fall into/get sucked into. Other enemies so far either shoot out little eggs that go in you and make you fall over, or just grab you and squeeze. The lewd content so far has been really lackluster, which is just a huge let down. Top that off with horrid controls and this game just falls flat.
Again, the music is gorgeous, the graphics are flashy and captivating, and the art is adorable! The h content, however, is incredibly lackluster so far, and the movement feels absolutely wretched. I'm not trying to control a train, but it sure does feel like it.
