v0.06b - so a fairly early version at this point, with many construction zones all across the game. What's there is pretty good, but there are some flaws.
The main strength of Altered Destiny is characterization. The plot's well and all, but it's mostly there to provide a time travel incest fetish and be bone for the meat of the writing, which provides swift, efficient characterization. The people you'll be fucking in this game each have their own unique voices, so even during those first few handjob-only scenes I got something out of them, despite being ridiculously desensitized at this point in my life. The "circumstantial details" of the sex scenes are well-written, too.
The downside is that all of this takes some build-up, during which you have to actually stop and read. If you can't do that, you should probably find another game.
The graphics mirror the writing: Good designs that make the characters stand out, with backgrounds that are more than just serviceable. It's also limited by its own medium, in this case Daz 3D, with all the typical drawbacks of it: some goofy facial expressions, flat cloth renders, that weird transparent hair thing, flawed shading, and a few rough textures.
It does avoid using stock faces you see in a dozen other games, so if you can tolerate Daz in general you'll be fine on this front; it looks no worse than the average Steam-published porn game, and therefore better than most F95 games by default.
The animations have good rigs, with bodies moving and interacting properly and everything, and also have the typical flaw of being "floaty". Also, many of the animations move in slo-mo for no reason at all. I would hope for those to be fixed in a future update.
The gameplay is serviceable, being a non-tedious sandbox with a worry-free day/time cycle. Exclamation points highlight characters you need to talk to next, though they're kind of small in my opinion, and there is a goober to highlight all the interactables on most screens, though it also highlights a few extra objects for some reason. There are minigames, and an EZ-mode that makes them negligible if you want.
The story is delivered mostly linearly. Any choices made are more mild flavouring than anything else, which some will like and some won't (I did). Few, if any, of the girls seem optional, and them "interacting" with each other is also almost certainly going to be non-optional, which many of F95's incel-types won't like, but that's fine, because this isn't a game for them. The storyline, which is the game's main strength, depends on these "interactions" happening anyway, so go play something else if you have the tendency to grognard about the differences between polygamies and harems and whatnot.
Most importantly: there's a gallery! It also shows you which characters still have scenes you have to unlock, because the game doesn't tell you when you've gone through the currently available content afaik.
Overall, a pretty solid start, though it needs many more scenes to be a decent source of cumsies for veteran fappers like myself.
I wish the developer good luck.
The main strength of Altered Destiny is characterization. The plot's well and all, but it's mostly there to provide a time travel incest fetish and be bone for the meat of the writing, which provides swift, efficient characterization. The people you'll be fucking in this game each have their own unique voices, so even during those first few handjob-only scenes I got something out of them, despite being ridiculously desensitized at this point in my life. The "circumstantial details" of the sex scenes are well-written, too.
The downside is that all of this takes some build-up, during which you have to actually stop and read. If you can't do that, you should probably find another game.
The graphics mirror the writing: Good designs that make the characters stand out, with backgrounds that are more than just serviceable. It's also limited by its own medium, in this case Daz 3D, with all the typical drawbacks of it: some goofy facial expressions, flat cloth renders, that weird transparent hair thing, flawed shading, and a few rough textures.
It does avoid using stock faces you see in a dozen other games, so if you can tolerate Daz in general you'll be fine on this front; it looks no worse than the average Steam-published porn game, and therefore better than most F95 games by default.
The animations have good rigs, with bodies moving and interacting properly and everything, and also have the typical flaw of being "floaty". Also, many of the animations move in slo-mo for no reason at all. I would hope for those to be fixed in a future update.
The gameplay is serviceable, being a non-tedious sandbox with a worry-free day/time cycle. Exclamation points highlight characters you need to talk to next, though they're kind of small in my opinion, and there is a goober to highlight all the interactables on most screens, though it also highlights a few extra objects for some reason. There are minigames, and an EZ-mode that makes them negligible if you want.
The story is delivered mostly linearly. Any choices made are more mild flavouring than anything else, which some will like and some won't (I did). Few, if any, of the girls seem optional, and them "interacting" with each other is also almost certainly going to be non-optional, which many of F95's incel-types won't like, but that's fine, because this isn't a game for them. The storyline, which is the game's main strength, depends on these "interactions" happening anyway, so go play something else if you have the tendency to grognard about the differences between polygamies and harems and whatnot.
Most importantly: there's a gallery! It also shows you which characters still have scenes you have to unlock, because the game doesn't tell you when you've gone through the currently available content afaik.
Overall, a pretty solid start, though it needs many more scenes to be a decent source of cumsies for veteran fappers like myself.
I wish the developer good luck.
