Review for Alysim v0.1:
Overall: I was very excited when I read that that the developer tried to eliminate the things that make RPGM tedious. In that goal, it was mostly a success, but in literally everything else, not so much. It's probably not worth your time being a guinea pig for whatever this developer is experimenting with. I fully expect some huge re-working within the first few updates because this first update is really rough.
Story: 2/5 - The story premise is that the MC's wife loves him, but she cheated on him with a rich guy because she wants more money because somehow, she thinks that she deserves the lifestyle of a princess or billionaire's wife or something. Then somehow, her father coerced her to do it so he could also tap into the rich guy's money. On top of all that, the MC still loves his wife even though she has literally no redeeming qualities, at all, and without that, the premise of the story so far just makes no sense, at all. It looks like the story is setting up the MC to cuck his wife's lover and his father-in-law.
Writing: 0/5 - The writing makes players cringe almost all of the time. It's worse than terrible and isn't even deserving of 1-star. On top of that, the dialogue is unnatural and forced, so it's also hard to read. The repetition was insane. How many times did players have to read how the MC's wife cheated on him so she could have the lifestyle she wanted but she still loves the MC? She would even divorce the MC, marry the rich guy and keep the MC as her lover. What in the actual fuck? It was painful to read the first time, but by the 3rd time, I was ready to shove an ice pick under my fingernails to take my mind off of it.
Renders: 2/5 - The renders are below average, but the models are definitely sub-par. I'm not sure what the developer was targeting, but neither the girls nor the MC are great-looking or rendered in great detail. Certainly not what they could/should be in 2022.
Gameplay: 2/5 - The developer did remove the tediousness of RPGM, but it's so stripped-down that players can literally only wander around in a single room between various scenes where all of the actions are highlighted. Why bother with RPGM at all when what's left is literally just a kinetic novel? On top of that, the main menu to load/save/adjust volume, etc. is unavailable most of the time. I couldn't even activate the menu until I was near the end of the available content.
Bugs: 3/5 - Aside from the main menu not being available for whatever reason for most of the game, there are a whole bunch of dialog options where the MC is actually referred to as "mc" instead of the default name or the name the player provides. Seriously? How hard would that be to fix that before a release?