v0.3.9.0
+ I genuinely enjoyed the story
+ The bros are great.
- the hoes are just that.
- real porn
+ some of the best real porn picks I have seen. Actually managed to fap, which is very rare for 3DPG porn.
- porn is both too interactive yet missing choices.
-- Dev note specifically states the goal was to make highly interactive porn. So it is snipped into many pieces to give you lots of options. But eventually it gets tedious to go "vaginal, harder, back to main menu, vaginal, harder, back to main menu". Some scenes have the covetted "more" button that just does more of the same without wasting clicks. but still tedious to click "more more more more".
-- almost every scene ends with a moneyshot, or rarely a cum on tits/face option. I have yet to come across a single creampie option
-- MC appearance changes every single sex scene.
- You lose energy way way way too fast during sex. spend 2 minutes fingering a girl to orgasm and you lose 52 energy and it just gets worse from there. meanwhile 8 hours of working hard doing physical labor costs 40 energy (20 per shift). Or half that if you slack off. This makes it very difficult to have enough energy to even finish a sex scene without using energy restorers (such as energy calling spell). Or cheats
- if you cum even once the scene ends. if you run out of energy without cumming the scene FAILS.
- punishing skill checks. you need to super focus your specialization or you will fail almost all skill checks. And if you super focus you will fail every skill other than the one you focused.
-- You are warned that specializing will kill you. In retrospect that was explicitly for magic power not for stats, you were explicitly told to use your stats INSTEAD of magic to achieve your goals to stay safe and grow powerful. So that was my faul for not specializing enough on my stats. However magic is necessary and far more rewarding. At the moment you cannot actually overuse magic. So I don't know what the deal is with that warning.
edit: dev clarified in discord that you are allowed to use magic
dev said:
It's just for the rage calling and you're not gonna die, just some interesting things that may happen in the future
this is good. but also explicitly not what you are told in the game. So the game dialog need to be changed to not scare people away from using magic.
- Game pumps the breaks. It is a visual novel with a sandbox's grinding and stats. The story is going FAST, massive amount of stuf happens in under a week. Then the game just hits the breaks and stops you on day 12 with "that is all for now". Which is really annoying since I haven't even seen most content yet (because it is gated on hyper focused checks or making mutually exclusive time picks), yet vast majority of that gate content felt like it should have been easily accessible with just minor changes to how time is handled.
-- To see all that massive amount of content you missed requires replaying the game making difference choices. which... it was ok the first time but is very tedious when you repeat it (mainly the sex minigames and the grinding). Unless you replay the game several times then vast majority of HDD space is wasted on sex clips for characters you won't even fuck due to the significant amount of mutually exclusive choices that really have no business being mutually exclusive. (as in "pick 1 of those 2 or 3 girls to fuck now" choices)
- Too many under used systems. There is BDSM system, used only once. There is combat system, used only once. There is a thief interrogation system, only used once. there is a sleep sex system, only used once. etc
- choices seem to focus mostly on the dross (you get to pick which rando porn actress you fuck today) instead of the important things (you do NOT get to pick important plot dialog with adonis).
I honestly wish there was a way to skip porn scenes (as in "instantly succeed and get rewards", not "refuse sex") with a single click to make replaying smoother when you try some different choices and watch only the new scenes.
I did end up replaying with heavy use of cheats and it was far better experience. Still overall a flawed one. There needs to be some rework to the game systems