VN - Unity - Ashes of War [Battle System Update 1.26] [CTStudio]

Excellent art & writing and includes space cutscenes! The humor was funny and not overbearing, love the banter. The writing really impressed me. Excited for more and I think this could become one of the best mature vn's out there.

The story is pretty good, though as stated by the author not exactly branching. The smut and smutty art is very solid too, as is actually just the art in general. The combat is a bit barebones overall, though it's not exactly the focus of the game anyways and it's still in alpha anyways; it's probably the most "meh" part of it in my opinion and it's still interesting.

The characters are great, gib moar chocolate tomboy childhood friend mechanic nao

I had very high hopes for this game, which is not fair, because when it failed to meet them, I just sort of lost interest with each passing scene.

First the good.

- The core gameplay is a pretty well done space tactics simulator. Nothing amazing, but its cute and fun and not a chore to play (props for giving a skip option).
- The artwork is gorgeous. The girls are pretty, and the set pieces and ships are lovingly crafted. I also appreciate that we don't waste development time making a hundred little variations on the same scene, where someone slightly changes their pose or something, this allows the game to be made much quicker, and frankly, is hardly a detriment. Use your imagination a bit guys.

The neutral
- I hate Unity. I fucking hate it so much. It's a buggy mess at the best of times. It was a less buggy mess here, so props for that, but still, the polish is lacking and its in the actual bones of the game.

The bad
- The writing. Unfortunately the game hits my particularly favorite genre, and I will pull no punches when I shit talk its butchering of said genre. And unfortunately, that same tactic mentioned above, where the Dev uses one still pic for the entire scene and just changes the writing, REQUIRES a strong skill at crafting a narrative, otherwise we just have one picture and words dumped on the page.

Writing is very difficult. Movies/books/comics/video games/whatever, all are composed of scenes. Each scene has a job to do. Whether its to develop a character or advance the plot. In a sci-fi or fantasy world, there is another option, worldbuilding. And in an AVN, there's another still, sex scenes. Every scene needs to do at least ONE of those things, good writers can do one or two in a scene while also being entertaining (info dumps versus a dialogue that might explain a concept in an entertaining or funny way). A great writer could do three or sometimes four. It is this efficiency that we like and enjoy in entertainment. Take for example, the Joker's introduction scene in the film, The Dark Knight. We get character development (meet the Joker), we get plot advancement (he basically explains his goal of opposing Batman directly) and its a little funny and very tense (entertaining). It's great writing that feels like a long scene (cause so much is happening), but its only a couple minutes long.

This game has the opposite problem, each and every scene drags on and on, I started out very invested in the story, and pretty soon I couldn't give a shit. The Royalists are bad. Okay, why? And is your side (that you defect from almost instantly) good? What connection does this have to the player? Now find a way to condense that information down to about half the length it currently is and then make it tense, funny or gripping.

I think this game has potential, which is the best I can say about it, for now. And I hope the Dev keeps working and I wish him/her much success in the future.

I love military sci-fi. This is the game where I finally decided to make a Patreon account to show my support.

There's nothing more that I appreciate in this kind of setting and that is an author that knows what kind of world they are building. I especially like this because I grew up on stuff like Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Halo, and I have always looked for more to fulfill those desires.

As for the waifus, we got tomboy + dark skin + short hair + glasses + small and big tits + abs + smugs + disgusted looks.

For future updates, I wish we get to have more decisions, to give a little more freedom and a codex of sort.

This game is a gem. It has everything , great visuals; great story; good music ; good looking and realistic looking girls with different personalities. Fleshed out carachters with easy to see relationships between them. A more then believalable sci-fi world. Also the visuals to present the battle field are simple yet great
Awesome game hitting all the notes, from fun to emotional

Ngl, this is better than what I expected. I never thought that I would be so connected to the character in this VN. After 30 min of this, I've become more interested in the plot rather than the "plot" lol.

Pros:

• Art-style is definitely a plus.
• Everyone including the MC act like a rational human being (I guess)
• Characters are down to earth and Story is pretty cool.
• Muscle glasses mommy and tanned tomboy. What can you ask more?

Cons:

• Dialogue during H scene is too realistic for me lol. It would be nice to add a bit of moaning and panting or kinky stuffs in the future.
• CG gallery don't work properly, I can only access 9 CGs. Also no scene replay.
• Too less of a world building imo. It would be nice to have a codex menu letting us know what's going on in the world.

Suggestions (my selfish request):

• Name changing. Yeah, people like to self insert. It would be nice to have one, but if the dev wanted to make their own MC I suggested giving MC a portrait. No skinny, long black hair, generic anime protag look or twink looking MC please.
• Give the side character portraits too. I think the side character is really good and they deserved some thing to remember them.
• Codex or info menu for world building. You can add character info or relationship menu in there too.
• I think MC should make more decision other than dialogue choices. Like how will you run the station, Be a good leader and good romance partner or just straight up being a space Alexander The Great and treating your woman like concubine. I know I'm exaggerated, but it would give player a bit freedom.
• Scene replay tab in the menu, It's a no brainer.

Overall, I think this is a fantastic VN despite the flaw. Since this is in a very early stage of development, I can overlook a lot of stuffs. I hope this VN will be a massive success. Overall a 8.5/10.

Love it, good story, good characters. No combat but in my opinion this is not really needed ; the choices, the music and the writting fill the blank, and maybe for the future leave the choice to the player to do the batlle or not. I was a big fan of sunrider and it was a shame what they did to the second one. Hope this one surpass it. AH ! One last thing, the supportive character need some love, like a portrait or something, really like the banters of the two enseign ^^

Love the art-style and I love stories about the character, even tho I am quite easily "satisfied" I do believe it a good game.

Both art-style and gameplay. Only missing is some kind of minigames, but yeah.