Unity - Bare Backstreets [v0.8.2] [Jasonafex]

It's somewhat impressive how every single thing is completely broken.
Prior version was buggy but still playable, but now....
Not to mention by downloading the newer one and entering the required code it'll lock you out of the, at leats functioning, older version.

An all around disaster.

NOT SURE HOW IT CAN BE LEGAL TO COLLECT SO MUCH MONEY AND MAKE A FAULTY UNPLAYABLE BUGGY PRODUCT. One of the worst developers out there and the game is absolutely unplayable. developer should find a new line of work.

Where do I begin? I remember playing the original build, a few builds over the course of this half a decade, and the one posted here just now. I booted it up and saw the pretty splash screen. I went to change my settings only to realize that you cannot rebind attack. Which means that my usual arrow keys and zxc configuration is impossible. So I rebound to a goofy ert config, which is a new one for me. I then went to Play, which puts you in character select. This is good, I love playing different characters. I then went to the first level and started playing. This is where everything went sideways.

Plainly put, the game does not function. It is so riddled with bugs that it can only be held together by ductape and semen. First, my controls are horrible and I kind of doubt being able to rebind would make it much better. When you attack, there's momentum. There are many times that I would attempt to attack an enemy, but it's one of those games where you really have to commit to turning around or it will just continue attacking in the direction you are facing when you input. This makes aerial attacks feel painful and stiff. In addition, there are many times where I'd come to a stop and it would not accept attack or jump inputs. There are various crates and barrels to attack. But they have a lot of health and barrels will roll back at you making them more of a danger to you than others. Combat also felt rather simple for how elegant and flashy the game presents itself.

Where the game really takes a nosedive is in performance. This game does not function. It says it's a game. It is not. It is a bug infested, crashing machine that is playable for brief periods of time. I have a decent machine. I do not have problems with other hgames. But this game feels like there is some kind of invisible anti-piracy measure that makes it as awful as possible. This game has so many bugs. I will list some of the myriad issues here. When you load in, sometimes the splash will forget to load some layers. The camera also freaks out a little before it plops you down. Your controls are saved between sessions, but are not loaded in. Meaning that you need to go to the menu and view them before the game remembers you are not using the default controls. Momentum is weird and when you get knocked down you may slide around and when you come to a ramp you then slide all the way to another boundary. It is clearly not intentional, as your character skips diagonally across the ground. There are many times where you, in a grapple, will freeze and have to restart. Enemies will disappear and you can still dominate them. But you will not see the animation and will also be stuck.

The cool props you can kick and destroy interact really awfully with the game. There are times where you will grapple with the enemy, on top of an object, and it will just poof you both and you have to restart. There are large boundaries that come up, locking you into wave-based combat. But those walls are crap. They are electrified to damage you. But they have this weird hitbox clearly around them that you can actually grapple and wall-run on. It looks so bad. When you are in that wave combat, the game will sometimes lock camera on the wrong part of the map and not load in enemies. Sometimes, enemies do not spawn or have spawned elsewhere and you are completely unable to complete the wave and you need to restart. The chests you get as rewards seem to be bugged and seem to disable themselves entirely if you hit them when it is stating that you have loot to claim. Combat itself isn't awful but it's very button-mashy and extremely stiff and you need to constantly be mindful of game-breaking bugs.

But what REALLY sucks is the crashes. This game will crash on a dime. You will crash on the start screen. You will crash on character select. You will crash in a level. You will crash in the gallery. It freezes up and you have to close out. In the hour or so I played this, I think I had to reboot my game no less than 20 times. It was probably more. My dude, let me tell you something, I have played some hgames. I started back on newgrounds with Jungle Girl. When it came out. I have played all kinds of rpg's, dungeon crawlers, sidescrollers. I have played some bad games. Unfair games. Games designed to make you suffer as part of the fetish. But I have never been so frustrated as I have been with this. Never before have I slammed my fist down into my desk OVER A HENTAI GAME. This is new territory for me. It will crash several times in a row, bug out, glitch your character into restarting. I am a man of tremendous patience. But this game has so thoroughly challenged it in a such a short time.

The reason it is so frustrating is that jason has a good game on his hands. I remember not liking the porn in this as it was a lot of tweening and rubbery movements. But he has really improved. The porn is pretty great. When the game works, it's pretty satisfying. But let me tell you, I bounced around levels, desperately trying to complete just one. And it took me 45 minutes just to beat the first stage, to go onto it in daytime as the next level. Because it just kept glitching and crashing. But you keep playing because you know there's some decent porn here. And it doesn't help that the gallery is trash. So you need to play it. It's like a rubix cube with razor blades hidden in random squares.

Here's what I would do. Bring the project to a developer. Let him play it and realize it's spaghetti code bullshit. Say you want to buy a premade unity sidescroller game. Pay the money, have him look it over. Swap the assets into it and find a grappling system to use. Pay the royalties to use the model and tell the programmer to get to work. Make a playable game. Then, pay the programmer by the hour for future updates. You cannot charge money for the game when it is in this state. I was so mad at this game that I stayed up late, with work early tomorrow, so I could get this off my chest. I don't know how many devs worked on this. But I shouldn't have to. If I was supporting this I would be ashamed. Figure something out. Because you have such potential with this but it is totally ruined by whatever cobbled together bullshit you have tried to pass off as a "game" and not the cruel joke that this actually is. I have played koonsoft knockoffs made a decade ago in flash that function infinitely better than this thing.

1 fucking star.

Quite literally unplayable. On top of the whole login code thing, it just keeps crashing anyway meaning that even someone who purposefully pays monthly money to get access to this content is denied that basic functionality.

I normally lay out a game's pros and cons, in this case I genuinely can’t even do that. I've had more issues with this in one day than I've had with anything from F95 in 6 years combined.

- The game crashed and I can’t even terminate it without a restart 2 times in a row.

- The game crashed once more after that and I was done. I think I was beyond patient but if something isn't working then it isn't working.

- A system with a 4090 and strong cpu should not be lagging or stuttering playing a porn game.

- The art is nice

This is actually broken. The devs need to go over the thing from top to bottom and fix it before adding anything new. The art is nice but not force a fucking restart and multiple crashes nice. I don’t recommend playing this unless you see a spate of 5 star reviews down the line saying it's fixed. Just not worth taking a chance on at all.

- TLDR - It's a broken mess avoid like the plague.

It's not the worst game. If this were an early build, I would be more forgiving, but this is a highly funded game with 2 years of development yet it still runs horribly and has barely any playable content.

The animations are good but the game is so terrible and randomly generated that the only kind of fun you will have is running to the debug room and jerking off to the enemies dominating you.

*sigh*. The music and overall style the game is going for is fine. The nsfw animations are great: although they lean more towards anal since the animations are shared with the male character. Those aspects are fine and acceptable. But holy crap is the actual gameplay glitchy as hell. Enemies get stuck out of bounds, animations play on top of each other, I can't even complete a level because the game just hangs after you hit the exit portal, the game won't even close if you play it too long and you have to manually kill it. It's been like this for years, man. I know the creator is very controversial in the community, but I'm not involved in it. I just want a functional game and this aint it.

Never play this unless you want to try and force yourself to a game thats crashing every 5- 20 seconds, I agree the people that are talking about the game crashing every few seconds. Probs the devs fault not looking for the thing that makes users crash on the game.

Also the Art is nice but not enough time to admire them due the crashing.
And also there isn't any pop ups that tells the controls

"I rarely give one-star reviews, but there is really no other option here. You should know your game is not in a good state when even the 'exit' button doesn't work.

The game itself would be nice, but since it is so filled with bugs you can't really get past the first stage, there's not much to talk about.

The animations are nice, but it's like having a house with a perfect roof and barely any walls.

Normally i wait for a game to be complete before trying it, but since the last time i tried this game i couldn't get past the character selection menu before the game stopped working, this time with the release of a new update i wanted to see if i could play it this time, but it seems that for the game i chose death, because this time not only did the game freeze at the patreon code screen, but it also made itself impossible to close even with the task manager (for those with only one monitor this is a nightmare) literally soft locking my pc so i was forced to restart it.

I still think that artistically the characters are drawn and animated well (judging only from the images), i can't judge the gameplay yet but i don't think that after this attempt i will make another one.

I am aware of the sins of jasonafex, but just like J. K. Rowling you have to separate the actions of the artist from his creations before judging the creation itself, personally i like the art style of jason but as far as creating games (judging from other reviews) it's a disaster, i advise him to get help from someone more skilled and experienced.

This whole game is more of a mess than a actual game, it started firstly as a way to revive that old project jason had, but every update the game just became worse and worse and worse.

firstly, the requirements. Usually porn games do not take a gaming PC to play (with a few exceptions), and you would think that would be the case for this game, but it is so badly optimized even on high end pcs the game still runs choppily.

second of all, the game itself, it started as a stage based platformer but then it evolved into a platforming battle game with randomly generated maps, wich doesnt work at all (especially with the enemie's tracking) and the whole battle system revolves around just spamming the attack button untill enemies are dead, i do give them props for making the escape function not just a spam of buttons.

third point, the animations themselves. the art in the game isnt bad at all, but it just feels cheap, the animation starts with animation A (thrusting) then goes into animation be (same but with a few changes and faster) then youd expect it to go to animation C (cumming with a different pose) but instead it just goes back to the first animation with some cum animated on it, wich kills the pase of the porn really bad. and a second point, adding new "characters" is as deep as just editing previous animations (with some still being WIPs to this day if im not wrong)

fourth point, the bugs, the game has been riddled with bugs all through its development, from enemies or the player itself moving inside terrain, to enemies not being able to pathfind you properly, to the game outright crashing.

fifth and final point (and the worst of all) the game is fucking dead, im pretty sure the post doesnt have the "abandoned" tag on it because jason hasnt confirmed that its abandoned, but the game has not received any kind of update in MONTHS, if you check their patreon page (wich is still getting about 4K $ a month) the last update they released was on march. if you go to their discord, the game hasnt been talked about since months, not even by the people inside the discord.

im still unsure as to why people still donate to this game, or even care.

[0.7.3] literally unplayable

• Tutorial? Opponet is intagible, so you can't complete it
• Huge knockback + extremely far KO sliding = KOing enemy can't find you because you're offscreen
• KO slides you into another group of enemies? They can't see you
• KO'd in a valley? Become a frictionless perpetual-motion machine!
• Intentionally KO'd so you land short disance between enemy and wall on flat ground? Ignored or they can't pathfind to you, (despite them being perfectly capable if you stand in the same place)
• Enemies take several seconds to notice you even at close range
• Melee enemies are a joke: you always get the first hit and stunlock them
• Ranged enemies ignore you! once you slap them and wait, they use supersonic projectiles and continue to snipe you from offscreen (reasonable dodging distance) for several seconds

You can't lose unintentionally, and when you do "lose" you don't even get scenes... bravo

my mistake, not literally unplayable:
Two enemies (plant & female ninja) seem to work OK (AI + pathfinding + can trigger scenes)

Still unpolished but has potential. The art direction, animations, and general theme of the game are all solid but the mechanical side needs more story and optimization. The developer has already mentioned a big update soon so we hope it will fix some of the more grievous problems.

Positives: beautiful animations and furry art, a platformer so it already by definition is a more complex and interactive game than VNs and whatnot.

Negatives: where do I begin?

This game is mechanically broken. Some aggressors/enemies straight can't have sex with you and just walk idly aka bugged. Other enemies die without you even making contact with them.

The diversity of enemies is poor too, 90% of enemies I run into are cisgender male. I'd like to see more female and transgender (male or female) characters.

Overall: there's no point in having great aesthetics and animations if I can't reach them. This game is unplayable in its current state and I would advise against supporting this game on Patreon until the abundant bugs are addressed.

Absolutely buggy mess. Completely unplayable at times and at an unacceptable place considering the length of its development. At this rate I don't believe it will ever be in a state where you can actually consistently play the game.

Its LITERALLY unplayable, It crashes after 5 seconds in the game (And its not just for me and a dozen of people, Its for almost everyone who is playing the current version, AND EVEN the past versions where buggy and crashed a LOT)

I thought I reviewed this here but I guess I didn't but doesn't really matter. it was shitty back in 2019 and it's slightly less shitty now but only because there's more to it, otherwise it's still a pretty bad game. There's just so many things about it that you can easily nitpick and it's not just a small detail here and there, its the entire game. From game breaking bugs to the fact that the gallery has a seek bar yet pausing the animation doesn't actually pause the animation. That animation player there is purely aesthetic because it doesnt actually work. If you want an example of the functionality of this game I went into the settings to adjust the audio and change the controls and doing those two things alone locked up the game. The little settings bubbles that pop up over the cogs representing the settings in general just stayed up and everything was unclickable. The game didn't respond to the mouse, didnt respond to default controls, new controls, my controller when I turned it on, just straight up soft locked from simply interacting with the settings menu. Turns out the x button to exit the control settings just softlocks the game for some reason. Let that sink in.

What about the gameplay? Still fucking awful. It's clunky and unwieldy. For some reason I can't remap attack specifically so even though the game has it set to X, i set it to X, and in the menu its set to X, its still Q, which is fucking awful when you consider my jump is Z and I just literally cannot change it, I'm forced to work around it and every attempt to figure out this problem is a restart of the game because again it softlocks. Dealing with this the actual combat fucking blows. They wanted a combo system like you'd see in those flashy games where you can just get like 10 hits on the ground, pop em up, continue it in the air, do some crazy shit like that, but this one doesnt even work. Half the time I'm mashing attack and it just pauses after the first hit as if it's trying to register whether or not I'm allowed to do the second hit and follow up. Sometimes I get the 3 hit combo, most of the times it just does the starter jab/swipe over and over. Not to mention this combined with the fact that they add a lot of flashy effects to give it that pop really just shows how barren and gaudy this game is when its bringing so much attention to even just your jump and dash.

Speaking of jumps, your jump constantly gets gimped, and I literally mean constantly. Jumping up a slope? Nope, you will jump and maybe ascend half an inch off the ground because this game cant handle walls or slopes combined with jumps. Thats right you can't even jump when you're too close to a wall or barrel. This is kind of a fucking problem when you want to implement platforming to your game and you know, the one most important element in a platformer doesnt even function properly several years into development.

As for the animation, to each their own, I've never really liked it. It just looks so janky because they went with a minimal design and made them like 6 frame animations or something. Everything is so jumpy with the animation and obviously the only ones they cared about are the porn animations. I still don't get why you'd have an anthro run on all fours like a feral either, it looks so dumb to me.

This game is just another self validating project Jasonafex has tried to pump out except unlike a comic this needs way more effort. Not that he's probably doing it, considering to my knowledge most of all he does is tween pictures into animations. Just don't bother with this game, it's only there for jason to slap his oc on yet again as the main poster child forced into every scenario he can push him into.

Somehow keeps getting worse as they fix more. Not to mention the creator and the drama around them. Sucks a lot too since I actually really liked the artists (Kabier) stuff years ago. Her style has become indistinguishable from lots of others and their content direction is less than favorable.

A truly unplayable game, with a few good animations.

The game suffers from a well documented lack of optimisation, which renders the game barely functional.
Primarly this manifests in a sub 20FPS on all systems, usually below 10FPS; subsequently rendering controlls sluggish and a fight in itself.
Several bugs are also present, most apparent of which is making all NPCs impossible to interact with.
Thus I cannot truly comment on how the game is to play, beyond the challanges it puts up to be interacted with.

The scene viewer is probably the best and only functional part of this, where you will find well drawn but lacking animations.
Enemies have 3 scenes on average, sone more or less; problem is really just how few of them there are for a fighting game. You will come accross the same enemy type with a different palette, making it feel rather repetitive.
Most scense are also do a good job at hiding genetalia, making many to be just two bodies humping each other with not much to look at.

The game is not worthy of the bandwith it takes to acquire, let alone time you would spend to fight it. I would strongly suggest to give this one a pass.

For how long this game has been in the making you would think that at this point one level would be optimized right? Wrong the combat is a joke the ranking at the end of each location is a joke the sex is just you running at an enemy and submitting to them. Weird because you can dominate one of the kobold things in the gym area but if you defeat an enemy in the game they despawn.

The talking to that one character at the near end of each arena is bugged aswell as the guy in the gym. I played the ferocious feline i think is her name and unless you want to hear raw meat repeating slapping across the ground for the entire arena do not use her throwables. They're incredibly op if that matters since finishing an arena gives you an f ranking no matter what. The enemies are mid. God forbid there be a feral sex scene.

Tbh I never tested anything because i'm not into get fucked games but hey might aswell play a cool looking furry game. Jasonafex needs to retire and stop shilling out garbage games to save face for already securing the easiest patreon bag. Nobody is going to unsubscribe unless patreon removes their subscriptions on their on accord.

Tldr don't install this game unless you want to be inspired by how easy it is to make money as a shitty game developer. You'll end up doing ten times better than this game