As of: v0.4.1
I almost want to say it's a solid addition to the trainer genre, but it's just kind of...not. It falls flat in every way, but it has some potential.
It's more of an adventure/forced minigame/unnecessarily custom experience.
The features I'd like aren't finished, the features that are default are broken, and the features I hate work great.
Good:
Bad:
I was torn between 2-3 stars, because I can tell a lot of effort went into it. But in the end, the effort in its current state just makes the experience worse than a default renpy game, sorry.
"Oh let's recode the chat boxes and keybinds and entirely mess with a community with hundreds of hours of muscle memory"
Honestly, if you fixed saving, fixed the way dialogue boxes work, and had an option to turn scrollback on- along with supporting cheating- I'd bump it to 3 stars.
"What's supporting cheating?"
Just code it >= 300 affection instead of == 300 affection, to prevent bugs.
Also "Skip minigame"
IMO the entire "select location" should be places with picture boxes that have icons of which people are there, with similar icons on the main map. If you also tag events with an icon, that'd be enough for 4 stars, probably.
Yes, I've seen developers do this in renpy without breaking stuff.
It's a typical bad sandbox experience, with countless hours of wandering around wondering what the F you're supposed to be doing, only to get jumpscared into an event you can't save during and one chance to pick correct dialogue options.
Also, that's after I cheated incredible amounts of resources, stats, and even affection to skip most of the grind. Could that have caused bugs? Yes. Is that my problem? No. I'm not playing the cuck minigame, you can't make me.
Verdict: Bad Fap
I almost want to say it's a solid addition to the trainer genre, but it's just kind of...not. It falls flat in every way, but it has some potential.
It's more of an adventure/forced minigame/unnecessarily custom experience.
The features I'd like aren't finished, the features that are default are broken, and the features I hate work great.
Good:
- Decently solid story that generally seems to make sense
- A lot of heroine options
- The art seems fairly consistent
- There is a decent amount of art
- The main story has hints
- Some girls do have animations which are solid
Bad:
- Each "training" session is like 2 images, they're not particularly good, and they're not random. So if you repeat any session it's only to see those 2 images again. You don't have to repeat them, though.
- Though a lot of girls are on the list to be trained, it's really just a system to interact with them.
- The side stories, including the story to unlock the brothel, does not seem to have hints. If it does, it's using some RNG part of day system, because I never saw anything useful in a couple parts of the help system, and they said "analyzing"
- The time system is chaotic and there are timed events.
- Some girls are different places at different times.
- There's no way to know what girl/event is at any given place until you click on it
- You can't save once you are in an event where you'd want to save
- You have to click on everything all the time or you might get softlocked behind some event you don't know about
- You wrote a whole function for right click to hide the dialogue and show the girl. Good function- That was already a built-in renpy feature for middle click. Except that one isn't being used correctly. So if you want to play with one hand, one of your three buttons is wasted for no reason. Also, all your muscle memory will betray you.
- You rebound right click, which opens save in HUNDREDS OF OTHER GAMES, and is MUSCLE MEMORY
- Saving can only be done (AFAIK) by clicking the "preferences" button, and then clicking into "save"- there is no direct save button, it is never convenient to save.
- Scroll rollback is disabled, which means if you didn't finish reading the dialogue, yes you did. You won't see it again.
- No, the history feature doesn't work either, I looked, it's empty.
- I'm somewhat confident this is because they re-coded dialogue boxes instead of just changing the theme, but, point stands
- Minigames cannot be skipped, some content appears to be locked behind them, and they're not good. I.E. dance game with very unclear timing point. The only indicator is a heart, which is too late.
- The Dance minigame has a "spin" requirement but I have no idea what that is and no time to look because if I try to read the directions on the other side of the screen I miss a bunch of notes
- I hate forced minigames, I'm not here to play minigames, nobody is ever here to play minigames
- Patreon paywalls which just prompt a "Wish you could do this event but you can't!" message
- Because of the lack of quest guidance, it's unclear if patreon walls are stopping progress of girls released in 0.3, but I dunno how to get the farm girl to the brothel
- You spend half your time clicking around for things that maybe changed so maybe you can progress the game, when the game could just tell you
- You spend the other half your time grinding, unless you cheat
- You get 2 images as a reward - they're not good
- There's multiple seemingly-deep gathering and use mechanics to figure out systems (caterpillar system) that do...something, never cared TBH
- The brilliant "hide custom chat window" function doesn't work in some sex scenes because we decided we needed to add dev workload by making that something the dev has to manually do?!
- You get from a specific quest chain, which did eventually happen, but a lot is unclear about getting it
- I want to say each girl has 10 events with 2 pictures each, might be 8
- Getting girls into the system seems to require events- even if the girl appears in the system, you might never encounter her if you fail to trigger the event to add her *correctly*
- The girls appear in the brothel at certain times for interaction. Better figure those out, there's no hints, F you.
- Interacting with the maids appears pointless
- If you miss the exact right time window for training a girl you just don't get to train her that day
- Interacting with the head girl has an event that seems to be non-repeatable and that is lame. Why is the brothel the only place without good repeatable sex events? This is the staple place for sex events.
- The upgrade system, I never figured out. I understand it requires materials and money. Which materials respond to which of the three numbers? No clue. Are the upgrades implemented? No clue.
I was torn between 2-3 stars, because I can tell a lot of effort went into it. But in the end, the effort in its current state just makes the experience worse than a default renpy game, sorry.
"Oh let's recode the chat boxes and keybinds and entirely mess with a community with hundreds of hours of muscle memory"
Honestly, if you fixed saving, fixed the way dialogue boxes work, and had an option to turn scrollback on- along with supporting cheating- I'd bump it to 3 stars.
"What's supporting cheating?"
Just code it >= 300 affection instead of == 300 affection, to prevent bugs.
Also "Skip minigame"
IMO the entire "select location" should be places with picture boxes that have icons of which people are there, with similar icons on the main map. If you also tag events with an icon, that'd be enough for 4 stars, probably.
Yes, I've seen developers do this in renpy without breaking stuff.
It's a typical bad sandbox experience, with countless hours of wandering around wondering what the F you're supposed to be doing, only to get jumpscared into an event you can't save during and one chance to pick correct dialogue options.
Also, that's after I cheated incredible amounts of resources, stats, and even affection to skip most of the grind. Could that have caused bugs? Yes. Is that my problem? No. I'm not playing the cuck minigame, you can't make me.
Verdict: Bad Fap