Crazybat, are you planning to turn the girl into a regular slut who is just sleeping around with everyone like in most adult games? I really enjoyed her being shy, submissive and mostly following orders/instructions/directions from other characters.
Anyways, it's a really great game. My favorite storywice. Most of fetishes that I enjoy in adult stories and games are written exactly the way I would have written them myself if I was creating such a game. Many times in the beginning of an event I imagined how I would like story to proceed and to my surprise it happened almost 100% exactly according to that. I have never seen that happening in any other game.
Sexual scenes are slow, long and logical (mostly) which is really great. Nothing can spoil an adult game like long and unrelated to anything even slightly erotic story with extra short sex interactions. You did the opposite. Good job there!
The biggest issue I have with the game is game engine, which is outdated and really horrible. Unfortunately, porting game to another engine would take too much time so I don't expect that to happen ever.
But there are things that I would suggest getting fixed.
Firstly, most female characters are completely identical to one another. All of women are perverts and lesbians. When every single woman in the game wants to have sexual interactions with other women it seems really weird.
Besides, all of them have big/huge boobs. Would be great to see several girls with smaller/flat chests. At least for the sake of diversity.
Men actually are similar too. No, even worse. When women are similar, they at least feel somewhat alive. Men are just npc's. They just want to watch, touch and have sex. Switch two random guys and they would act exactly the same way in the same situation.
You just need to write a background for your main characters. Character traits, weaknesses, fetishes, etc that would make them different from one another. And then just imagine what such character would do.
Secondly, you are advancing content forward and creating new stuff while there are so many characters and branches that are just left behind. I would suggest instead of going forward, return back and expand what is already there. Garret's events, library and so on. There is a lot of grinding in this game and more events will make the process not so painful.
There are so many other games, where you almost instantly get access to all sorts of sexual acts (or you can't see a single boob for hours of gameplay and then suddenly characters start to screw one another like there is to tomorrow) and so little games with slow, gradual and interesting character development like in Coming of Age (unfortunately, only May is getting developed and all other people remain static). There is no point in rushing into hardcore content. Too much heavy stuff will make it boring, we have seen all of it so many times already in movies, games, hentai...
I generally don't post to other games, but I enjoyed Coming of Age so much that I wanted to share my ideas. I hope that you won't find my post as an attack on you or your game. No harm intended. Anyways, keep your great work regardless if you find my advices helpful or not.
Hi first off thanks for your feedback,
As for tuning May into a slut. Yeah that's the general idea I had when I started this game. She starts out shy and slowly open up to more sexy stuff as we go along. Sorry if that not to your liking but that been the plan from the beginning.
I'm still confused when people say they like the story when I truth I don't think there's much story. The journey that May is kinda the story. When I started this game I didn't see myself creating a good story. So I decided not to put much effort in that since I'd know it would prob suck anyways. I decided it was better to put effort in stuff I think I thought I could actually do.
Yes most character are one dimensional. Simple because I suck at that so again I haven't really bothered. I try sometimes but It's not really I'm good at, so I simply don't do stuff I suck in since it feels like a waste of effort. Better to accept I suck at something and move on. Would it make the game better? Probably , but it's already complicated enough for me as it is.
If you say all of them have really big/huge boobs they you haven't been paying attention.
The other waitress at the dinner has smaller boobs same goes for Gina cousin. As for one of the girls in the gym scene.
Gina's boobs and her sister boobs are smaller then those of May, but that may still be too big for your preference.
I'll admit many of then have bigger boobs, in the end it comes done to personal preference.
About going back has been asked before and I'll give the same answer again. Since I'm aware there is some grinding I at least try to change the environment and give it some diversity. I might add a onetime special event for older jobs later on.
This game has been in development for over 3 years already. There are countless teasing/slow buildup scene's.
As much as I like them it's time for more hardcore stuff if I want to finished this game before the end of the century.
I would hardly call it rushing into hardcore context after 3 years!
Then again it just comes down to personal preference. I bet they are plenty of people who think it all taking to long.
I get it people are passionate and want to see what's the perfect game in there eyes.
In my eyes such perfection doesn't exists.
I think it's better to value the game for what it is and that it will always contain flaws or you'll only end up with disappointment.