Hallo Crazybat,
once again thanks for the great game! I appreciate your steady development over such a long period of time a lot. I totally respect your work. Still, starting a new game after all this time turned out a bad choice for me, and here is why.
I would apreciate if new installments of this game came with saves (like Cronicles of Leridia offers), because the replayability of the part before the game gets going takes quite an amount of (rather wasted) time.
I remember, when I played that one a looong time ago for the first time, I was amazed about the build-up, and it all made sense. As I know the story pretty well now I could afford to speed-click through all the dialogue and still it took me about 40 minutes to get to the first real sex scene with
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I know that there is some great content I have already played and I am willing to play again ahead and as I haven't played the game in a while there will even be some new lewd stuff. What bothers me is that even speedclicking through the known text it will take quite a lot of time to get to content worth playing the game again, and I would even guess in a first playthrough - I have claimed this before some years ago right here in that forum - the build-up takes too much time. I mean, everybody knows where this has to lead to, why not speed up the boring part? And I mean "speed up", not cut it. What I want to say is that the pacing could be better, speed it up. Why waste an hour or so if the scene with her sister could happen after five minutes of gameplay without any harm done to the game, the story, the build-up? You could even open up the game with that scene as a trigger, not showing it after 40 minutes of speedclicking - which would be a shame if I did not know the story/dialogue from before, this is not meant to be harsh about your writing, its just that I already know this stuff.
So this is not meant as a negative comment. It is just that I found your game being one of those which have great content but require lots of effort and time to be revealed. There are a lot of repetetive and grindy clickfests out there - e.g. I would love to play Fashion Business, but I can't force myself to do all these clicks and moves again and again and again. "Coming of age" of course is much less grindy, but still - do we really need to repeat the same stuff 3-5 times to advance?
Well, just my five cents. THANKS again for the great game - although I am not sure whether I can bring myself to pLay it or not.
PLUS: And I am pretty sure I wrote that before as well - goin to college and clicking through meaningless lessons is not very entertaining. If I remember correctly, at some point you can skip that part, which is good, but I really can't understand why you don't flesh out college a bit. You will not invent a new genre, but you proved to be full of nice ideas - so what's your take on sexy stuff during classes?