This game is genuinely one of the worst examples of mind control/corruption I've ever seen it has so many flaws and does virtually nothing right.
Step 1: Corrupting the characters themselves changes almost/literally nothing about their character they will be mind controlled to have numerous sex scenes unlocked and still behave the same as before. If you want to add character corruption and have it feel like a real thing change how they act, change how they look to indicate that they ae changing and make it feel like more than just a stat increase.
Step 2: Make sex scenes feel even remotely earned and actually alter behaviour afterwards, the sex scenes tied to corruption are all essentially gain X amount of a stat -> watch a short scene -> lose the stats and go back to beforehand with literally no behavioural change. They earn no progress they don't feel like a goal because nothing changes afterwards, they also do not feel earned because the characters behaviour beforehand is not altered at all it's as if they are a robot and you hit the sex button. It's like going up to a total stranger having sex instantly and then going back to being total strangers (then repeat), which sure sounds fine in concept but having this kind of loop for the main characters is extremely shallow and the scenes are not remotely good enough to justify existing for themselves.
Step 3: It's not gradual at ALL you go from kiss level to full on sex within a single corruption level this makes it feel even less earned and that there's nothing to go towards. The game has a city wide corruption story going where people go from normal to actively having sex on the street within days (ingame) of this plotline starting so where will this plotline go from here?? They take what could be a game wide overarching story plot and then immediately send it to it's logical conclusion within minutes of it starting with almost no action from the player.( also why would I have to corrupt individuals at all if people are just suddenly banging strangers on the street.) It seems like even the dev realised that it made no sense and they tuned it down but now what's the goal to get back to something that already happened?
4: This issue isn't directly related to the flaws of the games corruption system but it's made 10x worse by the issues of it, gaining stats on the characters is extremely tedious and boring and takes forever. They updated one character to improve the corruption system to make it somewhat gradual but that just makes the boring stat grinding take at least 5x longer and its not even slightly improved
I don't know how to even fix the issues within this game as a corruption/mindcontrol game, literally everything has been done wrong leading to it being super ungratifying and simply boring. There is little actual content as is so scrapping it would feel bad, but the older corruption system is genuinely 1/10 garbage, the newer one is a step in the right direction but still feels kinda bad as it's held back by how bad the old one was and that it still somewhat relies on it.
Why not a 1/5 and why did I even play through the whole game if I thought it was this bad? Because the art is good and the game during the more linear/RPGlike segments was decently good the game would probably be better if it focused more on that, but instead most gameplay time is spent on the corruption sandbox aspect (which is bad)
oh and proofread your game with the sister on there's so many mistakes its insane
tl;dr characters do not feel corrupted they act the exact same before and after, scenes feel unearned and are not great, and the "relationships" are not gradual at all somehow simultaneously feeling like they barely started and already met their near conclusion
Step 1: Corrupting the characters themselves changes almost/literally nothing about their character they will be mind controlled to have numerous sex scenes unlocked and still behave the same as before. If you want to add character corruption and have it feel like a real thing change how they act, change how they look to indicate that they ae changing and make it feel like more than just a stat increase.
Step 2: Make sex scenes feel even remotely earned and actually alter behaviour afterwards, the sex scenes tied to corruption are all essentially gain X amount of a stat -> watch a short scene -> lose the stats and go back to beforehand with literally no behavioural change. They earn no progress they don't feel like a goal because nothing changes afterwards, they also do not feel earned because the characters behaviour beforehand is not altered at all it's as if they are a robot and you hit the sex button. It's like going up to a total stranger having sex instantly and then going back to being total strangers (then repeat), which sure sounds fine in concept but having this kind of loop for the main characters is extremely shallow and the scenes are not remotely good enough to justify existing for themselves.
Step 3: It's not gradual at ALL you go from kiss level to full on sex within a single corruption level this makes it feel even less earned and that there's nothing to go towards. The game has a city wide corruption story going where people go from normal to actively having sex on the street within days (ingame) of this plotline starting so where will this plotline go from here?? They take what could be a game wide overarching story plot and then immediately send it to it's logical conclusion within minutes of it starting with almost no action from the player.( also why would I have to corrupt individuals at all if people are just suddenly banging strangers on the street.) It seems like even the dev realised that it made no sense and they tuned it down but now what's the goal to get back to something that already happened?
4: This issue isn't directly related to the flaws of the games corruption system but it's made 10x worse by the issues of it, gaining stats on the characters is extremely tedious and boring and takes forever. They updated one character to improve the corruption system to make it somewhat gradual but that just makes the boring stat grinding take at least 5x longer and its not even slightly improved
I don't know how to even fix the issues within this game as a corruption/mindcontrol game, literally everything has been done wrong leading to it being super ungratifying and simply boring. There is little actual content as is so scrapping it would feel bad, but the older corruption system is genuinely 1/10 garbage, the newer one is a step in the right direction but still feels kinda bad as it's held back by how bad the old one was and that it still somewhat relies on it.
Why not a 1/5 and why did I even play through the whole game if I thought it was this bad? Because the art is good and the game during the more linear/RPGlike segments was decently good the game would probably be better if it focused more on that, but instead most gameplay time is spent on the corruption sandbox aspect (which is bad)
oh and proofread your game with the sister on there's so many mistakes its insane
tl;dr characters do not feel corrupted they act the exact same before and after, scenes feel unearned and are not great, and the "relationships" are not gradual at all somehow simultaneously feeling like they barely started and already met their near conclusion
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