RPGM - Daily Lives of My Countryside [v0.3.3.1] [Milda Sento]

v0.2.6.1


Like many other games present on this site Daily Lives of My Countryside falls under the "porn with extra steps" category. It is in my honest opinion one of the most overrated games on this site as of right now.

Let's start with the obvious. Yes, the art and environment design are top notch and deserve the praise. The game is very easy on the eyes. However that's where the positives end.

Everything else apart from the aforementioned art ranges from lackluster to downright horrible. The game is essentially a one big checklist of chores which rewards you with some smut at the end.

• The writing is plagued with grammatical errors and feels "uncanny" for lack of a better word.
  
  
• Character designs while not bad are quite bland and generic.
  
  
• Way the game handles passing of time effectively kills off exploration entirely. It's not plausible to play the game without a guide, no one is going to check each location 16 times every single day.
  
  
• A lot of quest progression is counter intuitive or simply is not there at all. Which ties in with the previous point.
  
  
• UI/Menu navigation has a lot of unnecessary extra clicks which makes it slow. This is an issue considering how much time you spend in there.

In short it's a grossly overrated, mediocre game which has seen little to no improvements over the course of its development. If it weren't for the quality of the art, which alone isn't enough to make a good game, this game would have been dead on arrival.

If the author was willing to hire people to work on areas of the game he has no experience nor talent in, as in everything else except the art it could grow into something decent. But considering the development history I'm not too hopeful.
It's quite frustrating really, people criticized the flaws such as the time progression and quest system very, very early on. The dev could have gone back and addressed these properly when the game was still taking its baby steps. Instead we got half-assed band-aid fixes which can only hold the game together for so long.

Great art and quality animations. Non-intuitive gaming experience. Throughout the game, you will rummage through your phone and read the schedules and events of this or that character in order to move forward. But almost always you cannot understand what you need to do and go to look for answers on the Internet. Instead of enjoying the game, you perform the routine of studying the schedule of the day of this or that girl. Not worth the time.

Daily Lives of My Countryside [v0.2.6.1]

Great art/animations. One of the best on this site.

Horrible gameplay experience. Many bugs and it's unclear how to progress very often. The creator cannot design games well or code so they use RPGM and still fail to make a cohesive game experience. Cheats are basically required to progress in the game which says a lot about how bad it is.

If you just want the scenes, they're pretty good. I don't know if the grueling game experience is worth it though!

If it wasn't for the gameplay, I'd give this a 4.5/5 due to the art but the gameplay is exceedingly bad.

Recently played the latest expansion. Before that, I had not played the game for about 1.5 years. I noticed how the game has changed qualitatively. The characters are revealed. The ability to draw the author has greatly increased. There are mini games. It is very pleasant to spend time in this game, nice visuals, not stressful music. And the way the main character acts like. - At first he is very cautious, but at the right time he is capable of decisive and daring actions, which makes the sex scenes more sensual. There are also interesting events in the game with Easter eggs, references. I recommend the game)
And also to support the author, he really deserves it.

I really like the style, the character design, how the quests develop and especially the scenes. But there are a couple of things that I didn't like. The First is that to unlock some scenes (Daisy and Douei mainly) you have to wait for the plantings to grow, and you have to wait a long time, in simple terms, it's a dead time. The second is that some quests are not very clear, for example how to meet Mrs. Adeera for the first time. it is wrong to tell the game the exact solution, but some more guidance would not be bad. Apart from these two minor defects I really love this game.

On the positives the art is obviously way above par, and animations and sound effects greatly enhance scenes, this by itself is the only reason this game managed to get this score and not lower. If the art style appeals to you then the scenes won't disappoint.

However, this game fails from all the same trappings as other poorly thought out RPGM games. The maps are way to big with way to little to do in them, there's a teleportation option if you enable cheats to make travel smoother. I didn't realize you had to enable cheats for this and it's a massive QOL improvement so I'd reccomend doing that first thing.

This game also uses a full 24 hour cycle for time as opposed to the simple morning/afternoon/evening/night cycle you see in games like Summertime Saga or What a Legend. This is a massive blunder imo as most characters have less than four things they do every day anyways. Characters will spend multiple hours doing the same activity and at that point, there's little reason why the game needed an hourly time system. This means you will usually have to fast forward time multiple times per day.

These two factors combined totally break up the flow state that a sandbox game needs to have to function. The ideal is to be able to go anywhere on the map and probably find an event to do with without having to open the guide/schedule, or skip forward time. Because the map is so annoying to navigate and it's impossible to memorize all the various characters schedules, you end up breaking out your phone after every event, checking when another relevant event is, and skipping time to that point. Otherwise you'd just aimlessly wander the map when there might not be an event anywhere in sight!

The MC is a little confusing, in the intro it seems like he's just discovered sexual arousal for the first time but afterward his thoughts are way less innocent than the intro implies. I think the intro should be altered so that the MC is always a perv and not so innocent. The English is also not so good unfortunately.

Great to see the amount of progress made on this game the from past 6 or so months. Some of the best 2d art I've seen as well. Very good game overall.

Mild constructive criticism:
- I think the aunt shouldn't take her tits out right away when doing a massage in the early stages.

v0.2.6.1

It's alright.
Sandbox is bringing it really down though, there is no reason why it should be one. It doesn't do any favours for this game because it's super linear and it only forces you to grind for money/affection. Characters don't react any different at 300 affection than at 0, it only makes possible to progress through event list.
Also you need to progress other characters stories if you want to progress with certain characters (mom, neighbours, fairy), so there is absolutely no point in it being sandbox than to waste your time. It would work better as kinetic novel since it basically is one, there are no real choices.

Great game, Art is fantastic, there’s complaints of the English writing, but it’s not distracting. It move the plot along just fine. Love the descent update. 12.21.22

you can tell this is a great project to get behind, has multiple avenues for you to explore. Regularly updated story and CG.

Good art, but unless you go crazy on cheating to reduce the griding, it is annoying to play this game.

Did the dev play his own game? Well, you wake up in your bed, then you have to decide to wake up quickly or sleep a little more and be forced to watch a repeated scene. However, to progress the game you'll have to skip a lot of days and just some extra clicks in "waking up" is already a tedious and annoying task.

That's how you play the game: skipping days to match the correct requirements to progress (i.e waiting for a crop to be ready for harvest). There is no quick button to skip days, you do things manually. Even the cheat option doesn't work because it isn't counting for the crops to grow.

I tried the game without cheating, then the grinding annoyed me to hell, so I started to use it, but finally dropped my playthrough.

Also, what is the point of having a quest log since all the progress with the girls is on the phone? To access it you have to do more actions than simply going to the quest log which means extra clicks and more annoyances.

Finally, you've done a lot of quests and have barely any progress in the story at all. This has been developed since 2020 and I'm writing in 2022 but we have like 3 vaginal sex scenes?? Thats all?

My two stars rating is for the effort to create this, but a game that annoys the player and delivers almost nothing shouldn't get scored highly, IMO, and I say that despiting having to grind all my way through other games even worse than this but also more rewarding.

TL;DR: Play it if you can bear the suffering of the griding, I'm better off wasting my time on something else.

One of the best Games on this Site, quite a masterpiece already!
The Night Scenes are just so damn good. Joyce is a great new character would love to see her in a Night/Sleep Sex scene. Also Art style 9.69/10.

What a damn shame and waste of gorgeous art this game is.

I’m only gonna repeat what other said, but based on art alone this game is 10/5. Gorgeous girls, beautiful textures, expressions, sounds, animations, kinks. I mean it’s the stuff of dreams….

It is, however, an unplayable mess. Just download a full save, watch the scenes, and save yourself from unexpected crashes and abysmal gameplay.

Daily Lives of Out Countryside has beautiful art, but extremely slow obtuse progression, and is extremely repetitive. However, the art is 10/10, so I recommend cheating your way through it so that you can see it

Amazing 2d art that comes to life with great animations, There is a fairly good in-game guide that leaves some of the fun in figuring out pussles. There are lots of nice girls with a variety of personality and quest type. While the game has a lot of room to grow what is here is excellent.

As a wise man once said: "Finally some good fucking food" I love almost everything about this game. Tags are so good I want to cry. I'm following every single patch that comes out. Art is simple but pretty. Scenes well made and animations smooth. Only problem I have is the direction author went for with MC's dick. I'd love to have an option for a smaller dick size since massive shota dick always takes me out of immersion.
Art 4.5/5
Story - 4.5/5
Gameplay 4.5/5
Fapability 5/5
Originality 5/5

first game i ever played art is rlly good art is amazing it can be a little bit of a grind to get anything other than the ppl in the house but i think its kinda better that way feels like an actual game rather than just watching things play out, the dialogue is a little eh tho

this is hands down one of the best rpgm games ever created the scenes animations and dialogue are top tier not to mention the grind feels fun but still has a grinding aspect to it which keeps the game fresh some of the flashback scenes are amazing as well would give this game 6 stars if i could and look forward to future content

Graphically, the game is a marvel; the models and scenarios look really nice and with a level of detail worked. The cartoon style makes you stay as soon as you see them and has fluid animations. Congratulations to the author for taking the risk of bringing a work with this kind of characters.

If I had to put a downside, I would put two:

The first is that there is no complete mission diary, or that the hint system is too confusing and not very accessible when having it on the phone.

The second is the feeling that the scenarios are too big and confusing, making the user not quite know where to go or what to interact with.

I can't wait for the story to progress and see how many fetishes and game modes this story can bring.

Daily lives of my countryside is a RPG-maker game, the gameplay is simple which i don't mind at all, since the main focus is to befriend, be a pervert and lastly make money and fuck, the best part so far is the art, it's really fucking good and there are animations for certain scenes if not for most of them, so far the worst part of the game is it does take awhile to launch and lastly the game kinda softlocked on me just turning black and having to turn of the game, even so i recommend and looking forward for more good stuff for the future.

This is a bit of a tough one to judge.

On one hand, this is some excellent art. The drawings, the animations, the teasing, it all comes together masterfully. A gallery system is included to let the player experience it all again any time, which is a fantastic touch that many RPGMaker games miss out on (though I feel like more and more are starting to include it).

In addition, the side characters break up any monotony, and there's a variety of body types and personalities to choose from, even some on the fantasy side (faeries, the lady from RE7, a santa girl, etc.)

On the other hand, this is an almost textbook example of how RPGMaker can almost bring an entire project down by itself. Nearly every bad RPGM design choice is on display here;
-Huge maps with nothing in them + hard to remember layouts (the school especially is a nightmare)
-Convoluted systems that add almost nothing to gameplay (literal hourly events that are easy to miss? A farming system with seemingly no point?)
-Long, long progression for events (some girls require more than 120 affection to reach later events!)
-Bugs and other issues dragging down the player.
-Long, unskippable transitions/animations with no way to speed them up.

I don't think the dev is intentionally doing a lot of this, many of these things are almost intrinsic to RPGM. Thankfully, the dev also included cheats for people like me, who have no patience for this kind of grind, but even those sometimes don't work. (Unlocking scenes in the gallery can be especially frustrating.)

To summarize: Great art, good characters and dialog, horrible player experience. Play it if you have a ton of time to kill (and some serious tolerance for RPGM gameplay.) Otherwise, download it for the gallery or art that comes with the game.