Ren'Py Dilemma of Devotion [Ch.3 Ep.4] [PulseHavenStudios]
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Why would anyone ask for NTR in male protagonist and Harem game?
Hi!
Here is a review from me for DoD so far: I have to say my current rating given is one I do not give often. It is very rare for me to give a thumbs down for a game I really like due to technical issues!
I like the story and character stories quite much, the MC is done well (not a loser maniac or a body even the Neandethals would run away from), the girls are nice to beautiful (I have a special soft spot for Kimiko, Julie, Lana, Claire and Kiara), so why my rather negative result?
You drop the gameplay ball during the sandbox and hard at that! And it is not about the usual complains in the thread, like e.g map and movement, either.
I am a hobby writer myself, so I know what you aim for with that 100% loyal hard borderline on main story progress. In a game with several LI´s and possible paths I think that is not the best choice, but it is one I can live with.
What ruins it for me is that in the beginning of the sandbox you gain and lose points through events only. No chance to raise and lower stats otherwise. For instance if you want to just pursue Kimiko and make her your only love, you can follow her quest/storyline, but sooner or later you will hit events with loyal and corruptions scores you have to meet and simply cannot. And you have only one chance to get them right.
You have to stumble around the sandbox, starting random events with the various girls (even those you have zero interest in) to find out which girls can give you loyal and/or corruption points. For example, in one playthrough shortly before rage-quitting this mess, I got a Julie event which gave me the corruption points needed to watch porn, so I could raise the CPs without events. And even that has an Achilles-heel! All the events you can do only once have very oszillating prerequisites when it comes to LP/** and you can still be softlocked, because you never know what you need beforehand.
Another thing on this, it is really easy to gain a couple corruption points just by being nice to someone or looking at breasts literally hanging into your face. Just looking at a nice pair of breasts does not make you disloyal, just as a girl looking at a dick does not make her disloyal, we are all human. And even if you go for the over puritan stance in the game on stats, you should also give the option to regain the 100% loyal by something else than just events. It can easily happen that you gain the loyal points only by interacting with characters you have zero interest in.
It would lift DoD up by a kilometer if you could have an activity or repeatable event for both loyal and corruption points from the start of the sandbox. So you can raise and lower stats with some regularity on your own. Currently the sandbox is simply the illusion of choice, since you have to interact with some characters no matter what to progress the storyline. And these characters can be ones your own MC normally would not interact with.
I really like DoD, but these gameplay related flaws lower my enjoyment of it quite a bit.
Here is a review from me for DoD so far: I have to say my current rating given is one I do not give often. It is very rare for me to give a thumbs down for a game I really like due to technical issues!
I like the story and character stories quite much, the MC is done well (not a loser maniac or a body even the Neandethals would run away from), the girls are nice to beautiful (I have a special soft spot for Kimiko, Julie, Lana, Claire and Kiara), so why my rather negative result?
You drop the gameplay ball during the sandbox and hard at that! And it is not about the usual complains in the thread, like e.g map and movement, either.
I am a hobby writer myself, so I know what you aim for with that 100% loyal hard borderline on main story progress. In a game with several LI´s and possible paths I think that is not the best choice, but it is one I can live with.
What ruins it for me is that in the beginning of the sandbox you gain and lose points through events only. No chance to raise and lower stats otherwise. For instance if you want to just pursue Kimiko and make her your only love, you can follow her quest/storyline, but sooner or later you will hit events with loyal and corruptions scores you have to meet and simply cannot. And you have only one chance to get them right.
You have to stumble around the sandbox, starting random events with the various girls (even those you have zero interest in) to find out which girls can give you loyal and/or corruption points. For example, in one playthrough shortly before rage-quitting this mess, I got a Julie event which gave me the corruption points needed to watch porn, so I could raise the CPs without events. And even that has an Achilles-heel! All the events you can do only once have very oszillating prerequisites when it comes to LP/** and you can still be softlocked, because you never know what you need beforehand.
Another thing on this, it is really easy to gain a couple corruption points just by being nice to someone or looking at breasts literally hanging into your face. Just looking at a nice pair of breasts does not make you disloyal, just as a girl looking at a dick does not make her disloyal, we are all human. And even if you go for the over puritan stance in the game on stats, you should also give the option to regain the 100% loyal by something else than just events. It can easily happen that you gain the loyal points only by interacting with characters you have zero interest in.
It would lift DoD up by a kilometer if you could have an activity or repeatable event for both loyal and corruption points from the start of the sandbox. So you can raise and lower stats with some regularity on your own. Currently the sandbox is simply the illusion of choice, since you have to interact with some characters no matter what to progress the storyline. And these characters can be ones your own MC normally would not interact with.
I really like DoD, but these gameplay related flaws lower my enjoyment of it quite a bit.
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no one has modded the game yet or am i missing it?
also how can i move the texts lower to view Janes text, i've tried dragging the screen from every point on the phone and nothing is working...it either closes the phone or opens a different conversation
also how can i move the texts lower to view Janes text, i've tried dragging the screen from every point on the phone and nothing is working...it either closes the phone or opens a different conversation
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Hi!
Do not know if this bug was already reported but late in the current build the questmarker for Rachel shows a "Respond to Rachel´s text". Problem with this: Rachel does not text you at all, so responding to iz is impossible. And it cannot be end of build since for other paths there is an end of content message.
Do not know if this bug was already reported but late in the current build the questmarker for Rachel shows a "Respond to Rachel´s text". Problem with this: Rachel does not text you at all, so responding to iz is impossible. And it cannot be end of build since for other paths there is an end of content message.
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beenhereeveryday
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Ask yourself this , if the cheat leak was indeed here and then people not subbing would mean no revenue and then that means no game continued either because I have to pay artists and writer.
Do you realize what that means?
Golly gee it's almost like the Modders and people recognize the effort put in game and wants the game maker to have revenue for improving the game furtherSurprice a modder have not make a walkthrough/cheat mmod for the game or a way to unlock it cus there is cheats but paywall
Idk tho , do wonder why.
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I have no problem with that mindset when it comes to so called AAA games that will now be charging $80 and up for mediocre quality. At this point those corporations are almost asking for their titles to be pirated.Surprice a modder have not make a walkthrough/cheat mmod for the game or a way to unlock it cus there is cheats but paywall
With projects like this however, with small teams barely getting by on donations, subscribers and a cut from Steam sales, try to understand why there are sometimes tiers for support that equate to more contents and features. Many AVN developers do that and it's generally understandable. Also to be fair this game and many others don't require cheats to be enjoyed. The cheats for this game make it easier to try alternate paths but there are by no means needed to enjoy this title.
To add to that , there's literally no need to sub long term either if that's too much because I do understand.
Can sub once and just make 10 saves of each character with stats altered then just enjoy the paths , if it were upto me I'd charge nothing but I only render , the writer , developer and the second new artist now will have to be paid haha.