I have booted off Riez-ON's ci-en and blocked from following him, he also deleted my posts as well. He is working on chapter 4B and in the announcement of this he had this to say at the end: " And before going to bed the other day, I had an inspiration with Pickeen and summarized the future story outline in a notepad. (Never before) … Oh, don't you need more than double the chapters? Can I go this year? I don't want to compromise, but I don't want to be able to release it forever ... what should I do ... "
I am not really sure if he meant release this game this year or in a year, this was my response: "I think that you have at least 12 to 18 months before you could consider this game being complete. Even if you complete the main story this year, if the Home content is lacking, the daily life dating and H scene events are missing, I think you need a full year to add that content. If that content is missing I will leave a 1 star review. I want to see the potential of the game at least 90% there. I have already stated what I want to see in my other posts. (for context read this:
#245)"
The big problem I have with Riez-ON the whole is that he never states anything clearly, all of his posts are vague and he won't answer direct questions, at all. I was not able to get anything useful out of him at all. The issue is not with MTLs, I have have talked with other users and other devs and have had perfectly honest and clear replies from them. The only conclusion I can come to is that Riez-ON (circle rin) cannot be trusted. At that point I have no interest in trying to talk to this dev any further. I feel what I wrote was fair and reasonable and I had 2 other users (both JP) liked the post.
I was pushing to see more of the world and lore and he said this in one of his posts: " At Ideal Raise, we are careful not to have descriptive conversations as much as possible, so I think that the settings are only transmitted to the minimum. Therefore, I have posted information for those who are interested in the world view of Ideal Raise." The first part of this says to me, that he is cutting corners, a big red flag. He was going to put this written form somewhere (most likely in the game), I suggested this:
"Just some additional feedback from me. The best way to show the world, is to have AI-Deal go on dates with the player, all of this could be accessible from the "home" part, with all the content I suggested in my feedback for 0.7.5. and be separate from the main story, this way the game has two main parts: the main story and your home life. The game could use your PCs system clock and have different events at certain times or day’s example: At lunch time, AI-Deal could be seen cooking a meal for you. Ciel nosurge is an example of a game with both a daily life part and a main story. I don't want to just read about the world, I want to feel like I am living in this world with AI-Deal. These “home” events should have no combat and would you allow to play the game at your own pace.
I would like to see the Night Pool scene added as a date from the home area, rather than a defeat scene, I like H scenes to be viewable from within the main game, instead of the gallery, since I won all the battles, I did not see it."
With my final post I probably hurt his ego too much, I have strong opinions I accept that and I express them, but he just could not take it anymore. The writing is on the wall for this game. That means this game is just a cheap Doujin rip-off of "BEATLESS". At the end of the day, to me it looked he had no clue where he wanted to go with this, I thought my feedback would have given Riez-ON a stronger vision for the game. I think he underestimated the size and scale of a game like this and failed to understand the type of content required to bring out the full potential of this game, I gave it everything I had, I have no regrets, this is a story of another incompetent DLSite dev. I had plenty of other ideas. I will leave that 1-star review on DLSite, when it releases, but for now:
Dropped and deleted.