Others - EXXXOLIFE [v0.4.0.3] [EXXXOLIFE]

After going through it, aside from the audio issues the bones aren't too bad. Controls are pretty responsive (though the ability to remap keys is needed). The graphics are pretty good overall. Unfortunately that's about all the praise I've got.

The combat system needs a rework and a half. For enemies that'll only engage you in melee there's literally no reason for you to approach them first, but rather than approaching you they'll just sit there and guard. So you and the enemy just keep guarding over and over as you wait for them to eventually come to you. The 2 AP cap on AP you can get by guarding is just dumb, why even limit it to begin with? If enemies are too stupid and will just let you guard to full AP, then you need to rework their AI.

Right now you can approach enemies while their back is turned, but there's no sneaking ability, combat just starts as soon as you get into range. There's no way to be proactive and make the first move until you get the gun (and that has problems of its own). Even though they take a turn to face you, you always start 2 spaces away so there's no way to take advantage of that. Again, there's almost no reason to ever approach enemies yourself unless they're going to attack you from range, so combat just doesn't feel fun at all. Imagine if you were playing a game like Final Fantasy Tactics, but moving on your turn consumed your entire action. You'd never move, instead you'd just sit there and wait for your enemy to approach first so you can get the first attack which is what happens in this game. That's why nearly any decent turn-based game with some kind of movement either separates movement and taking actions, or has some kind of system in place that allows you to do both under the right circumstances.

With the way AP works, actions like the push kick make no sense whatsoever. If you're at 2 AP and push kick, then even if the enemy wastes a turn moving to you, you have to spend the next turn guarding and taking a hit anyway to get AP back so you can attack (and that's assuming you hit them successfully). The player should at least get 1 AP back automatically per turn so there isn't so much downtime in every fight having to just stand there and eat a hit before you can do something again. Because you don't get AP back naturally, moving once you're in melee range doesn't have any value either since you'll just still be stuck at the same amount of AP you already had, or they'll hit you with a ranged attack. It could be tied into the survival mechanics by letting you regain AP when you're not hungry/tired, but working as it currently does when you are. Having a gun lets you take initiative, but then you have to spend AP just to open the inventory to pull out your pipe once you get into melee?! The gun also just feels pathetically weak. It does less damage than punches and kicks! Not to mention the hunger/fatigue mechanics end up going "okay, guess it's time to make the combat even worse." If you're trying to kill any kind of fun whatsoever, then this system is succeeding wildly at that because the default way the game plays feels like a punishment state.

The pace of the game in general is agonizing, just nothing but constant waiting. Wait for this elevator to move so you can finally get to the level select screen. Wait for your character on the level select screen to move so you can go to the level you picked. Wait for the elevator to get to the right point so you can do something once you get into the level. Wait, wait, wait, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT. These things need to be sped up or removed completely. Sure it's nice for the atmosphere, but it doesn't take long at all until you're completely sick and tired of watching yourself have to ride the tram waiting for it to finally take you out of the level.

Sexual content is sorely, sorely lacking, and what little there is right now is really plain and boring given the game's premise. How are you gonna have everyone infected by a symbiote that mutates people and also makes them super horny, and have absolutely no sex elements during combat? Running around the ship almost naked at the start just feels like a complete tease, since clothing damage (and the previously mentioned combat sex) is like such an obvious selling point for a game like this yet it lacks that element completely. As things stand as a regular game it's really boring because the combat just doesn't work, and as a sex game it's also really boring. This gallery is also a joke, it doesn't even contain the sex scenes that are in the game, and instead it's full of random fluff you don't care about.

The combat is clunky: having to spend most of my turns defending just to get one or two hits in is not engaging. The hunger and rest mechanic adds nothing but makes the game more annoying to play. In many places the writing breaks down and becomes difficult to follow. The pacing is also very very slow.

This game deserves higher rating. Even at version 0.4.0.3

Visuals, atmosphere and level design along with excellent music is easily 10/10. Progression is also good, upon reaching MC private quarters the game becomes immersive. Some dialogs needs to be shorter. More H content is needed.

Developer needs to work on 2 aspects of the game, which at this point is both frustrating and punishing.

Combat needs work, AP cap is a bad way of prolonging the combat, specially when the only way to replenish AP is to become a punching bag for the enemy.

Lack of quick save punishes the player. to the point of closing the game when you die 85 % into the level and have to start again.

That said, Its an awesome game to play if you are not in a rush for adult aspects.

So, I'm about 2-3 hours in game, and here are my 2 cents.
First, the graphics: It is unexpected to see Retro-looking modern graphics that screams "German Game Company circa 2003 gmbh." Yet manages to look decent. The Gameplay is straightforward turn based shooter, the pros are that you can basically get a sneak attack if you know what you are doing, and the cons are if you do sneak attack, it is possible to fail every shot going forwards. RNG is merciless. Or maybe I'm just unlucky. THe Game has Alt tab allergy and has some wonkiness when you pick up items while crawling (it offers to climb a non existing ladder)
Otherwise its run off the mill time waster. Standard run back and forwards to get a possible sex scene of which there are only a few. Unintuitive perk system (I personally went for more stamina, as I thought, hey I have to wait every second-third round to attack. You get one max stamina, but you need one of the pills to get it) Getting around is hassle, as it takes forever for the char to do anything, and alt-tabbing pauses the game so even waiting for "fast travel" to finish is "You have to look at me while I'm sliding this char portrait from one place to antoher"

as for porn?: I saw protagonist boobs, i saw man fuck/lick tits/give cunnilingus to other npc, and my PC gave a handjob, masturbated in 3 predetermined locations and thats about it.
Not recommended to get it now, as its just grind. Unless you get off on walking everywhere. Then this is for you.

Problems, right off the bat, problems.
1. this is a free roam game, which isn't bad per se, just the execution is bad
2.some controls (i.e. the jump button) is exclusively non-existent, you are still caught in battle and the jump is so hilariously small you'd think you were NOT in space(gravity shouldn't be a thing)
3. when you start the game, it runs on two instances, so if you were to try and modifiy, or god forbid, delete it, no worries, cause your game is still running even after you've closed the windows. riveting.
4. in side scroller non-fashion: no pregnancy even though all routes/plots points to the/a game that should lead to it (does the alien DNA REMOVE human sperm? if so: why??? what makes it so special that when there is a failure of mutation the males that become sex addicted beasts that they can't impregnate someone, or better yet why can't the DNA modify it so that the females they go into get pregnant within weeks or days?).
5. there is basically no save, so in actually it's a rogue's-like side scroller game, only you get to save only when getting to the beginning or end(or the branching of) of the levels. oh, and it isn't manual, no get with the times young wipper snapper..! it's automatic only. so essentially the game doesn't know what it wants to accomplish, which is sad cause even some games that have lolicon tag in it have something of a coherent game-plan.
6. no battle-fuck or even chances where you can revive yourself from death, or if you lose you're not dead but "something" is taken (since the game has the equivalent to gang members( it can even be MC's virginity)).

if new games will continue to have poor execution for boasting massive potential like this, and refuse to make amends after critique or at least the norm of not using said potential to be good, then people, go back to the drawing board. ask yourself what you want to make, and before you hit that submit button on that fated game of yours: T.H.I.N.K.!
Take your time to assess your game, whether it be by yourself, OR your peers.
Handling of the game (performance issues). see if your game doesn't break on doing what the game does normally, and make it hard for those who play the game to break it or find glitches to do that.
Instruct or Inspect the game's features yourself, and see if the game you have made will be well received by strangers or consumers. don't rely on bots or new "acccounts" for your business/model.
Never EVA make a game soley on potential. don't be like Red-eyes Black dragon, you want efficiency (like Dark Magician, or powerful starting impact like Blue-eyes white dragon).
Know that your game will be taken with a grain of salt, so don't sweat the ones you know your game is not made for (as long as those are the minority).
if you see this and still accidentally (benefit of the doubt) submit the game: DELETE IT and postpone. trust me, you're doing this website and the mods a favor.

sluggish movement, sluggish controls, no way to travel back if you've moved forward, autosave that's painful. String of battles that take forever, the weird system that limits how much AP you regen in battle AND out of battle, then after the 4th time through due to dying from a string of them, then walking towards what you thought was a wall but ended up being an instant death pit, you are frustrated, bored, and ignoring the background only to walk into an entirely different instant death trap.

The game wastes your time and hates you for wanting to try playing it.

First of all, I really enjoyed the gameplay until now. I can easily see this one becoming one of the really good sidescrollers on here. Especially, because there is actually a fun game and not just H-Scenes stacked togehter.

My biggest negative right now are the audio issues, which made me turn down the volume during play. I tried different audio devices and frequencies but nothing worked. It just simply sounds like the headphones aren't plugged in properly sometimes.

Other then that we have a fun, promising project here. Would recommend checking it out!