HTML Abandoned Female Agent [v1.20.1p] [Crushstation]

[Joe Steel]

Have to agree. One should give credit where credit is due. There's been lots of frustration with the slow pace of this game, which is understandable, but this was a indeed a good update. The writing was actually pretty engaging and the scenes were really hot. Hope this starts picking up the development pace from now on.

Crush does something that good writers do, but is seldom seen here, which is write to the senses. What things look like, smell like, taste like, etc. It creates very vivid imagery in the absence of images.

 

[rbx4]

It's because Crush pauses the Patreon when he has no update or instead rolls back, right?

 

[D4n0w4r]

The one thing that really bugs me about his writing style is how he leaves certain words untranslated with their definitions being highlightable. Anime/manga fan translations used to do the same thing in the early 00s to sound cool but it was always kind of lame.

 

[Deniz31]

Bar part was great, boss date part was boring and uninteresting. Her fucking the rich boss ain't hot for my taste. I wish there were more sexual options with the customers or with our "bell boy" who gets lots of teasing. And why not embed the "university path" to this one so we play from start to finish? What's going to be happen next? Which path gonna get an update? This one or the other? I suspect that this situation will make the already slow progression even slower due to complications.

 

[Dracis3D]

And why not embed the "university path" to this one so we play from start to finish?

Only an English lifepath has been written, you pick another nationality and your character will be growing up in England! Then Crush got as far as year 2 at Uni. 'Kate' is at least 24 for the Bangkok mission so the Lifepath will miss 4.5 years of her adult life (most of it). The current English lifepath is half complete. While a US, NZ, Aus or Can Lifepath can borrow stuff, they will all need bespoke customisation. What Crush does for the Lifepath makes a huge difference on when the game is completed, noting the Lifepath half built was a good 7 months work.

 

[asdfasdf12341234ACSACA]

I'd agree for the most part, but there is (ironically, given the game's name) a distinct lack of agency. There is little player input into how any scene, and particularly the sex scenes play out. I know one of the themes of the game is the agent not being completely in control of the situations she finds herself in, but a few more chances to influence the sex scenes wouldn't hurt.

I think that's an understatement. Not only are choices meaningless (only giving, at best, one sentence of flavour text). You can't really choose how your character reacts to...most things. During that date with the boss, there's at least three times where you have to read something like "This awful dress is awful and you hate it". Not even a choice (whether direct choice or based on character creation) to have the character enjoy that part. Or have the character enjoy that aspect, but hate the sex that comes afterwards.

Really, this is just a VN, not a game. Nothing wrong with that though.

 

[porry98]

was the thread updated?

 

[richarddlopatin]

Honestly, this update just got my hopes up. If they keep writing linear GGGB-like story till the very end it'll be amazing. I like free-roam but honestly it feels like this game is doing fine with linear. So hot. Let's hope they keep moving forwards and not laterally from now on.

 

[luccia87]

Well ... I have to say that I liked it. The atmosphere created is good and the possibilities of choice fair with some variables. It is missing more possibility of choices in sexual moments or even the possibility of getting into sexual trouble if you force the engine.
I wish that the dreams of the protagonist of lapdance and the VIP room could be real and that they are described in depth, both very hot situations.
As a suggestion, I would put the protagonist in a chapter to surpass the HardCock show with a fuckmachine type performance that I attended in a club in Barcelona and that has been the most daring and erotic I have seen live, better than boy / girl or girl / girl. Girl Vs Machine and the girl leaving the machine like shit.

Anyway I liked it. Too bad I have completely lost confidence in Chrustation. On the contrary, I would consider supporting him.

But everything has redemption.

 

[hallsigns]

Only an English lifepath has been written, you pick another nationality and your character will be growing up in England! Then Crush got as far as year 2 at Uni. 'Kate' is at least 24 for the Bangkok mission so the Lifepath will miss 4.5 years of her adult life (most of it). The current English lifepath is half complete. While a US, NZ, Aus or Can Lifepath can borrow stuff, they will all need bespoke customisation. What Crush does for the Lifepath makes a huge difference on when the game is completed, noting the Lifepath half built was a good 7 months work.

At one point there was story written for all of university for England, Australia, and America into adulthood and the mission start. It was all taken out...

 

[Deleted member 3064965]

I agree that this was a good update. It took a while, as usual, but it was the biggest update I can remember. That deserves some credit.

The description of the Hard Cock Café and the whole shift there really impressed me as well–Crush writes to the senses, as Joe Steel said. There's so many details that together create the whole atmosphere: the one-way mirror and the cameras broadcasting to the VIP room, how the bargirls "disappear" and re-enter throughout the night, the drops that hit her body when she taps beer, how the costumers get gradually more bold as the night passes… and so on and so on.

While it was surprising that her boss joined her at the hostel instead of some fancy hotel room, it was a nice touch to entangle Kate's work life and her "safe zone" away from the café. It's going to be interesting to see if she manages to keep some distance between those two spheres and create some kind of healthy, normal social life… Or if she'll just end up as the topless bartender to her backpacker friends as well.

It would've been nice with some more meaningful choices, though. Maybe it will be introduced once the whole setting is further established. My only playthrough was with all kinks and mostly chosing the most daring alternatives, so I don't know how much different things play out with a more reserved Kate, but I found some of her reactions a bit over the top. Obviously it's necessary that Kate is turned on by some aspects of her undercover role, but to me some of the "I'd never been as turned on in my whole life" kind of formulations were a bit too much this soon. But that's only minor details in what was all in all a very promising update.

 

[rbx4]

If the new vision is to make a simple visual novel with no branching choices, I'm only intrigued if it actually leads to an increased rate of content creation. If we have to wait another 4 years for the next scene, then I will not change my tune.

As it stands, there are mainly two types of content creators out there: those who regularly output product updates, and those who go for months or years at a time. Out of the latter type, I noticed that they all posted something in November to early December, no doubt trying to get extra subscribers for Christmas spending.

 

[fafar]

With the development of the game in Bangkok, it became clear that the author's visual novel is better than an RPG. But the credibility of the author has already been lost. Even this version they are going to finish for two weeks (during the holidays). It won't surprise me if the next "major" update comes out in 3-4 months.

 

[Riven]

It's kinda impressive how after all this time, Crush still fails to deliver basic game features. The amount you earn during your first shift never changes. Why? It's a part of a text. There is no variable for tracking your money.

Same goes for your relationships with NPCs. All the "x liked/disliked" messages are purely cosmetic.

Your kinks also hardly ever influence the situation. Why can't my exhibitionist agent sell her panties? Why doesn't she enjoy the spanks she gets while getting back behind the bar if she's a submissive masochist?

On the plus side, the writing was great.

 

[Blockout]

I mean sure we are in Bangkok but maaaan the entire origin story is gone which gave you some control how your character came to be.
And the sex scenes used to be pretty great, again because of the control you had.
Now it's just "get fucked".

Might as well make a clickable story at that point.

 

[LHS441025]

Does anyone know how to choose the first option?

 

[Gufflsupp]

I really have to say I'm impressed by the depth of writing in v1.14.
I was very disappointed by the recent updates as it seemed Crushstation was only baiting us by telling there would be the next ultraubersuperduper update with loads of content soon.

This time he kept to what was already done and instead delivered some content.

Of course there are still a lot of things to fix for 1.14 and there could be more choices, but the way crush wrote the story really lets you emerge into the described situation.

 

[vicaddict]

I haven't played it yet, but I think his problem was never really the writing or even continuation of certain storylines or content, it was just the overall trajectory that didn't exist. It was all over the place. Yes, I still believe that stats and skills should have an impact, if you included them in the first place, but if he actually strings together different updates, then I am kind of okay with the speed of things.

That being said I think it might be better to stop the story part at this point, so that he can implement the lifepath and find a use for the mechanics. After all, I am not sure how you can go forward with a game, without having a plan for different kinks and stuff. The more you write now, the harder it gets to put everything together.

So find a use for the skills and stuff and get it in or get rid of it, so you no longer have to wste time on coding it.

btw didn't they make a change at some point during this year so that they could allow other authors to write parts of the story? Did that ever happen?

 

[Arkady]

btw didn't they make a change at some point during this year so that they could allow other authors to write parts of the story? Did that ever happen?

Gods I hope not. Any attempt at a third-party contribution would just give Crush an excuse to edit the not-hot-enough writing for months and again avoid putting any actual work into finally getiting to the long-promised game part of the linear interactive novel.

 

[Nintendoboy80]

It truly is baffling that people are still paying this much every month for a game that has basically not evolved at all in three years. If any half-decent developer out there wanted to make some EZ cash, they'd take the same premise and make another game. They'd clearly make a killing.