I genuinely enjoyed the love route story, but...
I think chapter 2's love route was much more interesting and engrossing.
Sort of late with jumping in the discussion, but for chapter 2, my biggest point of contention is that I felt Toph was under utilized and couldn't be impregnated. Seeing how much more she was used in chapter 3, that gets made up for some, but... not only would impregnating her then violate continuity (and thus, it doesn't happen), but there is never an option to be in love with her/make her be in love with you, which is a shame.
Chapter 3, I have more issues with.
For one, Iroh. I don't oppose him being a dirty old man, and utter letch, but I feel he was either an afterthought, or something there were plans for that never really materialized. There was room for a lot of laughter, and story. Iroh was very spiritual in TLA, and could see spirits on several occasions. Also, he obviously would know who Aang was, so when the MC, in Aang's body, recognized him as Iroh, there was room to make that a story aspect.
Two is the other girls.
Ajala, Suki, Jin, and June, in particular.
Suki and June, there is no option to totally remove their brain washing. Also, their story seems to just.... stop. There is nothing else, and the way and suddenness their plot points stop leave them very unsatisfying. Suki in particular I wanted to be involved in the Toph story (being aware of it all and OK with it. Maybe even a threesome scene, or foursome if Katara is included). I wanted a love confession, and a pregnancy option.
June, love and pregnancy were both unlikely, but SOMETHING ELSE could have happened.
Ajala was played up a lot, then the love thing happens.... and then that's done. No way to talk to her and work things out after saving Toph. No pregnancy (look, for OC, she was great, and would have enjoyed seeing her knocked up). I mean, she went from enemy, to enemy with benefits, to loving you, to no longer being your enemy. Arguably she has the most complete arc of any supporting character, but I still feel more could have been done.
Jin was.... well, why was she there, again? Almost zero plot, no character growth. No option to make her really fall in love with you, no option to knock her up, and no option to even help her find someone and be happy. She's there, she's a nympho, eventually you cure conditioning, she's still a nympho. Fun scenes, no doubt, but, like Iroh, she feels either like an afterthought, or something there were plans for, that were dropped.
Crab battles in part 3 seemed to have no purpose. Neither did Katara's go-fish game, for that matter. A big deal? Not in the slightest, but I feel like including them could either have given little unlockables (story dialog, either at that moment or some time later), or... something.
Considering space available, I was hoping when this chapter was new that there'd be more building options, which could mean more characters, scenes, or plot things. Same with upgrades. Again, this is a minor issue, but one nonetheless.
A journal to keep track of quests would be nice, but is supremely minor.
I seem like I'm nitpicking and bitching a lot, but my counter argument to that might be: the fact that I have played to this point and am raising issues and person desires as well as points of disappointment should both show that I actually rather invested in the game. The art, the concept, the over-all plot, the writing in general, and a feeling of it.... doing a fairly decent job of representing a fictional world I enjoy, in a twisted and deviant way, but in a way that also does not, inherently, feel wrong.
My biggest hope is that, ultimately, there is a chapter 5 and 6, that we don't even see coming, yet.
Chapter 5 being the resolution of the plot, for the most part, once we've mastered all 4 elements, and chapter 6 being a (hopefully not short) reward chapter (the mechanism for that I'm still uncertain of. You can truly control your movement to places in time, once it all ends, so we get an epilogue with each character? Some sort of situation where the MC gets a body in the past, just after the endpoint of chapter 2 (so TLA story is mostly done), and can claim the women all for himself, for real, while answering all their questions (plot points could resolve on jealousies, resolving disputes, etc) and he can have all his women?
I donno. All I know is, as saves are chapter-contained and it seems choices in chapters do not effect other chapters, my suggestion (should my "oh god, I hope he plans this!" 6 chapter thing happen) is a rundown for each chapter. What route did you take, what major choices did you make, and who got pregnant. And chapter 6 ties up the story that way (probably with a lot of explaining to do for mixtures of love and slave routes!)
There are, or were, essentially 5 games I am truly following.
Orange Trainer, The Last Sovereign, Milfy City, Rogue-like, and this game.
TLS is, I hope, less than a third done. That means a lot more content, but a long time to wait.
OT, to me, felt rushed to an unsatisfactory conclusion, where story was wrapped up, other content, etc was scrapped, and we get what we get. And while I loved parts of it, it was disappointing how it petered out.
Rogue-like is.... flimsy. And it could take it another 10 months to feel complete enough to see where it's actually going.
Milfy is just for Sara (fight me, mom fans). Certainly not for gameplay!
That leaves this game.
We have actually well thought out story. We have character development. We have gameplay. We have things, more or less, not being rushed and feeling mostly complete. While I complain about some things seeming like afterthoughts or missed chances, and like chapters are, after a point, rushed to completion, I still feel safe saying that this project won't pull and Orange Trainer on us. That said, I would replay old chapters again if the choice was made to flesh out content.
The writing, despite it being a porn games, takes itself a lot more seriously than it appears to, at first blush. This is refreshing. I don't play many of these games because their plots, to be very blunt, fucking suck, and their writing is even worse. While certainly not broaching TLS when it comes to complex story telling, it is also obvious that isn't what is being shot for. But when you've played a lot of porn parodies, you learn to see that some creators actually love and respect what they're making their games based off of, and that shines through here.
And unlike milfy-city, you actually have game play going for you!
So, this is my long and utterly unasked for feedback up to this point. I've had fun, and I look forward to putting this game on an extended hiatus until enough of the love build for chapter 4 is out that I feel like I can get a solid feel for it.
I'm thrilled your patreon is doing so well, and that you're able to rely on the fans you've made, from projects like this, to support you so far.
