- May 8, 2017
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So, I finally finished whole game from start to finish. It took me a few days since my old saves weren't working - which is fine as they were like year old and game got quite a lot of improvements in terms of UI. I enjoyed story for what it is and found dynamics and characters to be interesting enough. Game got pretty complex at this point and it's clear that some mechanics are prepared for future, more sandboxish gameplay (like farming and skills). Since game is divided into male/female parts and corruption for both genders usually works differently and has different pacing, it gives a feel that something is slightly off. Imo corruption pacing for Philip would feel more natural if it was faster (jumping thru some progression points) giving him more valuable scenes but also less amount of them, so princess progression can go slower with more scenes. Aside from that, game has a lot of meaningful choices and stats but is too slow for a player to realistically check them all out. Some start points could solve that (start at the begining of each chapter and pick choices that were made). Game is already pretty long so I'd make quite a few of them so in a future I won't have to start from scratch if I want slutty Philip or whatever. My other small issue is that main guys are a bit too perfect for my taste. Aside from Bernard (old clothing store merchant) and maybe this new beggar guy they are all slightly too good (which makes corruption less enjoyable for me personally). I root for them as a perfect model-like guys don't really need to corrupt anyone to get some and don't contrast as much with princess as these two. Princess was expecting some old, fat, sleazeball as her potential husband but no such guy appeared in game at all. Last thing - Luis is written to be 35 years old - he looks, sounds and is talked about as if he was at least 40 something like princess' father. Small thing but bugged me. Still, game is pretty great, will take a lot of time to develop it to its full potential but is definitely worth observing and supporting.
