OK, finished it finally. I should say that my mood was really ruined. Seriously. And the problem here is not that "this update feels like rushed", but that story is rushed itself. I feel that i missed a lot of contect. During gameplay i was forced to choose,
V.A. Laurie you probably dont remember, but around a year ago i was discussing with you that you dont give the player to see every option, like it was with the first Melody sex in cafe, you had only one option of multiple choices, like having an anal scene OR to have casual sex. It was forced on us. There was no problem in allowing player to see all scenes, but you and FFcreations intentionally forbade it.
Same goes for other girls scenes. You are FORCED to expirience only one scene of seperate options. Like the time where you can have threesome or have lovey-dovey sex with Alice. Or romantic night with Leah. First time with Karina. Seriously, you know that when MC was thinking about harem route, if i had not played every option that update, this would be the first time that i saw Karina naked(!). Again, we are FORCED to miss a lot of content. And why is that? Because of timeskips.
Seriously, the first time half a year timeskip was a disaster. But guess what, it was not even close to this "much much time later".
Just to make it clear, if you choose threesome, Alice would confess to you that she LOVES you during a quicky blowjob. How dumb is that? After couple of month from the day of threesome. You see, during those month there should be plenty of options, but it was never shown to player, and from what i feel, its like whose skipped days never existed.
Again, if you choose harem route, but made Alice and Melody your girlfriend, the first time player actually see Karina naked, is right before the end. And first time he has some sex scene with her. Is the fucking end of the game. More than that, there is possibility that the player might not see it at all. We're not considering here that it would take at least six month to actually finish the development of the game, we're consiering here that for the player who plays this game from the start till the end in one go, this is actually the end of the game.
And he missed a lot of things. Like first sex with Karina. For the player "multiple endings" does not mean that for them the game became non linear. The multiple choises is ment that for different players, THEIR LINEAR GAME would differ.
And its just nonsence that the player that played whole game and have harem ending, JUST DONT GET IT FROM WHERE THAT HAREM ENDING EVEN APPEARED. For him Leah would NOT confess to MC that she loves him, he would not see first sex of Karina and MC, or how Aunt even occured there.
There was no problem to show those scenes INBETWEEN those timeskips, like threesome with Leah if MC choose to have only Alice that night, or night with Karina. Hey, i dont even know now what was the point in all that mistery shit with Susan, cause in the end it was meaningless.
This ending is too rushed, moreover your "non-linear" way of development made it more problematic. You made problems not only for player, but for you as well. What if i want harem ending, but one girl exclude from it? For example Karina? Or Karina and Leah. What if i want only Alice and Melody ending? Or Leah and Karina, like i have two sisters sex fetish? Why not?
This non-linear feels this game even more tattered. And what if i dont have enought points for karina as i dont like her? Because of her i would loose two girls? Thats just idiotic you know it, right?
Its for you "at least six more month of development" but for most of the players, if next update would be harem route, THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THE GAME. If it would be Alice ending, that would mean the ending of the game for the other 90 percent of players who dont want harem ending. Again, next update is the end, no matter how you look at it.
In other games, when there is a choise to kill or not to kill, you cant choose both and expect that player would feel it as double of the content, same goes for the ending. IT IS THE END OF THE GAME.
I know, there is not a lot of patreon donation, and the game is in development for almost 3 years, you were also mentioning that "patreons would not appreciate that it took so much time...". I say its a bullshit. I'm a patreon and donating 5$, and been donating for a year now and have no problem with donating for a year or two more. 5 dollars for you it might be a joke, Sweden and US right? But i should say that in Ukraine minimal sallary is around 175 dollars and average is around 350. Yes, my income is thrice more that average, and i dont have problems with keeping with donation, i'm just saying it to show you that for people from post-Soviet countries donating and not pirating a game, when you actually can do it, or not paying and just wait 5 more days MEANS A LOT.
Sure i can donate you a little more, like 10$ a month, and i will if that would mean that this game would keep updating, sure it will probably cancel some of my other donation, as again, i'm not living in a country where you earn 10 dollars per hour as a mere waiter. But i'm ok with it, as i like this game a lot. You can check my profile, this is the only thread in which i'm active. And i'm sure most of your patreons would say the same. We don't want it to end.
But this last update... Its too rushed, with all this timeskips and everything. We have news that parents returned to city, than everyone is moving out of the house and... timeskip, where parents divorced and you can legally be with your "not so step sister already". A lot of content was just not shown to you as a player. And if next update is harem route or Alice, again, for most of the players it would mean GAME OVER. As no more content for them, just for other players.
Yeah, i liked this game a lot, and i can understand that you're tired of it. But its just sad that the story of MC, Alice, Melody and other girls would end just like this.
