Alright. Thoughts: As I was afraid, the story and amount of dialog is what I would call bloated. Maybe a platformer wasn't the best way to tell this story because every room it's WORDS WORDS WORDS. I was not engaged in the slightest with the story and I'd say the writing falls short where it would matter most in this sort of game: the H scenes. They aren't erotic or tantalizing in the slightest, they try to be aloof and funny, and they just aren't, so it fails on two fronts. Irony? Considering they're written by a guy whose name would suggest he might be good at this, but HentaiWriter is seemingly the worst at writing actual HENTAI.
I gave it an honest shot and I tried to give the story an honest chance but it's front and center and I just don't fucking care. Maybe a game like Lilith's Throne would have been a more interesting way to present the story because it really seems apparent that HW simply wanted a vehicle to tell his story he's obviously been kicking around since high school.
As for everything else, I get it's the first level so options haven't opened up yet but the power ups don't make the game play anymore interesting as I really only feel a handful of them (1 or 2) are truly worth the trouble to find. The images for gameover scenes are jarringly low res when in full screen but the animations that I saw in this level 5 years ago are still nice. However, given the dev time, I still feel like there could have been a few more added in because if you're in it for the H, you've seen it all already. But what do I know, I'm an entitled pirate, how dare I ask for more.
One complaint, if you go back to a drain pipe you opened and you get too close like if you jump up on the platform or take a wrong turn looking for a data bank you missed, you will automatically get locked into being sent back to the Hub. Just let the player jump in if they want or something.
I've done my fair share of shitting on this game and it's because I once had high hopes for it. My takeaway is playing the final product is going to feel like a slog because I've already found myself saying "Oh my god I don't care". I do not feel like I should look forward to the final product. All the databanks and cutscenes did not improve the experience of playing the complete level, and the moral categorization of choices feels tacked on despite it being well planned in advance given the myriad of endings purported to be at launch. File under asking for a full save a day after launch.
If you read all this, congrats on wasting your time reading what I wasted my time writing.
