@dev The latest reviews talk about how the medical stuff is too hard in relation to the sexual content. Are there plans to make the sex vs medical content ratio better for people who are mainly interested in the girls and the sex or will this always be a medical simulator primarily with some sexiness?
Thank you for this question, as it gives me the chance to actually talk about this and even ask you (not you personally) something.
I'm quite amused as svscomics and other websites refer to General Practitioner as a "porn game", when I never intended it to be like that. That can be proven also by this message I exchanged with an user on Indiedb who a year ago said:
"What is this porn bullshit doing on this site"
to which I replied:
"Actually this is not porn at all. It's an adult-oriented visual novel with sex scenes that are entirely skippable if not liked. The main goal of the game is an accurate medical simulation of a doctor's daily life and work routine. Try it out, you may be surprised."
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I also said on numerous occasions even on Steam that the game is a Medical Simulation Visual Novel with Adult elements (namely sexual interactions and a dating sim), even here:
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I always mentioned games like "Emergency Room" from Legacy Games to have inspired this game's development (
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That said, I also listened to players' feedback and introduced a lot of help about medical situations. You can also activate a switch in the settings to have half the wrong choices disappear (like in "Who wants to be a Billionaire?"), and the Codex is being rewritten completely to help players understand medical exams.
Plus, completing medical exams 100% or 0% doesn't influence the story, which is where sex scenes are played (even a few animated ones, as listening to other feedback from the players), so you can completely avoid going to the clinic and still experience the game's stories and relationships (well, maybe not Erika's but oh well, she's a nurse after all).
I also said I don't want a game who plays by itself as this is a videogame and I'd like players to play it with some effort. If you (not you personally) wish to see all x-rated images skipping all the content be my guest: I shall zip them and send them to you
On Patreon, but even on this site, the term "Visual Novel" is used even when games have nothing to do with Visual Novels (lots of grinding, very few stories and rushed relationships in so many of them). GP is a Visual Novel, it has about 40+ hours of gameplay as of now and it's growing. Of course players' feedback is not only suggested, it's NEEDED, but it's taken into consideration when it's aimed to improve the game as it is, not to ask for a game which General Practitioner was never meant to be.
People mainly interested in sex and girls will find some fun in General Practitioner, but this is NOT a porn game where you play sex scenes every few minutes, and
the game never "lost itself" because it always followed this way. There is sex, there is incest (albeit in a VERY different way as it's usually depicted on most games i.e. "FUCK ME BRO, FUCK ME LIKE A BITCH"), there are threesomes, a bit of cuckoldry and voyeurism, but it's inside a bigger box.
The fact of the game being on porn pirate websites and addressed as "porn" game is not a fault of the game, it is the websites'.
This is an "Adult videogame", which is something very different and doesn't necessarily means sexual-related (even if GP has got sexual content).
I'm at everybody's disposal for other questions.