I agree, and if Runey were to flesh out more male NPC's, I'm sure he'd get even more complaints that it's distracting from the gist of the game. There are enough trees in this forest, but nobody minds a few more beavers!
I should probably clarify that I don't want more dudes in game, I'd actually kinda think it was neat if there was actually a demographic imbalance, it'd also explain why every girl is so desperate for the cock.
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback and criticism.
I can definitely understand. Did you take into account that you could skip most of Kali's history lesson at uni? (meaning, would it still be too much lore for you even if you skipped that part?)
She was using a virtual dress up mirror, that's what Juliet called it. It's future tech. Kali can't change her hair like magic haha
Android was absolutely being reckless here, and MC sorta went along because he got to see some titties, until Kali gets his mind out of the gutter, I felt like that was in line for MC. But you're right, MC needs to be more aggressive going forward when it comes to taming Android. That seems like the next logical step to me. I wanted to show off her going a little crazy with her newfound power, and I think I achieved that. Now MC needs to make her understand "with great power, comes great responsibility" right?
Yeah, I just don't really care to include other dudes. I mean, what's better than a bro with tits and a pussy, right? Why give 'em a dick?I agree, and if Runey were to flesh out more male NPC's, I'm sure he'd get even more complaints that it's distracting from the gist of the game. There are enough trees in this forest, but nobody minds a few more beavers!
There's a scene from the old show "Friends" where the group is gathered around the character Ross's new baby and they talk, but look into the camera as if fascinated by the kid. It's what I thought of when I saw this event.
I'v never seen friends, or not much of it. but when i'm with friends and one of us is talking(even if its about an art piece or other.) we usually at least show we're paying attention in some way.
Perhaps, I can see looking at the thing we are all talking about too though, to show you are interested in the piece.
Did I wait too long? Kept getting interrupted in the mornings and I can't seem to find her... XD
Just like you said Runey set the bar so high with this game that we all have very high expectation with it. Runey added atleast 2-3 events per character in the last update (v0.10). Now after months waiting when I returned to this game, It seriously felt like a loose update. Yeah storywise it developed well in this update but content wise definitely not. I mean the events basically finished so fast that I wrapped everything up in just half an hour or something. There's no memorable scenes that I can say about this update except Lucy one (That scene was damn hot ngl).I'm actually kind of surprised to see a comment saying this... I actually remember I left a comment here back in January/February, right after v0.10 dropped where I basically questioned the amount of content in the update, because it felt like a pretty small update (with the exception of the first half of Lin's adventure to Elf-land) and I was pretty disappointed by that.
I've only now got around to trying v0.11 in the last few days and it feels like there's at least a few solid hours of content. Every girl has at least a few "story" interactions and quite a few of them feel very major, so I'd say it feels like a pretty substantial update.
One also needs to be a bit understanding of any issues caused by COVID, so if it somehow seems like a smaller update to anyone else (which, again, I'd dispute), remember to keep that in mind.
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I also wanted to give a few overall thoughts on the update (I did a review on here ages back so at some point will need to update that as well, I suspect...) so I hope you'll all forgive the forthcoming word-vomit (I just love the sound of my own opinions I guess?
Basically, I seriously enjoyed it. As always, Kali is best girl (fite me), and I fucking love a lot of the kinks Runey uses. I also like that a bunch of the side-girls got wee snippets of content as well. Although I will say that given how many different girls there at this point I am beginning to think a clue/hint system might not go amiss. For example, I had a point with Autumn saying for me to join her in the shower and I have ABSOLUTELY no idea when that happens... And she's one of the main girls, not even a side one.
Also, just gonna call it now (assuming it's not already been announced) but protest girl from Kali's Uni is gonna be the last girl introduced to the hotel. She stands out way too much to be relegated as a background character. Although I guess Runey did do that with goth shop-girl... Either way though, I'd put money on this.
For the first time I'm starting to have a couple of minor complaints though. It's happened before to a minor degree, but as of this update I'm starting to feel a tiny bit exhausted with some of the "lore" aspects. It seemed like this particular episode had SO much exposition just dumped on you, which isn't ideal I think.
Edit: I actually also just saw the recent review by HogRocket and honestly, I think I 100% agree. I love Harem Hotel for being basically the ultimate fantasy in BDSM harem porn... But it really does feel like the sheer level of political/lore-focused content right now is just a bit over-the-top and kind of ruins the "fun" a bit. I feel like it could benefit from being spread out a bit during updates, but that is just me.
I also fucked myself a tiny bit by having to spend the $4000 at one point, coinciding with Autumn's anger with you. So now I'm $2000 in debt and need to skip forward basically 2 weeks so I can actually proceed with her again. Which is a bit... Frustrating...
On a technical note, I'm beginning to see a LOT of minor inconsistencies in terms of clothes for the models. Individually it's not a huge deal, but it happens so regularly that I can't imagine how long it'd take to fix all of them (I could list the ones I remember if it helps). For example, off the top of my head, one very egregious example is that during the "Kali get's a haircut" scene, her appearance changes in the mirror but NOT the actual model. Which was a bit weird.
Lastly, I may have mentioned this before but I'm kind of getting a bit pissed off with the main character and how he acts with Edi. I realise for the most part he's not supposed to have a very strong personality so that we can self-insert... However, the scene with Edi showing off tonnes of other women's nudes and then showing off, scaring others and then basically blowing up and threatening others when they reacted poorly. That whole thing frustrated me. It feels like the protag needs to take a MUCH harder stance here and have the option to tell Edi to tone it down. He keeps just letting her do stupid things and then being all "Oh you just have a lot to learn". Like, fuck that. No? You have to be the one to teach her!
Maybe there's plans for this down the line, but I seriously fucking hope that you get the opportunity to actually get her in line a bit. I realise that might be odd for a basically omnipotent AI, but at this rate she's one tantrum away from just zapping people dead. And that's not fun!
Overall though, it has to be said, fucking props to Runey. Amazing as always and it's just never enough for me...
Do you have the Truestory in there? If so, did you have sex with her on the beach, way back when?
Indeed, even taking that into account, it seemed like there was a lot of much longer, exposition-heavy scenes than have been present until now. For example, the museum bit directly following on from elf-land and then also there were a few other scenes with a lot of individual back-story for the different girls. It was basically just quite a lot...
Oh... That must have completely went over my head. Fair enough!
That does make sense and honestly I figured it was the direction the story was going. It's probably just a bit frustrating because you have that whole scene, plus the scene at Kali's dad's party back-to-back, and so at this point I was starting to think she was basically getting a bit out-of-control!Android was absolutely being reckless here, and MC sorta went along because he got to see some titties, until Kali gets his mind out of the gutter, I felt like that was in line for MC. But you're right, MC needs to be more aggressive going forward when it comes to taming Android. That seems like the next logical step to me. I wanted to show off her going a little crazy with her newfound power, and I think I achieved that. Now MC needs to make her understand "with great power, comes great responsibility" right?
I figured it was unlikely you hadn't, but you have to check all the PEBCAC possibilities.
