Alrighty, finished the game recently. No epilogues done just yet, but I've been writing out my thoughts over the past few days, slowly chipping away at this "review", if you can call it that (Still not sure if I should post this in the "Reviews" section or here in the comments). This might be a little bit of a long read!
Let me begin by thanking Insomnimaniac Games properly for helping me out with my problems with the game earlier and apologizing on behalf of my shitty old PC for being annoying and causing trouble.
Now onto thanking you for making such a fantastic game! From the puns, references and fourth wall breaking to the combat, story and characters, and not forgetting that this is a porn game, everything's been done so well! Animations are pretty fucking good! Music choices in general for the different areas and environments, and especially for certain key moments in the story or sidequests (and the seggs bits) were also great picks!
The following will be a list of my personal pros and cons about the game. (Highly ignorable
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Pros:
- Has an adorable dog you can pet!
- You can also adopt and pet a cute little fucking cat!! (In a cat vs. dog war, I will always support cats and I am prepared to die on this hill.)
- You can pet both cat and dog at the same time!!! (They were bound to be friends, there is no war necessary.)
- You can give headpats to your wife!!!! (Objectively the greatest game mechanic.)
- Given that we play as a Demi-Goddess, I was very happy to see the inclusion of very powerful skills that made you feel overpowered and capable of outright crushing random mobs in one move, and sometimes even boss monsters.
- Everything was explained well enough, lore-wise. Like Alicia's predicament with the white hair, or her 'equipment', or the mana infusion and longevity in lifespan etc.
- Loved the humor in the game. It's just my kind of memes and references, and I for one loved the Dev interactions! Most NPC interactions were also fun to read!
- Iris Port. That's it. Just loved the place. Best NPC dialogues.
Ending spoiler ahead!
Cons: (Will offer potential workarounds in parentheses, just my thoughts really and nothing I'm requesting you MUST do.)
- Skills. A lot of skills don't see any use whatsoever, surprisingly even elemental ones to exploit weaknesses and such, since pretty much everything can be whacked to death sooner or later with physical attacks.
- Skill slots. There's a very limited choice on the skills you can equip and use in battle due to skill slot limit. (Maybe separate active skills and passive skills? Dedicated skill slots for each category? Allows more room to equip active skills and diversify your combat prowess. Just more skill slots? Like buy 1 or 2 more skill slots from some one-time only specialty shop)
- Money/gold. There is very little use for it in my opinion. (Maybe add in some weapon crafting/enhancement? Or better yet, with Selene being a sex worker, making payments to her to "unlock" sex scenes, in different poses or with potential different partners? Hallucinogenic or Dream-inducing potions it the item shop? 'Alternate Evil Alicia in place of Tenebitch, and she wins and bones Tenebris... only to later regain her senses/wake up and realize it wasn't reality'.)
- Some enemy mobs near the endgame are very damage sponge-y, even with my over-leveled girls. (Maybe balance them out a little better?)
- The fourth wall breaking and Dev interactions started dying down around chapter 10-ish. Very sad times. I was expecting a special Dev sprite around the end, before sending off Alicia for the final battle, just for banter, shits and giggles.
- Not enough Piss Lady lore! My biggest gripe with the game honestly! Just how much can she piss..?
Off the pros/cons list now, and just commenting generally.
I would report some typos I saw near endgame, but I didn't make note of where they were in the game, so I'm sorry I can't list those. Instead I've something else to report to you, for you to fix if you want. It's after meeting up with Kollan and getting the quest to fetch the core for the arena construction. Out of curiosity only, I went back into Krystalia's realm again using Alicia alone because I wanted to see if Kollan got a room for herself, like Lala's, in there. But instead I found myself in the dialogue with Kollan where she ends up giving Alicia the pair of Earth Crests. Once out of the dialogue, and out of Krystalia's realm, if you re-enter, the dialogue loops again, and you get another pair of Earth Crests. I did this several times, without a change in results. Had and extra 8 of those before I quit and later proceeded on with the quest. Dunno if it'll happen with Lily in tow, didn't check that
No bugs or glitches to speak of other than that.
Headpats & Handholding is now in my top 3 RPGM games! Sitting alongside "Monster Girl 1000" (Another great NSFW game with similar humor. It has great story, combat and equipment mechanics! And tons of monster girls~) and "Notes From Province" (SFW title, just with so, SO much fun content. 40 hours worth for an explorative player like myself). Would highly encourage everyone to play both!
But anyway, I'm getting off-topic.
Thank you for the wonderful 20+ hours worth of stuff to do! I grinded A LOT of levels, don't judge me.. Can't wait to see what you're cooking up next! With your next project, or the epilogues for H&H! I'm especially anticipating fighting in the secret underground arena! Will probably join the discord to keep myself updated.
If you read everything I had to say, from the beginning up until the end, I thank you very much for your time! Have a good day!