We thought the game had been abandoned but the dev came back with v0.10 and is posting updates regularly about his progress, but now this great mod has been abandoned 
Mod Ren'Py Heart Problems [Xenorav] [English] Dialogue Re-Write ver. 0.40 (CH1 to 4) Now Including integrated Walkthrough guide & Chapter Select features!
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So, I've played this version a bit till CH2.
So my review is, the MC is a bit too talkative compared to being straight to the point, like the main game. The main game writing makes you think and try to understand the situation more compared to this version. This version is nice, hiding the "ntr kind of things" makes the MC is center of the universe. The problem for me is that the talkative part of the MC hides the thought process of the player, for example, what happens is like the MC guiding the player of what the MC thought, not the other way around.
As a player, we tend to think and make a choice in a situation that we try to deduce what the best choice and outcome is. The writing of the MC side of things is like showing everything that the player needs to try to think for themself. ykwim
It's ends up feels stale and repetitive with the talkative that this version is bring to the players.
What I wish to see is to make the MC calmer in its dialog and a bit mysterious, what I mean is short answers in its dialog, and a bit hiding its thought, will make the situation less hectic and encourage the player themselves to deduce the situation that they're in, not through the "MC self dialog and thinking".
Imo Visual Novel like this is like a puzzle game that the MC tries to think, but the player is the one thinking. I've seen Indiana Jones thinking, and the voice is yapping about the solution of the puzzle is a turnoff of gameplay. The same with VN, if the MC and the surrounding cast try to guide the player too much, it ends up being stale, boring, and feels like padding at the same time for longer gameplay. I've played Milficious recently, and I dropped it because it's too much of this problem.
I hope this "review" gives an idea. I can feel the passion in this style of writing of the "writer," but it can be too much, and I want to be the one who plays and thinks about the game, not being told by the writer. ykwim
So my review is, the MC is a bit too talkative compared to being straight to the point, like the main game. The main game writing makes you think and try to understand the situation more compared to this version. This version is nice, hiding the "ntr kind of things" makes the MC is center of the universe. The problem for me is that the talkative part of the MC hides the thought process of the player, for example, what happens is like the MC guiding the player of what the MC thought, not the other way around.
As a player, we tend to think and make a choice in a situation that we try to deduce what the best choice and outcome is. The writing of the MC side of things is like showing everything that the player needs to try to think for themself. ykwim
It's ends up feels stale and repetitive with the talkative that this version is bring to the players.
What I wish to see is to make the MC calmer in its dialog and a bit mysterious, what I mean is short answers in its dialog, and a bit hiding its thought, will make the situation less hectic and encourage the player themselves to deduce the situation that they're in, not through the "MC self dialog and thinking".
Imo Visual Novel like this is like a puzzle game that the MC tries to think, but the player is the one thinking. I've seen Indiana Jones thinking, and the voice is yapping about the solution of the puzzle is a turnoff of gameplay. The same with VN, if the MC and the surrounding cast try to guide the player too much, it ends up being stale, boring, and feels like padding at the same time for longer gameplay. I've played Milficious recently, and I dropped it because it's too much of this problem.
I hope this "review" gives an idea. I can feel the passion in this style of writing of the "writer," but it can be too much, and I want to be the one who plays and thinks about the game, not being told by the writer. ykwim
