Overall your game has a lot of potential. The art is through the roof fantastic and definitely the strongest point for the game. The English translation you've done is pretty strong, definitely way better than a machine translation but not perfect. You may want to consider searching for someone just to proofread your own writing. Some small things like King's Wolf not being capitalized and some strange word choices do stand out, but only a bit. Again, miles beyond what an MTL would provide. Music is good but maybe feels a little out of place in the town, but that is just a minor criticism. The sex scenes while drawn fantastically well are written poorly. They are basically just a series of character grunts and then an orgasm. There's no build up and no expression from the participants. How Helen is feeling during these moments is important: is she getting into what's happening or does she just hate it? I know this is just a demo but as you develop more I also recommend having a degree of corruption as a game mechanic: Helen out the gate should not be sucking dick and being chill with it unless you want to write her as a slutty character, which if you do just make sure that is clear to the player.
My specific thoughts:
I would definitely change the names of all the Lord of the Rings references in the game and ground yourself a bit more. The main city being Mirkwood and a statue of Galadriel being in the game doesn't feel subtle and makes the setting come off as uncreative. Definitely work on the text present in sex scenes: let us know what the character is thinking and feeling. Add some degree of sliding scale for the content: as the player progresses in the game, Helen gets into more extreme sexual encounters and maybe starts to seek them out herself. I highly recommend a corruption theme as it allows your game to be drawn out and allows a story to be told versus players seeking out one sex scene after another knowing that Helen will get on all fours and bang whatever she comes across. Add tags on the page here so people know what to expect from the game: tag oral sex, vaginal sex, gang bang, and I would remove the text-based tag as that is for simpler games with minimal or no art (just words describing sex vs images). I disagree with the person above saying the game is unplayably difficult but do agree that there should be something in game telling me to use the statue to heal or open up the player bedroom early so they can heal. Adjust the difficulty so that Helen can survive 3+ encounters using no or little healing mechanics.
That's all I have now, keep working on your project I could see myself subbing to your Patreon in the future. Cheers!
Hi, thanks for your comment: very detailed in many aspects!
For the spelling mistakes, I'll work harder on that, I know that some parts absolutely need proofreading.
Sex scenes: I have no doubt in the art part, the writing part sure needs more feeling. The expressions in all the scenes are basically static only for a "money problem".
I have chosen to spend a determined amount of money for the initial part of the project. My founds can cover I think 3 major releases. I couldn't use it all in the demo because I don't want to be that guy that creates a beautiful demo and then nothing else.
In the future, I want to change all the faces to busts and made more expressions for the sex parts.
But if I want to go further a little more I must be careful with that. So for now, these scenes will remain more static.
About the corruption mechanic, you're not the first to suggest it and I think it's a really good idea.
I will work on that because I'm learning a bit every time and I want to improve that.
Honestly, I woke up one day in August and decided that I want to create an RPG like I've seen many times online.
I bought the software in Sept. and then started working on it when I'm free.
I'm a chemist, not a programmer or something like that, so it will be a long trip with the software part!
For the statue... yes, definitely I'll put some tips about that in the next release, I don't know yet if a general dialogue about it or in some type of small tutorial... I'll think about that!
The LOTR references... I know...It's not good... but I felt like when you're writing something and can't think about a good title.
I was banging my head on the Pc when I look at it and I thought "ok for now It's good".
I appreciate your suggestion, I'll work better on the names
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Finally, I'll correct some tags, good tip!
Thank you for playing the game! I'm happy every time I get a suggestion or a comment about something (bad or good it doesn't matter but I want a constructive talk)
Have a nice week
PinkyFoa !