VN - Ren'Py - Huntress Trainer [v0.4] [HunterHeadquartersTycoon]

It might have potential but it is a strange game.

My first complaint: Everything is all caps. Everyone is yelling all the time. It's cancer, please don't.

The black arrow to end dialogue is in a part of the screen that, at least on my end, tends to be pretty dark. And it has no outline... So it's not obvious that it's there. Actually, it *adds* the black shadow on the left that makes it harder to see when it pops up.

Also, it often feels clunky to talk to people by clicking on their mouths... Especially when you could just interject when how they're looking at you changes, instead of having me click their eyes.

Also the outfits don't currently change when you enter that clicking places minigame...So they suddenly change clothes and you gotta click their mouth to talk.

Normally I like trainers, but I feel like this is lacking some of the elements I'd need.

I like this game and I'm gonna give it 4 stars, but I'm not quite sure its there yet. It's pretty early in development, but I think this game could become something really cool if it plays its cards right.

So the game isn't perfect, but most of the problems are minor. Things like text boxes, QoL features, and content. The content problem will most likely fix its self as more and more updates come out.

As for text boxes, and this could just be me though, the box is to big and the font is to small. On top of that, the box background is white, making everything harder to read. Which sucks, because most of the dialog and writing is pretty good. This is an easy fix though, just add in some options to change up the text box ourselves.

Now on to QoL features, and I'm sure most of these will get added in some form or another, but just in case let's go over a few this game needs. Rapid fire; hints for what you can click on, having money and other info visitable at all times, gauges or trackers for love and lust, quest/character tracking, and a End of Current Build message would be nice. I would add more QoL features besides those, but that's a good start.

More of a nitpick, but I also wouldn't lock cheats behind a paywall. If people wanna support, then they'll support and cheats or not are not gonna change their minds. Same goes for people who don't wanna support, bribing them with cheats isn't gonna change their minds with save editors being a thing. So what you're left with is less features overall for your game, which sucks and is unnecessary.

And now just for an idea of mind, and a long shot, but I think this game would do AMAZING with some AI voice over. AI voices are on the up and up and with the popularity of the RWBY VAs, a AI voice over feature with the AI voices mapped from the OG VAs from the show would be an amazing feature. That's just my personally dream feature for this game though.

Okay, so here's some quick pros and cons.

Pros:
-RWBY
-Good writing
-Cool idea where you abuse your power of being a teacher
-Nice animations

Cons:
-Text box
-Very little content currently
-Very few QoL features
-Paywalled content (just cheats for now)

Overall, I'd definitely recommend checking this game out, maybe wait a few updates, but definably check it out.