I like this Game. I really, really do. but MAN does it get on your nerves with its Grind.
I genuinely like mechanics, presentation and Story, and the idea of a free-roaming basically quest-less game with a low Speed has a great appeal. Consider everything I don't criticize a big Praise, and consider this a Five Star Review if my Issues were addressed!
But if the Speed of the General Game is this slow, some other Mechanics have to be severely sped up to compensate for it because right now, I simply don't think that I can spare the Time to see the End game content - and I'm saying this *after* having heavily modified the HTML to speed up the Process (basically removing Spirit and Action Point Costs)!!
A Few Points that need SERIOUS rework/Balance in my Opinion:
- Sex takes too long. Kind of a weird Criticism I guess, but the two-Tier-Undress-Process is adding Time that is adding up over Time. I have no clear Idea how to change this, but there needs to be a faster Way to have Sex after a Girl is well under your Control.
- Most Variables, be they Affection, Fertility, and especially the Affection of the few Named Characters need to increase faster. Again, I appreciate the months-over-months-Duration, but there needs to be *some* Kind of Progress with the police Chief after two and a Half Hours of Playtime, to pick an Example.
- The Time-Delay In some recurring Scenes, specifically the Ritual and Mediation, is just ... too much. you'll see these scenes dozens of Times, always the same, and its not like there is so much to look at, or that the Repetition can be avoided. Adding Delay Timer in there is adding insult to injury.
- Same goes for Money. Yes, i used the cheat mod, but even with that, it took me about 15 Minutes of continuous rapid Clicking(!) to get enough money to buy all the businesses. I'm guessing that there would be about 1 and a Half DAYS of continuous playtime that would be necessary to get there naturally, at least. That's just too much. This game is good, but not 36-hours-to-get-to-the-later-midgame-is-acceptable good.
- smaller criticism, but the Walk-Paths from Apartment to City locations add up too. I would suggest a Shortcut in the Side Menu to get home quickly from all places, and to separate the Alley out from the Home as a Map location - going through the "going out" Screen where Home and Alley are accessible towards the town map is just two Clicks, but two clicks you'll do A LOT.
- another small suggestion: Allow for the Player to modify the Size of Images and and Videos so that they can be made smaller or Fit-To-Screen. The mere Time i spent scrolling down...
- My Broader Suggestion: Remove Action Points largely from the Game, and instead limit actions the same Way they already partially are: by only allowing them once a Month, like Dates, Sex or talking to the Chief.
Limit Actions/Action Points to Girl-Scouting and give players 30 Actions every Months.
In addition, double all Stats Gain from spells and Talk-Interactions, and this is suddenly a very different, because much smoother game.
(I'd also suggest removing the Characters, like police Chief, Waitress etc. If you wanna have actual named Characters, stick with the demonic Theme. to me, they don't fit the Style of the entire Rest of the Game and feel stapled onto the rest for no real Reason. But that's a different issue )
TL

R, if you make every Month feel like a Month, you will make the Years feel like Years - and that is a very Bad Effect by an otherwise rock solid Game with a lot of Growth potential in the Future.