I'm a bit tired of these accounts with 0 messages posting 1 star reviews full of nitpicking and bad faith. I will try to address every points of criticism for Jack-o-nine-tails v2.0 (fair ones and unfair ones).
cajamarca: All the 'beta version' negative points have been resolved.
a)
Saving takes a long time. In 1.7.5 it was 4 seconds but there were 25% less slaves than now (and a
lot less information in the json files, as in 1514 more sex scenes implemented). In version beta, the saving time was about 25 seconds.
It got significantly improved in version 2.0.1. It is now 8 seconds.
b)
Animated images are no longer possible. They are! I implemented back the uncensored ones that weren't in CGI. As long as we keep the .PNG file extension, the .GIF format is still read by the game, and so are animated loops (you can see some in the Gloria scene when buying a house and being sexually aroused).
c)
Half of loli images are just resized images of older girls. Not anymore! In 2.0.1, I've removed every non-loli from the loli category.
c)
New bugs in 1.8, and fatal bug in beta 2.0. All the beta version bugs were resolved, and no serious ones are left. Besides, some bugs that were present since as long as 1.2.1 are now gone (blue "?" square when master_autocook), same for the bugs of version 1.8. No fatal bugs caused by inexperience are left; you can mute the sound at home without any problem.
-----> I took your critic at heart, because if was fair; I did everything to address each of these points. You can improve your rating and update your review accordingly.
AzureFury: I've answered to you already, but I'm going to address the undressed point.
a)
1.7.5 is the best version ever. It isn't. Based on
this post (quoted, because it was deleted by the moderators when they believed that 1.8 patch had loli content in it).
b)
Anybody with 1.7.5 can replace images and musics. Nobody uncensored the game before. Nobody added at least one picture per slave based on her age and her hair color either. That's why most of the 1035+572 pictures before were replaced (which is a lot). That's why there are, on top of that,
1500 pictures more, and none of them have censoring. The reason I did it is because I've waited years for anybody to replace images and musics in 1.7.5.
c)
Create guides. Not the game developers' job. You're free to improve the wiki yourself and actively participate in the game community. But even without, all the
users here that asked for help were usually satisfied with the advice given.
d)
Put that damned calorie count on main screen!. No. First, we aren't your slaves ready to comply to your every demands. Second,
it's fine on the slave management tab; we won't bloat the main menu with calorie information when you have a nutritionist available for click-thrifty players.
e)
This game series is awesome. / new version is an image and music pack for 1.7.5 that adds glitches. Doesn't
that make new version just as awesome as old one, now this is about 1.7.5 but improved and the added glitches are gone?
---->With so much people that started working on the game and just stopped giving news
—given we never see you help any player nor any developer
—the least you could do is encourage the ones that actually worked on JONT and saved it from the being dead.
Feel free to improve your rating and update your review accordingly.
Lamoucheronn:
Sometimes it truly feels someone just put some random images in there and that breaks the immersion. Where? Examples? I won't let you say that it's "random", because
a lot of work went into the selection process (before 2.0, and for 2.0). But I easily concede you that it's not perfect, and the dialogues might clash with what you see. It's however constitutive of this game since first version; for example you can't just put clothes on every slaves full picture. You just have to suspend your disbelief. But
I keep on wanting to improve on this point and will do my best for the future (I need examples tho).
sam_yurai: There's a concentration of nitpicking, bad-faith, and blatant lies in your review.
a)
Hats off to Old Huntsman and crushboss for creating the awesome mechanics of this game. There's nothing like it!. And yet you give it one star on the global review page because "Not really much changed" in this new version. You should
be happy we improved the game without touching the "awesome mechanics" of the game.
b)
The new images have the look of random stuff dumped in the game with no rhyme or reason. Remember how the description for the serpentine guard were "Techno-Janissaries" and in 1.7.5 you had a "bald angel girl with black wings" instead?
Look at how it changed. If you have better proposition for pictures that were added since 1.7.5, I will HAPPILY replace the ones I've put inside. We're all, as a community, really excited to see how you'll improve the visual aesthetics of the game.
c)
You can improve your own game with so much better art you find yourself. You can't. Why? Because
I've checked every picture of the same category before putting it in the game. Sometimes, the picture was beautiful, but there was a watermark;
I removed the watermark manually. You'll be surprised how much uncensored hentai is impossible to find as soon as you try to find 2 or 3 pictures for the "licking" sex category of a white haired and short/haired loli... And that's only an example, good luck on finding a pinked haired milf, young and loli undergoing anal fisting.
d)
Version 2.0 did not add a whole lot more slaves compared to old versions. the save file is much bloated and saving time is still much slower. Only 4 seconds more, and 25% more slaves, as well as 1514 new pictures to load in total.
e)
Modders keep adding pointless stuff like Painting? Probably just an excuse to use random painting art they swiped somewhere. I thought of the function first, the art came later (proof in the change-log). I wanted to remove electric guitars and put percussion instead. "Singer" was redundant with "musician", so
it was a honorable idea to teach the musician how to sing, and replace one of the artist specialization requirement with "painting". It will be useful groundwork for when implementing the in-game possibility of making the slave earn money from selling painting and playing musics.
I've always felt painting was missing from the game. How is adding well thought out little details worth hating the game?
f)
Reviews before me telling the modders what they need to improve in this game. Modders seem unwilling or unable to do anything. We started doing work on the game before the reviews, and none of these points came out. You are shooting on the ambulance. If the game is so awesome, then how the need for gameplay improvement is so much needed based on your standards? I'm indeed unable to modify the combat system or remove the black line glitches on my own. Does that make all the changes 2.0 worthless? No, because I like the game too, I never wanted to make it worse. As of 2.0.1,
the game is as good as it ever was, and there were only improvement compared to before.
----> The only thing you are doing is create a halo effect and prevent people from trying this masterpiece of a hentai game. 1.7.5 is our foundation and it's a solid one to improve and build upon. Now you might be disappointed in the lack of gameplay/story/quest changes, but you finally have an uncensored Jack-o-nine-tails version with "better everything" and virtually no drawbacks. Is the M&S Russian version uncensored? Is the Russian version playable by an English person? Did you find a single Russian translator volunteering in 90 pages of discussions? Have you done
anything for the game for which we've spent months on asking for help?
Feel free to improve your rating and update your review accordingly. Otherwise, feel free to improve the game accordingly. If you end up doing neither of these, your critic will be neither benevolent, nor effective for this game improvement.
gunterguthrie: Another new member with 0 other message than a 1 star critic with constant
Ad Personam thrown at every developer that came after 1.7.5. Either this is a troll account or, indeed, HF collapsed because every effort judged non-sufficient were teared apart and spitted on by leechers who broke the spirit of every good-willed developer/modder.
a)
Mod author is presumptuous to call himself "game developer" when he did not even improve this game's acclaimed gameplay mechanics. I did fix some of the acclaimed gameplay mechanics (examples: one grayed icon not showing in hospital, improved music lessons, removed the "acting" lessons which were confusing as hell...). Besides, if I'm the art designer, or the music maker of any professional video game, I'm part of the development team.
That's the logic the moderator used to give me this title; I told them I wasn't aware of the F95 terminology and asked to be either a modder or a developer, they didn't give me a textual answer, but the title instead. You reason under false premises.
Your trial of intent is petty.
b)
Slower to save?. Only 4 seconds more, because 25% more slaves, as well as 1514 new pictures to load in total.
c)
This is noobiefied Jack. Johnny is not supposed to gain skills. Master is not supposed to keep one sized clothes. Fair point. These mechanics are inherited from v1.8. I wouldn't call it "noob friendly", but rather "lore-fragile". However, you were welcome to talk to us about that in the topic, and see how we would react, instead of this rant.
d)
- Moving on to BGM... Maybe it's nostalgia. I prefer original Jack BGM. It is nostalgia. Granted, the old City and Home theme from 1.7.5 were very good, but we weren't able to find it back in better audio quality, neither did anybody on the thread when we asked. But look at the rest! That's
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, and that's
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(Vivaldi's
Four seasons - Winter interpreted by a virtuoso, as it starred in
Old Boy movie). That's
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(electric guitars
doing a boring
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chord progression below some artificial sounding choral VSTi, compressed to death, then downloaded via YouTube mp3), that's
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(Tchaikovsky's
Hymn of the Cherubim as interpreted by The USSR Ministry Of Culture Chamber Choir, downloaded in .FLAC and compressed with minimal loss).
- I prefer original Jack BGM. Many new themes sound like what geeks listen to. / The new BGMs I like sound like rips from The Elder Scrolls. They are nice. You use geeks as "of bad taste", yet you only like Skyrim songs. And you prefer random compressed songs from YouTube's "compilations of heroic-fantasy music to help you study" over Debussy's compositions. You shouldn't play elitist and criticize "mundane geek music" if you don't know your classics.
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Mood changing music sounds haphazard, with no general melody. And yet, the music blend nicely between themselves. home_calm is in the key center of G, badmood is in Gb (spicy modulation), very_badmood is in G again. Goodmood starts in Db and goes to E, which does a nice tritonic movement from the calm state. very_goodmood starts with a Db. Any comment on that?
e)
I do not know if they improved. I replaced pictures in my original Jack game with my own. So you're playing 2.0.1 which main goal was to replace the sex pictures... without the new sex pictures?
f)
New background the new pictures look lame, boring and haphazard. You can noticed the blending of
Greco-
Roman and Gothic architecture in White Town. And the blending of western and Byzantine architecture in Serpentine. Does it seem less "haphazard" now, or should I continue? If I asked any other better and "less haphazard" alternatives from you, would you provide?
g)
I'm under the impression this mod added a lot of scenes with missing images. Images were missing from the game before and we added them. Since you aren't playing with the new images, you can't see the new scenes.
h)
What's the reason for replacing everything with PNGs? Gifs are heavily compressed, and anyone with the will to improve the images from now on won't need to give them a false file extension (unless it's an animated loops, which are rare to find in good quality).
i)
Modder just cropped full profile pictures and call it a face picture. That's laziness! I'm not responsible for this decision, yet, I understand it. I assure you, cropping 2500 pictures is less lazy than you think. If someone has the Photoshop template used for 1.7.5 face pictures, and is motivated enough to implement the sepia/grey pictures in the (totally redone) json files, I'll thank him very much, because that'd be a nice re-addition.
j)
Why partner with Powerairmax for beta? Why not partner with crushboss? He's right here in F95. Because Powerairmax offered his help on his own and Crushboss
never answered to anyone asking for his help on v2.0.
k)
If you care about stability play the last version (1.7.5) by crushboss. Pics in this version are just as replaceable as the old ones. 2.0.1 is stable, the only added bugs are the light problems in the tutorial. The pictures in 1.7.5 were of the wrong dimension (leaving transparent background behind). They were censored. Or very heavily compressed. Cartoonish. CGI with bad body proportions. And many girls had 0 attached pictures other than generic ones. There was mismatching hair colors (purple hair in pink hair scenes). Pictures appeared for "gold eyes", "brown eyes" and "purple eyes" etc. only (leaving lots of slaves with only generic pictures and repeating art). And there were fewer of them. All of these points have been resolved. Now
the game is uncensored, there's better art, and (with the exception of fisting and enema) all girls have at least one attached sex scene for her hair color and her age. And
there are 1500 more of them.
The added art quality is undeniable and irreplacable.
----> Give us your opinions about the dumbed down difficulty on the thread instead of making an undeserved 1 star rant which displays for Jack-o-nine-tails series in its globality. Study a bit of music theory before writing elitist statements on it. Play the game as is, with the new pictures, instead of making definitive judgements on the replacability of added pictures and the bugs you bring upon yourself. Stop spreading false personal judgements on people that actively worked on the game.
Feel free to improve your rating and update your review accordingly.
