Unity - Joker's Trip [v0.2.0] [Clown Control]

i dont want to give it a 3 star but i also dont want to give it a 4 star but for benefit of the doubt ill give it a 4 star

its a good game which doesnt know what it wants to do

love the persona-esque style and the art amazing stuff
the black jack is fine wish there was more strategy to do than taunt the girls which is a cool tactic but wish it was possible to toggle the taunt options, or have the girls ai be smarter cause they always start standing as soon as they receive double digit numbers (atleast most of the times) the drinks despite being a interesting gimmick does not add enough variation to the game play to use. other than these if there was something to do per round other than taunt and click through dialouge im sure the game would be 100x better because currently i am just using an auto clicker to play this game.
after the first win the novely quickly wears off and if i wasnt after the gallery i would stop after the first game itself

Good start, But there's some real misses here:

The animation's between cards/hands is ... too much. you don't need to zoom the camera around like the cameraman was on drugs.

too many clicks for a single round. half the damn blackjack isn't blackjack, it's Visual novel stuff.

The "intro" needs a skip. For those of us who know blackjack, the intro and chattiness of joker is offputting.

Like the Character diversity.



Ultimately, the game needs to decide if it's a visual novel, or a black jack simulator. Because it's too wordy as a blackjack game, and too simple for the VN. Tone down the zoomy camera, focus more on actual black jack.

having to click numerous times to deal hands is also annoying. once the hand starts dealing, deal ALL cards in the round to everyone. not make you click 3-4 times through VN style stuff.

3/5. good start. But clearly doesn't know what exactly the game is supposed to be.

It's original and stylish - for that there are 2 stars.

But it's not much of a game. It's not even much of a minigame. It's a proof of the concept, it successfully proved to be boring after the first 10 minutes.

The character style is interesting, but unfit for a porn game. There is literally no eroticism in character design - they look like from these american "diverse" cartoons.

And the final pornscenes are uninspired and boring. Considering you literally have to fight RNG to see them - they just are not worth it.

It's a bit buggy so far (Showtime pictures not fully on screen, Syd's breasts are invisible in gameplay, and your card counter moves downwards if you click too fast *which you're likely to do because the cards take forever to deal with no settings to change that speed*) but it definitely has some promise. I'm super into the aesthetics of the game and it's pretty fun for what it offers, although I do think the "showtime" is a little boring and I imagine the person(s) behind this could do better. The lack of options outside of volume (I.e. character dialogue speed, reduced camera movement, etc.) AND the Gallery being locked behind a patreon wall? UNFORGIVABLE. But I'm sure these things will be ironed out in further updates.

Things I find good:
- The art style is pretty good and consistent. Solid 5/5
- I've enjoyed SPNATI, but I prefer Blackjack over Poker, so the game concept interests me more.

Things I think need to be improved:
- A counter for how many clothing items a character has remaining. How am I supposed to know Syd will bet her boots and socks when I'm debating on restarting?
- Auto-mode, or some sort of speed-up feature. The entire game to me is just spamming left click to skip the cutscenes.
- The totals for each character should be on the screen during the taunt phase. I don't really understand why they need to be hidden behind the taunt buttons to be viewed with a toggle.
- Some sort of clarification on the win conditions. The game never specifies to need to get all three to "Showtime!" if you want to win, especially when there's a limited number of moves. The limited number implies a "win as many as you can during the time given", at least from the perspective of a SPNATI player. This leads to player frustration.
- Option to kick Syd out of the establishment entirely for not following the rules (duh)

Really simple but eye-catching take on Blackjack. A fair amount of effort has gone into presentation; dynamic backgrounds, good animation times on zoom-ins and zoom-outs, and the character, dialogue, and background designs are genuinely appealing.

At least for v0.1.0, it's a good proof of concept. Not much to see yet but with more characters and a bit more narrative for the MC, it can be better.

this is genuinely one of the best porn game ive played recently. not a boring generic vn with some corny physcological horror crap, an actually unique game about gambling and stripping down. i need more.

In it's current state, this game is very poor quality.

Very basic gameplay and rather boring. However, I expect it may grow into something worth your time.

No fun for blackjack fans and hentai enjoyers alike

fun gameplay! I really like the characters and dialogue and the art is great too! Its a moderate amount of gameplay and doesn't take too long, and the Ai is fair unlike other card based H games. I cant wait to see more of this project.

I love the concept of this game, being a dealer and trying to psyke the players out to steal their clothes. I like that the players have their own special powers that they can us too. Rosalie can trade her hand with others, Syd can get away with a bust if you've also busted, and prill can actually beg for money from the other players when she is low but this happens rarely as the other players usually don't have money by the time she does this at least for me. They all have different personalities and you can influence them in different ways when you taunt them. Rosalie always does what you want, Syd is the opposite but prill is the most difficult and tends to make smarter choices however she does break and do what you want if she has a high score but not too high. Like i've gotten her to hit on 17's.

A couple bugs I've noticed so far 1 round my hand went invisible so I couldn't tell what score I had until it was announced and Syd has no boobs when you take off her shirt but she has boobs in the cg at the end. Seems like a super obvious thing for the devs to miss that one.

Noriko doesn't seem to be in the game yet or at least I never got her even after resterting over and over to see if she was. There also aren't a lot of cg's in the game yet in general and they're pretty basic

It is literally just Blackjack but you have less control because you are forced to draw cards until you hit 17, even if everyone else already lost, leading to you busting and having to spam click through another round.

The taunting mechanic sounds good on paper, but you have no control over it, so most of the time the person you are trying to taunt will just ignore you and do whatever play is best for them anyway which just leads to more pointless clicking.

The art is good, but the main gameplay loop is so monotonous that it is not worth it to play though the game a minimum of 9 times to get all the scenes.

Giving it a 3 stars instead of the 2 I think it deserves because this is a first release and there is room for improvement.

The main issue to me is the gameplay loop. You play blackjack as the dealer against 3 ladies and all the cards are revealed to you (yours and theirs) and you get to use your powers to influence one of the girls decision to hit or stand. This is an interesting and new idea but in reality you end up having to click through a bunch of dialogue every round with only having agency over the results of one of the girls (your influence power sometimes doesn't work). Your turn as the dealer is simply automatically hitting until you reach 17 in card score which means this influence power is really the only thing you do other than click (too) numerous dialogue boxes.

Once you win enough rounds the gamblers will start stripping and once one of the characters is entirely naked you can finish the current blackjack game and unlock a H-scene. There seems to be several H-scenes for all characters but I couldn't be bothered getting more than 2 unlocked on one of the girls as the process is tedious and boring. Also stripping all 3 of the characters in a single game doesn't currently do anything which was disappointing.

That being said I think this can be a good game if the gameplay is improved.