Ren'Py - Kaedama [v0.0.8] [Kaeru]

Not sure how i feel about this kind of interaction with girls where you have to type what you want to say, when it works its ok but in the long run it gets boring to have to type in yes or no constantly and the worst part is that game dont know many words so having to try to find somethng that works outside the normal and standard answar just dosent work, atleast not at the moment.

So far its also hard to rate what the game will become, if it will be choice driven or a mindless fuckfest, currently theres no sex of any kind so its way to early to say what it will become.

I liked most of the girls since it has a pretty balanced diversity in builds, but that will only mean something if you can turn down girls you dont like.

Its also a sandbox which right now has 0 purpose of being there, its just click a map to get to the next thing, feels very linear as most sandboxes lets just hope dev will make relationships based on choices and not just linear/kinetic story.

Right now theres just not enough content to give this a real rating so i will revisit once it get more and have sexual content to see how that will work.

I will give it 3 stars due to having some potential and change it once theres real content.

Having an open-ended choice system seems cool and unique at first, but when you actually get into it, you realize why it's unique. If the dev hasn't programmed the game to recognize a certain response, you're not going to get the desired result. For instance, I typed "no problem" in response to a character thanking me for helping her, but the game focused in on "problem", and I got a negative response like I had berated her. For optimal results, you have to pick the simplest and most direct responses, so expect to "yes" everything like a robot.

Buuuut, the problem with that is that the game encourages you to experiment with more creative inputs to make use of the open-endedness (and to see some responses from the characters that the dev just thought were funny). That would be totally fine if there was any kind of guide or walkthrough for those who need it, but the dev seems militantly against that for some reason. I disagree with the decision to make playing the game a more opaque process when inputs have to be somewhat precise to get the desired result.

This game isn't a flaming trash heap, but intentionally making it user-unfriendly means that I don't expect it to ever be fun to poke at for secrets (which is most of the appeal).

actually a 3.5, but the custom interaction system deserves more than a 3 even if it's not great at recognizing synonyms yet.

fun start. needs the no sexual content tag for now.

and interacting with the reader is challenging sometimes. for example, "how good are you at biology?" interprets "excellent" to mean "not that good."

other interactions penalize you for color commentary.

but all in all fun to play - for now. looking forward to see where this goes.

Love this game.
No needless sex right out of the gate to appease the coomers.
Genuine and organic characters and conversations.
Input system is novel and gives life to the game's world.
Dev is super nice although has weird taste in sandwiches.
10/10, can't wait to see where this game goes.