I feel like this game is fairly well made but that a huge amount of the effort has been put into creating something that is ultimately fighting itself - either that or I've missed some fundamental mechanic.
As a porn game you only access the "porn" elements by failing at the game. However you also only access new porn scenes by succeeding at the game. Plus if you fully explore a scene it basically ensures you'll lose everything else later on, so... what's the point?
Then the gameplay itself is more frustrating than not because you need to click a button in order to start a timed typing section rather than having it automatically select the text box or even just being able to trigger the button with a keyboard key, interrupting the flow of gameplay more.
You've then got mechanical elements which are placed on out-of-the-way UI completely disconnected from the typing - the thing you're supposed to focus on - that need to be clicked in order to engage with all of the other (honestly pretty interesting/clever) mechanics, meaning you have to be paying attention to two sections of the screen at any given time in addition to the smut that is supposedly the draw of the game.
Of course there's also the extra hacks which aren't explained or described or even hinted at what resources they use, along with random ones you might unlock during the course of a run which are explained but only them for some reason. You can't check these mid-run, either, only between levels. So you have to memorise these things, the resources they use, and what they do, in a timed typing game where you sometimes have only a couple of seconds to type.
Finally when you complete the game you... have to refresh the entire page because there's no ability to restart. For some reason.
Like.. It's well made in terms of what's there, and in terms of coming up with entertaining twists on the content, but the actual core mechanisms of the game are just sort of baffling to me from a game design perspective because I'm not really sure what my goal in it is.
Don't get me wrong, either - I think it's an interesting concept, a sort of typing of the dead premise but with contextual abilities. You could make something with that. But the execution is deeply confusing for me because it seems like half the time you're fighting the UI and mechanics rather than the game itself, all for no meaningful reward because winning means defeating the purpose of playing a NSFW game.
It's frustrating, I think, just because there's so much there that kinda works and is creative and interesting.
As a porn game you only access the "porn" elements by failing at the game. However you also only access new porn scenes by succeeding at the game. Plus if you fully explore a scene it basically ensures you'll lose everything else later on, so... what's the point?
Then the gameplay itself is more frustrating than not because you need to click a button in order to start a timed typing section rather than having it automatically select the text box or even just being able to trigger the button with a keyboard key, interrupting the flow of gameplay more.
You've then got mechanical elements which are placed on out-of-the-way UI completely disconnected from the typing - the thing you're supposed to focus on - that need to be clicked in order to engage with all of the other (honestly pretty interesting/clever) mechanics, meaning you have to be paying attention to two sections of the screen at any given time in addition to the smut that is supposedly the draw of the game.
Of course there's also the extra hacks which aren't explained or described or even hinted at what resources they use, along with random ones you might unlock during the course of a run which are explained but only them for some reason. You can't check these mid-run, either, only between levels. So you have to memorise these things, the resources they use, and what they do, in a timed typing game where you sometimes have only a couple of seconds to type.
Finally when you complete the game you... have to refresh the entire page because there's no ability to restart. For some reason.
Like.. It's well made in terms of what's there, and in terms of coming up with entertaining twists on the content, but the actual core mechanisms of the game are just sort of baffling to me from a game design perspective because I'm not really sure what my goal in it is.
Don't get me wrong, either - I think it's an interesting concept, a sort of typing of the dead premise but with contextual abilities. You could make something with that. But the execution is deeply confusing for me because it seems like half the time you're fighting the UI and mechanics rather than the game itself, all for no meaningful reward because winning means defeating the purpose of playing a NSFW game.
It's frustrating, I think, just because there's so much there that kinda works and is creative and interesting.
