I loved the update in every regard, but Frisson_Studios needs to have a genuine discussion on how to make the new minigames more enjoyable.
1. Bartending: I liked the idea of bartending at first—The thought that Angel would be overwhelmed with the amount of drunks that approach the counter requesting a beer, while the ‘intruder’ harasses and slows her down behind the counter. This doesn't go as planned at all. Only one drunk person approaches the counter at a time, and they have too much patience and not much aggression. Due to its turn-based nature, you don’t really feel any sense of urgency or a desire to serve drinks as fast as possible. It requires too many button clicks, and not much H-content to compensate.
Instead, you're mostly managing washing glasses and pouring drinks, which is the point, but isn't the main attraction here. It's supposed to be the perpetrator who distracts and slows Angel down, maybe annoying her so much that she can't ignore him anymore, taking advantage of her, preventing her from doing the job freely, or restraining her in the later stages. Her first orgasm could make her lose a few seconds in haziness, and perhaps multiple orgasms could make her go weak at the knees and drop her to the floor, where escalating events can happen.
Although I found that the H-Content was severely lacking for bartending. The intruder mostly grabs her butt, and at most rubs his member on her vagina, which we don't really see happening from our camera angle, so it leaves most of it to our imagination.
2. Subway: The amount of new content that Subway has is incredible, but unfortunately, the minigame wastes the potential that the previous Subway events had, where each event was curated and whatever was happening with Angel was discussed in the form of dialogue and her internal thoughts. Unfortunately, the random dialogue nature makes it impersonal, and there is no real-time feedback on what's happening with Angel, only random sentences popping up inside the bubbles, which do not accurately reflect the scene.
For instance, Angel supposedly gets fingered for the first time on the Subway, but due to the random nature of this minigame, this is never discussed or brought up. If we're to assume that Angel has a hymen (as Kevin confirms), this isn't mentioned anywhere either, because any molester would've come to the same conclusion about her virginity and have a dialogue or tease her about it, but Angel just allows them to finger-fuck her without any consequence. If this were in the form of previous subway events, you could've had a nice, curated event about Angel being fingered for the first time, add it to her diary, plus you could've added the molester's thoughts too. If he were a quiet guy, he would ask for her permission, and if he were a dangerous one, he would just finger her anyway. The older version makes so much sense to me as long as Angel is a virgin still.
Also, after a few days, I found myself dreading the subway minigame, and I mostly started to spam the Wait button, as I just wasn't interested in “fighting” anymore. If there was an option to completely give up, I would've chosen it instantly.
Overall, this entire subway minigame should be placed after Angel has already had sex, and you want to create an infinitely replayable minigame event at the end of the story.
I agree, I'm giving it a pass as they were just added on this update and offer still good animations, and I'm hoping there's so much more to them in the future. For now I'm just glad they work well and give us more to see, and though the subway one is definitely the weakest, it can be skipped so I am grateful about that at least.
I do agree about the subway minigame being better if added after sex is possible as it would open up more choices. Also, assuming things went full lewd, that she can be in different positions during it, not just standing there, like sitting, against the door, against another person's back. Minigame could actually be amazing if given some love, which I'm hoping happens in future updates.
I would love a list or something of the skill trees or a way to reset my points. So I can try out different things and so I can see what the high levels of certain skills do.
I would actually love this option as if you level up her resistance to alcohol it gets really hard to get her drunk. Since some scenes don't repeat, some where she drank a lot are no longer in the loop, so it gets really difficult if you level it up earlier just to be more relaxed. We do need a respec button.
About a dozen other games I have checked recently, that were like 2-3 years in production and had ZERO h scenes to 1-2 scenes, or even unplayable gameplay.
And scenes here are hot, there are no stupid excess dialogues to waste player time for the sake of wasting time.
I don't think it's possible to pay the rent even if you commit all of effort on making money. That's how I felt it, you are destined to fail. It is kind of a point anyway, struggle but fail, it is an H-game.
Another thing I would say maid route is kinda underwhelming right now, not only you need to succeed with cleaning for 3 weeks in a row (making it 1-2 would be better), to get a costume, but there are very few mid scenes with the maid dress.
Absolutely true. It really does make me appreciate the effort devs have put into this one game, definitely amazing.
About the rent, I have yet to attempt a pure route on this version and I will after I get the maid outfit, but on last version I could actually squeeze by and pay rent. It's not easy at all, but I think it does fit as this world doesn't care if Angel succeeds, she's only a hot girl to grope for these people, so it's kind of like swimming against the current.
I agree with the steps to achieve this being quite harsh, requiring either multiple saves just in case or knowledge of how the game works, which sucks for people that want to go pure route first then lewd, yes. I think some tweaks could go into that, but it should not be made easy.
This will make the the whole thing with the boyfriend (whenever they add him) quite difficult to handle, but I'm looking forward to it.
Yes, the idea is that she has to compromise something to pay the rent while staying as pure as possible. It is a corruption game after all. Also, doing two perfect weeks of cleaning from day one is enough to unlock the maid costume.
Yes, it seems the subway minigame was not very well received. You can skip the train by choosing “Wait and arrive late” at the very beginning. You can also take a cab to arrive on time, or sometimes get a short, fully descriptive mini event and still arrive on time.
Even so, we are reading all your feedback, and we will soon make a poll to decide whether the subway minigame stays or goes back to the previous one.
Then I guess I have stumbled upon an issue... I cleaned the first three weeks but still got no outfit. I'm guessing the "perfect cleaning" is not missing one spot at all and not simply cleaning every day? If that is so then I probably missed some spots at some point, yeah, so that may explain why I didn't get it. I'll attempt to get it later.
Subway minigame simply needs more cooking and corruption for it to be more engaging. It's not a bad idea, it's simply a little too plain and players mostly just wait and wait for it to go by, or skip. With more content and options it surely can be amazing, the animations are very good already. Perhaps Angel can quicken the men's climax later with more willing participation, making the minigame shorter, and you could give people the option to wait for other men to continue the game if wanted. I still appreciate you giving us more input, it's just a minigame that would benefit from a more sexually active Angel.