VN - Others - Luna in the Tavern [v0.47] [TitDang]

YOU CANNOT SAVE OR LOAD WITHOUT PAYING.
I'm putting that there as a tone setter or for anyone just browsing the reviews without reading, as that sentence best describes the playing experience of Luna in the Tavern for a non-patron
To start, I'll set aside what really should be the only focus of this review and say that this game started with a strong introduction and well drawn art on the protagonists at the very least. Every side character suffers from a lack of detail but for a female protag corruption game that's always been an expected and accepted oversight.
The plot is your usual "the world is out to grope you in creative ways" plot that you'd expect from the title and tags. Nothing too stimulating or intriguing outside of the h-content.
Now moving onto the only thing worth noting as someone who's just trying the game.
Anything this visual has to offer is completely overshadowed by the inability to properly enjoy it due to the most restrictive paywall I've seen on these forums. It doesn't just restrict you from accessing the content in the next update available to patrons, it displays what you will be missing anytime it can, before you start, at every decision even if you only have on choice this update and when you've reached the end of the update. On top of that there's also "premium" content that you won't get to see with time either, instead of just mentioning it once it will be sure to put the menu on the screen only to try to open your browser (9 times off of one click might I add) telling you "pay me".
I have nothing against paid content, but if your game is so empty without it and you have to put it up just to inflate the illusion of choice maybe just put your entire game behind a paywall instead of putting up what was certainly an unenjoyable demo where you can't even skip through scenes that you don't enjoy unless you've paid. They even disabled progressing the text with a keyboard or clicking anywhere on the screen, far too tedious.

Unless you're willing to fork out money to possibly be swindled I would without a doubt skip trying this one.

I wanted to say art is 'i guess ok -ish', but i think noxian nigths had better art, so art is 'meh' (too 'inconsistent' for me).
Ikr different type of game, but the core is a moba parody.
I never played lol (league of losers ), but noxian nights is an old time/all time favorite.
On the other hand im sure that no one is going to have this game as a favorite without knowledge of dota, or even huge fans of dota.

You need to log in to access basic features of a game -.-
You can lock art away, but this is really over the top for a game with very mediocre art.
Altho the creator's idea of how the game plays is much better than previous games 'windranger wanderings'. But better doesn't mean good, and just like the previous windranger games this one too is just a waste of time.

But I guess the effort to make a dota related game is very well appreciated, I wish all the best for the creator, these games didn't cut it for me, maybe the next one does.

Decent game completely ruined by patreon ads.
Nice art and writing get drowned annoyance over "login to use feature/see scene" messages when trying to do anything, but repeat the same storyline over and over to find the content.

This game has an excellent art style and arousing premise, problem is that's where all the good things end. This game is paywalled to heck and on top of that the English in the game is very broken and riddled with mistakes, which can instantly take one out of the zone.

EDIT: 3-6-20: Ok so there's a skip button now, can't quite remember if it was there before, but you need to be a patron to use it, you have to log in to offer corrections to the already piss poor writing, so that's kind of annoying.

The game in itself isn't so bad
pros:
- Good arts
- Above average content for a 0.1 visual novel

con:
- Handicap if not patreon (No save, no gallery, etc )
- Only being able to click to continue is annoying
- Feels like the game is going to have too many "endings" where you have to start over every time

This game isn't the worst i've played, especially for a 0.1
The art is better than most games out there and since i'm not a dota fan I don't know how she should look but she doesn't look bad from my standards at least. The writing is also bearable, not the best but better than most.

However, that's where the good things end:
As stated by the comments stated the inability to save and load is terrible but other games(that will not be named) have done the same thing but instead of paying 15 dollars to save and load you just can't do it at all. So I can't knock the dev to much for it.

Still, it's pretty greedy to charge 15 dollars for barely more content and the ability to save/load which knocks 3 stars off at least for me