HTML - Abandoned - Malevolent Planet [v0.2.3 Public] [SugarMint]

Loved this game! So sad to see it abandoned! The "new version" just doesn't have the same qualities that made this one of my favorites on the site. I see that this version is rated 4+ stars and the new one is currently at 2+ stars, so I personally feel the creator made a huge mistake. Oh well, I guess they had to do what they felt was the most profitable.

I do enjoy this game.

Pro's:
- Good storyline.
- Good backgrounds.
- Very nice artwork.
- Very good written scenes.

Downsides:
- Not a lot of artwork, most scenes are mostly text based, but the scene are described very well, so that does compensate for the lack of artwork.
- Some minor bugs, but I did encounter one that broke the game, which is frutrating when you didn't make a save game (was in a fight with a plant).

Looking forward for more content.

malevolent planet doesn't have too much right now, but what it has is gold. The writing is fantastic, the character creation/background works well, and the choices you make lead to fun results, if a little limited.

I have been following Sugar Mint and his game "Malovent Planet" for some time now and also follow him or her * on Patreon and Discord.
After the new update, I have now decided to write a small review.

One thing should be clear to every player. It is a text-based game, which in its current state only uses pictures to accompany the scene and is therefore not a graphic novel.
The quality of the texts is good, even though I am not a native speaker and have to send everything through a translation programme. But based on the few to hardly any misinterpretations in the translations, I think I can allow myself a judgement.

Development is progressing steadily, both in terms of fixing a few bugs and writing new quests and encounters. The NPC's are becoming increasingly differentiated, but remain well usable in their demands.
Especially those who follow Sugar Mint on Discord

New content, such as unlocking/repairing more rooms in the ship that provide access to new encounters or quests, offer new options, and the future plans for Emma's journey make us want more.
New convenience features that users (like me) have asked for are being discussed and also implemented to improve the experience for the player. This says a lot about the developer's commitment.
It is a game that definitely deserves attention and stands out pleasantly from the eternal DAZ monotony (there are also gems that I like to play).

In its current form, I would give it 4 stars, as it still reveals one or two weaknesses here and there, but there is also a big bonus point for the huge potential that this game offers.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

*) edited after a friendly hint from the developer

Decent story but full of censored images which makes the few sex scenes that include them feel like a even bigger waste of time once you find them.
Because of that I can't justify more than two stars in spite of the otherwise excellent quality of the art.

[Rev @ v0.1.1]

Art's nice for the character paperdoll and UI, but paywalling the porn in the intro to your porn game is gonna make the more jaded of us both skeptical and irritated.

Writing is fine. Scenario's been done but the voice and fluency are fine. Characterization is fine if a bit trite thus far.

While I wouldn't say any porn squicked me, I didn't care for the static lack of control and felt that the porn drifted into anal / rimming too much for my personal preferences.

The lack of control of scenes extends into the gameplay; I felt it was a bit too much of "click this, maybe you'll get porn maybe you won't" and not enough controlled gameplay progression. The experience feels more like a CYOA and less like a game per se.

TLDR: Iono. We'll see.

Version 0.0.5

Very promising game with a promising plot. So far what we have is a linear story with a few different choices for how you want to approach situations. But still, the art looks nice and the writing is also good without having things overdone.

A few suggestions I would make:

• Add more control over the sex scenes, I know that this part was a linear story, but I think that maybe we having option A and B on how to proceed on that side could be nice to give our character more personality on that matter. Like making the character more dominant\submissive or romantic\dirty. Because something that usually bothers me on erotic games is the fact that you have a lot of options before the sex scene happens, and those options can lead you to have or not the romance. But what I think that most of the developers fail to notice is that we are usually playing the game to see the erotic encounters, and having choices that lead or prevent us from those erotic scenes are usually rendered useless depending on the player style. So for the ones that want to 'unlock all the erotic scenes', makes more sense to have options on how they will play.
• Nothing serious about gameplay or plot, just saying that a wavy long hair would look so great! I would love to have this as one of the options on character creation =)