A lot of effort was put into this game, but I just put in 40 hours into this thing and I feel empty inside.
Biggest problem are the crashes that happen with rpg maker. It will crash and it will crash often. There is no autosave so you do have to update saves every 15-20 minutes or you will be sorry. This is especially evident in the lust mini scenes which are supposed to be repeatable.... but they will randomly crash the game.
Another problem; the game requires the walkthrough in hand. It's not as intuitive as you would think. There's nothing to tell you if you missed something. There's nothing to tell you you finished all the side missions. The hint system is vague and there's no map or reminder of locations of blocked passageways that required an upgrade to go through.
The game has a lot of various mini-game side quests.... that have no real purpose. farming, cooking, upgrading kitchens, upgrading stats, reading various books to boost stats, massage mini games........ is there a point to any of them? There may be.... but I farmed all my seeds and felt like I just wasted 3 hours for unusable crops. I'm sure there's a promise in future updates there's a payoff, but in the current implementation of the game.... too many of these mini games functioning well but aimless and unrewarding.
The final straw of why I quit was the Lust Battles. A random fiighting game based on paper rock scissors can't be random.... especially if you lose the fight after one wrong guess and the opponent needs to lose more than 3 times in a row to be beaten. I tried this mini game 20 times before I just gave up and deleted the whole game from my computer.
I'll give the biggest plus of the game: the characterization and the teasing nature of the sex scenes. When you finally get to them, they are creative, well rendered and fun. They're not that explicit and you don't have actual sex until the forth chapter.... it's just teasing until then. There is a caveat that if you miss something, you don't unlock all the scenes. What did you miss? Who knows. Is there a hint what you missed? Don't know. Just miss out and deal with it..... see what I mean when I said it felt empty?
The story is also very well thought out and great to follow along with. I hope the next update irons out the biggest time sinks of this game because there's so much potential but the frustration kills any satisfaction.
Biggest problem are the crashes that happen with rpg maker. It will crash and it will crash often. There is no autosave so you do have to update saves every 15-20 minutes or you will be sorry. This is especially evident in the lust mini scenes which are supposed to be repeatable.... but they will randomly crash the game.
Another problem; the game requires the walkthrough in hand. It's not as intuitive as you would think. There's nothing to tell you if you missed something. There's nothing to tell you you finished all the side missions. The hint system is vague and there's no map or reminder of locations of blocked passageways that required an upgrade to go through.
The game has a lot of various mini-game side quests.... that have no real purpose. farming, cooking, upgrading kitchens, upgrading stats, reading various books to boost stats, massage mini games........ is there a point to any of them? There may be.... but I farmed all my seeds and felt like I just wasted 3 hours for unusable crops. I'm sure there's a promise in future updates there's a payoff, but in the current implementation of the game.... too many of these mini games functioning well but aimless and unrewarding.
The final straw of why I quit was the Lust Battles. A random fiighting game based on paper rock scissors can't be random.... especially if you lose the fight after one wrong guess and the opponent needs to lose more than 3 times in a row to be beaten. I tried this mini game 20 times before I just gave up and deleted the whole game from my computer.
I'll give the biggest plus of the game: the characterization and the teasing nature of the sex scenes. When you finally get to them, they are creative, well rendered and fun. They're not that explicit and you don't have actual sex until the forth chapter.... it's just teasing until then. There is a caveat that if you miss something, you don't unlock all the scenes. What did you miss? Who knows. Is there a hint what you missed? Don't know. Just miss out and deal with it..... see what I mean when I said it felt empty?
The story is also very well thought out and great to follow along with. I hope the next update irons out the biggest time sinks of this game because there's so much potential but the frustration kills any satisfaction.