Oh my so much text (better English than mine xD)
I'm bad at brevity in English. That'd be easier for me in German too
Okay this .. Should not happen. Can you please tell me at which point you needed resources for the mining bot ?
The quest is just described as "Maya asked me to build her something with the 3d printer" - it's that purple forced kneeling bench (I think, that's marked as new anyway). I think it's from sorta around the time in the story after Maya had her breakdown and all that and is now preparing to go forward.
Main issue is that Yukari isn't anywhere then. They might all supposed to be in Maya's private room (which is locked) - if I use the cryopod quest to get a quest marker on her, that's where she's shown to be. But I can't get in there until I've build that device.
And I can't build that device because I'm out of rubber and metal. And I can't get rubber and metal because I don't have enough rubber to make metal and not enough metal to make rubber. And I can't get metal because Yukari needs to explain how to open the mining device.
Of course it might be that I overlooked some resources somewhere, but I gave it a good go and scoured the island a second time and didn't find anything (well, I did find the mining device which I initially had missed). I also checked with the "tips" document, but I do think I found all the main stuff.
(I did later find out that I missed 1 pile of resources in the 2nd bunker ... buuuuuuuut ... I can't get in there without Yukari anyway xD ).
So, yeah. I just
perfectly maneuvered myself into that stupid position at just the
precise time where I couldn't get myself out of that resource hole. And I
knew that could happen with just the chemicals, I just hadn't been paying attention and was stupid enough to save. I'm not really blaming the game; I don't know how I missed that mining thing, I just shouldn't have used the last of resources and converted some extra first ... but, yeah. It's I guess better if it definitely absolutely
can't happen.
Agreed, I am horrible >_<
Thanks for taking it well
I wish I had something more specifically constructive to say about it .... don't use so many adverbs! Be careful with run-on sentences! Use specific words instead of generic ones! ... or anything of that sort. "Good" writing is often hard to describe but there's certain guidelines at least that can be used to help get there. But none of these things really are your problem, so nothing I could give as advice seems helpful.
Well. It's what it is. I wish I were a better writer too, but, urgh. It's definitely more a marathon than a sprint ^^;
I like happy endings, a bomb to kill the whole base/island (why...???) was not what I thought to be a "happy" end.
But I still wonder why the ending is "disgusting" to you ?
It is not like CORE would slice people up and use them as fertilizer or something.
I don't how how much it's worth going into this; but let's put it like this - why do the girls roughly 169 times reassure the player that they go along willingly? Why are we constantly assured that everything is monitored, that every effect is reversible, that nothing is harmful, that anything can be undone? Why it the character development so much about them becoming true to themselves and their desires, with constant chats about how they feel about all that's going on?
Well, I'd say, because if that was NOT done, it'd be some fucked up, sinister rape scifi game where you're drugging unsuspecting people into some sort of sexual submission. Instead, everyone consents, everyone knows what's going on, everyone
wants what's going on. It's
right for them. Nice, no complaints.
But the ending is basically the exact opposite. Now suddenly you are fine with drugging
everyone (even if the doses are supposed to be smaller). They don't get asked. Or informed. Or get to make a choice.
So, yeah, that I find, mildly put, "problematic" and really jarring with the theme of the game until then.
It also frankly just portrays women in a really shitty way. Like June running her company and all that - gets completely dismissed because she's not some sort of
breeder. How dare she have other aspirations in life, you must save humanity! Sure, she's now on board with that. But not every woman would be.
And, yeah, this is the point where I bring
that up, but it really is reminisced of the whole stupid "women are only worth anything if they are being mothers" thing that we've seen the excesses of in the previous century and I really don't want to be reminded of in my quirky scifi porn adventures games ...
Plus, it also just feels too much like nonsense in the scifi sorta sense. I mean, I could imagine humanity running into a terminal population decline, and the game does acknowledge that it's not certain the trend wouldn't reverse at some point, etc, so while I do think it's a little bit weird, it's not like I'd say it's completely impossible.
But secretly drugging everyone's food? Like, do teenagers not eat the same food in that universe? You want 13-year-olds horny to become pregnant? And there's no equivalent to the FDA, checking food for unknown substances? And also, I mean, population forecasts are the sorta thing governments do on a most regular basis, and that's why we get policies like child support or one-child policy in China or whatever. It's hard to see how humans in that setting would need AIs to figure out that
something was going on there instead of looking for solutions on their own. And we're already so close to things like artificial wombs, stem-cell growth etc., it's basically impossible to imagine a spacefaring civilization not to have access to these things. So the idea that you need to turn all women into some sort of breeders "for the good of humanity" and that that's the most sane and best solution is not very plausible to me.
I wouldn't have objected if that plot point was treated the same as everything else in the game. Like, I don't know, they plan to sell the milk to those who want it; it's maybe not as strong, maybe it's primarily just to have some fun in bed temporarily, or available in different versions, everyone knows and agrees, fine. It's still a bit stupid, but that's fine for a porn game. But yeah, that's apparently not the plan, so nuke the facility ^^
AHh well.. guess that was not my best shot at being an amateur XXX game developer
The way I see it the game is kinda a victim of its own ambition (well, and the writing, okay, I'm not getting around that xD ), which is the sorta thing that happens with these projects. You get these cool ideas in your head and then build the thing and then notice that while it's still cool you can run around an entire island freely that it's way too difficult to fill it all with content, so all the player does is quick travel all the time because there's no point running across the same bridge 153 times ... or whatever ... so it'd be much easier to just not have any free roam at all and go from scene to scene in a Renpy (or equivalent) game ...
... but at the same time, even if, yeah, I would say the game is a bit of a failure, overall, at least it tried something, and if it fell short, it was still interesting to see it being attempted. Renpy games are everywhere; and nothing against them, but it does get a bit tiresome too. Zero gameplay, just reading and making the occasional choice (which usually leads to the same content anyway). Eh. Usually, when I try them, two days later I'll have forgotten, because it all becomes the same. This one I won't forget that quickly for sure ^^; Good if at least some people still try other things. And, yeah, sometimes it won't work out well, but it doesn't mean it was wrong to try.
In my opinion anyway (and going by the reviews it's not like some people don't really enjoy it as it is ^^).