This game should really have a major spoiler warning, as very early on it spoils plot points and twists for a lot of the later LN content.
Let me start off by saying the game has potential, the intro does a decent job at explain the characters and world even if events and motivations differ from the original. The character dialogue is okay and isn’t immersion breaking. The game has a lot of scenes all of which are animated and have a toggle to go between different angles which is a really nice touch. The character models for most of the main girls is good. The combat system is RPG inspired using stat allocation, items, equipment, crits, magic, etc, and offers a lot of different play styles. However, the actual combat is currently quite dull as you will always 1 shot common enemies regardless of what you do.
The biggest issue with the game is how grindy every element is. Most of the time the game mechanics feels like they have been designed simply to prolong playtime rather than for enjoyment.
Missions require you to kill the exact same enemies 25 times before you can to unlock the mission, progress the story and unlock boss battle (new girls). The combat is slow and repetitive and without arrow key movement or keyboard functionality you are required to click multiple times per character to kill 1 enemy with un-skippable NPC deaths making the process drag on even more. Whilst boss fights are horrible balanced (unless you spec into a crit build) requiring even more pointless grinding. Even the affection system can be annoying as every time it requires you to talk to the new character 10 times to get the required 100 to progress (this does at least have some character development).
Most animations have a number of issues too:
Let me start off by saying the game has potential, the intro does a decent job at explain the characters and world even if events and motivations differ from the original. The character dialogue is okay and isn’t immersion breaking. The game has a lot of scenes all of which are animated and have a toggle to go between different angles which is a really nice touch. The character models for most of the main girls is good. The combat system is RPG inspired using stat allocation, items, equipment, crits, magic, etc, and offers a lot of different play styles. However, the actual combat is currently quite dull as you will always 1 shot common enemies regardless of what you do.
The biggest issue with the game is how grindy every element is. Most of the time the game mechanics feels like they have been designed simply to prolong playtime rather than for enjoyment.
Missions require you to kill the exact same enemies 25 times before you can to unlock the mission, progress the story and unlock boss battle (new girls). The combat is slow and repetitive and without arrow key movement or keyboard functionality you are required to click multiple times per character to kill 1 enemy with un-skippable NPC deaths making the process drag on even more. Whilst boss fights are horrible balanced (unless you spec into a crit build) requiring even more pointless grinding. Even the affection system can be annoying as every time it requires you to talk to the new character 10 times to get the required 100 to progress (this does at least have some character development).
Most animations have a number of issues too:
- Character who cum have weird seizer-esk type movement that just doesn’t stop,
- Missing textures appear in between most animation transitions and at the end of scenes,
- The same characters skin tone and shading with change between different scenes and interactions
- Area backgrounds will often not match prior backgrounds.
- The game map feels way too big and is annoying to manually navigate especially the Greyrat house with shifting camera perspectives. This issue is worsened by having both a point and click to move style with an arrow navigation movement that isn’t directionally locked.
- Character designs for Norm and Ayisha have been aged up which is obviously for H reasons but is still a bit annoying.
- The font used on both the main and save menu is kind of shit
- Error when trying to talk to certain NPC’s will force rollback
- Character models floating or not correctly positioned on screen
- Combine skill table removes HUD when used
- Error after Ayisha BJ and Sex scenes will force rollback
