Ah I see, sorry to hear that. I hope you can find another artist to complete the project.
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Hi
I see you made an update to the files, because of the problem with Day 12 Helen old end. Did you changed the sentence structure in it as well, or will it be updated later.
Love the game and finaly joined yor subscribestar. Hope you find the artist soon.
Thank you! Join our Discord server too please! SubscribeStar will mark you a supporter! The issue on Day 12 with Stella&Mom scene and some phrases too long for the text window is still there, but will fix and reupload!
Okay, saw another new 3-star review and I'll admit it got to me a bit. Shouldn't be responding here, but I get attached to the work when so much time and effort is put into it. The reviewer said "hypnosis is poorly done" but I actually researched this and based it on real hypnotherapy scripts. Would genuinely love to know what "well done" hypnosis looks like in a VN, if anyone has thoughts. Like what? Also confused about "no choice for custom title": you can already rename the MC, so what are they referring to? Am I missing something? Should you be able to rename the title of the game somehow?? And curious: do other people here feel SFX are that important? Am I the only person who always turns the sound off anyway? Funny how the forum is quite friendly, positive and feedback is constructibe, but the review section tells a different story. That's it, blew off steam. Rant over. Carry on.
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1."Hypnosis poorly done." - I think the person did play some hypnosis games, but most of them do have it working, in a way like a magic. This one is more like a real hypnosis (almost). As a Mind Control lover, i must say, i love this one. I love almost all mind control games and the more different they are, between each other, the better. If it is because of the difference between the magic like mind control and the real like one, then there is nothing you can do, for that person, to change their mind.
2."No choice for custom title" - maybe they are refering to the save files. Some games allow you to name the save files, so you know which one it is. Its the best for games with many choices. So you dont get lost which one is which.
3. "SFX" - well that one is hard. Sound can really help upgrade the feelings, especially mouns, but on other side, i dont remember a game, that had it so good, i was ok with all of them. Some are good and they push you up, and then others are avefull and make the experience worse. You then have to choose if you leave it on or turn it off.
Then there is the quality of the recording sounds. If its not clear and sounds like a something from a casette tape, that was used over 1000 times. No matter how good the moun was originally, it just takes you out of the moment completely (and if there are more sounds in one scene and every one of them sounds like from a different person, thats a bust as well).
So in conclusion, if you can found a voice mouns, that have a good recording quality and builds your lust up, you can try to implement them. If people like them, they leave it on, if not, they turn it off. I dont think you can make the game worse with implementing this, but it can make it better.
Thank you! These are great insights for me! I'll skip the sounds, I don't think I'll do extremely well with them. But I think I should add a function for custom titles for saves games - that makes a lot of sense!! Thanks again!
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I don't mute them, but I tend to set all these tracks in a Ren'Py game to very quiet. Worst part then is when that annoying moaning is in the original volume, like it happens in quite a lot of games, so that all parties in the house are thinking I'm just beating my wife.
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I believe "custom title" refers to what the hypnotized girls calls you and what you call them. Many games with hypnosis and mind control lets you pick your own title, like having Helen call you Lord instead of Master and you calling her Servant instead of Slave. I think it is a valid, albeit small complaint, as it seems important to many people or at least a feature many likes.
I agree with Tsusaku that the hypnosis criticism is likely because they prefer a different kind of hypnosis, but unfortunately didn't articulate that well. Many reviews often write something appearing objectively, that truly is very subjectively. I believe this is the case with the "poorly hypnotism".
SFX can be good and bad. Take another game Shattered Minds. It recently went from having the same moaning sounds for all the women in game to having multiple, not only different moans, but voices. Even though I don't care that much about SFX in regards to moaning, I really felt it did elevate the game, as it suddenly provided an extra characteristic to the characters. Like, in my head, the three family members in your game sounds different and if that was realized through SFX it could add to my perception of the game, although it could also distract from it, if I didn't think the sounds matched the characters.
In the end, I think the take away is, that good SFX can elevate a game. The extreme example is something like Snow Daze, where all the characters are fully voiced, which really makes the game stand out.
Remember that people are different. Some people would have no problem if your game were just text, whereas some may need the visuals, no matter how good you writing is. The same is true for sound and animations.
I not really into the art style, but as a MC game lover, this is really good story telling
It's a shame the artist ran away again, I think you should consider switching to using 3D modelling since at least there are fail safe if they disappear. Going to be hard finding another artist to mimic the art style of hand drawn.
Or wait a bit until open source NSFW AI image models are as versatile as Nano Bannana to imitate the art style we had and retrofit the art to existing scenes that are being written and added currently