- Jun 24, 2018
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I finally could catch up with this game, I played some of v0.1 when it came out and I just finished v0.4 (not sure if I finished but I am stuck in the school so I will call it done ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
(+) Koikatu. I love Koikatu as the art engine.
(+) This game goes for the anime vibe and I like that. Koikatu is the perfect engine to do it so I'm very happy to finally see someone doing it.
(+) The characters have some personality and you can tell them apart based on that and not just their hair colors (except Kana maybe but we didn't see to much of her yet). When I played v0.1 Ichika was best girl and now it's a pretty tight fight between she and Noriko.
(-) The CGs seems a little cheap sometimes, for example when the character are sitting you can see their body going through the table/chair/objects in general. I know that's because all the room is just one object and you can't move the chairs/tables/object to properly distance and pose the characters, but maybe you can find certain angles to avoid showing that without losing the main focus of the story you are trying to represent in those CGs.
(-) I remember when I played v0.1 there weren't any transitions from an scene to another making the game feels not smooth at all and now the game has them but I feel they can improved.
(-) When the intro ends and the game becomes a sandbox, the transitions game is heavier and it seems even worse. Another topic related to this will be when you go to the school and you have to go back to a previous label you have to see a slow fade transition, those two previous CG and then the menu but if you got another "Not in 0.4" you will have to see it all over again... it's tedious.
(+) The story seems good. I can feel a lot of potential on it. Even if I mentioned the anime vibe I'm not much of an anime person but it feels like every anime that caught my attention and I watched the entire anime in one night. I wasn't expecting Tooru to become a jerk at all.
(+) As an anime perspective, the way the girls act and react is so cute.
(-/+) Maybe it was just me but I got to used to the "intro" (maybe it was too long for an intro?) and the VN style and when the intro ended and the game starts as a Sandbox it felt kind off.
(-) I would highly preffer to see imagemaps instead of menus, at least for the main parts like when Ren wakes up.
(+) For me the amount of content was good for a v0.4. The only "problem" for a v0.4 is that the game is more than a GB and when I see a game heavier than 1GB I tend to expect more content, but I can see that you are pretty CG heavy and I know how heavy Koikatu's CGs are so I guess you just aren't compressing those CGs.png or converting them to .webp (My game was 1,63GB with PNGs and 370MB with WEBPs compressed at 90%).
(+) Ichika and Noriko.
(+) The character desing of the girls are amazing, they seem so simple but they are quite charming and beautifull, especially the new knight (I forgot her name) when we saw her from behind, that was fucking great. The character desing of the boys is pretty weak but I know that Koikatu and males get along like Greenpeace and Chernobyl so I will blame Koikatu on that until the day I die.
TLDR: The game is great, it's lacking sex scenes but it is only a v0.4 with a good story so it makes sense to not start fucking everyone as if they were your cumdumpsters. It may feel a little week in the codding/programing part of the game but for a first game is ok (I have seem some BIG developers with big numbers on Patreon doing way worse in that regard). The game is charming, Ichika and Noriko are cute. Pretty excited to see where this game is going.
(+) Koikatu. I love Koikatu as the art engine.
(+) This game goes for the anime vibe and I like that. Koikatu is the perfect engine to do it so I'm very happy to finally see someone doing it.
(+) The characters have some personality and you can tell them apart based on that and not just their hair colors (except Kana maybe but we didn't see to much of her yet). When I played v0.1 Ichika was best girl and now it's a pretty tight fight between she and Noriko.
(-) The CGs seems a little cheap sometimes, for example when the character are sitting you can see their body going through the table/chair/objects in general. I know that's because all the room is just one object and you can't move the chairs/tables/object to properly distance and pose the characters, but maybe you can find certain angles to avoid showing that without losing the main focus of the story you are trying to represent in those CGs.
(-) I remember when I played v0.1 there weren't any transitions from an scene to another making the game feels not smooth at all and now the game has them but I feel they can improved.
(-) When the intro ends and the game becomes a sandbox, the transitions game is heavier and it seems even worse. Another topic related to this will be when you go to the school and you have to go back to a previous label you have to see a slow fade transition, those two previous CG and then the menu but if you got another "Not in 0.4" you will have to see it all over again... it's tedious.
(+) The story seems good. I can feel a lot of potential on it. Even if I mentioned the anime vibe I'm not much of an anime person but it feels like every anime that caught my attention and I watched the entire anime in one night. I wasn't expecting Tooru to become a jerk at all.
(+) As an anime perspective, the way the girls act and react is so cute.
(-/+) Maybe it was just me but I got to used to the "intro" (maybe it was too long for an intro?) and the VN style and when the intro ended and the game starts as a Sandbox it felt kind off.
(-) I would highly preffer to see imagemaps instead of menus, at least for the main parts like when Ren wakes up.
(+) For me the amount of content was good for a v0.4. The only "problem" for a v0.4 is that the game is more than a GB and when I see a game heavier than 1GB I tend to expect more content, but I can see that you are pretty CG heavy and I know how heavy Koikatu's CGs are so I guess you just aren't compressing those CGs.png or converting them to .webp (My game was 1,63GB with PNGs and 370MB with WEBPs compressed at 90%).
(+) Ichika and Noriko.
(+) The character desing of the girls are amazing, they seem so simple but they are quite charming and beautifull, especially the new knight (I forgot her name) when we saw her from behind, that was fucking great. The character desing of the boys is pretty weak but I know that Koikatu and males get along like Greenpeace and Chernobyl so I will blame Koikatu on that until the day I die.
TLDR: The game is great, it's lacking sex scenes but it is only a v0.4 with a good story so it makes sense to not start fucking everyone as if they were your cumdumpsters. It may feel a little week in the codding/programing part of the game but for a first game is ok (I have seem some BIG developers with big numbers on Patreon doing way worse in that regard). The game is charming, Ichika and Noriko are cute. Pretty excited to see where this game is going.
