v0.147
maybe in 2 years this could be a decent game and in 5 years it will be an excellent game, but so far it's a waste of time. very unpolished. the writing is professional, and some animation scenes are really good (even with low movement) but there are so many problems with the game i would run out of the character limit.
first of all a lot of stuff doesn't make sense. this game prides itself on the violence/gore yet already makes the clear distinction in the intro that they would never do sexual violence, in a tone that suggests to say that they would never stoop so low and they never condone sexual violence.... ok, does that mean they condone murder/torture and ripping people in half and eating their heads? lol i dont think so. so it's empty virtue signaling at best.
some animations are pretty nice... but those animations are usually 10% of what happens in that erotic scenes. lots of text how MC is getting a blowjob and different positions and how they move during sex, while all you see is a well animated missionary/cowgirl position with no other movement. it breaks immersion more than if it had no graphics at all.
another problem with art is that characters look different in every art and animation. their hair color is the same and the length more-or-less. but that's it. it's like it was made by AI or many different artists who couldn't replicate the propotions of models. it breaks immersion too. even the main MC's best friend looks different a lot of the time to the point of barely resembling to previous depictions.
the writing is tiring. it's professional. clearly. yet tiring. long drawn out descriptions of lots of stuff, i skip half of it then read back history if something is important.
you can have a good story and good writing without making it overbearing. this game just goes over the limit. not that much but still..., i've seen worse but if you hate garbage english sentences which are hard to decipher, this is the opposite. where the english is perfect but you get sleepy reading it... which is not a good sign for a porn game where you rather sleep than jerk off.
combat is extremely mindless. you have a defend skill which reduces dmg taken by 30% for 3 turns... if you do the math, you realize it's not worth it. altogether it reduced dmg taken by 90%...so altogether it protected you for 90% dmg by losing that turn. (so you took 10% dmg for no reason. no charge up attacks by enemies either.)
i don't want to spoil much but later your combat power pales in comparison to the text of how strong you are before the fighting begins. typical case when a boss joins your party and suddenly he is 100times weaker. it just doesn't make sense. like lots of other things in the game.
the game is truly in alpha, and it has been going for 2 years. the game is quite unique i give you that, and the basics are already made, so there should be no reason to not make a lot of content with the available engine right?....
well.. wrong. somehow the main quest is still very short, there are some sidequests... which are ok, but i think the dev lost its vision how to continue. so it will 99% turn into some shitfest unless he spends a lot of time revisioning stuff, which comes to my previous point, that it will probably need like 2 more years so the game is playable and not just an intro with some dating simulator, and probably like 5 years until it becomes an actual great game. it certainly has the potential... but not now. if the game has more content and some clear path to move forward then i will change my ratings too according to that. but at its current form this is a 2/5 blueballing game with some great animation where the text breaks immersion completely.