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Yikes. My sympathy to anyone who has felt that pain before. Here's an updated image to erase that from your mind. It will be switched in the next release.
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Well that very much depends on the girl. The Doe exhibitionism angle will move on to other things. Mostly bdsm for that character. Cheer has already moved on to more of a pet dominance line. With Sakura it is more of a rough sex degradation thing. With Queen and other characters, who knows. I plan to include many different kinks. And if I ever get any patrons there will be voting there. Hopefully there will be storylines that you enjoy. If not, I'm sorry that it wasn't your cup of tea.
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Don't get me wrong i enjoyed the setting and story very much and MC seemed like a decent guy wanting to help the girls..its just that the direction the game taking in fetish department with BDSM, pet play, exhibitionism, Raven suggesting a gangbang and she was too much interested in "entertaining" a stranger, and the homeless man groping her, its just not my preference of kinks/fetish....also would've been nice if we had the option to turn down Sakura(she seems like a brat) since u gave the option with Raven, but i am sure there are many who will enjoy such kinks and make the game u wanna make, Good luck Dev! Hopefully u get more support soon..
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Entertaining game with a feel I'm pretty sure most have not seen before besides CBD. Curious if the clown girl will show up and become one of our girls as well. Don't know if you ever considered or would want to but would be cool if the MC had some enhancements/cyberware like we would see in the CP 2077 game. Nothing like chrome skin or robotic arms but maybe subtler implants like optics or enhanced hearing. Anyway really hope you continue this game to completion and perhaps start another game I dig what you are doing and can't wait to see the story unfold, God knows how many games that have been interesting just get abandoned part way through. My only real criticism is that you should probably look into having transitions when going from scene to scene. Not always but when you change locations it can be quite jarring for the player and could ruin immersion. Just my two sense, keep it up man.
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I do plan to keep all of the characters around to some degree so yes you will see the clown girl again. I definitely have plans to make cybernetics part of the game certainly as the MC faces bigger challenges on the corporate side. The character Ali actually is quite enhanced which is why she has no empathy in the story. The MC had to remove his cybernetics so as not to be tracked by the corporation that he was hiding from. So these things are still below the surface but do exist. I do want this to be a story that has a modern feel but not a sci-fi feel so I will not over-emphasize these elements. I have been working on the scene transitions based on comments from my alpha tester so hopefully they are getting better in the later scenes that you played. I have started to add exterior shots when possible or the black and white fade-in. I will do my best to make sure the transitions are less jarring. As far as abandoning the game, that will not happen. I enjoy making it and will certainly continue. I believe a lot of games get abandoned when creators realize they aren't making anywhere near enough money to justify the hours a day you need to put into it. Although I hope I can get some supporters on Patreon to help fund things for the game I am not relying on this project for income. I really appreciate your feed back and am very happy you are enjoying the game!
I really liked the black and white transition. I haven't seen it done this way in other games and I think it worked quite well. Overall, I enjoyed the game and saw noticeable improvements in most categories as I got to the content from later updates.
Some quick criticisms. I felt the circumstances in the collapse of the US to be a bit farfetched. Mass exodus of corporations due to high taxes doesn't seem feasible in the timescale given in the intro. Furthermore, unless the US turned into a dictatorship, there will certainly be a party opposed to the conditions that lead to the corporations leaving. In my mind, some catastrophic event would be required for the US to fall all the way to the gutter.
Also, I felt that the prostitute girls were not incorporated into the main plot very well. It seemed a bit disjointed. I'm sure more will be revealed later on, but we hardly know anything about the MC at this point. The prostitute storyline is connected by the flimsiest thread of the first murder (to draw MC out supposedly) happening in their establishment. The MC wanting to "take care" of them is a weak motivation given the circumstances he is in. For example, he just leaves the pop singer who he is tasked with protecting to go shoot some porn with the prostitutes. That seems wrong on many levels. It could be stated that they are just the side stories, but so far, they were the main feature.
It's good to layer the backstory bit by bit as you progress through the plot, but care should be taken to get the audience invested. We need to know the motivations of the MC and what drives him to the next destination in the plot. We don't need the whole picture right away, but the story thus far give us nothing.
These are my opinions so take it as you will
Some quick criticisms. I felt the circumstances in the collapse of the US to be a bit farfetched. Mass exodus of corporations due to high taxes doesn't seem feasible in the timescale given in the intro. Furthermore, unless the US turned into a dictatorship, there will certainly be a party opposed to the conditions that lead to the corporations leaving. In my mind, some catastrophic event would be required for the US to fall all the way to the gutter.
Also, I felt that the prostitute girls were not incorporated into the main plot very well. It seemed a bit disjointed. I'm sure more will be revealed later on, but we hardly know anything about the MC at this point. The prostitute storyline is connected by the flimsiest thread of the first murder (to draw MC out supposedly) happening in their establishment. The MC wanting to "take care" of them is a weak motivation given the circumstances he is in. For example, he just leaves the pop singer who he is tasked with protecting to go shoot some porn with the prostitutes. That seems wrong on many levels. It could be stated that they are just the side stories, but so far, they were the main feature.
It's good to layer the backstory bit by bit as you progress through the plot, but care should be taken to get the audience invested. We need to know the motivations of the MC and what drives him to the next destination in the plot. We don't need the whole picture right away, but the story thus far give us nothing.
These are my opinions so take it as you will
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Perhaps some spoiler-related content below so read at your own risk (although really just clarifications)
Thanks for all your thoughts and hopefully I made things 2% more clear.
First of all thank you for taking the time to give your well thought out opinions. I am glad you like the transitions that I have been moving toward. I needed to get creative to make things less jarring and I'm glad it comes off well.
I certainly agree that it is far-fetched for the world to move that far in 27 years but at the same time a whole lot can happen in that time. I have a few pages of notes on the changes but had to cut things down significantly for brevity. Obviously things would have to go a very specific way for the world to end up like I portray and at the end of the day I cannot put enough detail in to make it convincing enough. Suspension of disbelief is necessary. As you state many factors would be working against this happening. For comparison the original Cyberpunk rpg (1988) proposed a similar future and was set in 2013 (later pushed to 2020) which is a similar amount of time for the changes to occur. Millions of people suspended their disbelief for what obviously has not come to pass.
The Underland storyline is a side-story and is only slightly connected with the "main" storyline as you point out. There will be a number of these over time and the "main" story will rarely actually be the central thing dealt with. Is helping out the girls a wise thing for him to be doing? Certainly not. But he hasn't left his apartment for 3 months and the ten years prior he worked black ops. So he's dying for an escape. Hence the drugs and girls. The MC's job as bodyguard is to go out with Yui when she leaves the apartment. He is not meant to be with her 24/7. He will be living there for convenience. My apologies that all of this did not come out clearly and I will endeavor to do better.
I'm not sure that the story gives nothing on this. We know that that the MC saved a young girl 10 years ago and then disappeared to work for a nefarious corporation. Seeing the people he is interacting with in the story I think we can infer a fair bit about things. I do agree with you that I need to do a better job with his motivations though. He has started to talk about wanting to make up for some of the deeds he has done and that is what's driving him to try to do some good. Of course there's only so much people can change so this won't be easy. And his selfish pervert motivations overlay on top of his desire to do good. I'm sure there is a little of this in all of usIt's good to layer the backstory bit by bit as you progress through the plot, but care should be taken to get the audience invested. We need to know the motivations of the MC and what drives him to the next destination in the plot. We don't need the whole picture right away, but the story thus far give us nothing.
These are my opinions so take it as you will
Thanks for all your thoughts and hopefully I made things 2% more clear.
Yea I think "nothing" was a bit too strong on my part. Indeed there is some things we can infer about his past, but his motivations at this point is a bit unclear. I assume some crazy shit happened and he was in mortal danger to go off grid for 10 years. How much of a danger was he in? Is he still in danger? What brought him out? Just boredom? If he is supposed to be hiding, is it wise to stream a backalley porn where he is fucking prostitutes? Just some things that were glossed over and consequently colored the MC's actions a bit aimless.
I assume MC was working under the little girl's father during his corps days and they were in good terms (since the guy gave him the current job). That would mean he was hiding from a different corps or entity. I think the circumstances of his hiding and subsequent reunion would merit some sort of discussion about the whole ordeal when they talk. Looking forward to where you take this story. Good luck!
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He was only in hiding when he left the corp, not the ten years he was with the corp. He has been afraid for his life because it is not a job you walk away from. But he learned from Queen and Ali that he has actually been under "protection". That's why he's still breathing. The murder at Underland was to draw him out and avoid the protection. One issue with having a story filled with so much sexual content is that it takes away from the ability to tell the story. I am doing my best but hopefully I can learn to make things more clear. Not an issue most writers need to worry about.
Thanks again for all of your suggestions and I'm very happy you are engaged with the plot.
Ah... apologies if it was just my inattentiveness at work here. I do seem to recall something about being protected. Maybe others could chime in if there was indeed a problem with the narrative.
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There are certainly some assertive females who know what they want but not to the point of domination.