Unity - Abandoned - PROJECT ELERA [v2200] [Project Elera]

  1. 1.00 star(s)

    KL-001-A

    Gotta join everyone else in saying it, there's no game here.
    So much of the content is locked behind paywall after paywall that it's almost like an EA-published game.

    Even if the game was FULLY paid and wasn't sold in bits like this, it's still a massive hodgepodge of varying quality, mostly on the bottom end of the spectrum.
    Hell, even if it was 100% a free game, I'd play it maybe once, then I'd be done with it forever.

    EDIT: I've gone through and played quite a bit more of the actual content, and yeah, this isn't worth it if it was totally free, all of the scenes vary from shit quality to okay quality, half the stuff doesn't work at all, and most of the characters are either garbage quality or outright plucked from some free database somewhere. If you're going to play anything from this dev, go play Hotel Elera, as that's not NEARLY as bad as this garbage heap, and that game really IS free.

    EDIT2: since the dev kept all the game's content server-side, you literally can't play this anymore; there is no game, there will never be a crack, you can't even buy it to play it anymore, trying to connect the game via Patreon just leads to an error screen.
  2. 1.00 star(s)

    Red-Cat

    Original review "oof"
    But I need more characters so.
    -The scenes don't even load.
    -One of my favorite things about the site is that games are free even when they are typically behind patreon paywalls. Because this game is uploaded by the developer, we have it here with all the paywalls included.
    -UI is shit.
    -Need to download scenes before failing to load them.
  3. 5.00 star(s)

    immeasurability

    I follow this game almost from the very beginning, it’s funny that I found it here. The developer did a great job, the models became better. I just want to support the developer in this community. With my bad internet, this game has become a salvation! All peace and goodness!
  4. 1.00 star(s)

    Acornus

    I just wanted to "review" this "game" by saying that there is not point to downloading this product. It's pointless. Don't even bother testing it.

    No, seriously, this has to be the weirdest game I have ever seen in my life.

    First of all, there is barely any demo content that is balanced (everything free is only catering to the hardcore furry demographic), and every-time you want to access something you need to "download" new maps and areas, makes me feel sleazy as if I'm downloading DLC porn, not to mention the speed to the download.
    The maps vary in size, between 20-50mb, however, for some reason, I had to download several "scenes" 2 times. Once the "map" and second, the "location" with the animation when I wanted to start it, and one map got stuck downloading forever, and I had to manually delete the files to clean it up.
    Apparently if you internet is too bad, or too good, the game can get stuck downloading stuff and timing out, and you can't restart those unless you fully close the game first.
    By the way, the "animation location" or the animation itself can vary, but I had several scenes be over 100mb per pop, so this game was already overy 500mb by the end of this review. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being several gigs before it's even finished, and that's saying something due to it's current state of quality.

    Secondly, the UI is terrible. The main menu doesn't have any information about anything, so you would think clicking on the "colorful" icons and girls is what you need to do, or press F as the game says (F for Access) but nope, instead you have to click on a greyscale text in the corner called "Scenes" to access the content of the game (fun fact, the main menu and scene greyscale color are almost the same, so for a monitor that is full range, but isn't calibrated correctly, they are almost invisible).

    The UI is also designed by a master Loot-Boxer, because I can't even describe just how sleazy it is.
    For example, if you want to access the premium content (which the game doesn't stop you downloading you from, in fact, I ended up downloading several premium stuff before realizing the game actually doesn't let you access this, talk about making Korean MMO's blush) you can do so, however, the game has a small set of icons in the bottom corner, which explain what the colors mean for each scene. Grey for demo, gold for premium, the usual.
    There is also a red icon that literally says "illegal access", meaning if you tried to access content illegally it will notify it. I'm not exactly sure if the Author of this product understands how "buffering" works, but currently, I'm under the suspicion that it might actually send back data if you try to access stuff, because here is the thing, if you "pirate" the game then you don't need anything, like literally, the red icon is pointless for pirates, but if you, due to a bug, legitimately access the content without the proper Patreon tier, the game notifies that.
    So either it's a terrible joke from the Author, a "Coming Soon" joke, or they actually do check on users data. This alone is warrant enough for me to say to stay away from this game because there is no point, joke or no joke, to have such a suspicious "notification" for any reason.

    As for the controls? The default controls are also completely wrong. Usually in games you allow the player to rotate the camera, or control the scene with the mouse, however, in this game, you can't control the camera with the keyboard, especially if you want to rotate it, and you need to unlock the mouse before you can use it, which is the opposite of what you usually do.
    So basically, once you enter the scene, you need to "unlock" your controls, so you can use your mouse so you can control the camera properly (remember, you can't control the camera with keyboard alone) and then "lock" them again if you don't want to mess around with the camera.

    Once you unlock the mouse, you can do stuff, however, just unlike how in Wild Life you have "options" of changing the animations of your characters facials, etc. in this game they are all static, basically, a lot of animations are missing.
    For example, you can change a characters mouth, tongue, etc, but they might as well not exist in all honesty, since the tongue doesn't have any natural movement to it or enough animation quality on it, it's all very rigid, and in a few cases, playing around with the "options" actually breaks other parts of the game, like detached eyeballs and breasts.
    It's especially hilarious when "monsters" are fondling certain girls in certain scenes, only to have half of their body stretch and contort if you fiddle around with the options too much.

    Speaking of detached penises, the game has some of the worst animations I have seen a while, and even models.
    Each female model has 3 vagina's, at least that's what I see, I don't know why the vagina's look like they are split like a taco half of the time during an animation, and everything feels stiff and jittery, as if the animations were done point by point, and then "smoothing them out" was left out, which ironically enough is one of the basics of 3D animation you learn how to do because it's actually automatic.

    Last, but not least, and the worst part about this product is that you need to be constantly paying for it in order to keep access of even old content. This means for example, if you decide to open up your Patreon, so you can access the premium content, and next month you stopped paying, you will lose access to the previous premium content, kind of like old cable TV.
    This in theory is not a problem, but once again, it's feel absolutely unnecessary and sleazy for several reasons.

    A) The author has to keep on pumping out mediocre animations to keep paying people happy. Otherwise, why should I pay? I can pay 1 month, cancel the next and skip until they release an update, otherwise you're wasting your money. This isn't an MMO at the end of the day that is giving your hours of fun for 5 dollars a month, not to mention, I don't think anyone is going on a wanking crusade for hours. At best you're done in 5 minutes.

    B) If Patreon rolls over your payment to next month, you technically paid but don't have access to content for 30 days at least, and it's very easy to set up a 'cancel' roll over, where if you don't give money to Patreon for the next month, it will automatically cancel your status (think of it as the trial periods on Amazon). I personally don't know what the author has set up or how, but considering another infamous flash game did that, things didn't end well.

    C) This means at no point do you even have a proper license to the product, let alone own a contribution to it. You literally own nothing of this product with your money. This also means if there are any issues that need solving with your account, congratulations, the author is going to have to waste more time to fix this on their side or throw you a freebie.

    D) And worst of all, once again, it's very easy and simple to bypass the security checks as mentioned above. I'm not trying to rub it in, but I need to make this clear, all of this is pointless, since the people who want to "access all the content for free" are the ones who end up owning the product wholly and it's the legit people don't see anything out of it and need to keep on paying month to month.

    I ran out of steam, but basically put, this is not a good game, hell I don't even know why you can even download half of the maps in this game since you can't access them, or why they had to choose such a "subscription" model of service that only serves to make the final product worse to legit paying customers.

    Either way, if the Author ever decides to make a new game, I hear EA are hiring, they would be proud of the UI and how predatory it looks, because at the end of the day, everyone wants to make money, but also, EVERYONE wants to make money, so why put my money here when I can give it to other people who want to make money better?
  5. 1.00 star(s)

    Alfre4u

    It is full discussed and talked about enough to really go into detail.

    Honestly if developer has not been so horrible in his last couple posts here I would give it a 2/5 (below average) but with how he acts and everything just not worth it at all and shows the type he and this is.

    ^
    -1.5 for how he is, so had this game been 5/5 then it would be 3.5/5 I am not giving it a 1 just because of that.
  6. G
    1.00 star(s)

    guglielmoMarcioni

    What to say... This game could be promising... If it wasn't just a huge crappy paywall.
    It's so bad because all of the content is hosted in the developer's private server or something similar to prevent piracy. This makes the game a big filthy paywall. The few contents wich aren't paywalled are very low quality.
    What else should I say? Save your time, don't bother downloading this garbage it's just not worth it.