Unreal Engine - Projekt Melody: A Nut Between Worlds! [v0.5.2.3 Alpha] [Big Bang Studio]

Potential is something we like to use as a measure of how successful something may become. It is a way we use to ascribe if someone or something may be worth putting time, effort or resources into. In this case, Projekt Melody does not fall into this definition.

The "game" if you could call it so, is poor. With poor quality slap-dash animations, out of focus cameras and absolutely horrendous NPC clipping issues, thrown out to the masses in the hope of skimming the top.

Don't get me wrong, some of the things done in this game do look impressive. But that's about as far as it goes, at this current stage - the game has progressively gotten worse as more content has been added. And we're not talking about an issue with a map loading or a dialogue option not being clickable, we're talking about features being fully stripped out of the game.

In this "version" of the game, 5.2.2 I believe it currently is, we've seen the removal of the "fast forward" button, we've seen removal of certain graphical options like the ability to adjust DLSS and of course - VYSNC being broken.

Pair this with the fact that there is now a permanent "PRESS E TO CONTINUE" bug that only vanishes when the user reloads a previous save, followed by - for some reason - the ability to punch people - which at the moment serves no purpose other than to break scripted events and so on.

In essence, before I get too in depth - I will say this. The game currently weighs about 11gb. That's 11gb of bad animations, poor quality scripted events, NPC's that run like they're crapping themselves and a map that is so pointlessly large that it actually lags on a 14th Gen i7 with a 4090 GPU. That's right, I'm hitting high 50's with a 14th Gen i7 and 4090.

Would I recommend this game? No. Not right now. Will I change my mind? You bet, but only if they pull a cyberpunk and fix all of the issues with this "projekt"

Until then, it's a no go from me - I'll check back in about a year. Maybe we'll have cameras ingame that actually focus properly.

3 Stars for now and thats just because I want to believe this will fullfill its potential at some point in the far future!

For now its a very unfinished alpha even for HGame Standards. You have some nice Scenes but its buggy, and the performance is bad very bad. I am packing a 13900K and a 4070ti and i just manage to get 60 fps with massive screen tearing everywhere and some frame stutters. Some scnees (the angel/godess f.e. I had like 5 fps)

Please let this game get good please.

Goddess? I thought it was about melody?
The developers don't know where the project is going. I don't like goddess scenes. poorly animated and lip synced. Nothing new, just minor.
it is to be hoped that there will be more of medoly in the next update, otherwise it is nothing that is good

it may look nice on screenshots, BUT THATS ALL - NO MORE PROS
cons - UI is shit (7/10 of shit scale), no penis/vagina connection, no physics - this is shitty model placer with preplaced animations and thats it. THere are ton of games like that, but they are not boaasting around their so called "systems" which are shit on closer look

The performance is god awful with shader compilation stuttering that is worse than in emulated games. The game uses ray tracing for lighting, but looks worse than games with baked lighting and runs 10x times worse than games with baked lighting.

1 scene w/no choices that do anythin. Body parts go backwards or through ppl & objs. Cant skip past horribly long boring parts. I feel bad for Melody havin her name associated w/this garbage. Its not even a passable demo.

Dull and glitchy. It takes an inordinate amount of waiting between actions, to the point where I thought the game was stuck at first. When there is movement, there is a lot of clipping, and the animations are just awkward at best. There are numerous other VR-type POV games that are a lot better than this, and I just got too bored of what is literally mostly waiting for the next action to trigger to bother any longer.

No way this deserves 4 stars or above. It's still in Alpha. Here's what I got. The animation is dull. Very robotic and not very detailed, the facial animation is really lacking (very doll like), her model is bugged causing her limbs to flip out in unimaginable ways. Overall, it looks rushed to accommodate people that's been waiting for this short and incomplete demo.

EDIT: I bothered to look into the dev's Patreon since I've no prior knowledge to Projekt Melody. Almost a whopping 2k supporting the project. It's embarrassing to even call this shit a demo.

EDIT 2: Played the most recent version. I still hold the same judgement as my first. Not very interesting, overall. Very basic.

This game is simply amazing. I just really hope some new versions will come soon and start to be more consistent. Every game aspect is really nice, well done to creator. Can't wait for the next version

Projekt Melody, you could be my cybernetic dream,
Log in on the stream, shawty always doing ecchi things,
Got me out here simpin', now I'm trippin', spendin' all my green,
I'm about to blow a whole stack, you know what I mean...

This game is pretty good and a good sign of things to come. There's already a lot here considering it just started. But since it is pre-alpha, there are issues that I hope will be resolved in the next few updates.

One issue is the pacing. Each scene takes too long, and there's not much to do. You can control the speed with the mouse wheel, and if you press the play button in the top right, it will shuffle through different animations if they exist, but the scenes go on a little too long, so you get bored before long.
Another is the animation. A little janky, and Mel's facial animations sometimes aren't the best. Again, I doubt these issues will stick around for long. I did sort of wish that they would take sound bytes from her actual streams, but her voice acting is pretty good.

One thing that I found strange, however, was Mel's model. Her face's design seems based off of her 2D model she uses for Twitch instead of just using the same model she uses elsewhere. I'm not sure why they didn't just use the existing 3D assets since that's what most people think of when they think of Mel and porn.

this is a really good one especially for what it is now.

unlike the other voiced first person game with that mandy girl, this one doesnt have the annoying giggling and horrible voice acting. it sounds like something a girl would actually say when she really wants it.
character is beautiful, animations look good. keep an eye on it.

the only thing missing for 5* is to make the scenes a bit faster (you can always continue them if you want) and maybe a bit more different poses depending on how fast you do her.
other than that, i really enjoyed it. looks great, sounds great.