Review for v0.3.0
(Contains some smaller spoilers)
I think my biggest problem right now is that this game doesn't take the time to breathe. Granted it's early in development, but It's all over the place and doesn't let anything build up. This definitely has a less serious tone as compared to something like the average slow burn, but regardless it's not really working for me overall.
I feel like this game is trying to be a humorous, kind of nonsensical porn plot game, while at the same time trying to tell a story like something akin to a slow burn. But it's not properly balanced imo. There's not really any character development yet, and we end up fucking some of the characters right after we meet them. But then there's suddenly all this trouble with gangs, us fighting for our life, and now the MC's mysterious parents with what seems to be the setting up of a revenge story.
I think the game would also be improved astronomically if the prologue/intro/whatever you want to call it was completely removed and character introductions were just reworked a bit. Up until we get taken out by a car, you're basically playing as an ugly bastard. I'm guessing it's for a humor element, but man it just made the game so hard to get into for me. Combined with the fact that you can't change the MC name until about 1-2ish hours in made it a slog to get through. I just could not get immersed and could not take the sex scenes seriously.
It doesn't help that even when you do change your name, the old "Rudy" is still very relevant and referenced. Essentially be aware that you aren't playing your own MC, but rather an actual character named Rudy. This is more a preference thing for me truth be told, but still a negative in my eyes.
Also a minor gripe overall but I despise the music played in sex scenes. Something without lyrics and less in your face for lack of better words would be an improvement imo.
I think if the game was just slowed down and things played out without all these time skips and jumps to different things, I would have liked it a lot more. I'm not really attached to any of the love interests despite playing this for 3ish hours, and that's mostly because we hardly see anything from them. It has some interesting elements going on for sure but it feels like there's a lack of focus I suppose.
I'll still probably return to this as it develops to see where it goes and update my review accordingly. I don't think it's bad, and it will probably be more up your alley if you don't care so much about things like character depth and story (as of this version anyway) Good luck on developing this dev.
(Contains some smaller spoilers)
I think my biggest problem right now is that this game doesn't take the time to breathe. Granted it's early in development, but It's all over the place and doesn't let anything build up. This definitely has a less serious tone as compared to something like the average slow burn, but regardless it's not really working for me overall.
I feel like this game is trying to be a humorous, kind of nonsensical porn plot game, while at the same time trying to tell a story like something akin to a slow burn. But it's not properly balanced imo. There's not really any character development yet, and we end up fucking some of the characters right after we meet them. But then there's suddenly all this trouble with gangs, us fighting for our life, and now the MC's mysterious parents with what seems to be the setting up of a revenge story.
I think the game would also be improved astronomically if the prologue/intro/whatever you want to call it was completely removed and character introductions were just reworked a bit. Up until we get taken out by a car, you're basically playing as an ugly bastard. I'm guessing it's for a humor element, but man it just made the game so hard to get into for me. Combined with the fact that you can't change the MC name until about 1-2ish hours in made it a slog to get through. I just could not get immersed and could not take the sex scenes seriously.
It doesn't help that even when you do change your name, the old "Rudy" is still very relevant and referenced. Essentially be aware that you aren't playing your own MC, but rather an actual character named Rudy. This is more a preference thing for me truth be told, but still a negative in my eyes.
Also a minor gripe overall but I despise the music played in sex scenes. Something without lyrics and less in your face for lack of better words would be an improvement imo.
I think if the game was just slowed down and things played out without all these time skips and jumps to different things, I would have liked it a lot more. I'm not really attached to any of the love interests despite playing this for 3ish hours, and that's mostly because we hardly see anything from them. It has some interesting elements going on for sure but it feels like there's a lack of focus I suppose.
I'll still probably return to this as it develops to see where it goes and update my review accordingly. I don't think it's bad, and it will probably be more up your alley if you don't care so much about things like character depth and story (as of this version anyway) Good luck on developing this dev.
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