Hey! Dev here back again!
Well, a Postmortem review for my Reincarnotica 0.01. Suffice to say, as the others put it, a "self-indulgent wannabe Ultime/SAO boring piece of shit game". I understand the sentiment and I quite agree on the criticisms posted on parts of the game that needs improving. I separate myself with my game and view it as what it is objectively. If others find it shit, there's no magic words for them to feel the other way. You just need to give a better product next time.
Overall, it's a nice motivation to do better for the 0.02 release and God forbid I do worse on that than 0.01. So what's next? Episode 2 will take place on the Fitzgerald's house so the writing's focus is much more into the "fun stuff" with them compared to the 0.01.
Also, a little bit of insight into the development of this game.
- What's with VR MMO world and stuff?
When I started developing the story of this game last year, two things came into my mind, I wanted there to be a modern slice-of-life action and I want players to fuck elves, demoness, and shit. This is was what came out of that and from that came the "reincarnation" aspect, the villain, the general plot line I conceived is mostly "done" even the way it ends.
The VR/MMO world will play a role
much later in the story whereas the next 0.02+ updates takes place in real life.
- Yo! Your intro is boring as fuck!
People, I've been reading that same intro for the last few months. I goddamn know how it feels and with all that reading, I've somehow developed an immunity on it and thought
"It isn't that bad...".
IT WAS. You might've also noticed the [
Way] some [
Words] are "
Written". It was a way for me to not get bored rereading whole paragraphs of text over and over again as it can catch my attention.
On the "It's just an Ultima Online/SAO-fanfic that the dev really wanted and just added erotic pics", it's quite opposite honestly. The idea started on "This guy reincarnated into this guy". How did that happen? Why did it happen? And it spiraled out of control as I wanted to have "logical steps" that got him into that point. I wrote it to be as "campy as fuck" to establish that this world is there and thriving and other stupid bullshit that came from my head. It also didn't help that I'm a massive fan of Korean VRMMO novels like "Legendary Moonlight Sculptor" or "Overgeared".
- The Postal/Mail influenced GUI
Ah, as cheesy as this sounds, my idea was
"A love letter to the Adult Visual Novel games I love playing".
First and foremost, I'll be adding three options in the beginning. Play the long intro version, skip to the hospital, and a summary of the events like 10 slides of the important plot points. What I really wanted next time is a
ALPHA Tester. When I released this game, I didn't have any. It just went straight to MEGA. It's due to people reporting that they're unable to Rollback or can't "Space Bar Skip" new dialogues and I'm here confused because I can do that on the distributed version even with my friend's laptop. Also, revamp the preferences section to provide players much control.
So for now, I'll be reclusing myself developing the next version, trimming the intro and other stuff that the others have pointed out. I hope those who found the game shitty and boring now would check the next couple of versions when it comes out.
Cheers,
Polyrotix
