I see the birthday party wasn't unanimous.
I tried a different kind of gameplay, since a lot of people were complaning about the linear aspect of the game. I thought it would be interresting to finally have a real player impact on the event you can unlock. Some might enjoy, some might not, it is how it is now.
You might be thinking that this birthday party was too slow or not enough content with the woman you like, but I think it's because you played it update by update and not as a new game. Because overall, if you start a new game, I'm confident that this event adds a plus to the story.
Anyway, I still enjoyed making this party event and I don't regret the choices. However, as I said in my v0.17 release post, I'll go back to the way it was before. Which is: focus on the relation betweeen MC and Adrianna and their "modelling" business.
You can never please everyone, but i will say that i enjoyed the update. And you are absolutely right, playing it from the start is a completely different experience than update by update. I really like RPGS and having multiple saves, but its problematic with Renpy engine, this is the only reason i don't like branching paths, the "save game logistics" is a pain in the ass. And i suspect a lot of the people who dislike player choice is due to this UI problem more so than anything else.
I have over 860 saves on this game already, i enjoy almost every scene you make, and its not normal, my other games are not like this, i do take a lot of pics but with Adrianna and the others i have and will continue to go ham. My saves weight 1.09 GBs. Compliments to your excelent work and i haven't even finished all the scenes from 0.17 yet!
Sure!
And 50 updates later, still no sex scene with Adrianna. I got to maintain the teasing... ;D
Hahaha, that's would just be cruel, some devs do do that though.
I feel Adrianna's rate of progress is in line with how the expectations have been setup for us in the game. I will say that while the sexual/graphical progress is comming along at an expected pace, the "excuses" (dialogue) the MC is using to get her to do stuff are becoming... a bit inconsistent with the resistence displayed by Adrianna both in her actions and her inner dialogue. It seems to me that the MC is getting to do much more than Adrianna's mental state should allow it to do. Ofc she was drunk now but she still seems to act very differently than how she thinks.
It seems to me she is acting more like a girl that wants to get with a guy somewhat ignoring the "barriers" that are supposed to prevent that from happening but not through corruption, but obliviousness. Its hard to pinpoint exactly, but her mental change seems to be lagging way behind what they are doing physically.
I've tried to write this last part for over 3 hours, its not a criticism really, just some thoughts. And when reviewing previous dialogue and updates, the style is very coherent. But the update as viewed alone gives me a different impression from what i remember from the last update as to how far along mentally Adriana was.
Maybe its just the change of style for the party and the different dialogue of the several timelines mushing in my head, i really don't know. I was just very glad than when going back and reviewing dialogue and events it clicked way more.
In any case, great job and keep'em coming!