Rogue courier has a lot of promise. There is ship combat, on foot combat, and exploration. It would be easy to imagine this game being fleshed out more to turn into a porn Mass effect. Just you, some hot babes, and a space adventure. However, the lack of content and polish hurt the game. And the sex animations and up carrying the game. If this was just another Renpy VN, everyone would give it a 5/5, but it wanted to be more, for good, and for ill.
There is shoot them up gameplay. You can upgrade your ship with weapons and shields. You can also add on powerful weapons on cooldown to go with your basic gun.
You have a topdown shooter in which you can use various special abilities.
And you can go around the world map and mine for resources.
The problem however, is twofold, first of all, the polish is very poor. The bullet hell part has very few enemies, and I ended up playing through it using just the ion beam+the weapons the game gave me for free. The different missiles, shields and guns for sale were never needed. The topdown shooting has a lockon, but at specific angles your shots just missed constantly. The shield enemies are also very annoying to kill. The Mining and map navigation are very basic. Having to constantly select your ship just felt stupid.
Then there is the lack of content. If there were more enemies, the different weapons would be more useful. If there were some more top down sections, the different skills might be more useful. You have 10 different sectors to go to, but you only visit most of them once or twice. There could be 3 maps with more space stations per map, and the experience would be the same.
And I think that is what ends up hurting the game. The core gameplay is there, it just needs to be polished and more content needs to be added. Everything you want is already implemented in some form, just flesh it out and you could have porn mass effect.
But then the excellent porn animations save the day.n There are wonderful animations in multiple positions. The animation is done very well. Speeding up doesn't just speed up the image, characters change their pose as they brace for rougher sex. You can cum in most positions as well, and a unique finishing animation starts. This isn't just 2 alternating images or crude flash animations done with the liquidify tool. Multiple frames are drawn to make the movement smooth and natural. Honestly, there are too many animations per sex scene. Instead of giving 5 animations in one go, spread the sex out. Add a blowjob scene after 1 mission, and a doggy style scene the next mission, and some missionary the mission after that.
There is shoot them up gameplay. You can upgrade your ship with weapons and shields. You can also add on powerful weapons on cooldown to go with your basic gun.
You have a topdown shooter in which you can use various special abilities.
And you can go around the world map and mine for resources.
The problem however, is twofold, first of all, the polish is very poor. The bullet hell part has very few enemies, and I ended up playing through it using just the ion beam+the weapons the game gave me for free. The different missiles, shields and guns for sale were never needed. The topdown shooting has a lockon, but at specific angles your shots just missed constantly. The shield enemies are also very annoying to kill. The Mining and map navigation are very basic. Having to constantly select your ship just felt stupid.
Then there is the lack of content. If there were more enemies, the different weapons would be more useful. If there were some more top down sections, the different skills might be more useful. You have 10 different sectors to go to, but you only visit most of them once or twice. There could be 3 maps with more space stations per map, and the experience would be the same.
And I think that is what ends up hurting the game. The core gameplay is there, it just needs to be polished and more content needs to be added. Everything you want is already implemented in some form, just flesh it out and you could have porn mass effect.
But then the excellent porn animations save the day.n There are wonderful animations in multiple positions. The animation is done very well. Speeding up doesn't just speed up the image, characters change their pose as they brace for rougher sex. You can cum in most positions as well, and a unique finishing animation starts. This isn't just 2 alternating images or crude flash animations done with the liquidify tool. Multiple frames are drawn to make the movement smooth and natural. Honestly, there are too many animations per sex scene. Instead of giving 5 animations in one go, spread the sex out. Add a blowjob scene after 1 mission, and a doggy style scene the next mission, and some missionary the mission after that.