flynn0426

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How does this game have such great art and so many things you can do during sex with your superheroine harem in game, yet still feel so empty?
 
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The most recent april fools was the dark souls of rogue-like-likes. Basically when you incurred negative points, you'd get embarrassed and lose meter. Too much and you reset the day. To counter this you got three flasks of booze a day to refill your meter. Beyond that certain checks were more difficult, and Jean was impossible to get through her first encounter until a later patch.
Oh, is that so? Sounds like a nice version to try after already "100%-ing" the original.
So, I think we've nearly exhausted all the fuckable X-women unless he starts adding in Magneto's crew so... will this game finally move forward with actually fleshing out the characters and guiding it towards a satisfying end-game?

Or am I just too optimistic/naive?
There are already some options from past pools for next chars, even discounting that Emma was already a clear message that he was not limited to characters in the original show (plus Laura, Jean and Jubilee are completelly differente, design and character-wise).
But about an endgame anywhere in sight, yeah, pretty sure there are no plans for that anymore.

How does this game have such great art and so many things you can do during sex with your superheroine harem in game, yet still feel so empty?
Because, visuals aside, they soon become very... equal.
The main difference for most is the order in massages, maybe they like one way of hitting on them more, they start with different starting points, etc, but mechanically they are barely different.

From what I recall, the only ones interesting mechanics-wise is that Emma avoids anything in public until your points are very high, and
Jean to me is a breath of fresh air, because her mechanics are very different. Her actual inhibition points are different than shown, her Love points are also kept in a separate pool and are not added until a level of obedience, after which the pool slowly transfers to her, and she has different meters for friendship with other girls, that is actually getting along, and being able to have threesomes.
 

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Worst part is, the art isn't all that great and it continues to get worse on top of being essentially empty.
Essentially, this is an 8 year old game. It has so much because it has been incrementally added to for 8 years.

The art seeming not so great is because we are spoiled for choice after 8 years worth of newer projects and a flood of talented artists trying their hand at jumping on the patreon adult games bandwagon.

The feeling of emptiness almost certainly comes from the familiarity with the game after having probably played through it dozens of times over the past 8 years. There are few surprises when we're so familiar with the mechanics and art. And each version that gets added is adding a similarly small amount of content as the updates several years ago when the whole game was smaller. The result is that each update is like the tiny tip of an iceberg compared against the large amount of content we've already been familiar with for months or even years that sits beneath the surface.

I think if someone has never seen this game before and decided to try it for the first time today, they'd be enamored with its depth and fullness.
 

flynn0426

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Essentially, this is an 8 year old game. It has so much because it has been incrementally added to for 8 years.

The art seeming not so great is because we are spoiled for choice after 8 years worth of newer projects and a flood of talented artists trying their hand at jumping on the patreon adult games bandwagon.

The feeling of emptiness almost certainly comes from the familiarity with the game after having probably played through it dozens of times over the past 8 years. There are few surprises when we're so familiar with the mechanics and art. And each version that gets added is adding a similarly small amount of content as the updates several years ago when the whole game was smaller. The result is that each update is like the tiny tip of an iceberg compared against the large amount of content we've already been familiar with for months or even years that sits beneath the surface.

I think if someone has never seen this game before and decided to try it for the first time today, they'd be enamored with its depth and fullness.
They'd be enamored for about 3 or 4 hours until they realize the entire game is a sex minigame with a handful of girls inside of Ren'py prompts and beyond that, there's virtually no character events, story plot points, well written sex events. Like I said, large flash game with great X-Men Evolution art. Devs like TwistedScarlett60 have made 3 massive sandbox harem VNs inside of Ren'py in 3/4ths the time this game has been in development. I guess the two extra years was to create the stilted animations that look like two layers in PS sliding over each other.
 
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They'd be enamored for about 3 or 4 hours until they realize the entire game is a sex minigame with a handful of girls inside of Ren'py prompts and beyond that, there's virtually no character events, story plot points, well written sex events. Like I said, large flash game with great X-Men Evolution art.
And you don't think 3 or 4 hours of enamored enjoyment is fairly significant in the arena of adult games hosted here (particularly those that are games and not just kinetic novels)? If 3 or 4 hours is too little, does that say more about content or about grindyness?

EDIT: I even allowed myself to take my own point for granted there in agreeing with your assessment of 3 or 4 hours. 3 or 4 hours is accurate for me to go through the game getting to a point where I'm only going to get repetition of events moving forward. But that won't be the case for someone who doesn't already know the game inside and out. I know which responses in scripted events get the most stat increases, I know which activities and conversations are the most effective for stat increases for each character based on where their stats currently sit. And I know what to avoid in order to keep the money flowing so I can buy everything there is to buy as soon as possible in the game. Additionally, I know what content exists and what doesn't so I know when I've hit that point that everything else will just be a repeat. A new player won't have any of that, and will probably take 2 to 3 times longer than me to reach that same point.
 
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And you don't think 3 or 4 hours of enamored enjoyment is fairly significant in the arena of adult games hosted here (particularly those that are games and not just kinetic novels)? If 3 or 4 hours is too little, does that say more about content or about grindyness?

EDIT: I even allowed myself to take my own point for granted there in agreeing with your assessment of 3 or 4 hours. 3 or 4 hours is accurate for me to go through the game getting to a point where I'm only going to get repetition of events moving forward. But that won't be the case for someone who doesn't already know the game inside and out. I know which responses in scripted events get the most stat increases, I know which activities and conversations are the most effective for stat increases for each character based on where their stats currently sit. And I know what to avoid in order to keep the money flowing so I can buy everything there is to buy as soon as possible in the game. Additionally, I know what content exists and what doesn't so I know when I've hit that point that everything else will just be a repeat. A new player won't have any of that, and will probably take 2 to 3 times longer than me to reach that same point.
Wiser words haven't been spokeneth.
I get behind the fact that the dev is really lacking in amount of content delivered, schedules and for a while even in the quality of the poses, but this game has been and probably will keep being a top 1% of quality for themes la 2D, Sandbox, Harem, Exhibitionism or Corruption. Could be much more, definitely, but its simplicity also plays in is own favor because it allows for replay value instead of playing it once or twice and thinking "I'd like to play it again, but if it doesn't have a gallery mode, I don't feel like going through all that plot stuff just for my prefered scenes".
I'm one of those who think adding story stuff would worsen the experience. Adding more activities and clothes would be great, but this game found its place, and trying to move it out would just make it sacrifice what's good at in exchange for something that might not be that good. (Also, what the fuck is with people wishing for story in a porn game when it only needs a pretext?)
 

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Wiser words haven't been spokeneth.
I get behind the fact that the dev is really lacking in amount of content delivered, schedules and for a while even in the quality of the poses, but this game has been and probably will keep being a top 1% of quality for themes la 2D, Sandbox, Harem, Exhibitionism or Corruption. Could be much more, definitely, but its simplicity also plays in is own favor because it allows for replay value instead of playing it once or twice and thinking "I'd like to play it again, but if it doesn't have a gallery mode, I don't feel like going through all that plot stuff just for my prefered scenes".
Don't know if simplicity is the word given what passes as games here, I think it's pretty intricate if undercooked. Casual?

Call me old fashioned but I prefer games like how rogue like play because it feel less nonsense and bullshit and is straight to the point (do thing get sex).
If you want a game or intricate story go bother with a vn, if you wanna get you kicks off quicklike play rogue like. I mean honestly...
It fits the premise: nymphomaniac friends with benefits with room for more. Routes in linear games have a tendency to be terribly paced with the climax falling flat, whether it's love-making vanilla or banned in 39 countries.
 
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