Charming, fun, witty, sexy. I'm not particularly good at this kind of game, especially with such stringent time limits, but I still had a blast even though it's super early on.
Pros:
- Dialogue between characters is snappy and witty, you get the personalities without needing too much extra text and the banter feels alive.
- Simple to understand but difficult to master gameplay. Some will think it's super easy as they do this kind of stuff all the time, others will greatly struggle with it, but so long as you don't care about getting through rooms in the time limit nothing is truly impossible.
- Athena openly being into the whole cuckolding and being fucked by enemies thing. This skips SO many potential pitfalls many writers fall into, especially in something as tricky to write realistically as NTR. There's no beating around the bush, no contrived plot, no hypocritical nonsense, no bullshit, she's just into being fucked by monsters waiting for her partner to come rescue her. It turns her on, and the two quickly get an understanding between them about how they feel about it all, even if they're still exploring and learning about it and their desires for it and each other.
- The 'thoughts' section changing for Athena based on what's been happening with her lately is great, a nice bit of change to see every now and then in the menu, a typically boring and stagnant part of games.
-Athena's body is sexy as hell.
- There's no spite, no mean spirited bullshit, no abuse. Athena just loves being fucked by monsters, and having Gale save her. Sure, there's some humiliation in the scenes of him in the room with her where he shows her his cock, but it's light and playful. Please, please, please dev, don't change this.
- Femboy enemies with gigantic cocks.
- Even if it's not functioning right now, the addition of the love stat and the promise of teasing dialogue during enemies fucking her is something I'm really looking forward to.
- The protagonist isn't some unlikable dickwad with 14-year-old style humor. This is a low bar to clear, but a depressing amount of games still trip over this.
Neutral:
- A lot of the graphics and backgrounds are simple, especially the home base, but it's early days and that stuff is nowhere near as important as the gameplay in a game like this, so fair enough for now, but upgrades down the line would be nice.
Cons:
- Some of the rooms are really hard to clear in a decent time. Maybe that's just me sucking, but it feels genuinely difficult to impossible to increase skill, but if you go into a Fracture Room you're practically guaranteed to loose skill. Feels imbalanced, very.
- No real info on the weapons, what they do, or any stats on them. Just use it and then figure out what it does.
- The 'shop' above the tutorial area, iirc there was nothing telling you about that place or to visit it. I don't know, maybe a sign above it that labels what the building is would help people go to it faster.
- Gold. Nothing to spend it on other than getting access to a few extra lewd scenes. Some upgrades, especially permanent ones, would be very much appreciated, even if they had a cap on how high they increased your stats.
TLDR:
Fantastic start to a fantastic game. This isn't my main kind of genre to play, but I'll be checking the updates to this one regularly, looking forward not just to more lewd scenes, but more conversations being added in between the main characters, just reading the dialogue alone is great. 5/5, very impressed.