Unity - Seaside Mystery [v0.28.3] [KsT]

TL;DR Because I value your time more than this game. It's a billion slow fetch quests with bad controls. Do no waste the HOURS of your life on this to get a peeping scene. And a possible sex scene in 3 years.

Once again, tedium for tedium's sake. Both of the games by this dev are designed to be as slow and tedious as physically possible. You have to skip hours, days, probably eventually weeks to advance anything just to give an illusion of slow burn. But what is this? Just a collection of "go to this point, hope RNG makes the character appear here this day/time to have a broken English interaction consisting of 4 lines of dialogue. And +1 point to this characters affection." Wow, fun. And I want to be clear, that was complete sarcasm. This is not fun. On top of that, now instead of clicking to go to each room, you have to CRAWL your slow MC to each room unless it's the sleep/skip day option. Which by some miracle is thankfully NOT locked behind a paywall.

Reader, value your time more. Is it fun to: go to a room. Skip an hour. Skip an hour. Skip an hour. Skip an hour. Skip an hour. Click on character. "Talk." Skip an hour. Skip a day because there's nothing else you can do. Then repeat. Is that compelling gameplay? No. This has the same boring gameplay loop as the umpteenmillion "sandbox" Renpy games with terrible default menus to go to a room and find a girl at a certain time. Except THAT would be better because you don't have your GPU running at 100C waiting for MC to enter a room, only wait, you misclicked on the other door. So now you need to leave this room, walk to the other door, and enter THAT one. The first day, you walk room to room to figure things out, but after about 3 ingame hours, there's no more unique lines of dialogue. Instead of, I dunno... Making a game and story where you interact with the sandbox, learn about the characters, maybe do one more thing than max out your strength in three workout sessions? What do you have? Click button, number go up. This is glorified cookie clicker.

Let me spoil the "mystery." Carl probably caused the accident. Emily is probably your sister. Brenda will fall in love with you for doing the dishes. And you will have to have another monitor open with a walkthrough that can't 100% help, due to the RNG. You should not waste your time on this to "get the privilege" to see an uninteractive sex scene that's only novelty is, instead of pre-rendered footage, it's in engine. I hope to whatever it is you believe in, that someone comes in with a movement speed mod and maybe even an RNG removal. But that's a pipe dream. Unless your fetish is denial of content, I'd recommend avoiding this game.

Great game experience and unique character modeling, the game isn't complete yet but the story goes pretty interesting, and they have done something similar to house party on the gameplay, if you like The twist you will love seaside mystery

Right now I would say is a solid 3 for me. Not magnificent but not bad either, I played worse things just this same week.

Starting for what I enjoy here:
First the models, their proportions and the interactions, mainly compared to Twist, the proportions mainly of the two characters we interact the most right now seem more balanced the in many other games and the interactions also seem more natural.
Other thing I really enjoy is something I have been criticizing in other games. The game is divided in hours and here the only activities that consume that whole hour make sense, doing the dishes, fixing something, but other things like talking to someone, fetching something or moving somewhere don't move consume a whole slot, in too many games just by talking it advances time without much logic. So this is a big plus for me


Now what I don't like right now is mainly the pace of the game, there is not much to do yet so several interactions are locked between specific hours(in some way it makes sense as no one would be all day in a specific room) but it also has events tied to a day of the week, and as there isn't much to do right now, forces you to skip ahead several days unless you need to grind a bit the money. Maybe in the future with more content it gets solved but for now it gets really long to advance in the game with some grinding.
A suggestion I give to the dev team is creating a new way to work, maybe the cafe house, so maybe in those days when you have to skip you could work in some and get more money than doing the dishes every day.

Another thing I don't really enjoy is, if for some reason the character is faced opposite to a door you need to cross it ignores the command several times forcing you to face the character correctly

Also some parts of the map are really big for the pace of the character so something like there is in the house(easy access to different parts) would be appreciated to easily cross, otherwise it doesn't invite that much to go there too often.

TL;DR
For now I enjoy the models used and some of the mechanics but the game is still low in content and sometimes unnecessarily slow in others making it slightly boring until you reach the next phase as such my 3 stars, as it kept me playing but felt that it could have been better. I will keep paying attention and adjust my review accordingly

Actually, This game needs some attention on the way save files behave and how to take away those pesky bugs because that's the principal of any kind of games. As for the gameplay of a real-time 3d, This one gives us the freedom that only few other games could offer, in addition to a quite engaging story, I can say. Hope the Dev would put more time working on this game.

(v.15)
Good Lord I just spent the entire afternoon click-clickety-clicking my way through this thing. At a certain point the hints stopped, so I think that means I clicked my way to the end... did I?

This is like the next step in evolution from the dev's previous work, which I have also played, reviewed, loved and hated.

It's a 3d adventure with a hot, yet neglected MILF, a nerdy daughter who is bustin', a dragon lady prof straight from my wildest dreams, and a shmuck just trying to figure it all out. Oh yeah, and there's Janice. You know this dev's work, you know Janice. Say hello, Janice.

I see the same clever little visual touches, like the hot MILF checking out the room to make the coast is clear before snoggin' with our hero. I love stuff like that . I love the random hotties struttin' their stuff around the campus or the quaint shopping area (anyone been to Bath, UK? It really reminds me of that). I am concerned about the need to actually traverse so much terrain. I mean, I have to cross the effin' street at the crosswalk. And don't get me started on the park. A walkin' sim... with tits.

Trying to do it all in 3d really is taking a chance. You can read the rage-quitters in the discussion. The dev is perverse. On the one hand, he's added a lot of quality of life stuff that wasn't there in the previous work. On the other hand, he's made the damn thing almost fully 3d, with all the attendant hassle... 2 steps forward, 2 steps back...

I have a lot of respect for this dev. He is totally non-derivative, his thing is his own (pardon my pronouns) and I think he has maybe the best composition skill of any creator on this site. But I am not sure I can spend another half-day clicking my life away...

Oh yeah, not a huge amount of hot stuff so far. Lots of teasing, though. For some reason, when they're kissing, the MILF suddenly looks much taller than the MC. Weird. I hope we're not going to end up with another Baby Herman like the last one.

[v.012 Beta]
Short review : I really love this game.It's story is a pornfilm one,where female characters have a slutty behaviour,but are not sluts.You should prove yourself worthy of them ,of sort,by doing some simple tasks that are not hard,nor grindy,for now(v0.12).Overall,really great game,nice sexy looking models,very smooth detailed animations,beautiful graphics,lots of small encounters during the day(like Brenda taking your clothes to laundry)where they are just in a sexy pose,but it's so sexy in my opinion.
More details:
Gameplay:Repetitive style,with not so many changes as the game story progresses,but with new encounters and tasks.Wake up everyday,speak to the girls,do what they want,new task with a little peek at their ass,or them doing a sexy pose.They have their own schedule,which doesn't change a lot.
It's a full 3D game,so you can freely walk around house,from a 3-rd person perspective.Some grind necessary in building strenght an charisma(only this traits matter for now in the game(v0.12),but it's like 1 minute of grinding.Overall,visual novel style quests of do/get/learn to do.Also some interesting mechanics like volleyball game and peeking in the shower,which i was pleasantly surprised.
Graphics:Game looks really nice.Shadows are precise,lightning is a bit to bright outside at day,but It's not really that disturbing.Textures are all High-Quality,characters bodies are really hot,with not so hot faces,but I find them ok.
Performance:A strong PC required to play on Ultras,and even on low you would need a nice working machine.I mean,some 2013 HP laptops won't even run the game.My runs went smoothly,I had no bugs overall,game didn't crash everything worked fine.Game has also nice physics:Hair physics(can be turned off in the options),boobs,ass jiggling,which are very hot and sexy,and not excesivelly bouncy.
UI/Interface:Very VERY good.Almost perfect.You always know where girls are precesly,you dont need to look for them everywhere.You don't need to load 10 rooms in a row,because you have TELEPORTATION(!!!) which is extremely helpful.Lots of settings,character costumisation(only clothing and minor piercings).The quest log is the only impostor here(sus),it's really undeveloped,but I think will be fixed in the future.
Sex Scenes:The problem of this game is that it's still in beta,so:1 sex scene(dream)+blowjob+handjob,1 peeking in the shower,1 masturbation scene,1 touching ass scene.There will be more content in the future for sure,so I put 5 stars because potential.
Overall:Great experience,really liked this game.If you like hot ladies just walking around butt,tits shaking,bikini,and bending over like sluts,it's pefect.
For 0.12 Beta,really good,5 stars

Three minutes into the game, and I've already encountered game breaking bugs and other problems. It looks like a good game. Nice camera orbit, zoom, and pan. Pretty good looking characters and graphics. But the problems that I encountered are frustrating and have completely halted my progress AT THE VERY START of the game, so I'm taking a break to mention the problems that I've encountered in this review and then I'll try to motivate myself to restart the game in a bit.

Feedback - I did not like the color selector tool during the character customization process. I guarantee you that there are countless color selector tools that are much better than this one. Much less confusing and much easier to use.

Feedback - The game does not auto save after you have customized your character. So if you need to force exit the game afterwards, you have to start completely over and recustomize your character which is a somewhat long and tedious process. I just started playing 0.11 Beta and only read like a dozen lines of dialogue and met three characters, and I've already had to force exit the game twice because meeting Emily Perez freezes the game. So that makes two times that I had to recustomize my character. Make the game autosave or have us manually save after we create our character!!!

Feedback - Once I finished creating my character, the game started. I was on the bus. I wanted to pause the game and go into the kitchen for some water because I did not know if the dialogue auto forwarded or if I had to press a button to advance it. I hit the Esc key to pause the game, and instead of pausing the game it advanced the dialogue a few lines and suddenly I was no longer on the bus and I had no idea what backstory I missed. Then I tried unsuccessfully to get to the Main Menu so I could restart the game, but pressing Esc just kept skipping dialogue until I got to the part where meeting Emily Perez froze the game. Esc should NOT advance the dialogue. Esc should ONLY be used to get to the main menu!!!

Feedback - As I mentioned there is a huge bug that some people reported in the comments section of F95 around 5-6 weeks ago. Once Emily Perez is introduced with her name displayed on the screen, the game freezes. No keyboard button or mouse button will progress the game. The recommended fix is to restart the game (forcing you to recustomize your character) and skip the entire intro which is not cool because I wanted to finish the intro.

Feedback - Once in the game, you can follow the dialogue, but every sentence is missing one to three words. It's like every fifth word is missing in the sentence so you have to play Wheel of Fortune in your brain and figure out what the missing words are. English is spoken in just about every country in the world. If you, yourself, can't write English well enough it's not that hard to find a decent, native English speaker that can proofread what you wrote. And I'm sure there would be plenty of people on F95 who would volunteer to make the necessary fixes for free.

Feedback - I agree with other people that the "dad's boss's wife's daughter" looks more like an aunt. There is no way that she is 19. Brenda is 38, and Emily looks like she could be 32-35 years old, not 19.

Feedback - I don't understand why there is a "click to move" instead of WASD movement in this game. Third person controller in Unity (or even Unreal Engine) is an extremely easy thing to add. I have 0.000001% knowledge when it comes to any game engine, but I can add a third person controller setup within minutes. One thing to note though is that you can hold down shift to run to the spot you clicked, so that made things better. But I still prefer WASD over click to move.

Feedback - I like that the text it outlined with no textbox background behind it, but the outline could be thicker. It's a bit difficult to read the text sometimes.

UPDATE: Okay, so I tried playing it again some more and there really doesn't seem to be any content at all. You just skip an hour, run around and explore every single room in the house hoping to find someone. If you find someone, they either can't be interacted with or you say something stupid like "you really should put on sunblock" or "you shouldn't drink too much coffee" and the other person says "yeah you are probably right". And that's about it. I went to the university and met a hot teacher and that's it. Two floors of classrooms, none of the doors will open. One is the hot teacher's classroom but it's a demo so you can't go in and have class. And there is a student outside you can't interact with. This has "boring sandbox" written all over it, but once it gets actual content it might become better. I see myself waiting a year or longer for the game to get some content and then I will probably just use someone else's save to access the lewd content. The game feels more like a 0.0.11 than a 0.11.

Damn I got duped into thinking that there is some content. Generally all games in here when they get to 0.10 as a tenth update they have tons of content and here is almost nothing but promises for things and how it will generally work. I will abandon this game for now till it gets something started because its frustrating expirience without any real reward to work hours for. Even with damn hints it was frustrating because you as a character should be able to talk with others and get info from them but nah. Search whole game for clues and piece them together yourself. Great.. hours wasted on searching shit and skipping days just to get to some good part only to be dissapointed in the end. It has great potential but for now only that. Nothing more to this game than promise for the future.

As a game it lacks almost everything but as a promise for the future it gets 4 stars. I mean.. in a year or two this might be a decent game.

Version: 0.09 Beta

Review:
I had played the previous game and tried it twice, but since that game was so confusing and you needed a walkthrough so you wouldn't get stuck in time, I ended up giving up. I hope that doesn't happen in this game, although it is still in development. Talking about it, the game needs to be much improved, character movement is still through clicks and not the WASD keyboard, character models need to be more polished and optimized and besides, the game offers an interesting proposal.

History:
Very similar to Twist, well, maybe a little bit of your plot. I didn't think the plot was good but I didn't think it was bad either. But it doesn't seem like it captivated me much.
Gameplay:
It is in this part that the game sucks, the movement is horrible, you need to click forward or sideways for MC to move and with the m2 to direct the camera. As I said earlier, the movement could be using the keyboard with the WASD keys, as that would make it much more practical. As the game is still in beta, there's not much to do yet, but at the moment there is very little interaction with the objects and luckily there is no character management system (hunger, thirst, sleep).
Graphics & Sexual Contents:
The graphics of model renderings seem to be way out of date, that's because if you look at Emily you'll see she doesn't look 19 years old, it was weird for me as I thought it was the MC's aunt. Talking about the ambiance, the house, and around, the graphics are good and the lighting is good too. The sexual content is good, animated with moans, but at one point I didn't feel much pleasure because of the model renderings, because it felt like I was playing a version of The Sims 3, not that it's bad, but it's because I'm not very used to it. Looks like you went back to the 2000s.

Why I did gave 1 star?
1.6gb of download, without much content to explore, needs to be optimized.
Quite poorly optimized, terrible movement of the MC and character models need to be improved (polished). The game looks promising, but it didn't make me think if it will have potential. Unfortunately it will take a long time before it becomes very playable, if you're thinking about trying it, I don't recommend it right now, but if you want to test it, go ahead. I'll change my mind when the game comes out of ''beta'', but so far, the game hasn't really interested me.

huge potential. The characters are much more beautiful, than in the twsit.
The game is also smoother.
I expect a lot!
The POV view is a great idea, everything looks better than in the twist.
Now you need a good story with a good scene, and the acting will be perfect.

There is almost no gameplay yet, but oh my - the mechanics are SOO much better compared to "The Twist". And did I mention the work that has been done on the visuals & the assets? It's incredibly well done for such a "small" niche game.

Compared to "The Twist":
+ The performance seems way more consistent and smoother.
+ Loading times have been improved significantly, a big plus because "The Twist" was a nightmare in that regard
+ The UI is simple but feels good & seems to do what the user would expect
+ The addition of a free camera is a blessing and a solid step up.
+ The free character movement is nice to have and will add much more possibilities regarding level design and future content. atm it feels useless and for the College it may be to slow to be practicable. I think the problem here is the size of the level (could be a bit smaller).

One thing I hope the dev will put more effort into is music & sound design.

While it's not perfect, the new engine feels way better. The dev seems to know how to use effects like DOF or lighting the scene. The mechanics got improved & now all that is missing is actual content.

Can't wait to see how the project progresses.

[V0.07 Beta]

There is nothing to do in this game yet, just walk around and talk to the two NPCs.

Graphics look decent, but walking around with the camera is a bit awkward (mouse movement not wasd).

Will change score hopefully once actual content comes out.