The actual "game" parts of this game feel simultaneously under-baked and overwhelmingly present. Much of the hexsploration stuff just grinds the pace of the game to a complete halt without cheats. Once the intro finishes, the first stretches of the actual game have basically nothing to do with the actual plot unless you already know which hexes you need to go to *and* get lucky on certain random event rolls. (Side note: it has been a minute or two since I did a full actual playthrough, so some stuff may have changed, though it doesn't seem to have really done anything by looking through the patchnotes.) If you're not sure of where to go, or want to explore as far as you can before triggering the story events, the plot fucks off. It doesn't help that the management elements of the castle and finding resources across the map don't seem to really do anything. Every time I've played it without cheats, I've been sitting there, wishing they had made a more traditional visual novel so I wouldn't be wasting my fucking time on the hexsploration without much to show. Boredom grows with every week you spend not triggering any events because most of the map is blank. Weekend events also hurt the pacing; you can be trying to push for a map objective only to be interrupted by long, unrelated weekend events, but you can also be hoping to trigger something that weekend to break up the monotony and get nothing so you have to go back to the map and spend another week.
the actual game fucking sucks ass, it's a poor attempt at some sort kingdom management/conquest sim, and the devs attempt to pretend it's anything more than just a porn game.
Finally , someone said it
Agreed 100%. Its fairly nice art held hostage behind a janky, garbled, mess of a game.
Ofc, I am just saying that Astarte is as good a place as any for that ending. The idea would be that while at earlier points Rowan betraying them would not get them killed, at Astarte it should be possible for him to get them bound or killed especially if he can contact the right people.
True, if you reached a point where she is obedient to either of them maybe she could survive as their slave.
I don't think the exploration element is handled bad, it is the core RPG systems like leveling, skills and combat that seem largely pointless.
Good stuff, I'm noting it down.
The threesome is optional, but that's the only true netorase relationship as it's clear Rowan isn't sharing Alexia with Andras or with anyone else
Please be joking, we don't need another rule change. Keep working on Astarte though, I am really enjoying those updates and I'd love to see something similar for Rastedel (even better if we get some sex scenes at the epilogue).
I am assuming that the Andras NTR arc will escalate to actual cucking in Act 2 (possibly with some appropriately AndrasxRowan action though it would probably be a choice).
It's something for me to consider regarding act 2.
The core gameplay loop has issues because you don't actually have a core gameplay loop. Clicking around on a grid with the occasional dice roll event popping up between fixed event locations is not complex enough to be considered a gameplay loop. Seeds of Chaos has a lot going for it but every single element of its gameplay is not one of them. You've already spent eight years working on a couple of hours of content... don't go tricking yourselves into thinking gameplay is what you should be focusing on. Keep things simple, keep things straight forward, don't rock the boat and maybe you'll finish act 2 in the 2020s.
