RPGM - Skie's Inflatable Adventures [v0.12d] [Skie Maree]

Art and concept pretty hot, but...

This will mainly echo below: GLACIAL

Everything you need to do from:
* Want to advance the storyboard with text overlays at the beginning? NOPE. Egregiously slow.
* Framerate in town is trash
* Filling yourself up with water or air is SO SLOW.
* If you didn't fill to enough capacity to change the pixel sprite, you won't trigger certain events, and you'll need to WALK BACK THE SLOW FPS SPIRAL AND SLOWLY FILL MORE

Bugs:
* Don't try refilling the same bucket, or it'll just reset your day
* Plenty of others, like filling to popping. One even gave me a black screen (but the game was still going, like I could move around and make noises and things)
(Save often and in different slots)

Music:
* Wtf is this weird "honey is home for christmas" kind of bullshit music, when she's masturbating in the shower? Are you a psychopath?

SFX:
* Grunts and ahas with every dialog box. My brother in Christ, did you even play your own game?

Dialog:
* Everyone always teasing you about your balloon fetish. I dunno, this just wasn't plausible or hot to me, ymmv. My inclination would have been that, once you are fused with the slime, you discover these abilities and its alarming but also really sexually stimulating and you lean in more and more. But I'm partial to corruption storylines and I get that the author was going for some sort of bizarro world where this niche fetish is just accepted and openly discussed in proper society.

Also, once you get to butt filling: consider that she just literally shits in the bucket, and you hear that. Lulz!

I saw there was fart + burb content, which I find distasteful, but might explain the "everyone loves you for who you are [you sick fuck] vibe."

TLDR - play it anyway, you clicked here, didn't you?

The Game has a truly Beautiful artwork. Pretty well done game regarding the gameplayloop
Developer is very active on discord and provides a lot of insight about troubleshooting and future of the Game.

(v0.12a)
Honestly I was surprised by this game since I saw the bad reviews and how much you have to grind but oh boy it is awesome.

Art/Fetish : 5/5
It is amazing the artist knows what he is doing, quite experienced and despite his "unique fetish" he tries to capture as much as it can.
Gameplay: 4/5
lets address the elephant in the room, yes it is grindy but that is the whole thing that the developer is going for, a gameplay loop, the best example that i can give you it is Karryn prison in early development, it was really grindy but not enough content to justify it, same thing is happening here. only complaint here is that it is not finished yet properly, it is clear that you are supposed to do quests to help the grind (they give huge amount of SP), but there are not enough NPCs yet he is adding them fast though.
Sound: 4/5
Honestly amazing, even walking sound is awesome, just to be exact there is moans and such, just characters are not voiced(-1)

So give it a try, if you like the fetish you will love it, the developer is quite consistent. (Sadly there are way to many lazy developers just see the abandoned tag if you don't believe me ). He is fixing things , and adjusting the grind. lastly I would have given maybe 3/5 score if I didn't go through his posts on subscriberstar and saw the patch notes but after that well, this is something that I will look forward to despite the problems that the game has.

(v0.12a)

Man, sucks that this game is so... not-good, I'm practically pulling my hair out trying not to rate this lower, just imagine a 2.5 but rounded up, that'd make me feel better.

Anyway, the review:
Grindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrind.
Bugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugs.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait.
That's basically the whole game if you cut out the lewd bits.
Also the English in the game isn't great, the voice clips all the characters get suck, and the whole game needs a rebalancing in numbers and speed.

Grind:
Money, skill points, stocking up on food, refilling the gas for the stove so you can cook, refilling the water for the crafting station, it's all there. Half the game's quests so far consist of grinding a bunch of money to buy something or grinding some fairly large amount of SP because the quest says so.
After beating the prologue, you unlock a ton more skills to put points into, which also require their own special currency plus a ton of the regular skillpoints, AND some skills even need special foods to level up too. Even on my cheated file, I was actually starting to run low on skillpoints, like god damn.

Bugs:
I've had cutscenes play twice at the same time before the game finally crashes, I've had the game error out and crash, and I've seen so many "touch [thing] and the game crashes" situations that I manually save all the time. What's worse for me is that the most common bug comes with an alert sound and a frozen chat background alongside a big "REPORT THIS" message, all of which practically being a jumpscare.
What's worse for EVERYONE is that in most of the game's bugs, they save to your actual save file, so if you get the frozen background bug or the disappearing HUD bug, if you save, your save is like that forever. v0.12a fixed a few of the really common bugs, but if I open another door in the game and get that error message again, I'm probably gonna piss myself, I have a fear of bugs that come with an alert sound and I'm getting goosebumps just typing about it.

Waiting:
Inflation takes forever, the game's intro plot video thing takes forever (and you can't skip it despite being some generic JRPG plot), dialogue is slow, movement speed is slow, man I wont even bother listing everything but you get the idea. Also milking. If you're half-full, you still need to do the entire milking fade-to-black like 6 times just to empty out and it's not skippable.
The worst part is the day/night cycle. For some reason, the cycle is REALLY slow and there's no way to advance it, so when you get a couple quests to meet people at night, even if you go around town and do literally everything there is to do, you really only advance about halfway through the day.

The good:

1. It's an actual inflation game where you can inflate her boobs, belly and butt individually and mix-and-match all you want.
2. Lots of people like the art (I don't personally), and there's a surprising number of CGs for how early in the game it is. (The dev's an artist.)
3. The inflation sizes are giant, especially for being an RPG Maker game where they usually keep inflation to a minimum because of sprite limitations. Even just size 2/5 is giant.
4. It's made in one of the less-overused versions of RPG Maker, so it's a bit less samey than the other RM games.
5. Only costs $3-5/mo to buy it legit (though updates are scarce and you mostly just sub for art, I guess.)

I'll start by saying the main issue of this game could be fixed with probably a few minor tweaks and some optimization.

HOWEVER, the pace of the game being so glacially, painfully, AGONIZINGLY SLOW means any attempt of playing this is a turn-off at best (even if you LIKE the fetish) and a reason to drop it and never look back at worst. From the intro to the run speed to the town design to the buckets requiring a double trip to be filled from DAY 1, every part of this game compounds unto itself to be the slowest fucking thing I've ever played. The town is a spiral, making the longest possible path between the main object and all of your goals along said path, where you're fetching water for buckets that must be dumped into twice before you have any reasonable (or even cheatable) way to adjust the SP needed to increase size+capacity.

On top of this entire thing (which you WILL run into due to the day-2 quest of COMPLETELY FILLING ALL BUCKETS), the game also has an ABYSSMAL framerate in the town you'll spend 90% of the gameplay in.

Honestly, until there are saves publicly dropped, don't even download this game. The intro alone will probably turn you away by being 3 minutes of unwarranted, unskippable, and unmashable yapping about shit you didn't come here for, that you can't even have run in the background because the cutscene requires that you be focused on the window.

*Edit*: I also forgot about the bug that can sometimes happen where your HUD disappears and you can no longer interact with shit. A bug that can be SAVED TO A FILE, losing you potentially your entire early-game since you can't rely on auto-save, as it will also be saved to that.