Hi, I'm a lurker who never posts but I wanted to give feedback to this project.
I rarely think of buying eroges with some exceptions like Kamidori Alchemy Meister, Sengoku Rance and the likes, but this one in particular is the only non JP eroge that I would definetly think of buying on release due to how good everything is, well unless you decide to put it for 80 bucks.
Now the feedback, I've followed this project since it was posted first here and back then it was absurdly difficult meanwhile now with the outfits and Stage 2 is not entirely easy but kind of easy. I'm not asking to increase the difficulty for stage 2, but I hope it does slightly for stage 3.
I've already read that you guys want to release it once we have at least 6 stages (Stage 1 having A and B path, Stage 2 having A and B path and so on). That is indeed a good idea even if ultimately people would get annoyed that they got the "harder path", but you won't be able to do much about it, even if you balance it properly eventually people will find one path harder than another, so don't let that discourage you in the future.
The huntress is by far your best character in every way, she's the strongest unit, she's the funniest and she also has the best lewds. Followed by your swordswoman and your weakest being the ninja, although I don't understand why she's the most popular when she is in fact the weakest of the 3 and all she has going for her is that she's the narrator.
The gallery needs improvement, now that we have sprites of the girls captured I'd advice to add those to the gallery and also the moaning to the gallery. Consider as well for the future, threesomes when captured on the same turn. Take a look at something like Dungeon of Erotic Master's gallery for what I mean. Also, consider for release, to allow the complete unlock of the gallery upon completing the game without needing to get grabbed by every unit in the game.
Consider locking some of the spells to a character, to give it more personality. For example, the spell of not consuming a turn when using an item should be locked on the ninja since it fits her more.
Other things I would like to see, obviously you can ignore me and do as you please, is giving the girls more unique stats. What I mean by that is for example, giving the swordswoman more stamina but less damage (not counting the clothes), giving the ninja more unique spells that she can only use but less mind, giving the archer the ability to know when the crit would happen (like with the ninja) but lower her stamina. In short, give them stats or more unique things per unit that makes sense outside of the skills and the current Star stat.
The crane minigame is, sadly, awful. It's way too expensive for very little rewards, the only time big rewards come into play is when you score significant things while also spending an absurd amount of money that might as well use cheat engine. Not only the crane is way too hard to score, the game will detect you cheating even when all you did was try to grab something from the pile because physics will send the balls flying. If you try to avoid being a cheater and grab from outside the pile, you need to wait way too long for what you're looking for to be available to be grabbed.
The crane minigame definetly needs a big rework because as it is, I fear that in the future me and many others would simply ignore the minigame and never try to gamble (well I say gamble but it's like a guarantee that you will not get anything of true value).
You guys are doing an amazing job and I'll continue lurking, waiting until it's done or when I feel that some feedback might improve things a little.
