I've just played through the latest release, and here's my impressions:
1. This is one of the few games that makes me go "Where is the creator's Patreon so I can throw money at them?" and "Wow this has so many great ideas, I'm going to blatantly steal some of these in my future work".
2. Standout feature has to be the kink/trait system. It's just so clean, especially considering that this is made in Ren'Py, which I have first-hand experience in coding. It's a nightmare, and I only suffered a bug once, while trying to roll back from a game over where I ended up as a vending machine. I'm going to steal this for a project I'm doing in the future, FYI.
3. Somebody used Daz3D in an erotic game and went through the bother of customizing the models! The art style is great, the uncanny valley issue that tends to be a problem with 3D erotic models is avoided just because of how stylized and cartoony everyone looks. I do have to agree that the humans all mostly have the same body types, which is understandable since they're all in the space military which probably has strict physical requirements, but I still wish there were more.
3.1 Why is the French maid classified as chubby tho??? She's stacked, I def agree with those who complained that her great hourglass body is not what most people who aren't working as a coke-addicted fashion model would call chubby.
4. It's a scifi erotic comedy video game that has bisexuality, pregnancy, and sex with aliens. This is such specifically tailored to me I'm wondering if you are in contact with the game designer who announced they're making a murder-mystery video game visual novel where you solve clues using picture-number puzzles.
5. The game manages to capture the right tone for lightening what would otherwise be too creepy/disturbing stuff. And yet the game still acknowledges that things are very rape-y in the universe. That's a really clever writing achievement.
6. I've enjoyed every character we've encountered on the ship so far, even dumb hunky Chad and the nerdy guy who keeps complaining about rape and even Philmore and the girl whose super into cheating. That's an achievement, IMHO.
My critiques
1. I wish the game had some way of telling you if the animation is looping or not. I suspect I may have missed a detail because I clicked on next while an animation was playing.
2. Does picking Morgana lock you out of getting to sleep with Lancelot? What about bisexuals like me who want to sleep with both of them? Maybe a way to have Morgana swap into Lancelot and back?? A similar situation arises with Nurse and Hanzi... why can't I ask both of them to stay???
3. There is some odd pacing issues, which I can't specifically point what is wrong with them. Not all chapters lead to a satisfying conclusion, like the shower chapter, which, while fun, had one of the longest, least interactive ending sequences in the game. It's thankfully followed by the clinic/hairstyling/Hanzi vs Nurse sequence, which is one of the funniest chapters so far.
4. The Pandaemonium sequences all just feel off, and ruin the rhythm of the game. Like I understand their importance, but they both feel too long and too slow yet not informative enough. It's got way too much of "Protagonist talking to themselves while they're confused" and not enough plot or interacting with other characters. The tone just feels too serious compared to the rest of the game, and this being a fantasy sequence when the rest of the game is scifi just makes things worse, in my opinion. I wouldn't know how to fix this as the Pandaemonium parts are interesting and I don't know how to change them without breaking something, but... maybe more jokes? These are the least fun demons I've run into in a long while.
Anyway, I'm off to check out Patreon and open up Daz3D, hope this review was helpful!
EDIT: I forgot to add one more critique: My only critique of the kink/trait system is that I personally don't find futas sexy, but I do find androgynous people of all genders and transmen (guys with 'gynes) super hot. So it's kinda annoying to me that if I want to see those, I have to see futas.
