v0.3.0
Renders are pretty good. Story is ok since it is unique. Characters are from other franchises, which is a plus if you already know them. Everything is great, but it seems that the dev has put in some artificial roadblocks to try and monetize the game. Respect, but it significantly makes the gaming experience worse as it SIGNIFICANTLY increases the grind. Here are the downsides from this approach:
- Strategyless minigame. In the game, there is a small combat minigame, where you pick 4 characters and they autobattle the enemies. This is your main way of progressing the story. This gets old real fast, and there is no way to skip and there is no significant strategy to this minigame. The best strategy is to just queue up minigames as fast as possible to increase your earnings, without considering anything else
- Gacha system to unlock characters and sex scenes. Why are sex scenes artificially gated around rolling a character multiple times from the gacha? The best strategies to circumvent this is to keep reloading the save or to repeatably grind until you roll into a character or hit pity, neither are fun options. From my experience, it will take you ~4mins of sitting through mush and grinding just to earn one sex scene, assuming you abuse RenPy's save system. You can implement random systems without this super unfriendly high randomness system. For example, you could have a draft between 3 characters - where you get to pick one character to level up, ignoring the rest.
- High power Patreon exclusive content. There exists a black market, where you will get essentially no deals as a standard player. You can however, get access to more deals assuming you have a Patreon membership. There also exists a gacha in the game, where you can roll lewder and more powerful characters than normal, assuming you have a Patreon membership. It almost seems like the dev has artificially introduced this power creep content to incentivize subscribing to Patreon to bypass the anti-player mechanismisms currently in the game
Overall? Great game, if the artifical roadblocks weren't there. If the story really grabs you I would go for it, but I would recommend trying out something else without these F2P grindfest mechanics.
Renders are pretty good. Story is ok since it is unique. Characters are from other franchises, which is a plus if you already know them. Everything is great, but it seems that the dev has put in some artificial roadblocks to try and monetize the game. Respect, but it significantly makes the gaming experience worse as it SIGNIFICANTLY increases the grind. Here are the downsides from this approach:
- Strategyless minigame. In the game, there is a small combat minigame, where you pick 4 characters and they autobattle the enemies. This is your main way of progressing the story. This gets old real fast, and there is no way to skip and there is no significant strategy to this minigame. The best strategy is to just queue up minigames as fast as possible to increase your earnings, without considering anything else
- Gacha system to unlock characters and sex scenes. Why are sex scenes artificially gated around rolling a character multiple times from the gacha? The best strategies to circumvent this is to keep reloading the save or to repeatably grind until you roll into a character or hit pity, neither are fun options. From my experience, it will take you ~4mins of sitting through mush and grinding just to earn one sex scene, assuming you abuse RenPy's save system. You can implement random systems without this super unfriendly high randomness system. For example, you could have a draft between 3 characters - where you get to pick one character to level up, ignoring the rest.
- High power Patreon exclusive content. There exists a black market, where you will get essentially no deals as a standard player. You can however, get access to more deals assuming you have a Patreon membership. There also exists a gacha in the game, where you can roll lewder and more powerful characters than normal, assuming you have a Patreon membership. It almost seems like the dev has artificially introduced this power creep content to incentivize subscribing to Patreon to bypass the anti-player mechanismisms currently in the game
Overall? Great game, if the artifical roadblocks weren't there. If the story really grabs you I would go for it, but I would recommend trying out something else without these F2P grindfest mechanics.