I don't think money went to waste. Good voice acting for everything alone would had cost a fortune.
Only thing bad is the Pandora system. Everything else is quality.
Yeah! I think people would complain a lot less if the pandora system wasn't a thing. It's a shame, too, because it wasn't all that hard to make things happen. The mantic sex scenes could happen as you upgrade them with bio or something - that seems to be even part of the lore. The only sex that happens through the game is the recruitment one and besides barely making any sense it's also pretty boring.
At the same time, since they're dealing with people who have weak dicks which instantly retract like a turtle as soon as anything beyond their comfort zone appears, the pandora system could be considered a genius move. On a lot of other threads here you see guys saying "omg! it showed a male butthole for 0.01 seconds! 1 star! fuck this gay shit! I'm not touching it even though I'd love the 99.9% of the other content!", with the pandora system they can just make sure their weak peepees don't have to get soft over anything unexpected, since you get to make the choice freely. It's probably a good approach for selling on Steam.
But I just like my porn game to connect the porn to the game you know? That's pretty much one of the most important things for me. I think I had more fun with some awful twine games just because they correctly connected everything.
Both the vertical scroller and the tactics parts are pretty good indie-level games on their own right, though, if they get developed further (ship combat customization + troop upgrades) those two should become super good later on. For a first attempt this is really really good.
