So there are definitely good things about this game:
+Amazing voice acting.
+Great model and texture work.*
+ Backgrounds and areas of the ship look highly detailed.
+ Characters that are written with, well their own character.
+ Ground missions with simplified XCOM-style combat, no miss chance.
+ SHMUP space combat challenging enough to be enjoyable.
+ Animation for the sex scenes is very smooth.
+ Transitioning the speed of the "Premium" ^ scenes works really well. This is at a very high level and works with the sounds as well so worth mentioning separately.
* In terms of achieving the look they were going for. That's not always a good thing though.
^ Despite being called "Premium" they are unlocked with the same in-game points earned from combat as everything else, which is a plus.
There are a few minor issues:
- Space combat a little too simple.
- Ground combat missing important elements like cover or enemies spawning at a distance/out of LoS.
- Talking to a character who is stood in an area of the ship you're in means going through a loading screen. Why?
- Main character an idiot who gets bossed around by women.
- Main character is just unfunny Australian Deadpool with no powers.
Major, unforgivable flaws:
--- Half the female characters so far have fucking octopus tentacles instead of hair, textured to look as slimy as possible. Who thought this would ever be anything other than nauseating?
--- Half the female characters are insane violent ultra-psychopaths, including a couple of the squidheads.
--- There's one female character who canonically spends her spare time fucking mindless alien genetically-engineered combat beasts.
--- The only female not a total bitch (or spending her time fucking dog-monsters and tentacles) is made of plastic, so fucking her is about as exciting as putting your dick in Lego.
--- The Pandora system means there is no romance or affection system, just unlockable sex scenes.
--- This is the only porn game I've ever played where I've looked at over half the sex scene previews and been glad they weren't unlocked. Seriously. There's way too much tentacle/bestiality crap there.
Why not just play for the adequate if simple ground and space combat, and ignore the sex scenes? Well you'll be constantly interrupted by cutscenes that continually remind you that the character designer had such a broken soul that they cannot where the line is between sexy and nightmarish.
The devs have no idea whatsoever how to make a female character attractive, but don't worry, that's not the only problem. One of the male characters you pick up to join your crew looks horrifically malproportioned even in normal conversation and also spends the whole time with his dick out, and you can find him masturbating in a locker. With dialog and ship/station designs full of messy innuendo, this game' overall atmosphere is like licking a truckstop floor.
tl;dr: Free is too expensive. Don't sacrifice your remaining sanity.
+Amazing voice acting.
+Great model and texture work.*
+ Backgrounds and areas of the ship look highly detailed.
+ Characters that are written with, well their own character.
+ Ground missions with simplified XCOM-style combat, no miss chance.
+ SHMUP space combat challenging enough to be enjoyable.
+ Animation for the sex scenes is very smooth.
+ Transitioning the speed of the "Premium" ^ scenes works really well. This is at a very high level and works with the sounds as well so worth mentioning separately.
* In terms of achieving the look they were going for. That's not always a good thing though.
^ Despite being called "Premium" they are unlocked with the same in-game points earned from combat as everything else, which is a plus.
There are a few minor issues:
- Space combat a little too simple.
- Ground combat missing important elements like cover or enemies spawning at a distance/out of LoS.
- Talking to a character who is stood in an area of the ship you're in means going through a loading screen. Why?
- Main character an idiot who gets bossed around by women.
- Main character is just unfunny Australian Deadpool with no powers.
Major, unforgivable flaws:
--- Half the female characters so far have fucking octopus tentacles instead of hair, textured to look as slimy as possible. Who thought this would ever be anything other than nauseating?
--- Half the female characters are insane violent ultra-psychopaths, including a couple of the squidheads.
--- There's one female character who canonically spends her spare time fucking mindless alien genetically-engineered combat beasts.
--- The only female not a total bitch (or spending her time fucking dog-monsters and tentacles) is made of plastic, so fucking her is about as exciting as putting your dick in Lego.
--- The Pandora system means there is no romance or affection system, just unlockable sex scenes.
--- This is the only porn game I've ever played where I've looked at over half the sex scene previews and been glad they weren't unlocked. Seriously. There's way too much tentacle/bestiality crap there.
Why not just play for the adequate if simple ground and space combat, and ignore the sex scenes? Well you'll be constantly interrupted by cutscenes that continually remind you that the character designer had such a broken soul that they cannot where the line is between sexy and nightmarish.
The devs have no idea whatsoever how to make a female character attractive, but don't worry, that's not the only problem. One of the male characters you pick up to join your crew looks horrifically malproportioned even in normal conversation and also spends the whole time with his dick out, and you can find him masturbating in a locker. With dialog and ship/station designs full of messy innuendo, this game' overall atmosphere is like licking a truckstop floor.
tl;dr: Free is too expensive. Don't sacrifice your remaining sanity.