Okay so I played this a bit on the last update and it was okay, very broken. But somewhat ok. I could hardly get any events, I dropped it after a few hours of not understanding the progression. On this update .29.2 or whatever we're calling it, it's much better in terms of progression. I found most of the minigames to be fun aside from the harvesting vegetables, that one is a pain in the butt. A few things that I would like to point out though..
When you make Shion work for the Mayor, her sprit becomes bugged outside his house on those days after she works. Even if you have her in your party, she will be standing in front of the Mayor's house. Also, after progression Masaru route far enough, Masaru can be in his house with his daughter in the afternoon but also in the bakery having fun with Shion. At the same time, Masaru is in the bakery with Shion late night, but if you sneak into Masaru's house, it will act like you're spying on Masaru and Erica when neither sprite is in their bedroom.
There are a few typos and spelling/grammar errors, but because your game is longer than Lord of the Rings, I'll allow it.
Sometimes the quest logs and or Recollection room hints aren't very helpful. For example one says something about getting the ID card from the back alley, but it doesn't mention meeting rge rude woman outside the office first to trigger that portion of the quest. Another example is fixing the sauna, I got the sauna repaired and everything and even though your walkthrough on Patreon says to enter the sauna without Shion, nothing triggers. Also, as far as opening the mansion, I'm past the RV scenes and the walkthrough says to talk to the Earl without Shion. That quest also does not seem to trigger. And finally, to get to the hotel scenes, it said to make a Chocolate cake+ and go to the hotel I believe? That doesn't seem to work either. There's a hint in recollection room to start hotel event to check Erica's journal and go to bakery, that doesn't do anything? After seeing the journal, going to the shop in town, she gets approached by the shopkeeper who says something about toys for Erica's daughter that should show up at 10pm, but that doesn't seem to lead to anything.
Aside from that, I think you should include a few saves with version releases that are saves up to the new point. The other thing you could try is adding a debug "unlock all recollections" in the memory room. Because nobody will want to slog through this game many times just to see the same stuff every time an update comes in.
Also, I think the phone description is not correct, either that or the game states it does things that it clearly doesn't. I say this because the mental notes do practically nothing on this update and it clearly said it would show values of relationships with people.
I may sound critical but I really like this game, I didn't really enough the walls of text, but i lived through it. I'm just stuck with the hotel and sauna now and I accidentally ruined my save so I most likely won't be spending hours to get back to that point until next update. But thank you for your work so far!
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I love scars of summer and its ugly antagonists? Is this game also have multiple routes with ugly men or just 1 route with masaru? If it does have multiple antagonists can anyone share their design? I can't find it on patreon.
It doesn't work you have to attach the config file and the global file for it to work
Yeah I'm gonna need a full save. Dev please attach one with every new release. I was an hour in and my game crashed at the first cooking minigame. Made no saves before that and I'm not gonna do this again
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i had this problem and couldnt fix it and progress the story . just use mtool and add the item to your invertory .
Good job on the game! Main thing I didn't like is that it's quite tedious to simply move around: you press right arrow then down arrow and the character somehow doesn't move immediately... Not sure what's causing that
It might also lack some QoL stuff, I'd suggest (re?)playing Henteria Chronicles 2 or 3 to have good grasp of what works really well in these games
For example, while this is of course not too complicated, the question is: "does having to do these steps benefit the game?"
I think that this kind of thing is more of a turn off than anything: you are already making a great job at making it a good slowburn story, simply with the writing, and with rather cool minigames on the side (didn't quite get the harvest one though..), so imho there's no need for fetching quests that have several steps to them, only one step is often enough (go there, pick that thing, bring it back)
Overall I like the writing which is to me the most important thing in corruption games, and the art is fine as well so I'm looking forward to finishing what already came out an to what's next
It might also lack some QoL stuff, I'd suggest (re?)playing Henteria Chronicles 2 or 3 to have good grasp of what works really well in these games
For example, while this is of course not too complicated, the question is: "does having to do these steps benefit the game?"
I think that this kind of thing is more of a turn off than anything: you are already making a great job at making it a good slowburn story, simply with the writing, and with rather cool minigames on the side (didn't quite get the harvest one though..), so imho there's no need for fetching quests that have several steps to them, only one step is often enough (go there, pick that thing, bring it back)
Overall I like the writing which is to me the most important thing in corruption games, and the art is fine as well so I'm looking forward to finishing what already came out an to what's next
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make sure that you talk to the right person, its not that buff-wood cutter guy, its the guy inside
the house. the old bald guy
After seeing reviews highly praising the game I decided to give it a shot. I can't say my impressions are as good, I recognize the effort but the result is not there.
- Movement - why does it take so long to move ? normally I only need to tap the arrow key to move here I need to press and hoooold. Just running around is annoying but moving just 1-2 tiles is simply frustrating. And now I’m to do mini-games with this movement ? Also no click to move that could remedy this.
- “skip button” that doesn’t skip – if I’m holding skip button and scene takes few minutes to play out then effectively there is no skip function.
- Gathering materials, crafting, mini-games and certain quest design (go to place and wait for something to happen if it doesn’t happen come next day and do the same). Why I’m doing chores in my porn game? I know what “weight” is and this is not it. This ain’t a survival or adventure game, there is no self-improvement connection with the character. I'm here to see the fool cucked not to live his miserable life. But half a loaf is better than no bread and I've been living of crumbs lately …
- Shion comments about “another man” are weird given she has no man really. Like no man has touched her for what we know, certainly not MC. The relationship with MC is so vague you question if it even exist, if you would replace it say with brother and sister relationship would anything change for the story so far ? (I'm at Earl quest) Or maybe they are just posing to discourage suitors going after her, would make sense in her biz.
- Shion is bothered by Dan “unfaithfulness” when their relationship is in name only but not by Masaru’s ? He is married, got child and the thought he is cheating does not even occur to her? Shouldn’t she have reservations about the fact that she is potentially breaking their marriage ? "Need breast to grope to get texture? How about your wife she got quite a pair too."
-The harvesting mini-game gotta be bugged right? 1s to input 5+ key sequence ? Average reaction time is 250ms without deciding process ...
Some positive words … the general idea is sound, the world well crafted, corruption uses good formula “handful of stupidity, drop of supernatural, pinch of bad luck, a spoon of bad intents , glass of obliviousness , mix and bake”. I like that MC is involved in scenes and the mini-game scene is great idea it's just if I wouldn’t be asked to think during it...
- Movement - why does it take so long to move ? normally I only need to tap the arrow key to move here I need to press and hoooold. Just running around is annoying but moving just 1-2 tiles is simply frustrating. And now I’m to do mini-games with this movement ? Also no click to move that could remedy this.
- “skip button” that doesn’t skip – if I’m holding skip button and scene takes few minutes to play out then effectively there is no skip function.
- Gathering materials, crafting, mini-games and certain quest design (go to place and wait for something to happen if it doesn’t happen come next day and do the same). Why I’m doing chores in my porn game? I know what “weight” is and this is not it. This ain’t a survival or adventure game, there is no self-improvement connection with the character. I'm here to see the fool cucked not to live his miserable life. But half a loaf is better than no bread and I've been living of crumbs lately …
- Shion comments about “another man” are weird given she has no man really. Like no man has touched her for what we know, certainly not MC. The relationship with MC is so vague you question if it even exist, if you would replace it say with brother and sister relationship would anything change for the story so far ? (I'm at Earl quest) Or maybe they are just posing to discourage suitors going after her, would make sense in her biz.
- Shion is bothered by Dan “unfaithfulness” when their relationship is in name only but not by Masaru’s ? He is married, got child and the thought he is cheating does not even occur to her? Shouldn’t she have reservations about the fact that she is potentially breaking their marriage ? "Need breast to grope to get texture? How about your wife she got quite a pair too."
-The harvesting mini-game gotta be bugged right? 1s to input 5+ key sequence ? Average reaction time is 250ms without deciding process ...
Some positive words … the general idea is sound, the world well crafted, corruption uses good formula “handful of stupidity, drop of supernatural, pinch of bad luck, a spoon of bad intents , glass of obliviousness , mix and bake”. I like that MC is involved in scenes and the mini-game scene is great idea it's just if I wouldn’t be asked to think during it...
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Hmm...the movement thing seems to be a real issue. It works well for me and on my other device (a lower end laptop) but if this is going to be an annoyance then I'll have to find a way to deal with it eventually.
Do you experience input lag outside of movement? or is it movement only?
Anyway for the screenshot: the early game is designed to have the player put in a little more effort, mid game and late game does reduce that. The text you show me was residue from the last update that is now replaced by the Quest Journal but maybe the quest journal isn't good or direct enough?
Yup it's movement only, if you play any other RPGM game (let's say Henteria chronicles, Dilmur, NTR online, etc) it's smooth, but here, it's not (it's quite hard to describe but playing one of these games and this one alternately should give a good idea of what the issue is)
Alright, I'll just continue and if quest design does become.. smoothier? If it does, with time, then fine by me.
For the quest journal, it seems to me that it really depends
For example this is very good (icon, location, everything I need is there)
While this is not enough (how do I craft it, where?)
Dialogue said it but if you go back to the game after a while and see that, you need more hintsAlso, this one didn't change after visiting the Mayor
so I can't tell if it's bugged, if I need to visit him several times, etc.You invite the baker to drink at the bar after you make the second drink and raise his relationship enough.
I was able to figure out the hotel check in quest. You don't talk to the person behind the counter, instead you interact with the book next to him.
My next issue is that I have to make Green Bean cakes to trade for basalt rocks. However I can't seem to find the recipe anywhere. Anybody know?
My next issue is that I have to make Green Bean cakes to trade for basalt rocks. However I can't seem to find the recipe anywhere. Anybody know?