I hear you bro, I remember back when SG and WIAB had those amazing transitions and effects for the menu and galleries. Well WIAB still has them on most of the menu, but SG is... yeah. I feel like menu and gallery haven't been worked on in forever.
I'm thinking we'll see a few changes in Ch5 full:
- no blueballing screen: as Season 1 is not sold as an 18+ game but a 16+ game, it's unlikely to be needed. There will never be any sex scenes in season 1, so itwould become an in joke for those who followed the development, but would be meaningless in a non adult game for sale. Also, no one should begin by telling people who just bought the game on steam, that there are no sex scenes. It's being sould for what it is, not what it isn't. Probably no obligatoary age check required for a 16+ either.
- Instead of the the blueball screen, we'll probably have some form of opening credit style cinematic.
- Similarly, we'll likely have a proper credits vibe at the end.
- A properly updated gallery. Ocean will have all the renders for Season 1, so it doesn't make sense not to have a completed gallery with the relevant gallery/replay material.
- Scene replays will propably not have the highly amusing sex category: again, great in jokes, but irrelevant for purchasers who aren't already neck deep in AVN's.
Things I hope:
- Nami's photo book - I speculate that Ocean might have some renders of scenes that we've not seen, and that if he does implement Nami's photo book, looking through it will have some plot easter eggs for people who pay attention.
- A consistent font between in game and menus, because they are currently vastly opposed aesthetics. GIve me floral or give me angular, just don't mix them together. I would actually be okay with the tabletop having a different font based on the setting, that would actually be a nice touch.
- It'll stay renpy, but hopefully Ocean will use whatever version is most stable. The big thing is that currently everything we have is a work in progress, so bugs will always be kicked down the line. A commercial release, well, OCean better have a plan to make sure that people can reload their saves without corruption (unless they play modded at their own discretion). I don't think users rage quitting after 'an exception has occured' will be happy to buy season 2.