Unity - Taffy Tales [S1 v1.0.35 Redux] [UberPie]

Oh boy, this will be a lot of useless text.
I'll try not to bitch about almost a decade of development.

*Before we start, I've played [s1-4+s5]. I've also checked [Redux] for an hour or two and checked its scenes.

Rating 3★
Honestly, can you call this game excellent? Probably not, of course, it's still not a complete game and things might change, but currently it's not that great. Indeed, it's a unique piece, that made quite an impact overall, but it doesn't justify its flaws.

Plot 4★
It's definitely not some kind of mind-blowing story or an extremely well-written one. The cliche about some kind of cult, its schemes, and experiments is not that rare, but it's still quite an enjoyable story so far.

Scenes 3★
We need to make things clear, TT is quite a dark-themed story with its routes and fetishes. Personally, it's a little too "dirty" for my soft heart. We can take Clara's route as an example, it's quite fierce and cruel(especially at the start), yeah later on it seems like we did a good thing, but Red still keeps things dirty, with all the filth and menace he throws at Clara. If the game was less kinetic when it comes to the story-telling I'd probably skip this route, but unfortunately, Clara is pretty much a must-have for our plans, so things have to be done even if I get to choose. All the fetishes with things like sharing, pregnancy, {gay}, scat, etc., might not suit some people, but overall mostly they're enjoyable. If I was however into all of it it'd be a strong 4★ or might even reach 5★

Art [?]★
This is a hard topic, I think original art is great, but there are a few scenes which I didn't like how they've been drawn. I'd probably give it a 4★
But there's a big problem, which is AI. Seasons 1-4 keep the art original, but starting s5 (or Redux for example) it gets heavily indulged in AI-generated images. I'm not gonna discuss people's personal preferences when it comes to AI art, but I'll be honest, I'm someone who let's say "enjoyed" kinds of AI-generated art, so I can tolerate authors starting using AI to speed up the development. But there are a few things that need to be said. First, IMO when it comes to AI-generated art it still needs to be not only revised but also "fixed" with its sometimes broken physique. Do we have it here? Nope, it sometimes feels as if devs decided to use a first-popped generated image and keep it as it is. Second, did it speed up the development?) Nope yet again. Can't call it anything but laziness and can't rate the AI part overall.

Storytelling 2★
It's bad, ofc seen worse, but still...
Yeah in Redux it's better since it's more structured and properly placed through the story, but it's being haphazard isn't the only problem.
There's a lot to say when it comes to MC, first and foremost - he doesn't change. He has Red as the biggest influence factor, his Tiffany(lol) tells him that family actually has a lot of problems, but he still doesn't change. He keeps being an idiot, he has a bunch of girls under him, but still being a Sniper Monkey when it comes to Stacy, Red literally telling him she's not that clean, Janice might've meant Stacy as a rich blonde girl who enjoys toying with her friends, but MC still being head over hills to her.
There's also a thing about not only MC not being able to connect 1 and 2, but sometimes even Red keeps being oblivious to things, take Ryoko for example, girl literally tells MC she's his only true ally and she can even hear Red talking, but after a hot minute they both forgets about it. It might be a storytelling mistake, cuz it's always getting lost in track, take s4-5 transition as an example, at the end of s4 we meet Toy, so what's about in s5? Well, MC forgor... But after dozens of days it pops up, MC also called Maria and forgot about it. At the end of s4 Danny found out about Becca and... that's it. We can talk to him, or he talks with Becca as if nothing happened, but after some quests MC remembers about it.
So storytelling is really sloppy :c

Writing 3★
A lot of mistakes.
During s5 I even started suspecting the text being written by AI.
There's also a thing about Mary and Tiffany. We all know that's a way to play around with incest censor. If you want you can call them Mom and Sis, and when they are referred to as: "it's his _", things will start to make sense. But I don't like seeing M&T being referred to as names we typed, cuz it's dumb that everyone is calling them Mom or Sis, use their damn names regardless of what was typed in. I've always played with them being called M&T and it feels good until it's being used in quotes like: it's your [Mary]...

*Almost everything was based on the original game, not Redux.

!So to summarize, I think 3★ is a worthy rating, will it change in the future? Nobody knows. Will this game ever be completed? Nobody knows. Will they change the art or keep AI till the end? Nobody knows. Will they develop the original game separately from Redux, because of the difference in story? Nobody knows.
I'd suggest playing the original s1-4+5 right now, and then coming back in another year or two to check if there'll be any major changes. Maybe devs will only focus on properly developing the Redux, which actually won't be a bad idea, but I personally would be majorly disappointed.

About different versions:
If you want a better game experience and you can deal with All-in AI art then play the Redux. There's very little of the story, but instead, they added some new content that doesn't exist in the original.
*There's currently only 1 season of Redux, and if I've understood correctly, there should be 3 of them. So I can't imagine how long you'll have to wait to not only catch up with the story and routes but also finish the game as a whole.

If you want to see a whole story so far, check out all the scenes and enjoy the original art then play S1-4&S5. It's not polished by any means so be ready to get confused and sometimes get stuck.

Depth-in on versions:

This game used to be amazing, left it alone to let I update and I come back to a crap revamp with ai slop everywhere, truly disappointing could've been amazing but now, it's not worth anyones time, a game that once could've been called a work of art is now nothing but ai trash

Very good one here. Not perfect, with weak animations and some other stuff... like Not Done Content, but... it is Better then I expected. A lot better. Just cut some edges. Many chracters is almost always good. 2D art style is for people that love it, not 3D (me included).
It is a good 18+ game with nice, sometimes funny story and gameplay. Tho it steel in need of full story. Ty for the seasoning thing btw. Just... well, give it a try.
9\10.

The creator just reworks and reworks, barley adding any content to the updates. There is "ntr" now but there is barley any content for that line. It would be better if the creator just stuck to the original premises.

Great game, but a milking project, stay away from this almost seems like the developer is just not giving updates. Ut instead stretching it. Remakes a game that No one really asked for. Nonetheless it does have some up and downs in terms of gameplay

It's an AI fest. Unnatural, off-putting. Sure, the game wasn't like this before but it is what these "remakes" are. And it will continue to be so. Like bro, AI wont save you time. Unless the developer is afraid of sharing the profit with the artists. This game is going nowhere, unfortunately!

This is wild... I get why the writer left the project : they remade the old game, removing 2/3 of the content, making it visually better but making the story more convoluted in an appeal to make it more sandboxy I guess.
Just play the game before the remake, it was decently written & scenes were hot & climatic, I really don't understand why they remade a good game into this.

devs are just too lazy to progress the story and finalize the game, getting redone same beginning over and over once a year to sell horny kids same content under a new sauce. They deserved the ban on Steam, no roadmap, no plans, no progress almost for a decade. Avoid at all cost.

Thanks dev for s1 redux. waiting for a whole year turned into nothing. Just a reworking of the first part of the game. Just milking money from subscribers. It's a pity for the people who bring money to this greedy bastard.

I remember playing this game a few years ago and enjoying it, with the story ending on a cliffhanger waiting to be finished.
And it feels like the game has degraded not just in the art department(ai ),
but also plot wise the early goals and enemies seem forgotten,
or maybe they were lost in an update idk.
0/10 - IGN

Keep in mind:
> this game started in 2018
> they barely manage to update the game once a year
> each update getting worse in quality (ramping use of AI)
>Every three or four years, they get the idea to fully remake the game. Keeping people in some sort of infinite development loop.
>1/5th of the previously free game costs 25 dollars. Every new season will cost additional purchases (thank God for F95 ey?)

Highly recommend not playing the game or supporting the horrible business practices of the dev. If you have to, play it once and try to forget about it. You will waste your life waiting for something that will never come otherwise.

The game was great once upon a time and now there are constant remakes and backtracking. The Art and animation WAS great and now it's AI garbage, the game used to run well but now the UI is broken constantly and the game takes forever to process what to do and boot up. Something needed to happen to this game a year ago and here we still are now, there's a lot of mess ups that need correcting. FINISH the game and then remake all the art, without the AI assisted garbage and the game will be as perfect as it can possibly be.

Completely ruined the game, decided to replace the art in the game with AI making it look awful. This game used to be great, in fact it was one of the best games out there along with Summertime Saga and now one is in development hell and this turned into complete trash.

What a tragedy. One of the great ones now gone to sht. Truly saddening. First ai, then updates started to take forever and now the game in its entirety has been heavily nerfed in multiple aspects. This sucks... I sort of want to cry bc I really wanted to see this story develop for years. So much I wanted to see happen, but it all seems hopeless now.

Significantly slowed down updates to milk money from subscribers, art went to AI slop. I'd recommend spending time and money on something else, don't reward pure greedy behavior from a fucking huckster.

Very good game, you are scared of NTR, very easily avoidable, if you love it, unfortunately very little ntr content due to the two paths. the initial couple hours are very good but then i fell like the characters after that which are introduced are very dumb and are just there to drag out the game! I fell like this game should have already been finished. The new characters dont add anything new but i still really like this game!

sandboxy, not very grindy and has a built in walkthrough!

the game is good, depending on what to compare it with, I don't know why they underestimate it so much, because starting with the fact that the quests are even very interesting, there are hints of what is required of you and at what time it helps a lot in passing, there are so many parts and each character is well developed and I like how different it was 4 years ago and how the developers tried on the new parts

Didnt expect so mutch content for 1gb game. 5 star 100%. Plus rly good visual. Worth ti playing. Also have Hallowen mod and Christmas, didnt check yet but i belive its great to. Thx for your work, anw w8 new projects)

Nice game, but AI is developer’s big mistake. Early there was original drawing, ant it was just perfect. Characters and dialogues between them are funny and interesting. I really enjoyed the game, but author unnecessarily tries to elongate the plot and add new boring characters.