HTML - The Assignment [v0.07a] [thegp]

If I could summarize my problems with The Assignment, it would be that the player's time isn't valued.

The writing is fantastic in some places--there are some good lines that not only succeed in provoking feelings or thought, but also foreshadow how the MC is going to be challenged/changed later. However, after my 10th class, I realized that *every* line is trying to be that line, and every teacher comes across as the same melodramatic character, and the writing started to have a reverse effect--instead of hooking me any deeper into the story, I started to roll my eyes at how pretentious it all felt.

It also takes too damned long to get through the tutorial/introductions. Instead of having 2 weeks of nothing but classes to introduce the professors, subjects, and the peers, there should be beats of interaction, conflict--*something* to mix it up a bit and give the reader a treat while they're slogging through back-to-back introductions. As it is, the pacing asks for too much patience.

Finally, from a mechanical standpoint, The Assignment commits almost every cardinal sin of bad UX:

• You have to navigate to different locations via a series of clicks (i.e. Go to your dorm > Go to your bathroom > Take a shower > Go back to your dorm > Go to sleep)
• You need to manage resources daily (hunger, hygiene, energy, etc.) for seemingly no purpose other than to have something to manage.
• There's a wardrobe system (to be fair, I didn't encounter any "you can't do x while dressed with y" restrictions, but I didn't make it very far).
• A job... "minigame?" that has to be repeated every time you do a shift.
• A sandbox without any prompts/quests, leaving you to wonder if there's actually content you could be pursuing, or if the game really is just "go to class, repeat the same 20 clicks of navigation and resource management, sleep, repeat."

I don't know why a mechanic should ever be in a game if it's not useful to the story or fun to the player, and this game has several that are neither.

The one thing that ALMOST redeems the clicking-hell that is The Assignment is a very handy UI at the top of the screen that will snap you to certain places if you have a task there. That was a great idea. Unfortunately, it's not enough of a quality of life boost for me to keep up with the other pacing issues.

One of the best game i've ever played. Very interesting story and good art.

This game plays as visual novel mixed with sandbox.
Just finished all available routes in 0.0.7
Can't wait to expansion of all routes !

Loved the game.

This one legit hooked me harder than I expected. The slow burn works really well as it foreshadows stuff that will happen later on. I love the attention to detail, it really makes the game more immersive. The game’s in very early development, but I see that the author is setting up the ground work for lots of stuff



The writing is pretty good, and it caught my attention and curiosity. I can’t wait to see what happens next. And yeah, the art is AI, but it looks really good and fits the vibe well, so I don’t care. Overall, the game’s feels very cohesive and well done. If you’re into slow, psychological, teasing transformation stories, this one absolutely nails it.

This game is in a very poor state as of 0.05 release.
The prologue it stretched out pointlessly. I've clicked through 14 full days and the only event I got is MC finding female panties in the laundry on accident. Two. Weeks. Might as well skip them alltogether, but no, MC can't sleep when he isn't tired, the player is forced to click the mouse. And those mouse clicks are quite often pointless. Attend classes? Get fed some pseudo-psychology, that's why you're playing rhis game, aren't you? Work your job? Oh, the client had ordered large latte, no adds. You have to click on large, on latte, on No syrup and on No sugar. And when you do the last two bits, your order state changes from "None" to "None". Those are diffrent states, can't you see? Because the game can, and it throws you a popup with an error when it "None" but not "None". And after you close that popup you're soft-locked, you can't finish the minigame. Okay, the night is looming, time to go home, right? Right? Not unless you're in the park: first you have to go to the city, then to the campus, then to the dorm, then to sleep. I've really tried, but jumping through the hoops without any reward tired me.

P.S. I can't comment on the quality of the porn art - I was unable to reach that in meaningful time and dropped this game

nice story, progression system and paperdoll, also the game does not punish players who take their time attending the lectures or not, differnt tp other games of this genre. Also liking the drawn 2d style ot the game art.

I enjoyed my playthrough quite a bit. The Sophia and Lucy storylines have a pretty good amount of content for this early on, though i feel like there's a heavy helping of "ChatGPT Voice" or something to that effect. Though there are many characters in the game, they all start to sound pretty similar, especially when they start talking in that all-knowing psychological speak, where they all start to use those short sentences and dramatic metaphors about how your whole identity is sham, etc... But to be honest, it doesn't bother me that much as long as the subject matter is hot (which it is).

I found the UI a little confusing at first (i was expecting to have to traverse the game world, so i had to check the tips to see that story events appeared on the left) and there were a few confusing instructions (when you first meet Sophia she tells you to meet her tomorrow morning, but the event happens 2 days later after class) Once i figured that out, it was pretty smooth sailing.

But i'm leaving my rating high, because i think the story being told is good, and well-paced as a kind of slow burn. And i like the fetishes. So more importantly than any of the above gripes, i would like to see this story progress further!

What I like:

I like the graphics. It looks nice and lovingly chosen. The controls and interface are clear.

What I don't like:

The teachers all look too young and good-looking. I can hardly see any difference between the students and teachers (female).