- May 12, 2018
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First, I have no personal animosity towards the game author, or their country, let's get this straight out of the way. On the contrary, I am rather fond of Italy for various reasons.To be fair, I have dealt with the dev personally on Steam and he helped me with console commands (he used the word for Italian currency? aka denaro instead of "cash" or "money") and last post I saw on the GP news was him apologizing for not being able to update during the Rona, given it hit Italy especially hard... He clearly seems to care about people enjoying his work... So... I'll gave a guy the benefit of the doubt... since renpy usually produces trash anyway.
And I dont usually jump to a game dev's defense... but I feel its warranted in this extremely RARE case here.
Second, it's my opinion that true friends are the special ones of their kind that do tell us about our own shortcomings, weaknesses or failures, to help us improve on them. Of course, I don't know the author but the second that the game went public, it is expected to be exposed to scrutiny. That's at least the spirit in which I took some of my own time to provide my feelings playing the game.
My personal feedback is what is (and I still stand by it to this hour), but given what other people have reported in this thread and the average comments on Steam at this time (6 thumbs down out of 9, 2 reimbursed), I doubt anyone could reasonably state that the game has been well received as a whole.
Instead of looking for excuses, the author (and anyone who cares about the game) would do well to take this general situation into account, start looking for a native English speaking proof-reader or probably, let's be honest, even give a serious thought about scraping the whole game and start again from scratch, because in its current state I could probably write a whole novel about what should be improved before a commercial release, asking money for it.
Even untranslated, the quality of the story-telling, the characterization and the renders is amateurish, if not outright shoddy.
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