Ren'Py - The Fixer [v0.3.4.01] [Sam_Tail]

Came not expecting much but found gold!

This game even on early stage show so much potential and even on version 0.2.0 gives you around 1 hour of gameplay.

The pros:

You can select every piece of clothe the MC wears (from bra, shirt, skirt, etc..) and there is also a show with more clothing options.

It has a good degree of realism (wanna get thinner? time to run in the park or school) also if you dont shower you get smelly so its a nice plus to have this.

Character desing and art is great (I cant believe it uses koikatsu at its core but its made on a way that the caracters look beatiful)

Virgin protagonist (a big plus for ppl like me who enjoy female main characters) so you can keep it or loose it (even on this early stages there are sex scenes)

Custom made character, once you play for a while you unlock the option to change hair, eyes, pubic hair, hair color.

If you move the cursor over her boobs, vagina or gace you will see different animations (only very few games has this nice detail)

Clothing descriptions, all clothes has a description and even when you dont where some has a description and its a really nice touch. Overall this game feels made with love and care.

Cons:

Few bugs here and there but nothing that makes the game unplayable, must of the bugs you can just "ignore" the message that shows and it will be ok.

Overal a solid 9 of 10, if the game gets rid of the bugs ill give it a 10/10.

Going to keep an eye on this game since I love it!


Edit: The developer seem to be really active fixing bugs, the current version is now 0.2.4, you can find it on page 3, but must likely he will keep updating and bugfixing everything, so just look for his comments if you still find version 0.2.0 on the main page.

To me, this game seems to have huge potential. And the level of polish is impressive as well. Whether you enjoy it will come down to some preference. I can see the time management being overwhelming for people who don't like that play style--balancing hunger, tiredness, etc.

I recommend the creator make an easy mode. Also, for me personally, I would much prefer to have an easy one-click travel system that immediately takes me to where I need to be next in the story or with the daily tasks like school. Similarly, getting dressed, bathing, eating, etc, every morning with extra clicks quickly becomes tedious. So having the character automatically do some part of the routine, which you can later adjust, would help a ton.

On the other hand, maybe the creator is just making this for the type of audience who enjoys micromanaging. Which is fine, if they are just going for a narrow niche audience. Either way, I will be keeping an eye on this game and retrying it every few updates to see how it develops. Again, huge potential. I recommend other reviewers show creators love for putting this kind of effort into anything.

There seems to be a decent core of a game in there, but not for now.

Many spelling mistakes and weird sentences, particularly at the start of the game when it should impress. I've managed to push through, and tried to do the for now seemingly quite empty gameplay loop (I might be missing some things).

Interchangeable outfits and freedom in looks seemed very attractive to me, however I gave up due the many, many bugs in the code. I dug into the code and fixed some stuff, but gave up after I kept encountering more.

• References to add_confidence while the function is called add_conf
• Various other mistakes with adding or removing lust/money
• You get sent back to the entrance of the house even when you're in the house after 23:00 or so, saying it's too late.
• Eating is sometimes not possible.
• And too many others I couldn't be bothered to write down.

This should've been caught in any basic playtest. Although, given the cheat code that was commented out, maybe even the developer doesn't like the core game play loop.