Feels like NLT is experiencing creativity issues. NLT has a good recipe of development but showing no innovation and lower quality from before will lead to lower review scores no doubt.
I had a feeling that you can't surpass ToN's quality and I was right. The game looks half complete by 0.61. The predecessor is one of the best RPGM games to date so it is may be unfair to compare the two but we gotta do it.
Only thing I see going in TGO's favor is visual quality and voiced animations(though they are quite a few as I review). Natural since it is a newer game.
ToN's MC was a dumb 18 year old high school senior kid who by chance had a big dick to entice ladies. Combined with the Hawaiian/Tiki theme of the game, the goofy dialogue and plot was tolerable. In comparison, TGO has a dark dramatic/occult tone going for it and MC is a 25 year old police officer/detective. Still he sometimes sound dumber than ToN's MC, shows no sexual experience. Doesn't really know how to interact with females. I can't really sympathize with or laugh at him. He is just cringe.
Finally, the females. It is a kind of a taste thing but I found ToN's roster more varied and hotter.
In conclusion, I think NLT tried to reskin ToN for the sake of a new plot but failed to innovate and edit characters accordingly. So we have an apparent discordance between the two and thus the average reviews.
I foresee that by the time of completion we will have a RPGM with hot scenes but won't live up to the legacy of ToN.
I had a feeling that you can't surpass ToN's quality and I was right. The game looks half complete by 0.61. The predecessor is one of the best RPGM games to date so it is may be unfair to compare the two but we gotta do it.
Only thing I see going in TGO's favor is visual quality and voiced animations(though they are quite a few as I review). Natural since it is a newer game.
ToN's MC was a dumb 18 year old high school senior kid who by chance had a big dick to entice ladies. Combined with the Hawaiian/Tiki theme of the game, the goofy dialogue and plot was tolerable. In comparison, TGO has a dark dramatic/occult tone going for it and MC is a 25 year old police officer/detective. Still he sometimes sound dumber than ToN's MC, shows no sexual experience. Doesn't really know how to interact with females. I can't really sympathize with or laugh at him. He is just cringe.
Finally, the females. It is a kind of a taste thing but I found ToN's roster more varied and hotter.
In conclusion, I think NLT tried to reskin ToN for the sake of a new plot but failed to innovate and edit characters accordingly. So we have an apparent discordance between the two and thus the average reviews.
I foresee that by the time of completion we will have a RPGM with hot scenes but won't live up to the legacy of ToN.