First thanks for the update! Always appreciate the arrival of a new update especially when it brings so much high quality content.
I played Now and Then and found it an excellent, perhaps an outstanding, AVN. One of my favorites. However, if you read my comments in that thread you'll find I wasn't hesitant to point out problems when the author's assumptions were unsupportable by fact.
Feed back ahead - take it for what you think it's worth.
I played the intro and a small part of an early update. I decided, somewhere in CH4, that the learning curve wasn't worth the early effort and to wait until the story matured. I just finished playing V0.13 to completion.
First, the dev(s) REALLY need to learn EXACTLY what the requirements of title IX are before railing endlessly about the unfairness between men's and women's treatment in college sports. I could detail the many misconception fostered by Tina's comments, but that would make this comment pages long, so I'll leave it at that - go read title IX and then read how it's been accommodated by the colleges.
Second, without the mod this VN is reduced to tedium. Using the mod you can keep all the various stories synced avoiding skew between their various progress. NO AVN should require a mod to allow an even progression. This matters because certain progress with a given LI requires a level of progress with another. Using the mod I could keep all the stories progressing a pace.
Third, creating a super villain who achieved that status by breaking the system, without intervention by the controlling forces, is very poor plotting. Not just a dramatically unfair advantage, but then he is ignored as he violates rules and demonstrates capabilities that are impossible with in the rules as described to the player.
I'd complain about the sandboxish nature of the VN, but that would be dishonest since I used the mod to mitigate most of the related issues.
Fourth, as said elsewhere many times, it's disheartening to play a VN where you know in advance that the BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME is to push every LI beyond the pale and have no future with any of them. I and others suspect that the author(s) plan(s) to provide a loophole near the end of the VN that will offer the MC options, but that doesn't mitigate the fact that as we play this VN that ugly ending is all we are offered. If there are alternatives, you should make us aware of that fact, not necessarily what those alternatives are but that they exist.
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So a lot of criticism. Despite that, this is a truly high quality VN. Solid writing. Attractive LIs. Technically very sound. Excellent update schedule. I look forward to your next update. Exceptional work, and I thank you for your commitment to such quality and professionalism.
