@ 0.1.3 Demo
We have two parts here; the sex scene teaser with the cleaning lady, and the rest of the version, which is basically character exposition.
The sex scene part is *very* good and seems to deliver on the promise written in developer notes about multiple choices. It's good visuals(including expressions) and animations , good choices, decently thought about outcomes. It's really a very good teaser scene. As a person who is interested in mdom tags, full marks here.
The exposition, however, ... is way overblown. Too many characters get introduced too suddenly.
It's sort of ties up OK from story perspective and it's well constructed dialogue- and action-wise. But it is a complete overload from reading perspective.
It's different for the dev, who has considered and thought about his characters for maybe dozens of hours. It sounds OK from MC perspective who is supposedly known most of these for the 10(?) years of the college... It is completely fubar for somebody who starts the VN at this point.
Consider that you get introduced with over 15 characters in 2 different TIMES (-10 years and now), some are your college mates, some are your relatives, some are your friends from -10 years (when you were a kid!).
It's worse than going to a party with 20 complete strangers and trying to catch all their names, occupations and likes/dislikes. But all of them KNOW you
Anyway, the theme itself, while nothing particularly original or believable, might work. The tags announced are interesting. The claim of multiple paths is daring.
The college kid genre is a mostly American fetish that I never particularly cared for (frats, challenges, all that stuff seems too idiotic), but if the sex scenes (and character background) would be anything like the teaser scene, it could really be a terrific game.
The only really creepy thing is the MC's face as kid. Christ, he looks like an evil old emaciated hobbit there.
Before finishing writing this, I read some of the reviews/discussions here and now I understand better, why so many characters in this version. The dev wanted us to meet most of them, so we know what we are going to play with. Because the rest of the game will be behind paywall. Fair enough.
However, the idea that people should pay > 10$/mo for this in order to get anything past the demo version is absurd. Especially considering the bold claims, a single developer doing MULTIPLE paths for even 5 LIs sounds way too unbelievable. Unless, of course, it is his day job. But even then I wonder at the potential release schedule. Let's be frank, whoever is going to pay more than what, 30-50$ for the complete game? That's 3-5 months at that price point.
We have two parts here; the sex scene teaser with the cleaning lady, and the rest of the version, which is basically character exposition.
The sex scene part is *very* good and seems to deliver on the promise written in developer notes about multiple choices. It's good visuals(including expressions) and animations , good choices, decently thought about outcomes. It's really a very good teaser scene. As a person who is interested in mdom tags, full marks here.
The exposition, however, ... is way overblown. Too many characters get introduced too suddenly.
It's sort of ties up OK from story perspective and it's well constructed dialogue- and action-wise. But it is a complete overload from reading perspective.
It's different for the dev, who has considered and thought about his characters for maybe dozens of hours. It sounds OK from MC perspective who is supposedly known most of these for the 10(?) years of the college... It is completely fubar for somebody who starts the VN at this point.
Consider that you get introduced with over 15 characters in 2 different TIMES (-10 years and now), some are your college mates, some are your relatives, some are your friends from -10 years (when you were a kid!).
It's worse than going to a party with 20 complete strangers and trying to catch all their names, occupations and likes/dislikes. But all of them KNOW you
Anyway, the theme itself, while nothing particularly original or believable, might work. The tags announced are interesting. The claim of multiple paths is daring.
The college kid genre is a mostly American fetish that I never particularly cared for (frats, challenges, all that stuff seems too idiotic), but if the sex scenes (and character background) would be anything like the teaser scene, it could really be a terrific game.
The only really creepy thing is the MC's face as kid. Christ, he looks like an evil old emaciated hobbit there.
Before finishing writing this, I read some of the reviews/discussions here and now I understand better, why so many characters in this version. The dev wanted us to meet most of them, so we know what we are going to play with. Because the rest of the game will be behind paywall. Fair enough.
However, the idea that people should pay > 10$/mo for this in order to get anything past the demo version is absurd. Especially considering the bold claims, a single developer doing MULTIPLE paths for even 5 LIs sounds way too unbelievable. Unless, of course, it is his day job. But even then I wonder at the potential release schedule. Let's be frank, whoever is going to pay more than what, 30-50$ for the complete game? That's 3-5 months at that price point.
