Been playing through this over the past couple days, and I'm seriously amazed at how great this is. There's already more content and polish here in this first release than most other WEGs on this site have after several years in Patreon limbo. The quality of the whole package is astounding, from the art to the UI to the background music. Well done to all the devs!
What I especially like is the writing. Not only is it pretty well written in terms of the prose confident, competent, and readable, (which sometimes seems to be a real challenge for other games), but the characters each have their own distinct personalities and voices without being lazy, one-dimensional jokes or cliches. And it's pretty funny at times, too. Plus, there is an actual, honest-to-god
plot here that isn't just an afterthought, or an excuse for sex to happen. I can see the X-Men influences and knowledge throughout, not just from X-Men Evolution and the 90s cartoon, but the comics as well. You guys actually know your stuff, and it's clear you love and respect the material. Again, most other WEGs tend to forgo plot and characterisation in favour of just the sex scenes, which is a horny laziness that can get old fast, especially if the sex isn't all that great. But when the girls are written as well as this, then it elevates the porn side of the game so much more.
Obviously, the devs have a few advantages here. You're a proper team with assigned roles, instead of just one guy making a porn game single-handedly, and, even though you've moved away from it, Rogue-Like has clearly provided a strong foundation for your own work here. This isn't meant to be a criticism by any means, because it's part of the reason why you've come up with such a good game right from the start.
There is a general level of quality to this game that puts it a step beyond pretty much everything else on this site that I can think of. If you can keep that quality going through each update, no matter how long it takes to add in all the stuff you've put on your own 'What's Next' doc, then you'll have something really special on your hands. And from what I've seen already, I've got faith you can do that.
Don't have much to add in terms of reporting bug issues that haven't already been mentioned. It's a first release, there's going to be a lot of kinks to iron out, and I assume you're aware of most of them already. But there are a couple I have personally noticed coming up pretty frequently that I haven't seen anyone else bring up:
- If you invite a girl to study or train with you through the left-hand menu options and IF THEY DECLINE, you're then stuck in the phone menu with the right-hand buttons greyed out, and you have to rollback to get out. Usually when the phone is opened, you do it through the yellow phone button and you can then close it the same way. I assume the bug here is due to how, when you invite a girl with the left-hand menu options, the phone is brought up with a texting cutscene rather than through the button as normal. When this first happened to me early on, I was trapped in the phone for a while before I figured out I just needed to roll the scene back.
- During sex, when the girl goes into the laying back pose, there's often a pretty big chance my game will just slow down, pause entirely, then crash. I've no idea if it's a problem with the game or with my laptop, but it happens frequently enough that I now save whenever I enter the sex menu just in case.