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Just found this and downloaded ep 2 v 0.1. Played through (what I thought was) ep 1, both paths, tried as many different choices as possible to get all the content I could.
The Good: Love the renders. Gail is stunning, and I want more Kat, Grace, and Ava content, whether it's lez, straight or group!
The Meh: Either animate or don't. 2 or 3 renders looped from an "in" to "out" position don't equal "animation," and ruin the beauty of the artwork and also ruin the moment by jarring you out of immersion. I'd rather see several beautiful static images than the lumpy, weird mechanics that make what should be a hot scene a turn-off. The characters are too beautiful for that kind of mistreatment!
The Bad: There isn't any indication of where episode 1 ends, and if you assume it is where the "To Be Continued" screen appears, when you try to start episode 2, you will lose all the points you had from any deviation from a 100% Corruption or Loving GF path, only to discover episode 2 isn't separate from episode 1 unless you are continuing from an earlier version (v 0.3) with an old save. This could be easily explained to avoid confusion for people who didn't discover the game until now. It isn't. The good thing about this is that by beginning episode 2, it becomes clear there is no point to choosing anything other than 100% one path or the other. If you play the corruption path with the occasional loving gf choice, you might see slightly different scenes, but the points system is all or nothing in terms of the future of the game, since it asks you which path you were on and you have zero points for the characters neglected on that path. So no middle of the road.
Final note is that the proofreading is... not wonderful. I applaud the dev for working to translate from their native tongue to English, but running the new text past an English speaker on Discord would help immensely. There are wrong word choices (she doesn't "keep" the files on the boss' desk, she "places," "puts," or "drops" them there, for example), and even a couple examples of letters being replaced with @ or # characters. Not difficult to spot.
All in all, I like it, and will continue to follow and play. Might even support if it keeps improving. I'm not weighing in on the poll and debate surrounding it. The dev should write what they want to write. If you don't like it, shut up, unpack the images and wank to the ones you like.
The Good: Love the renders. Gail is stunning, and I want more Kat, Grace, and Ava content, whether it's lez, straight or group!
The Meh: Either animate or don't. 2 or 3 renders looped from an "in" to "out" position don't equal "animation," and ruin the beauty of the artwork and also ruin the moment by jarring you out of immersion. I'd rather see several beautiful static images than the lumpy, weird mechanics that make what should be a hot scene a turn-off. The characters are too beautiful for that kind of mistreatment!
The Bad: There isn't any indication of where episode 1 ends, and if you assume it is where the "To Be Continued" screen appears, when you try to start episode 2, you will lose all the points you had from any deviation from a 100% Corruption or Loving GF path, only to discover episode 2 isn't separate from episode 1 unless you are continuing from an earlier version (v 0.3) with an old save. This could be easily explained to avoid confusion for people who didn't discover the game until now. It isn't. The good thing about this is that by beginning episode 2, it becomes clear there is no point to choosing anything other than 100% one path or the other. If you play the corruption path with the occasional loving gf choice, you might see slightly different scenes, but the points system is all or nothing in terms of the future of the game, since it asks you which path you were on and you have zero points for the characters neglected on that path. So no middle of the road.
Final note is that the proofreading is... not wonderful. I applaud the dev for working to translate from their native tongue to English, but running the new text past an English speaker on Discord would help immensely. There are wrong word choices (she doesn't "keep" the files on the boss' desk, she "places," "puts," or "drops" them there, for example), and even a couple examples of letters being replaced with @ or # characters. Not difficult to spot.
All in all, I like it, and will continue to follow and play. Might even support if it keeps improving. I'm not weighing in on the poll and debate surrounding it. The dev should write what they want to write. If you don't like it, shut up, unpack the images and wank to the ones you like.
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- May 29, 2018
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- Jun 7, 2017
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Hmmm to be or not to be, that is my question...
Usually games where the protagonist is a femme means she whore's herself around for all kinds of reasons, or gets raped constantly. It's got a certain NTR kink aspect to it that I'm most definitely not a fan of.
However as a man myself, I find it difficult to relate with her. But if the game has a decent story I'm down for it.
Usually games where the protagonist is a femme means she whore's herself around for all kinds of reasons, or gets raped constantly. It's got a certain NTR kink aspect to it that I'm most definitely not a fan of.
However as a man myself, I find it difficult to relate with her. But if the game has a decent story I'm down for it.
- Mar 8, 2017
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first, i didn't say to be added next update. the game is in the early stages. a perfect moment to add a hobo would be when she's corrupted too much and a hobo would be even more degrading. second, i didn't say he should get a job in the company (he wouldn't be a hobo then lol), but as a side character who gail comes across when going to or coming from work. and third, it can always be optional, so if you're not into that, you can always refuse/skip. kink shaming in a porn forum about fictional porn games is stupid
- Feb 25, 2020
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Good start to a fem protag corruption game. Just keep going with your vision. From experience, people who complain about the MC becoming slutty most often will be the same ones to turn around and complain bitterly that it's vanilla and lacking in content when a "chaste" route is provided. Check out the reviews for Katie's corruption, for example. Most of the low star reviews are people saying "nothing happens" in the good path (she rejects all corruption attempts, only has sex with the fiance and has a happy marriage ending). Meanwhile, all the 4 and 5 stars are people praising the blackmail and corruption paths. I.e. It's no win, adding a pure route just ends up lowering the overall ratings of corruption games.
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- Sep 25, 2018
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DamagedCoda Congrats on the new update!
Your renders are truly amazing and everyone who knows how much work it takes to make them, will know how much effort you put into them.
I really would like to point out how amazed I was to see how much thoughts you put into giving players different renders on different choices and paths. This makes each choice and path feel unique and worthy to play with different choices to see all the different outcomes of it. In other games you either see or the scene gets skipped. But here we got different variations on all three scenes depending on different choices and paths. Hats off for that.
Converting your renders into webp really helped to crunch the file size without lowering the quality of the renders to much. I read that you used 90 or 91% ratio for current release. Have you tried different and/or higher ratios like 94 - 96% too? Possible that 90/91% is to low.
On the contrary to the content of EP2 I'm still not sure which approach/concept you try to achieve with your game. As mentioned in my previous big posts here (https://f95zone.to/threads/the-office-ep-2-v0-1-damaged-coda.57277/page-28#post-4405550 and https://f95zone.to/threads/the-office-ep-2-v0-1-damaged-coda.57277/page-28#post-4410073) and by others Gail's behaviour is either fully slutty or lovely GF - a middle ground is missing. (EP2 actually comes with a middle ground for both paths. Therefore this goes mostly for EP1 content.)
I truly respect your decisions, because it is your game/project and it is you in the first place, who needs to feel happy with what you create. All I, as a player, can point out is that I see a lot of room for improvement for EP1 content.
Thanks for reading my post and my criticism.
Your renders are truly amazing and everyone who knows how much work it takes to make them, will know how much effort you put into them.
I really would like to point out how amazed I was to see how much thoughts you put into giving players different renders on different choices and paths. This makes each choice and path feel unique and worthy to play with different choices to see all the different outcomes of it. In other games you either see or the scene gets skipped. But here we got different variations on all three scenes depending on different choices and paths. Hats off for that.
Converting your renders into webp really helped to crunch the file size without lowering the quality of the renders to much. I read that you used 90 or 91% ratio for current release. Have you tried different and/or higher ratios like 94 - 96% too? Possible that 90/91% is to low.
On the contrary to the content of EP2 I'm still not sure which approach/concept you try to achieve with your game. As mentioned in my previous big posts here (https://f95zone.to/threads/the-office-ep-2-v0-1-damaged-coda.57277/page-28#post-4405550 and https://f95zone.to/threads/the-office-ep-2-v0-1-damaged-coda.57277/page-28#post-4410073) and by others Gail's behaviour is either fully slutty or lovely GF - a middle ground is missing. (EP2 actually comes with a middle ground for both paths. Therefore this goes mostly for EP1 content.)
I truly respect your decisions, because it is your game/project and it is you in the first place, who needs to feel happy with what you create. All I, as a player, can point out is that I see a lot of room for improvement for EP1 content.
Thanks for reading my post and my criticism.
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- Aug 8, 2020
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Every game has its flaws. Even the best ones. Perfection does not exist
- Sep 25, 2018
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Agreed.
In addition, this game has avoided the other major common pitfall that, IMO, separates the good fem protag corruption games from the average ones; knowing the difference between a girl getting corrupted vs the girl being just a complete idiot. There's usually two common paths to do this:
- Either the protag knows exactly what she is doing and gets corrupted in the process. [What appears to be this game's corruption path = good example. Letting the school loser molest her because she feels sorry for him (Elena's life) =
]. Or,- Trying to remain good but put into very difficult situations/blackmail she can't easily avoid or escape from. Haven't played this game's "girlfriend" path yet but hoping that's how it's going to be. [In Katie's Corruption, she is 300k in debt, about lose her place in med school and the bad guy just planted cocaine on her fiancee possibly sending him to prison for life = I can see why she caves. In Sarah's Life, she allows a hobo to blackmail her into a boobjob in return for her lost cell phone = Ok, so she's an idiot.]
It's still early days, but IMO, this game has gotten off to a very good start with the added bonus of very good renders and updates that appear pretty quickly, so kudos to the Dev.
- Nov 8, 2016
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No gallery, there's one. Jokes aside, you will never be able to please Greeks and Trojans.
But this is an amazing start so far. I hope the dev doesn't go down the hole of small and far in between releases. I want to know what happens with the cinema molester and the kids on the bus.
- Sep 25, 2018
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You do realize that you had the exact same "positive" match for Angelica's Temptation: From the Beginning [v0.3.0 Part 2 4/10] [Saruh].
In both cases it isn't an issue with the game. Either it is a false-positive match, a problem with your system or you visit strange Russian websites, which are infected with malware.