HTML - The Pills [v0.6.0] [MChapeau]

It's a very heavily flawed game. Great passion but lost in sauce of overambition.

1) the game is split into 2 halves. The Pills and the Story. The Pills is the favorite part of this game with multitudes of combinations... most of which don't matter, especially the superpowers.

2) the story is by far the weakest as the majority of it is super shallow. There may be a couple dozen characters but almost of them are in essence portraits with no real story to them. For having ~300 endings there isn't much story to be had either.

3) It tries to be inclusive but... in a very masculine heteronormative way. There are gay options... kind of but none of them are fun or engaging, in essence being "you hook up with dude... the end". Lots of Herm and Hetero options which I can't vouch for too much, though I do see that the 2 most developed Famale characters have lots of story to them... and that's it.

Its breadth is ambitious... but without the depth.

There's dozens and dozens of different "endings" but they all typically amount to the same thing with minor variations, and you really have to consult a guide and click through a bunch of baloney for a morsel of content (h or otherwise).

It's an inch-deep puddle a mile wide that has dry spots all over the place.

Fantastic in depth game that shows lots of promise and caters to many tastes. Game allows for almost any kind of player character you could possibly think of, just needs to keep adding to the post cc content.

this is for v0.5.5

I played through this whole thing like...7 times and didn't encounter anything special, fun, or significantly different.

If you don't get with the two "females" they introduce you to early on, then you just rapidly go through the weeks until you hit the end of the game in like...6 clicks.

The concept is good, following the typical X-change genre of magic pills that change your body, but you are limited in what you can change, you can't change anyone else, and your choices stop really mattering pretty early on.

Overall, it's some nifty reading for all of one playthrough that will take up maybe ten minutes of your time, but it is so incomplete that you will get bored and run out of things to do in no time at all.

EDIT: After experimenting with the pills a LOT more, there actually IS some other content in the game. Supposedly there's 100 different endings, but in my...15 playthroughs, I have only found 2.
I have changed my rating slightly from being a 1 star to being a generous 2 stars.
It is still a LONG way away from being better than that though.

Two words to define this game: Tremendous Potential. So much so that it urged me to write a review for the first time since I registered here 5 years ago.

First of all, this game has probably one of the most unique and intricate character creation systems I have ever seen. I spent hours trying to come up with different characters. The variance and results are countless. However, with great variance comes great implementation... The game has to implement content corresponding to different transformations, traits, skills, abilities etc. that we saw while creating our characters. If the developers manage this properly, the game will be one of the best things out there. Otherwise, the game will remain nothing more than a fancy character-creation program.

There is very little content at the moment [v0.5.5], but I got hyped and gave it 4/5 just because of its potential. Hopefully, it will live up to my expectations.

Lastly, considering the game's complicated and varied nature, I recommend some kind of in-game walkthrough/guide or at least tips/pointers, and an ending list would be a huge bonus.

A fun game with a good amount of depth once you start replaying. Its short and does not have much content once you finish taking the pills but its great for what it is. If you want to play and explore in the sandbox of taking these pills you will have a good time, just dont expect to be able to do too much with the character once you created them.

Really intriguing start and if the dev can keep working it will be wild to see what all the traits can accomplish. I like playing around with the pills to see how they affect you and there's a crazy amount of combinations even if they don't all do anything at present. I like the idea of a set sequence of events as well that your choices interact with, as that seems much more doable than a sandbox style game.

v0.5.5

As of right now the game features no art besides AI generated portraits. They are of mostly decent quality, but portraits alone -that don't even show the body- won't do. Hopefully more pictures will be added later on.

The text is very simple, and it skims through any kind of story or character development: it gives you the option to quit your job, because you don't like it, but doesn't mention anything besides that. Then it tells you that it'll be easy for you to find a new job, which is weird, what with you suddenly turning into a woman the day before - you'd probably be in a legal paperwork hell.

The pills are mostly just a character customization screen with extra, convoluted steps: you take one and it makes you Asian, another will make your tits smaller, and so on.

Since so far there isn't really any gameplay, I'm mostly rating this on its story, which is very weak.

As an example, there's one scene where within the span of 4 two-liners you go from the start of your first date to having sex with her, without a single description of the character. There's no way to get invested in that, and as such, the resulting description of the sex scene is fully devoid of any meaning or emotion.

There weren't any obvious grammar mistakes.

My recommendation would be to take a step back and rewrite the scenes and story so that the reader can relate, or at the very least get an emotional reaction from them.