Unity - Completed - The Shopkeeper Assistant [v1.0.0] [High On Neko]

Like others said, this is the author's first game, so some lack of polish can be excused, however the unsatisfactory gameplay and scenes just couldn't be excused.

While the VN aspect isn't as bad, it's preferable that they add a checkpoint of some kind when you go back to the start of the day once you lose all your trust. And speaking of checkpoint, there's no save, no quick start (aside from skipping the 2 or 3 dialogue box long intro that is) so if you somehow want to see a scene from one day or to replay the ending? Play the game again, stupid.
Granted, the game isn't that long, and you can skip the dialogues with ESC, but it's still pretty dang annoying.

When you got to the main point of the game, using the staff to mind control the shopkeep... it's fucking Simon Says. There's not much challenge to it, it's just infuriating and sluggish to progress just for teasing actions like strip and pose ridiculously.

But I gotta give some praise to the game's animation since it's at least decent and give you motivation to progress since the shopkeep's model isn't bad either, if a bit random with the bunny ears and generic looking.
Except for the ending.

It's supposedly the real meat of the game with a vaginal sex scene, yet all 4 scenes you get have fucked-up camera angle and penis in the shadow. Maybe the author isn't good at animating penis going into the vagina, or maybe the "penis" is just a dildo judging by the model's lumps. But to be honest I don't give a shit, just show me what you've got instead of hiding everything like a fucking pussy, this is more blueballing than those out-of-frame manga sex scene for all the Simon Says I have played in over 10 minutes.

All and all, not bad for author's prototype game, even if it took a year to finish. But from a consumer's prospective, I don't recommend this game.
It might be a bit much to ask for an one man team, I can only hope that High On Neko would give us a sizeable amount of content and proper vaginal animation the next time we see of him.

I'm giving the game 3 stars, just because it's devs first game, but still we have enough games around to get more ideas and improve it.
Positive points:
- It has a bit kind of story and you have to mach right answers to progress.
- The look of the game and the shopkeeper is pretty decent, even through the graphics aren't enormous high, she looks pretty sexy
Negative:
- No Gallery: Please, every dev out there, if I have beat your game, I want be able to replay scenes without replaying the game
- No sounds: Animations aren't bad in this game but with some simple sex sounds it could be more sexy and actually fappable
- There are very little options, more positions would be really nice

I'm not trying to shit on this dev; I know this is among their first titles and so I hope they learned a lot from it; They've definitely shown some great promise. Unfortunately this specific game is, plainly and simply, poor. And that's fine, I hope the dev continues to grow, but I would like to give readers an honest expectation before spending time on this game. Below is what a player can expect.


If this was presented as a technical demo, I'd probably give it 3 stars. However, it's presented as a game, and 2 stars seems accurate. I love the idea of this genre though.

Good:

• Animation quality is fine, if a bit stiff occasionally
• The story and dialogue work well for the short nature of this game
• The 'simon says' style minigame is well-done, and you can retry as many times as you need.

Bad:

• There is no saving - if you mess up the dialogue options too much or want to see a different choice you need to restart from the beginning. This isn't the biggest problem with such a short game, but it gets annoying.
• The ending is abrupt and unsatisfactory - you get a choice of 2 options, both of which have a few panels worth of narration. No special scenes or visuals for either. There is a sex scene before the choice, but the disappointing ending ends the game on a sour note, especially since you have to replay the whole thing to see the other ending.
• It feels like the devs wanted to add more features to the game and later changed their minds. There are a few times where a pop-up will appear in the top right saying you received an item, but nothing ever comes of it. Since this is version 1.0.0, I assume this is the final version, and stuff like this should have been removed .

Overall, the game is fine. The biggest issue I have with it is the slapdash ending, but the core of the game is solid if by-the-numbers. Nothing is fundamentally broken, and if you like the shopkeeper's model and are okay with restarting the game as needed, then feel free to try it. The devs have proven that they can make a decent game, and I have faith that if they make another game like this (or if they continue working on this one) they'll continue to improve.

Strong start, keeping an eye on it for sure. The minigames aren't terrible but are enough that you're not just watching the story play out. The simon says one is going to get tedious if it goes any further than ten. Not sure if I can do 15 or 20 but even if I could it'd get boring pretty quick. For now though it;s great, easy, but enough that you gotta earn that little bit.