Others - Completed - The taming massage parlor - Mari's story [v1.0.4] [Warumiyo]

v1.0.2

3 massage stages with some bad endings and a true ending. not worth the play through especially with bugs that waste a lot of time with how the game handles reloads

• not much to do in game but it's nice to observe Mari's reactions
• grindy progression revolving around keeping her Mood full bar or you won't advance the story
• Lick and Smell function often bug out resulting in soft locks or invisible buttons
• when you get a game over, you must go through the entire reload process as if you first opened a new game
• animation is lame - the interactive tools barely show body contact, so a lot of the animation just looks like a 2d image slides over another
• interactive menu (would have liked an option to play with the receptionist some more)
• funny wholesome plot
  • despite the slow progression it was rewarding seeing the character change of Mari

I appreciate the art and mildly interactive gameplay, along with the story progression. But it's too grindy with little reward and then the bugs just make you waste your time as you will need to restart the game and lose your Mood progression

TL;DR play at your own patience, cuz buggy

Its the same as their last massage game, the game isn't nearly as unplayable as people make it seem, but here's a summary:

Pros:
Massage Game
Girl is cute

Cons:
Skippable dialogue but it results in black screen
Very slow progression like last game
Unclear goals and Gameplay with no tutorial

Looks a promising game but when u are playing it starts to be boring, is very impossible pass to the level 1 and the game presents a lot of bugs, sometimes the game freeze and you need restart thats very insane cuz every sesion is like 10 minutes....

Game is awful. It feels almost unplayable. The game looks like it's supposed to have a save system with multiple slots, but if you hit a bad end the entire game resets and you have to watch the intro again, including inputting your name again and everything. What makes that worse is that it's incredibly easy to fail the massage minigame the first time or two you try it, because absolutely nothing is explained to you and while you're trying things out it's really easy to accidentally hit the fail condition and instantly get a bad end. Which means 5-10 minutes of mashing through the intro just to try it again. Oh, except mindlessly mashing through the intro also doesn't work, becaause there's a bug where some parts with cutscenes reset the animation if you click/spacebar while the animation is playing. So you have to mindfully stop mashing just so don't get stuck replaying the first few frames of an animation forever.

I don't know if the actual save/load system shown on the menu works, because I didn't have enough patience to get further into the game. If failing on days 2+ also reset the entire game, I don't know what the save would even do.