I do think koda has learned his lessons about dates, and i hope that progress reports will be a thing going forward. If you hope so to, why not bet on positive criticism and donate a buck or two to Koda's patreon leaving your concerns.
Koda has learned his lesson and we should positively reinforce him? It feels like we're living in two different worlds here. This something I remember from my world.
So there are some "news":
-According to discord and Koda on Monday we will get "The side project "
-Still no date/news for Cobra update
That was June 22, the earliest Monday from then was June 24th. So Koda should have an almost finished version of the game about 2 weeks ago. Now he released a bugged version of the game (which again he should have had one for 2 weeks) and we need to wait 1 more week for the unbugged version. And that's if Koda's estimations are to be trusted, in the vast majority of the cases they aren't. The last time he released an unfinished version and told us the finished one would come soon we had to wait a month (which is how long they're supposed to take to release a Scarlet sized floor btw) to get an unfinished version of a side project. As it stands, what was supposed to be a spring cleaning, probably won't come out even in summer, so I can't see what part of this is Koda learning his lessons and needing positive reinforcement.
I won't say anything about the side project, simply because I haven't played it. I had played the original, I heard it has little stuff on top so I want it to be complete before I play it, instead of playing it all over again for that little extra content, and then possibly finding out that the saves don't work with the complete version and I have to play it again to get that little bit of extra content then.
I do want to ask about the submissive/dominant bar that I've read about and is probably what Koda wants to implement in ToT. In my mind it seems like something either bad or unnecessary. Bad if it allows you to be actually dominant, since ToT is supposed to be a femdom game and mixing in dominant scenes would take up design time and it would bloat the game giving us something most people wouldn't enjoy, and unnecessary if it's used to reset the bosses, since you could have a fairy pr an item do that for all I care and it would be faster and easier for both the devs and the players (as I had said in a previous post, in a porn game the writing of the sexy scenes has to be good, but I don't care even a tiny bit if there are inconsistencies in the world setting for the sake of convenience). Again, I haven't played Warrior's Guild though, so feel free to tell me why I'm wrong and how it actually works.
As for the feature creep argument I'll say that I have a more in the middle opinion about it. I don't think that each floor should just be Scarlet sized and it would take away from the game if they just followed that as a cookie cutter pattern. That being said I think there can be too much of a good thing, and a time for when to break the mold. What I mean is, look at the current situation. It has taken over half a year to get floor 7 and it's a completely random floor. They had said that floors 5,10 etc would be tougher and more fleshed out etc. and they're taking over half a year to do a completely random floor. I might be hyped if floors 7-9 took 1-2 months each and floor 10 we're supposed to face Rose and it took them half a year to do that character justice. But with floor 7 taking so long, it means that either we have to wait over 6 months for every random floor, or we have the next few floors feel completely underwhelming, and when the Rose floor comes we'd either have to wait a couple years or see her have equal or less content than the random boss of floor 7. All of which sounds like terrible options to me. There is definitely a place for some feature creep in games, but this seems like both overdone, and done with the wrong timing.
