RPGM Completed Town of Passion [v1.1] [Siren's Domain]

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Viressa

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Evangelion-01 said:
Not sure what you expect... and considering that your review is pretty "garbage" itself as it doesn't contain any constructive critism, advice for improvement or balanceing issues... you might not know yourself.
Some of these labyrinth runners were quiet challangeing I admit, but if you observe carefully and sometimes just constantly save and load they shouldn't even proof a long term challenge.

...considering the links in your signature you might only be interested in plain old VNs... so this game really isn't your kind of game I suppose.
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My constructive criticism/advice for improvement is... don't waste my time by gating scenes behind minigames. I can't stand gameplay in my porn games: If it's bad gameplay, I'm annoyed I have to suffer through it to get to the porn. If it's good gameplay, I mash the button to skip through the porn scenes so I can get back to the gameplay. In either case, the designer would have made a better experience if they had made something other than a porn game with game mechanics.

(I also hate the dating sim nonsense you see mostly in japanese stuff but a few games here like SnowDaze also have, where you get scenes if you pick the right dialogue option and nothing/game over if you don't. I'm never actually roleplaying and choosing what to say, I'm trying to guess at what the writer is thinking so I can say the correct thing that'll let the story continue. It's like playing with a railroady DM who doesn't tell you what he's scripted your character to do, but he flips the table over and throws a tantrum when you do anything else. Garbage.)

That's a personal preference thing, but even if you strip out the porn scenes, the game is especially unplayable and bad. The tile-based movement in RPGmaker is fine if all you're doing is walking around a map waiting for random encounters to happen, but when you design minigames played on the map that require speed and precision, especially navigating tight 1-tile corridors that twist and turn with a bunch of corners... it's fucking torture. This developer's other game, Zombie's Retreat, is also horrible but at least in that game you can cheat yourself a bunch of bullets and supplies to make it much more forgiving. Plus the art in ZR is way better. So I got at least a little enjoyment out of that one, on the net. So I thought I'd try this game: I was expecting it to have terrible game mechanics but I wasn't expecting it to be quite this bad.

And yeah, you can just savescum your way through it. That it requires savescumming to be playable is a condemnation in and of itself.
 
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Viressa said:
My constructive criticism/advice for improvement is... don't waste my time by gating scenes behind minigames. I can't stand gameplay in my porn games: If it's bad gameplay, I'm annoyed I have to suffer through it to get to the porn. If it's good gameplay, I mash the button to skip through the porn scenes so I can get back to the gameplay. In either case, the designer would have made a better experience if they had made something other than a porn game with game mechanics.
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You are entitled to your own oppinion of course... but if that's the case why actually bother with RPGM games? At minimum you'll get a classic RPG (most of the time actually) at most a story driven game with secret mechanics and mingames (like the Last Souvereign for example).
Viressa said:
And yeah, you can just savescum your way through it. That it requires savescumming to be playable is a condemnation in and of itself.
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It is a valid strategy if you fail at observing, planning and acting accordingly in a timely fashion... not mandatory, but it helps those who fail otherwise.
 
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Viressa said:
My constructive criticism/advice for improvement is... don't waste my time by gating scenes behind minigames. I can't stand gameplay in my porn games: If it's bad gameplay, I'm annoyed I have to suffer through it to get to the porn. If it's good gameplay, I mash the button to skip through the porn scenes so I can get back to the gameplay. In either case, the designer would have made a better experience if they had made something other than a porn game with game mechanics.

(I also hate the dating sim nonsense you see mostly in japanese stuff but a few games here like SnowDaze also have, where you get scenes if you pick the right dialogue option and nothing/game over if you don't. I'm never actually roleplaying and choosing what to say, I'm trying to guess at what the writer is thinking so I can say the correct thing that'll let the story continue. It's like playing with a railroady DM who doesn't tell you what he's scripted your character to do, but he flips the table over and throws a tantrum when you do anything else. Garbage.)

That's a personal preference thing, but even if you strip out the porn scenes, the game is especially unplayable and bad. The tile-based movement in RPGmaker is fine if all you're doing is walking around a map waiting for random encounters to happen, but when you design minigames played on the map that require speed and precision, especially navigating tight 1-tile corridors that twist and turn with a bunch of corners... it's fucking torture. This developer's other game, Zombie's Retreat, is also horrible but at least in that game you can cheat yourself a bunch of bullets and supplies to make it much more forgiving. Plus the art in ZR is way better. So I got at least a little enjoyment out of that one, on the net. So I thought I'd try this game: I was expecting it to have terrible game mechanics but I wasn't expecting it to be quite this bad.

And yeah, you can just savescum your way through it. That it requires savescumming to be playable is a condemnation in and of itself.
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If you want to play a porn game without any game bits in it, just go watch some actual fucking porn and save yourself the bother.
 
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RRitual said:
Who is Minevra and where is she ? i didnt never see him
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Minerva is a HER, you have seen her she's the lady in the fountain you met. Go to town center and go to the fountain and you can teleport to Minerva's Fountain where you can talk to her
 
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Can someone help with the Haru puzzle after gifting her with the flower? I can't figure out the solution

Edit: I've been able to get the blue lever (1st one) but for the life of me I can't get the red lever. I know that it has something to do with the shadow being able to jump to the other side but haven't found any order that has worked.
 
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Town of Passion - Beta 1.5 First Look!
Hey everyone!
It's time to start talking about the next Town of Passion build, Beta 1.5!
This build is going to be a pretty important one. ToP's story has two major focuses: The Passion route and the Lust route.
Most time spent working on this game was creating the stories of these Passion/Lust characters to progress to the end of each storyline. Beta 1.5 will be the end of the Passion route!
Similar to how the Goo Girl storyline progressed, you will meet a new Queen and help save Valencia from the outside once again! Now's the time to finally learn more about our true origin.
On that note, that's everything for this update. Stay tuned for more news and teasers on this upcoming build. Thank you all for your support and I'll see you soon!
 
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