This game is a bit out of my wheelhouse in regards to themes, but I had an interesting time playing the first chapter and it's very well presented and designed from a UI and mechanical standpoint. Huge commendations for the work put into it, and I hope that the extent of my nitpicky ramblings doesn't give off false impressions of the opposite. I liked a lot about this game.
I generally like female protagonists and open world sandbox designs, with a focus on sluttification/smart bimbos/body enhancement, things of that nature, incredibly rare "genre" to be honest, especially combined with my disinterest in men and focus on sapphic/futa content, so I am incredibly biased going in. I've tried a handful of male to female transformation games because oftentimes past the prologue the content and writing gets more interesting and it's easy to ignore.
The games death loop mechanic is interesting and not as off-putting as I (personally) was concerned it would be. I was worried it was going to be snuff fetish oriented or trauma porn, but the way it is handled with semi-immortality, combined with the protagonists curiosity and thrill at walking on the razor's edge makes it more interesting.
I don't really care for kinks such as sadomasochism or asphyxiation, but the game does a good job of downplaying the more uncomfortable aspects and keeping the nonsexual scenes from being unpleasant.
One thing that was bothersome/confusing to me is how laissez-faire Alexandra is about her relationships with people who have demonstrated themselves to be unsympathetic murderers. Ionut and Elise murder you for incredibly superfluous reasons, Lavius is a psychotic asshole (which the game seems to make you sleep with in order to survive and progress), and Sabrina uncaringly lets you die from the ritual if you try to save her, then murders you again if you refuse to accept her interrogation, and all of a sudden, with all of these characters, the writing does a complete one-eighty, and Alex is suddenly intensely attracted to these characters, considers them dear friends, is fully buddy-buddy with Sabrina, and on-board with tutorship and her condescending attitude.
I understand the game is supposed to have an emphasis on dark and lovecraftian themes (although the light hearted erotic contrast makes it a bit of a difficult tight-rope), and having characters who consider themselves and their existence above the reality of human life and their perceptions makes sense (if a theme I find personally irritating, I like standing up for myself and don't enjoy nihilism), but I was repeatedly baffled by how casual Alexandra was about being treated horrifically by psychotic murderers, and even sometimes with her discussions with Felicia, considering it HER fault that she was brutally killed.
Felicia herself, whilst saving your life and half-heartedly "helping" you to an extent, also goes out of her way to mock and ridicule Alexandra at every turn, obfuscate her assistance and advice, call her dumb and stupid, threatens to kill or torture her, bait her into dying in order to "teach her lessons", and generally make herself seem rather unlikable or in-human with her uncaring, lovecraftian thought process.
Alex never really defends herself, gets frustrated at her treatment, or really even acknowledges it, and then suddenly pronounces that Felicia is her only friend, that she implicitly trusts her, and that she has a close personal connection to her.
I might be ignorant, or missing an undercurrent thematic element, or understating how the altered reality is manipulating Alexandra's mind, but the impression I got was more so frustrating than interesting. Lavius's scene in particular was comical to me, and he came across as an egotistical dumbass who thinks highly of himself and that he is "intelligent" for taking advantage of a woman with no options.
On an even more opinionated and subjective note, I wasn't a personal fan of the emphasis in the writing on how frail and weak and "feminine" Alex is. Heck the major plot point of chapter 1 is how a heavy barrel is too much for a woman (or at least just Alex, I hope). I'm undoubtedly a huge hypocrite because of my interest in fantastical objectifying erotica, but I've never been a fan of those themes and writing elements.
The sheer amount of times Alexandra is physically over-powered and has internal monologues on how she is a feminine woman so of course she's weak, were personally unpleasant.
As far as the actual erotica, I feel like I'm not aware enough to give actual feedback, but a lot of it wasn't super engaging to me. The actual transformation and "corruption" felt a bit underwritten and wasn't sexy to me due to a lack of writing and content for it, and the actual scenes, even ones that I find more interesting due to their fantastical nature, felt a bit... dry? Brief? Maybe I'm just a huge snob, or have unrealistic standards, as it seems lots of people enjoyed that element of the game a lot.
Some of my absolute favourite erotic writing I've seen is by Wsan in Fenoxo games, so it might just be exclusively about my personal preferences and subjectivity, since I'm dabbling in content that is out of my comfort zone.
That should be it in regards to incredibly opinionated and useless rambling, apologies again, like I said, I overall quite liked what I experienced, and most of my complaints are nitpicks that are from me overthinking things.
Mechanically, I really liked the sandbox nature of chapter 1 and the focus on experimentation and the ability to replay scenes, it was a really nice touch that you get a clearly indicated point of no return before chapter 2, and how you can buy items you missed from the cat before-hand as well (although I don't really know why the butler outfit vanished from the shop for me).
I do wish it was more clearly communicated which dialogue option continues a conversion/scene, as I was hoping to replay the first encounter with Sabrina to try the other options, but it bottlenecked me into a linear pathway and skipped all of the options. It's a little strange how the first time you encounter her, she can (temporarily) die from her ritual, but the second time she effortlessly escapes.
The hint raven, daily recap and the journal were mostly useless, but that is partly because I found out the way to solve chapter 1 relatively early, and was actively trying to avoid progressing due to fear of points of no return. The journal was completely useless to me, the Raven seemed to only give hints to the main story path on things I already figured out, and the daily recap didn't tell me that I reached the end of the content with the characters such as Ionut and Elise, making it sound like there was more to do.
I think I explored all the side content? But there was no way to tell because none of the dialogue gave any indicators of such. After getting pierced by Sabrina, Elise still wouldn't give me any piercings, and there was no dialogue with Felicia when Sabrina killed Alex, just a blank page.
Best of luck with on-going development, I hope you get continued support and that everything goes well.
