HTML - Truecalling-rework [v0.70] [Luna Production]

How on earth does this game have a decent rating? It is a grindfest with no content to speak of. The story is not interesting, the characters are not interesting, and nothing happens click after click after click. The infrastructure of the game makes it look like it should be good and with some content it probably could be good, but sadly the content is missing and the game is not worth the time I spent downloading it and trying it out.

This game is a game you want to love, but it's impossible to play.

The game world and graphics are appealing, though not without flaws. In some cases, it's impossible to tell which character is which.

The grind is terrible.
The portrait of the character is constantly changing (female, male, trans).
Events are linked to a ton of variables: time of day, day of the week, location, character statistics, partner statistics, and the other characters' questline status. Basically, finding an event without a walkthrough is unlikely.
The walkthrough is occasionally buggy.
Even the cheat menu doesn't work correctly. For example, I encountered this situation: when I changed one parameter for my partner, the other parameters reset to zero and wouldn't increase, even in the cheat menu.

I think this game is actually pretty good, it's got a decent branching path system going on, despite the numerous spelling errors it's got a good sense of humour and a generally light-hearted campy tone that complements the fetishes well. Having played both the original and the rework I can say the rework is significantly better just because it feels far more professional and more alive, so I think it was a decent decision despite the content slowdown. Plus, I'm a sucker for Femboy Elves. I think what it needs to do though is make it absolutely clear that the hints system is a feature, not a cheat, since the game is basically impossible without it.

The game was initially difficult to understand, but the walkthrough was clear. However, in V0.67, the walkthrough has become even more confusing. It is unclear which path the protagonist is taking, and the captions under the phrases are ambiguous. After 6-7 weeks of playing the game, I have not even reached the first level of relationships, and all the hints are completely useless.

V0.67. I spent maybe 5 hours trying to understand what was fully unlocked and what not. Conclusion: I do not know if the problems are bugs or a misleading guide that points to unimplemented content.

Honestly there is just too much clicks just to move around the city and all locations. Even with the keyboard shortcuts it's really bad if you want to do more than home/academy as going to the market. I guess if there's not much content at the market, then it should be fine, but you don't know that in advance so you will just waste time exploring for nothing.

Thankfully to avoid wasting time on repetitive things that unlock nothing, there is some guide. But it may be bugged, I am not sure. Or the grind to reach the levels is not working, or the guide is wrong. No way to know.

Still, even though I feel like I wasted time, there is potential, so I give 3 stars.

- The effort on mechanics is nice, but there seems to be insane amount of grind (or it was bugged for unlocks, I did not grind enough? There is no counter for affection/corruption. Maybe certain chars cannot have their corruption raised yet, not sure).

-The map for the house was nice, maybe something similar for the city and the academy need to be done. This will limit to 3 the number of actions to move from your bedroom to any place in the world,to focus time on gameplay instead.

- Maybe inform players that they have seen all content in an area or something. Should not be hard to track.

I see lots of potential, but it could also just as easily become a very boring mess.

The problem I have with the game is if you do not follow the 'hints' in your notebook you could be stuck doing the same thing for hours not knowing what to do. If you NEED a guide built in to the game, just make a pure visual novel.

The sandbox grind is not fun and you will hit max exp way before you are allowed to level up because you have to hit every characters story beats.

The AI art is... fine, it could use some editing to keep the characters more consistent and the fact many people have the same smooth/flawless features means that it is hard to tell who is who if they have the same hair colour.

Best of luck to the developer, I hope you finish something you are happy with.

Love the multiple choice routes. You've catered well to a wide range of fetishes. I know people aren't fans of ai art but I like it's use in this. Will there be any sort of chastity play in the future releases magic or otherwise?

We've all seen this before; A grindy HTML clickfest. Repeat a dozen inputs to gain a few stats before you can see the next blip of content, rinse and repeat.
The AI artwork is fine, thematically relevant. The gifs are not thematically relevant, and are a stark contrast to the AI artwork. It's jarring at times.

I gave up on trying to figure out the story after 30 minutes of playing and getting NOWHERE. Locking content behind unlocking stats or affection gained by repeating actions day after day is obnoxious gameplay.

When a game tries to focus on too many genres simultaneously, none of the paths achieve the necessary quality. This is exactly what we see in this game. Whether it’s the NTR route, the romance route, the alpha route, or others, the tension doesn’t build properly. Everything happens too quickly, which is not ideal for a visual novel. If the developer avoids making this major mistake in future games, they have the potential to create outstanding ones—this is evident from their storytelling, dialogues, and character physiology

Three stars for storytelling and art and character design

The game is too widely developed. The amount of routes is too much for the game, so you can't go deep in the story. It's already 0.6, but every character has maximum of 1-3 repeatable interactions.

The game leaves you little choice, considering what content you want to explore. You can't simply skip the interactions with characters you don't like because the game will force you to grind their trust to go further the story.

Also, there's little to none choice you have inside one root. You can't say no to anything, what's happening to you. Submission route is kind of a scam. It's actually not a route of submission to a certain girl, but you getting fucked by all sorts of random dudes with no choice at that matter.

Also, the AI art was created using very-very-very different AI models and all the artworks are made in different styles which became only worse because the also added a huge amount of IRL GIFs that look really off place. The quality of AI art is not always on place too.

I made it through 0.6 in three hours, which is decent. But I spent a lot of time of useless grind or time skipping. Game UI is really poor and doesn't really make it any comfortable.

I didn't try the masculine version, but I'm sure it's completely useless. There are too many better games than this on the subject. If you want to try submissive route than keep in mind:

1. Feminine route is just a trans fuck
2. Submission rout has nothing to do with femdom. It's all male on sissy stuff.
3. NTR route is exactly what you imagine.

If you're really kinky about one of thes three, worth trying out. Otherwise - easy pass.

The game’s architecture is impressive, with character names and corresponding dialogues clearly defined. The quest guidance system is quite effective and easy to understand. I particularly appreciate the SIS component; the corruption content progresses swiftly, and the AI characters are adorably designed. Indeed, AI is one of the best tools for realizing human ideals. Keep up the excellent work; this is one of the finest N games I’ve played. Although I don’t usually play HTML games due to the constant clicking, this game stands out as truly exceptional!

Has some decent AI art and tags, but the characters/mc are progressing way to fast and in an artificial way when it comes to narrative.

The gifs look cheap and most of the time don't fit the characters/situations that they are supposed to enhance, sometimes to such an extreme extent that they completely ruin some scenes.

As of 0.5,

- nice AI-generated art.
- not much content.
- unnecessary money grind closer to the end on the content.
- some actions have to be repeated several times without any variation, which is another sort of grind. It's basically an inconvenience and time waster.

Ok out of all the games i have played on here this one stands out. The setting is original, the writing doesn't give me brain damage and the art is pretty fucking good. The fact that the dev actually tries to make multiple routes and actually puts effort into making them is great, it's clear that the dev actually cares about making something cool and unique. However, my 4 star rating is solely caused by the fact that i personally do not like the mix of real porn gifs and AI art (which is really well implemented, mind you). Now i know, the poll says that the majority of people like this feature but i just cant help but feel knocked out of the immersion when the character art is switched by porn gifs of different quality and different girls. I know, this might just be a placeholder and it isnt realistic to expect all those gifs to be replaced by animations but honestly, i would prefer pictures over this. Other than that - you should definitely give this one a go, it has the potential to be one of the html game GOATs.

Its not that the story is bad, but with the gifs and real porn stuff i really just lost interrest in it.
I was hoping it being animated that you would see the AI girls fucking and not only real porn, since the real porn will never look anything like the AI girls and it just puts me off when you see 5 diffrent girls 5 diffrent size tits when your fucking one AI girl.
I know its rare to see AI type games where the girls are animated but there are a few of them out there but this is not one of them.

The UI could also be better and i would like to have had some kind of music/effects as well, silent games just arent much fun.

I like that you have a choice if you want NTR or not and the route with girls seems good to where you can pick dom/sub/romance and so on.

I think my biggest issue if the real porn it just to boring to me and it ruins the immersion for me when your fucking 5 diffrent girls in real porn gifs/vids when your only supposed to be fucking one girl.

I will still give this 3 stars for the decent story and the nice AI renders.

This one is really damn good, one of the best games on the site.

Pros:
- porn, a lot of it
- no grind
- decent plot and world building (nothing groundbreaking, but it's pretty good)
- multiple routes letting you play however you want: romance/dominant/submisive paths
- art, while somewhat inconsistent, fits the purpose, there is a lot of it and is hot
- writing, it's hot

Up to your taste:
- when I said no grind I meant it: all characters are easy, don't expect slowly to slowly court a girl, dine her and date her before having some fun - all of them are unique, with a different flavor and for me it's a good thing (especially after just playing another game where after a year of development there is not even a handjob scene and just some rare, light, accidental groping)

Cons:
- writing, there are some mistakes, and by some I mean in almost every event there will be a word that while technically maybe correct if you stretch the definition, it just sounds wrong and should really be replaced by something else.

Overall 9/10, there is already a ton of content, scenes are hot, writing is hot and what issues are there are compensated by the sheer amount, density and quality of content.

First of all - decent idea to do this kind of story and characters.
Second - good ai pics ( like really good ).
But, will be really 10x times better with only characters pics&gifs, i know in our universe (for now) it's really hard to do so, so a little bit unfortunately.
Keep it up! Decent stuff for an html game!
Story - 5/5
Characters - 5/5
Pics&gifs - 4.5/5

I really liked the story, I haven’t played html before, but essentially as I saw it, it’s the same VN in competent hands. Of the minuses, the size of 4 gigabytes is a lot, but here they already threw a compressed archive and it would be cool if the GIFs were also created by ai

Decent html game. I don't mind the combo of pictures and gifs although some might find it jarring. The pictures are also good quality AI gens -I've certainly seen a lot worse before and having used Stable Diff before, I know it can be a struggle getting it to do what you want, so well done on that part.

Some slight technical faults at the moment (the version I played had a couple of events I had to skip over using the console in order to progress), but otherwise reasonably sound game.

Writing is decent, story is the usual cliches and such, but it's a porn game, so I really don't care. It's decent enough that it's not jarring like some of the offerings I've played recently.

My only complaint is that there's a decent amount of clicking and I like my html games to have numerical keypress options available for selections, i.e.

(1) Option A
(2) Option B
etc,

Makes for easier gameplay imo, but it's not my game, so ymmv.

Conservative 7/10, looking forward to future changes.

Very solid. Unique premise. Fun setting. Some of the best use of AI images I've seen in one of these games, which I have mixed opinions about, but it's here to stay, and this will inevitably be one of it's strengths. No doubt it won't stay the best example, perhaps fortunately, perhaps not.

Regardless, it's a solid game, the only thing missing currently is more content. Preferably non-linear content, as it seems to be acting like a non-linear game, but it's currently mostly barren outside of routes. But that's solvable with time and content accumulation. It's longer than it is wide. Needs more meat.

Looking forward to seeing it put on weight, as it were.