Finally got around to the full remake, now that the missing scenes have been added. I have to say the characters and animations are several times better. Of course we've seen them all in the previews, but seeing them in game really puts it in context. They look more original, and in my opinion the further you get from stock Koikatsu characters, the better.
There is a lot more variety in the sex scenes than before--we got some nipple play, some kissing, different oral sex techniques, and I'm assuming we'll get a lot more variation in the future. We also got a lot more variety of motion within the animations, My main complaint with the sex positions was the overuse of cowgirl and doggystyle. I'm assuming this is due to the preference of the demons or something and we'll get some missionary, prone, spooning, maybe piledriver etc. with the humans. Also hopefully the kissing is animated if possible in the future. Also some of the scenes were way too verbose and it added nothing of real value. Repetition and bombast is never by default a good thing in writing; it has to serve a specific purpose and that doesn't go away for sex scenes.
The only real complaint when it comes to the sex animations is some of them had partial animation and the rest of the body was a picture. I know this is due to posing manually to get more variation in the type of motion used in the animation at certain body positions, but I think there are techniques you can use to have a stock idle animation at various poses and then manually rig the area where you want more detail. But I'm not experienced in any of this so I can't really say for sure. I do appreciate that we didn't just get Super-Saiyan-Piston fucking like in the old game. Also it would be nice if for creampies in the future we could get an actual animation and not just the white flashing, and see the leakage afterwards as well. That's half the point of having an option for creampies in a game in the first place.
For more technical critiques, some of the characters had the masks for their different facial expressions off by 1 or 2 pixels from the base image; that created a weird down-shifted outline when the masks were applied, hopefully that's fixed in the future. Also there were quite a few typos and some grammar issues; I would usually fix those but there were way too many. Also Snats went overboard on the weebspeak this time around. We all know what this game is but you're leaning a little to hard into the shonen vibes. It wasn't this much in the first iteration. There were also a few lines in the English version that were still in Spanish; I don't know if Snats translates it himself after writing the original Spanish script or if someone translates them for him after.
Also hopefully all sex animations in the future aren't purely foreground. Hopefully this was just a thing for the heaven/hell prologue as animating characters in their environments might have been an issue. It feels a lot more kinetic if the characters are on a bed/the floor, hiding behind a wall or in a stall, sitting on a bench. The environment is an important factor in the immersion of scenes. The game would lose a lot of its charm if this was no longer the case. I know there was issue with environmental clipping as well as body clipping with the previous iteration but hopefully part of the reason for the remake was to address those issues.
As far as the story goes, the core is a lot more defined and coherent; I have some issues with the writing besides grammar as addressed earlier with the weebspeak but I think the base is a lot stronger to build off going forward.
I had an issue with this as well; the best explanation I could come up with is the vaginal seals on common demons were weaker than the cock seals on futas and vaginal seals on stronger demons, so MC was able to break through them either with his own power or the effect of the Demon Queen's spell. Nothing was said to this effect--the strongest case that can be made here is some implied lines from Astarte and Afir's scenes.
Overall this is looking a lot better than the ORIGINAL prologue. The best thing Snats could do right away is chill on the weebspeak and bring it back down to previous levels. I think a lot of people have amnesia about what Snats delivered the first time around. People thought that was great and it was nowhere near the quality of this first half-prologue. I'm looking forward to what comes in the future and hopefully he improves on the weaknesses from this initial release going forward.
apexslide here's some constructive criticism for you to deliver to your master if you care to =P.
