Version v1.5 Fix
The game started really good. I enjoyed story, models are looking very good, but.. somehow the further I went, the worse it gets. What was described in the overview and what I expected from the tags, wasn't yet delivered.
First of all, prologue is huge. And sadly, only after prologue ends our MC starts behaving like future king should, because in the beginning he's just idiot. And while it does make sense that MC isn't perfect, the amount of time he needed to get himself together, was just too long, and it made most of the prologue into an unpleasant experience. Maybe if I were playing complete game(which from the scale of existing content I expect to be really humongous ), that big prolouge wouldn't be that much of a problem, especially because playing gets really enjoyable after you made it through 'idiot phase', but as far as it is now, prologue it's definitelly way too long.
Next, 'main' girls, aka mother and sisters. I'm nearing the end of current content, and so far there wasn't any sex with either of them(besides some petting, or things that should've been foreplay). Okay, I get that it's slow burn, corruption needs time, etc. I could've ignore that, but what I find unbearable in this situtation, is that any other girl MC can have sex with is almost immediatelly casted out, one way or another(like death, banishment or just loosing screen time without any reason). Sometimes directly by aforementioned girls (R.I.P. Ava), but the point is, author doesn't allow MC to have sex with 'main' love interests and on the other hand doesn't allow any other lasting sexual relationship either. It's also worth mentioning that there are very few actual sex scenes, so this problem becomes even more painfully visible as plot progress. And MC supposedly was a big womanizer for many years. How ironic..
Oh yeah, and about weird decisions - how does it have any sense, that you can decide to make Morgana a whore before even getting into her pants yourselft, WTF? Putting that NTR shit before letting MC get laid with her while also dealing with general lack of sexual scenes made me really angry.
Another thing is, for now story is making it clear that MC is barely hanging there and has tasks that feel impossible to complete. He never gets a break, his situation isn't improving, only new problems constantly arise. In combination with aforementioned sex issues, that makes me feel very unrewarded. Like, what is the point of struggle? Main relationships are progressing painfully slow, side relationships are all getting middle finger from dev after one scene, and from the story point of view MC is getting constantly screwed. Where is the pleasure I'm supposed to get from playing?
Also for the decisions, that would 'shape your empire'. It is too early for any of that, as MC can't even defend his own capital properly, and the game is here for almost 3 and half year. So basically you still can't tell if something will have actual consequences, which in turn makes me feel like my decisions are really not important (with exception of those leading to the immediate game over).
In short: it should've been great game, game thas has it all: good idea, interesting plot, solid base, good technicals and graphics, and yet sadly it (at least for now) doesn't meet expectations, because of mentioned earlier issues.