Pros:
- Quality and design of characters.
- Some humour always helps
- The plot seems interesting, just hoping it won't be stretched in 100+ updates just following patreons' wishes. A dev should stick on his/her own plan, eventually adding extra features
Cons:
- The MC. Too cheesy, too immature, he's indeed an idiot and that ruins the experience for a good part.
- Grind. Some sex-scenes requires way too much grind, while other ones are basically quickly unlocked. It's not a real "con", but a bit frustating.
- Sex dialogues: I'm not a fan of a words-wall and 300 sentences for a single sex scene, but repeated dialogues like "You're soooo gggooooodd, yyyyyyyesss, bbbbbbig" that often happen in game don't appeal me that much, actually turn me off. Change it with rough rp, whatever you want, just not something a 12yo boy could write.
Conclusion: there's a lot of room for improvement and I hope to see further updates that could help this game to detach itself from the 100+ copies of similar games around on the forum-online.
EDIT version 0.4:
I'll increase my score to 4 stars because I noticed a huge improvement in animation and I really like Chestnut's artstyle. The writings too seem somewhat better compared to the previous scenes and the "anime" trip really got me offguard lol
Looking forward for the next update!
(After v0.6):
The creation of a game is indeed a resource consuming process and I appreciate there're devs out there that imbue their passions and their visions of a VN(for me it's) in their works. On ther other hand after 2+ years I think there's indeed something wrong in their planning and on the long way it could cause some problems with their supporters.
First of all: is the game worth of playing? YES 100%
Does the game need indeed 10-11 months for a single update? Well yes and no. Compared to the previous releases I see unfortunately the same Patreon's formula, that is the bigger the income is, the slower the updates are, or so I'd tend to think at the beginning, as on the contrary Magicnuts has always shared info on this forum and not only on patreon/discord.
In this version we've basically a side-story with Rose and I loved every single visual detail, especially her sexier(for me) demon-version, while what put me off were mostly the "Think" moments(I mean 1-2 times, but every single time..) and the fact that your choices as player again don't change a single thing, so what's the point of selecting an option? In this case the update drags itself just for unlocking x-scenes and there you have it, or so was my impression while playing it.
Do I dislike the new release? No. Am I disappointed? Yes, for a good part, as I was expecting something more after almost 1 year, especially comparing a part-time production to the actual one, that in theory should be full-time. However Patreon is Patreon and I can't blame devs for taking their own time, even though I'm sure they need to reconsider their concept, because comparing the actual existent content to the whole in-game map I highly doubt the game will be completed in the next 5-years, actually I'm quite sure it'll never be finished as many here think, especially if it takes so long for just a single (small) update.
I'll decrease my rating to 3/5 stars again for the reason I mentioned.
EDIT 11/23:
I think over 1 year for a small update shows indeed that there's something wrong in the development of the game. I doubt we'll see 30 scenes with Gomira and I think we'll also have maybe 2 hours of gameplay, with 50-70% of "Think" times as I already noticed by some weekly posts and we'll see the next one maybe in 2025 if lucky. I'm going to stop following the game for a while because I don't see a change coming in this direction.
2/5 stars just for the nice art, back to 3 or more once something finally drops.
(v.7.0.03):
Moving back to 3 stars because it finally dropped and the art is always the main strength of the game. However the story seems somewhat meh. I found the one including the dragon way more interesting than Gomira's, even though I like her character. 20 years in prison and she agrees about fucking with her old friend/enemy like nothing happened. Sex scens also mostly vanilla and the amazon pose was a very nice touch, but the dialogues(yeah I know who read it?)are always underwhelming and I usually avoid to read them after the 2nd time.
Overall an update that I enjoyed, but I'm still convinced the game will never be finished. Too many zones, lack of progress of the main story and over 2 years for a 4-5 hours update, reading slowly, are way too much for a (small) team working fulltime on it.
I'll keep following it every now and then, but they really need to find a way to speed up the whole thing.