Review on v1.01
It's... pretty good. It gets better. The Ned and Dany storylines in particular are really boring at first, overly verbose, without much animation and too few renders.
Once you get into the Arya and the Sansa storylines though, it becomes more interesting and you notice that the dev has improved. There are more animations, some of them really smooth and well done, and I feel like the sex to story ratio gets better too.
Some of the grinding features could be improved, that can still sometimes be a bit annoying especially because the time skipping feature is a bit slow, but it's alright, in general the grind isn't too bad.
The story is pretty interesting, although like I said, it sometimes does take a bit too long to get going, and you have to go through a lot of dialogue to get anywhere. The Dany story is especially tiresome in that regard.
Maybe I would still only rate this 3 stars if I wasn't a ASoIaF book reader, but hey, it's my opinion, I can do whatever I want
All in all, the lore tracks pretty well with the books which I really like; the models and much of the aesthetic might be based more on the show, which is fine, but I think it's great that otherwise, you see that the dev, or at least the storywriter, is a book reader. Although there are often weird issues in the text with grammar and phrasing that suggest to me the dev isn't a native English speaker. It seems like the dev knows a lot about the lore, but isn't very confident in his English, so he hired a proofreader who speaks English well but isn't that confident about the lore. The result is that when talking about lore, the grammar and the prepositions and all of that is still off, in contrast to the rest of the text which reads just fine.
It might be a nitpick but it's niggling to someone who knows how these things are actually phrased in the books. Things like 'House Arryn of Eyrie' is actually supposed to be 'House Arryn of the Eyrie'. Like I said, effectively a minor thing but it does break the immersion a bit.
There are also quite a few just plain typos or other mistakes in the text, as well as some instances of misattributed dialogue and so on, so it still feels like a beta release sometimes. Which I guess it is in some ways. But still. That aspect should come under closer scrutiny before releasing a new update.
It's... pretty good. It gets better. The Ned and Dany storylines in particular are really boring at first, overly verbose, without much animation and too few renders.
Once you get into the Arya and the Sansa storylines though, it becomes more interesting and you notice that the dev has improved. There are more animations, some of them really smooth and well done, and I feel like the sex to story ratio gets better too.
Some of the grinding features could be improved, that can still sometimes be a bit annoying especially because the time skipping feature is a bit slow, but it's alright, in general the grind isn't too bad.
The story is pretty interesting, although like I said, it sometimes does take a bit too long to get going, and you have to go through a lot of dialogue to get anywhere. The Dany story is especially tiresome in that regard.
Maybe I would still only rate this 3 stars if I wasn't a ASoIaF book reader, but hey, it's my opinion, I can do whatever I want
It might be a nitpick but it's niggling to someone who knows how these things are actually phrased in the books. Things like 'House Arryn of Eyrie' is actually supposed to be 'House Arryn of the Eyrie'. Like I said, effectively a minor thing but it does break the immersion a bit.
There are also quite a few just plain typos or other mistakes in the text, as well as some instances of misattributed dialogue and so on, so it still feels like a beta release sometimes. Which I guess it is in some ways. But still. That aspect should come under closer scrutiny before releasing a new update.