Review of v0.3 Beta
Imagine the great survival games, the ones that avoid nuisance and frustration, and that feel like you're actually surviving. The ones that don't pester you to babysit your character constantly or make crafting a tedious chore, but an adventure.
Now imagine the bottom of the barrel survival games. The ones that have constantly depleting meters, with your character starving if they don't stuff their face every hour, and where the meat of the crafting experience is spending minutes after minutes whacking trees and picking up rocks and grass, of course with said trees just instantly poofing once you've done enough damage to them.
In terms of survival gameplay mechanics, this game is the latter. I hope you enjoy wandering around for 30 minutes looking for just the right kind of grass- no not that grass that grass isn't right- no not that grass either- there you go that's the right grass, congratulations, you got 1 fiber, only 9 more and you can make three cloth to make one item of clothing!
Imagine great sex animations. Buildup. Intensity. A sense of things having weight. A narrative in the motions, leading up to a moment of climax and a showcasing of the results of it.
Now imagine those sorts of games. The ones that throw a static, repeating animation at you and assume that that's good enough. That's what you want to see. In, out, in, out, in, out, oh, and just press a button whenever you're done watching.
Once again, this game is the latter. There's a few nice touches. A few hints of enjoyment there. The models are nice enough. Balls swing. Stomachs bulge. Nice details. But then there's a "cum effect" button that... does literally that: it just adds some white spatters that are rendered... without changing anything else about the animation. There's no narrative, no story told, just a repeating animation and a button for you to click when you're tired of watching it.
Fortunately, there's another button to click for when you're tired of the whole thing. The exit button. I clicked it, and I don't really have any interest in starting the game back up again.