World Tamer is a time management style game featuring a world in which the strong "tame" the weak through DNA swapping. It follows the story of a pokemon monster girl master as he goes about taming all the...
Wait... it's a normal world and taming seems to be a side gig?
...huh?
My beef with the game should be pretty obvious. If you're going to go through all the effort to put together interesting, world shaping fantasy elements for your game, USE THEM. I don't want to play a pokemon game in which the world isn't completely focused around the fact that I can train a dog to shoot fire. In the same way, I don't care about normal life in a world in which the strong can mind control fuck their way into a harem or be mind control fucked into the same.
Everything about the game should be shaped around this fact. There should be other characters with their own harems. Growing strong should be everyone's goal. The strongest people should make the rules or there should be a damn good reason they don't. There should be interesting subtext/story morals about what strength is. There's all kinds of cool shit a crazy fantasy background like this should lead to and enable for a game like this.
Instead, World Tamer gives us obnoxiously standard bullshit. The world is largely unexplored and as such assumed to be normal. The starting girls are normal humans and have nothing to say about taming (which should be FUCKING WORLD WARPING). The main character tames a couple girls early on, but not because he really sought that out, but because it fell into his lap and apparently he's strong for story reasons.
Maybe shit changes later on, but I just can't bring myself to care with such a lackluster intro. If girl taming is the game's main feature, dig the fuck in. If there's normal girls, I want to know what they think about taming, whether they can be tamed themselves, and how their lives have been altered because taming is a thing. Do they feel like second class citizens because monster girls are mind controllable harem slaves? Have they ever considered lesbianism for the sheer fucking power it would give them?
If there are elements of our normal lives still about in the world, I want to know how and why they still exist and how they've changed because of taming. If I get a job at a bar run by monster girls, how have these monster girls not been tamed or have they tamed others to assert dominance and their right to run a bar? Explain to me how altering how power functions within this world has affected this bar.
Sigh...
I guess the art is good at least.
Wait... it's a normal world and taming seems to be a side gig?
...huh?
My beef with the game should be pretty obvious. If you're going to go through all the effort to put together interesting, world shaping fantasy elements for your game, USE THEM. I don't want to play a pokemon game in which the world isn't completely focused around the fact that I can train a dog to shoot fire. In the same way, I don't care about normal life in a world in which the strong can mind control fuck their way into a harem or be mind control fucked into the same.
Everything about the game should be shaped around this fact. There should be other characters with their own harems. Growing strong should be everyone's goal. The strongest people should make the rules or there should be a damn good reason they don't. There should be interesting subtext/story morals about what strength is. There's all kinds of cool shit a crazy fantasy background like this should lead to and enable for a game like this.
Instead, World Tamer gives us obnoxiously standard bullshit. The world is largely unexplored and as such assumed to be normal. The starting girls are normal humans and have nothing to say about taming (which should be FUCKING WORLD WARPING). The main character tames a couple girls early on, but not because he really sought that out, but because it fell into his lap and apparently he's strong for story reasons.
Maybe shit changes later on, but I just can't bring myself to care with such a lackluster intro. If girl taming is the game's main feature, dig the fuck in. If there's normal girls, I want to know what they think about taming, whether they can be tamed themselves, and how their lives have been altered because taming is a thing. Do they feel like second class citizens because monster girls are mind controllable harem slaves? Have they ever considered lesbianism for the sheer fucking power it would give them?
If there are elements of our normal lives still about in the world, I want to know how and why they still exist and how they've changed because of taming. If I get a job at a bar run by monster girls, how have these monster girls not been tamed or have they tamed others to assert dominance and their right to run a bar? Explain to me how altering how power functions within this world has affected this bar.
Sigh...
I guess the art is good at least.