(Re: version 0.12) I can't give 2 1/2 stars, so I rounded it up to 3 out of a modicum of hope for the future.
This is a disappointing effort. If you've already played through the game before, months ago, and was actually able to save game before the app unceremoniously dumps you to the main menu, there is nothing in this update. It's strictly filling in gaps earlier in the game. The Engrish is strong. I'd rather see no animations at all that the short, stuttering messes that purport to be animations here. It's amusing to me that the game that started out very beta-male focused, suddenly became very alpha-driven. You can almost imagine the Discordposts whines coming in real-time: why is the MC always the one that's sissified? Why is it that only the males get BF'd by trans (NOT FUTA!) characters, and not the other way around? In later releases, somehow magically the most unapologetically alpha trans character of all suddenly wants to bottom to her tiny sub brother? The fetishes portrayed in the story, for the most part, are only there to tick boxes and justify tags. The original vision was interesting. The homogenized, whine-friendly evolution of the game, isn't.
So, I played through the entire game again from the start. Two major crashes, and lots of missing images. A simple pass through the free version of Grammarly would have fixed the most glaring grammatical and spelling errors. I don't understand why devs try to shoehorn linear stories into sandbox environments. You're literally told at every turn where you must go next, with the only real choices being the ability to skip content. The renders vary from excellent to piss poor. And the story! OMG, there is literally a 15-minute monologue in the middle of nowhere about the story's world. A monologue that actually does the story a disservice by over-explaining the world's "philosophy" instead of letting the player derive it for themselves through context. When a developer gives you the option to skip major chunks of dialogue, take them up on their offer!
The story itself moves at a glacial pace, which is why there is very little actual plot divulged after 18-months of development. (And two "chapters" which makes absolutely no sense given the content.) I predict a fairly short future for this mess.
This is a disappointing effort. If you've already played through the game before, months ago, and was actually able to save game before the app unceremoniously dumps you to the main menu, there is nothing in this update. It's strictly filling in gaps earlier in the game. The Engrish is strong. I'd rather see no animations at all that the short, stuttering messes that purport to be animations here. It's amusing to me that the game that started out very beta-male focused, suddenly became very alpha-driven. You can almost imagine the Discord
So, I played through the entire game again from the start. Two major crashes, and lots of missing images. A simple pass through the free version of Grammarly would have fixed the most glaring grammatical and spelling errors. I don't understand why devs try to shoehorn linear stories into sandbox environments. You're literally told at every turn where you must go next, with the only real choices being the ability to skip content. The renders vary from excellent to piss poor. And the story! OMG, there is literally a 15-minute monologue in the middle of nowhere about the story's world. A monologue that actually does the story a disservice by over-explaining the world's "philosophy" instead of letting the player derive it for themselves through context. When a developer gives you the option to skip major chunks of dialogue, take them up on their offer!
The story itself moves at a glacial pace, which is why there is very little actual plot divulged after 18-months of development. (And two "chapters" which makes absolutely no sense given the content.) I predict a fairly short future for this mess.