I look forward to seeing what your fix is for the lvl grind is. As is, I had to find the save file and alter the charm. There's alot of different ways to fix it. I'm sure you have a thought in mind so I'll wait to see what happens in the next update before giving my thoughts.
One thing you might fix is making it more clear that a 2nd area in the forest exists. I literally finished every other part of the game and set the game to the side after several days of playing thinking the story had reached it's conclusion till more updates. Then I saw a reply about a part I hadn't played and found out I hadn't fully seen every part of the map.
Now for a few other notes and questions:
Is it possible to "finish" the shower peeking scene?
It seems like at a certain point it just turns red automatically. After 30+ attempts, maxing my sneak and progressing the scene via lightning fast left and rights that literally see nothing of the scene. I still get caught before the scene comes to a conclusion similar to Chloe's. If there is an actually end programed into that scene. The sneak mechanic might need some tweeking for that scene. It's seems darn near impossible, or if it is, it requires such fast peeking that it defeats the purpose because you don't get to see the scene in order to progress it.
The sex scenes...
Lily and Chloe are well balanced when it comes to timer vs the bars you have to fill. Emelia and Sascha are another story, I have yet to fully complete their scenes. I get close, but that damn timer beats the final blue bar every time.
Also:
- How do you decide which bar gets filled?
- What significance does each bar have?
- Why do the extra bars beyond the blue one appear? They seem to fluxuate between 1,2,3 randomly even between attempts. What is the deciding factor on how many bars show up during a scene? What does the player need to do on their end for those bars to show up consistantly?
From what I can tell, blue ends the scene no matter how far in you are, signifying you came. Green progresses, red maybe progresses an alternate set of scenes from green...I'm not sure, I can't recall if it was the one that randomly decided to fill one time or not.
Some sort of explaination beyond the starting dream where it just says "do circles on the point to fill the bar" would be great. Maybe add it to the Lily route since it seems she gets to the sex stuff the fastest. or have a flag for the weird chip in our head to give a tutorial scene when we first initiate one of those scenes for the first time in the game.
Great game so far, keep up the good work.
PS, went ahead and rated/reviewed a game for the first time, because you deserve WAY more than a 2 star from someone who barely played once they saw the grind hurdle.
(no offense meant if that reviewer is still in here, I wouldn't have gotten that far either if I hadn't cheated the charm. I understand the frustration you voiced in your review.)
