So what's the over/under on a game filled with Gen-AI slop images also being entirely vibe-coded off the back of hundreds of game programming tutorials? Cause making a top down shooter in Gamer Maker was a 1st year project in my Game Art & Design course.
Anyways, there's no reasons to think that a human had any hand in making any of this, outside of setting up a Patreon and collecting money.
Know my place? Bitch, your dumbass is crying about having too much text in their visual novel. Please spare the rest of us the effort of reading your gooner tears and your pathetic attempts to wave cash around like your individual $5 matters. Save that scratch for the strip club, that way you can have the not-so-novel experience of having a naked woman laugh at you in person.
Sure. But one more thing. I've double checked the preview renders, and you don't just have 2 characters with identical moles. Nor 3. But literally all 4. So unless you have some serious Harry Potter-esque literally magical reason for 4 people to have very noticeably identical sets of moles, you really need to fix that pronto. The sooner you do it, the less renders you need to redo. Because otherwise it stretches audience credulity and breaks immersion constantly.
Just gonna repost what I wrote over on F95.
It's not bad, but it's not good either.
So what is here in the initial release is very short, and only really involves all of three characters (Emma, Emily, and the protagonist). You're introduced to the main character, you are told he works too much, and watch as he takes a call at 3am and is invited to visit someone. Cut to them arriving and reuniting with Emily and Emma, being shown your room, having a meal, then ending the day after dozing off watching TV. That's it.
The writing isn't bad, but it's nothing to write home about. It's 97% dialogue, with only occasional mental asides to let the audience know the protagonist is annoyed or aroused by something that just happened. I want to knock the game more for not doing enough with the internal monologues, but honestly there just isn't anything happening to have any real interesting thoughts about. Everything is fairly grammatically sound, nothing gave the impression this was a translation or the work of a non-native speaker. But on the other hand, there is literally nothing compelling happening. You don't learn who these characters are, what their relationships are, or most importantly why you should even care. The protagonist has some vague past connection to these people, but nothing is explicit stated or explained. You're staying with them for some indeterminate amount of time, for reasons unexplained. There is no mystery, no drama, no challenge, no goal, no motivation; there is no story. This is just three people bouncing into each other, and nothing interesting happens; the end.
Also both Emma and Emily have identical weirdly placed moles. If one or the other had them, that would be weird, but whatever. That both have identical sets of moles is distractingly bad. If you only have one and only one mole overlay for Honey Studio, then use it on one character only; using it on two (and literally the first two you see no less) is very noticeable and very distracting. Besides that Emma is fine as far as athletic tanned tomboys goes. Emily has comically oversized breasts, not really my thing, your millage may vary.
So yeah, it isn't bad per se. But what it is, is very 'meh'. It is inoffensively mid. Nothing interesting, but also nothing infuriating. It just seemingly exists. I dunno, maybe give it a few updates and see if the game can conjure up a reason to get invested in anything or anyone that's going on here. Because as of right now, there's nothing to see, nothing to do, and no reason to care.
A difference of perspective. The game repeatedly forces Rowan to pick the lesser of two evils, precisely because he is trapped in an untenable position by powers far stronger than he is. It sounds like you want there to be some secret 3rd option where good really does triumph over evil and everyone gets their happily ever after ending.
Yeah, I don't think that is ever going to be in the cards. There is no super duper secret happy ending. Being faithful to his wife means tossing his female apprentice to the orc horde to be gangbanged. Why? Cause that's the game the demon twins are playing, and they make the rules. Rowan can choose to save her from that fate, but that means he's going to have to cheat on his wife. Those are the options, and neither is ideal. There is no secret option where Rowan can magic/logic/talk/trick his way into saving the apprentice without violating his marital vows.
The game is not just an asshole simulator, and pretending that's all there is to it is very dishonest. You can make virtuous choices, but they come with sacrifices. Can Rowan and his relationships survive the hardships necessary to maintain his ideals? Maybe, up to a point. But the hard part is figuring out when to push back, and how hard you can without getting Rowan and others killed in the process; and yeah, always picking the most noble option every time is just not going to work here.
Sorry if that cramps your style, but this game doesn't pull its punches here. This game is not a power fantasy, subversive or otherwise. You as Rowan suffer a series of unfortunate events, and are forced to make the best out of an awful situation; there is no clear and obvious path to righteousness. Either you're down for this dark journey to hell laid with the best of intentions, or you're not. It's not like there aren't dozens of isekai harem fantasies to play if you don't want an experience that challenges you.
