Man, I just eat this stuff up. I think it's lacking a bit of the subtlety that separates the good from the great, but it's hard to really nail that in such a short experience. Fantastic work all the same.
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I absolutely adore the idea of this, but for me, at least, it just doesn't really get me there. It constantly almost gives me exactly what I want, but then I'm hit with what amounts to a fetch quest...or, I guess Faustequest. Eh? Eh? Anyways. It seems really, really weird to have a hypnotist that you pick, but then you are JUST doing tasks for them, and that's it. They play no other role. I get the whole subtle guiding thing with the spirals being the focus, but for me, the actual instruction from the hypnotist is what I favor. I loved when they were there, speaking, but then it was just killing time until they came back. Even if they would just pop up every now and again to repeat a set 10 or so instructions, it'd have added a lot.
Still, very fantastic for a free project you put out there, and I adored the characters and personalities of each. Shame this seems more or less on hold indefinitely.
I'll be frank my guy, we have nothing to go off here. No real description of the contents, no example of your writing, nothing. There are 2 chapters, but of what? We have genuinely no clue. Even the title is nothing. I'm all for supporting up and coming creators, but this is absolutely not how you do it. If you're going to ask for money from people, have the courtesy to take 10 minutes and setup a professional page for your product.
Genuinely some of the best, if not outright the best, VA I've heard in a porn game. Let alone one focused on vore and currently free. The ability to go right into vore is nice, and the wholesome route of a nice date is really sweet.
As for criticisms, I think the vore is actually the weakest part of the entire thing. It's lacking in description and is very, very short. The writing as a whole is rather succinct and lacking in extra detail or flair, mainly just getting the point across. It sadly does boil down to "Emotionless player goes on date". We see very little personality from Cristina, other than that she is a bit of a nerd girl.
For a 0.1 release, it's a great start, but I definitely think it could be improved. Not just expanded, but rewritten with a bit more time put into it. Make her feel a bit less two dimensional, maybe add in some slightly meaningless options that let the player both feel more engaged and also get more responses from your date, and so on.
That all said and done, fantastic work. One of very few porn VNs I actually took the time to read rather than just skipping through.
That would nearly double the work load for an already strained development team. Dialogue change, scenes being re-written, and straight doubling the art needed. If it were easy, every game in existence would do it. It might happen later, but it's not likely.
I am not a dev of this game, to be clear, just experienced with how these things work.
Out of curiosity, are you intentionally writing present events in the past tense? "He'd speak with such conviction that you found it hard to breathe"
You do this a lot throughout the story, using past rather than present tense. It comes across...weird. It's very disjointed when everything is happening in such a dethatched manner.
"You'd pull your head away"
It's like you're watching yourself, rather than experiencing it for yourself. To me, at least, it defeats the purpose of a first person story. I also saw some future tense in there as well.
The art and mid-combat groping feels promising, but feel the game needs a bit of very focused polishing. Specifically, it shouldn't game over when you lose. Getting a game over for trying to get lewds in a game literally centralized on lewd content is just bad design. The player shouldn't be punished for trying to get the content they showed up for.