Hello, I gave the demo a try today and it was really fun. It was evident a lot of work and care went into it. So I will definitely be watching out for the continuation in the future. There are a few things I do want to mention that I noticed. Nothing game breaking or deal breaker-ish for me but may want to be considered.
1. There isn’t really a feeling of urgency. When I first time getting to the gym training stage was finding out how many days I had until shit hit the fan and there didn’t seem to be. Someone could easily power farm knowledge points to upgrade formulas endlessly and not push the story forward and there would be no consequence for doing so, basically making late game applications trivial to say lightly. This leads into my second point.
2. There is no caps on anything and beyond scaling muscle points needed to complete growth there is nothing balancing it. Basically I had 2k stamina by day 10, and full affection by the time Cybele was finished at the end of Chapter 2. I did notice you mention possibly deviating from the current model but if you choose not to, I suggest capping formula upgrades to allow them to be spread out instead of just endlessly stacking green and becoming a mega stamina powerhouse so early in the game, also scale stamina up as growth happens and or affection increases. In my opinion, an affection event for 90-100 should not have the same value as 0-10, same said for training. It should require more stamina to produce those greater gains that are already showing for muscle and cardio.
3. There is a few continuity issues that I noticed. Two main ones are the sprites versus the descriptions and then the arm wrestling events. I’ll speak on the sprites versus descriptions first. Cybele at stage 7 has I believe 17in biceps; and this is supposedly matched by stage 4 Lily. There is clear discrepancy between their images especially the anime style (I get that it’s difficult to be exact but the disparity is rather significant.)
Moving onto the arm wrestling events. I believe I may be misremembering, but stage 6 Cybele is where she finally wins against Lily, then moves to stage 7 while Lilys training and dialogue acts like she was completely demolished and won’t even reattempt for 2-3 stages just to be beaten again. I understand that an inch diameter of muscle isn’t a laughing matter but that still seems odd considering that not only does Lily end up matching her arm size, but ends up not winning into she does so after throttling Cybele for 3 size increases beforehand.
Again nothing deal breaking for me just food for thought. I really enjoyed it and I wish for your success going forward.