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honestguyopinion4 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Okay so I am gonna be the only one that gives an honest critique.

SO.. this game as it is is a good proof of concept but with out some smoothing out we will have a tedious experience. The lizards that crawl on all fours have a bullshit and near impossible to dodge tongue attack. If you wish to keep that make it slower or more of a stun thing than actual damage. I suggest making it a non damage stun because enemies rush up at you already. So it would make it a nuisance still but more fair. Or, rather make a dodge move. A dodge ability is used in tones of these kinds of games. Like in that Night in the Woods mini game.. Demon Tower, it is similar to this game, and there is a dodge move there. It is super useful, I highly recommend it. And for the bipedal lizards that throw slow arrows.. their stun window for the grapple is way.. WAY too short.. almost didnt find their scene cause of that. And as for the combat.. only being able to attack in four directions really hinders it I feel. Since all the sprites can move at diagonals I would suggest giving us the ability to attack diagonally. Also minor complaint here but I would suggest a 'skip scene' button so players arent stuck watching a sex scene when toppled for the billionth time. The press space to continue only seemed to progress the scene when it 'felt' like it. Oh and as always I suggest adding some cheats in the later versions, maybe a gallery unlock cheat for the yiff enthusiasts or something like.. slutty armor that just is skimpy? There's ideas for cheats, I miss old school cheats.

But yeah thats basically my list of complaints and what could be done to fix some of those and a suggestion as well. I hope you take the critiques and use them to refine this game and actually make it something great or maybe even much better than Thirstchasm.

Edit: Oh yeah thought I should mention this, but in porn games I feel like the porn, like in Thirstchasm, shouldn't kill you and be more of a fun distraction. Cause why make it a porn game if you discourage the porn? And while its nice that dom animations dont drain health, I am sure most people would prefer to see the cat get banged.

Prethzyus4 years ago

Oh I love honest critique and thank you for thinking so much about it and writing it down. I will say something to everything you mentioned, so prepare for a looong response...

The lizard tongue attack.... Trust me, I suffered the most from it and changed the behavior a few times. This is a balancing thing, where I don't put so much focus on atm, because everything can still change like the player movement speed for example, a bit faster and the tongue attack is a joke, a bit slower and it's unavoidable, right now it is doable. When everything in the first floor is done, I will polish the balancing, because then I know what abilities are obtainable and what options do the player have to counter those "pain in the ass" tongue attack's. Having them stun the player, is a good idea. Yes I think I will implement that for the next version. Maybe you made it worse... ^^"

An ability like block or roll is already planed for the neutral skill tree, and you can already block some projectiles with the sword.

Yep the lizard-archer stun is to short and it will be longer in the next version.

Diagonal attacking and moving is something I would like to have already done by now, but what hindered me is the sprite work that needs to be done for it, but it will come.

A skip button is also a good idea, will be done.

The sex scenes have weird timers that need to pass,for the continue function to work, I coded some crap together there... To be honest, Im happy that they don't crash anymore or loop endlessly. They will be polished soon, because Im better now, yay!

Cheats to unlock the gallery?! This is something you need to work hard for, at least with downloading the save file from another website!

Maybe I will add some funny cheats, or a cheat version for patrons with a little advantage.

The thirst for more games like Thirstchasm, inspired me to do this in the first place.

The porn is not supposed to discourage the player, but I know what you mean. There are many games, where u have to lose to every enemy, to see every scene with game over screens and so on... It is.. super annoying in hard games.

The porn you get in my game will depend in your playstyle, so if you go the submissive way, getting toppled will give you more and more benefits, but dominating enemy's will get harder and harder and the other way around. This will give the game more replay value.

Oh and prethzy is a wolf with a cat's tail. This will all come more clear when I get the story done.

Thanks for the feedback, it helped me to think about some new things or rethink the old things.

You may pet your own shoulder now.

honestguyopinion4 years ago

Surprised I actually got such a reply. Anyway I don't really keep track of these sort of projects so I maybe be around later on down the line.

I always find my way back to these kinds of things though, but I will give you credit for being a nice dude too, that guy who made thirst chasm was a bit of a mean person towards me cause who knows why, artists ego or something

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