The game is really polished and fun... but it could use improvements in pacing. At some point into the first level I genuinely started worrying if this level will ever end. "Is this like, a metroidvania or something?" It took me like twenty minutes to get to the end of the first level, which is ridiculous. Like at some point I bought all the Gaia stone locations... but I just gave up finding them because I genuinely became tired with the game. The problem is that the path to the end is not that long... but there is a preposterous amount of extra side content branching out from the main path. I imagine with exploring every nook and cranny first level could easily take like, half an hour.
It doesn't help that you can fuck EVERY enemy you encounter - the time spent watching sex animations REALLY pads out the time.
Sure you can skip it... but the funny thing is that I was trying to masturbate while playing it so I wanted to watch these animations. And the fact that animations end automatically is the problem - I mean, it's couple seconds, so you might as well watch them, right? But it adds up. In addition, in most porn games, if I'm masturbating while playing I will eventually at some point stop playing duing a sex scene, masturbate to completion, and then keep playing with post-nut clarity. But I can't do that here... because I'm not allowed to keep watching animations. In some games, animations are endless loops that I have to decide to stop myself. In others, the game at least pauses while showing a static CG, so I could masturbate during that. But current design... kinda doesn't leave you time to masturbate freely.
After like over twenty minutes of gameplay I encountered the boss... and I was so exhausted by the play that I just turned off the game. And then, to my absolute surprise when I played it again... it didn't save my progress. I'm sorry, is this a bad joke? You put 15-30 minute long levels in a game (if I went for all Gaia stones, it'd easily be 30) and you DON'T have mid-level saves? Even NES games had a password system, and in these games one level lasted 5 minutes, not 30! I'm sorry but that is just something yall gotta fix eventually.
Don't mistake this review for bashing - everything else in the game is great. The zooming system is a great and ingenious solution to the age-old problem in porn platformers (on one hand, you want small sprites so you can see ahead, and you want big sprites during H animations... so you gave player ability to zoom at will, ingenious) and gameplay itself is very nice - the movement is a core of a solid responsive platformer, and the beatemup combat with combos, parrying and dodges and good enemy AI is also a lot of fun. And of course, I really like the graphics which are really good - both the designs, art style and animation.
Oh, and I like that you fuck enemies you defeat, instead of enemies that hurt/defeat you - it never made sense to me that in most such games, you are rewarded for doing poorly, and a perfect player would never see porn. But this is fixed here.
I think this could be an amazing game in the future with some relatively simple tweaks. I will definitely follow the game's development and if my financial situation improves, maybe I would be able to contribute to the Patreon.