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A little feedback for you.

First of all, I absolutely love this game. Great work.

It seems like characters don't rest in the stairs room when the player has the appropriate spell enabled. Their pathing will show them going to the stairs, but instead they'll walk back to the safe room. Even if you manually walk them to the stairs, they still walk back.

Recluse is triggered by self support skills. First aid specifically, but I suspect it extends to other skills.

I felt like the Chastity skill might have been a little overpowered. Masturbation is a pretty brutal status effect. You can't see it coming, there's no way to naturally recover, and if you've spread the girls out it's pretty much a guaranteed 100 lust corruption break. So it seems like 1 point for complete immunity is a little much.

Maybe Chastity could level, with a turn duration on masturbate, a higher resistance to the compulsion, or a reduction in lust gain.

As another suggestion. To make curse research matter a little more, perhaps there could be a choice between two or three at shrines? Just a thought.

NRFB1 year ago(+1)(-1)

Harboring has a bug that I've already figured out and fixed internally but was related to some touching of pathfinding that I did in this update. It'll be in the bugfix release that'll come out soonish probably.

I have iffy feelings on the masturbation status effect in general. Like you said it is quite brutal to get caught by it in the wrong situation. A part of me thinks it should be nerfed but:
A) I can't think of a good way to do so that matches the flavor (since if anything a character that has fallen into masturbation would only become more and more likely to continue doing so)
B) I think the game is currently too easy

I could see a change to Chastity being something like "Lust due to masturbation is capped at X" although maybe that's more denial than chastity at that point. Dunno.

RyskyClick1 year ago (1 edit) (-1)

Yeah, I can see it being a little too easy right now. My first run didn't exactly feel like a roguelike, and it's still a fair bit forgiving even with the increased difficulty NG+ option.

Artistic nudes are pretty much the only thing that have ended a run for me, while a number of other traps are actually kind of hard to fall for because the status ends too early.

It's a hard balance to find for sure. I don't think every trap should require someone else to come save you, but one definitely stands out at the moment. Something to consider is variable durations depending on an appropriate stat, rather than just a binary all or nothing. That way, some characters can escape the second or third trigger of a trap where others would need help. (I guess this is kinda already implemented in a different way, so... oops. Ignore my ignorance.)

I don't know, I'm not here to rebalance the game or anything. It just feels like if masturbation was reduced to 2 or 3 lust per round and saving people became more reliable, then a skill to completely remove the risk wouldn't stand out as unusually powerful.

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