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I dropped this game twice because of how boring it was at start but I wanted to know why everyone was praising this game so much. That's why on my third play-through I pushed myself to play the entire game and I am glad that I did. I absolutely love this game. Here is my personal opinion:

What I love about this game:

The characters are very well written. This game has more than 20+ characters and it feels like all of them has an intriguing backstory to tell.

The world building is fantastic. Every myth has their own lore and rule that they follow and the story never ignores any of them just for the sake of plot.

What I don't like about this game:

The starting is very slow. The characters take time to develop and the game only starts to get interesting after 70% through chapter 1

The next issue is that the game is written more like a light novel rather than a visual novel. The main character monologues a bit too much. There are lots of scenes that could have been presented visually (by showing images) but instead the MC monologue the entire scene.

But with all it's flaws, I still fell in love with this game. Great job vertigo 👍

VertigoAVN225 days ago

Hi there!

Thanks a bunch for giving CH another chance!
I'm aware of the early game being rather slow and even somewhat boring. I've learned a lot since then, both in terms of writing and the visuals, as noticeable in the later stages of the game.
MC's monologuing is indeed a bit too prominent in the early game, as you said. I have since reduced that and limited his thoughts to moments of downtime and/or relevant situations, instead of all the time in the middle of conversations.

Maybe I have to go back and rewrite some of the first chapter to make it easier for new players to get into the game. I'll have to think about that.

Thanks for your comment, mate. :)

Anonymoux225 days ago(+1)

There is another thing that I should let you know. I am playing it on Android and during my play-through, the game crashed more than 10 times. Also, every time the game crashed was during "Texting" scenes (where the MC replies to messages). But the issue doesn't happen when I access phone from the top left corner of the screen.

Anyway, best of luck bro 👍 looking forward to what you are cooking next 😁

VertigoAVN225 days ago

Do you play on an older phone, by any chance? Because this is very likely a memory issue. The game keeps up to 25 previous messages in the log and for some reason this seems to take up a lot of memory on mobile devices. As far as I can tell, this is an issue of RenPy (the program I'm using to code the game) rather than CH itself. I might reduce the maximum amount of messages further, though. That way it should have less on an impact on older phones.

Thanks for letting me know!

Anonymoux225 days ago(+1)

Well, I bought my phone last year. It's performance isn't bad but not top of the line either. It has 6 GB ram with Snapdragon 778 processor.

VertigoAVN225 days ago

That should be sufficient, actually. I'll see that I reduce the message log for next update. Maybe cut it down to just 15 messages instead of 25 and hope that that solves the issue.

Should this keep happening after you've played the next update, let me know and I'll see if there's anything else I can do, alright?

Anonymoux224 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks bro. You are an amazing dev. I don't know if you remember it or not but a couple months ago I asked to improve the text box for mobile phone because it was hard to notice the text and you actually did it. I really wish I could support you on patreon.

VertigoAVN224 days ago

Heh, thank you. I do try to listen to (reasonable) feedback and concerns. No point in making a game that's not enjoyable for people to play after all, right? :P
I appreciate that you want to support me, mate, but it's all good. If you can't, you can't. I absolutely understand that. :)
If you still want to help CH out, you can always leave a rating for the game on here and/or recommend it to people. That's great too and it maybe even gets others to give the game a try. :)

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