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"Character design, music and proofreading" ...then he isn't going solo like I said and I'm convinced that you are pulling my leg.
As for the scenes, since I have the save files still, I checked and these were added:
Akane: 1
Mayu: 1
Tomoe: 1
Ryoko & Charlotte: 1
Ryoko: 2
Charlotte: 1
Yui: 1
Shika: 1
Hana: 1
Alice: 1
Karyn: 1
Natsuki & Ryoko: 1
Halloween Special: 7
That's a total of 20 scenes not 26 and this is between v.0.2.8 to v.0.3.7 however without the Halloween special (which I would assume was a Patreon thing but I'm talking about the main game specifically) it would be 13 scenes and that's discounting; Adventure's Lounge, Tomoe's shop, Bathhouse, new location and the new mechanic to which he has said in game: "will be added in the next update" more times than I would like to count. I'm not saying that Ncrow should rush the game out but I'm saying that if you say next update to something then you bring it next update, you don't lie and try to milk money out of people and a whole year is an significant amount of time for so little to be updated.
You know who else was a solo developer? ConcernedApe the man behind 'Stardew Valley' which he created in 4 years and that's from scratch. He didn't have help from others nor did he have a special program (like Ren'Py) that would ease his programming and he legit did everything himself. A pixel art game not only takes longer to make but is a lot harder.
EDIT: Also lore/story can be copy and pasted in since you type that first before you even start a game (normally) and the same goes with images and sounds.
I can't speak for what he does monthly since I'm not part of his development cycle but I guess he does a fair bit overall, however it's not the typical work hours one would normally have also I'm fairly sure that he has mentioned once before that he has someone else working on this game but maybe that was just temporary or it may have been for the other game, hard to remember when I read it a year ago. Still a full year is a lot of time to only be given like 8 new scenes and some text. Stories are written/typed in-beforehand and with Ren'Py you can just copy and paste that in. What takes the most time in this case would be the sex scenes but even then you render full 3D bodies and "position" them correctly for the scene and then you work on animating them. Even for a solo developer you can have about 18 new scenes with the 'Adventures Lounge' completed in that time and have a sex scene with Karyn which they did dirty and I'm sad because she is by far one the best characters added. I love me some Charlotte and Karyn and if they ever did a scene with those two together my senses would overload.
~Goddesses' Whim v.0.3.7 Review~
I have been dreading this moment for the longest of time because I find it genuinely difficult to make a review on this game (so far) on one hand it is masterfully done and on the other the complete opposite. I'm disappointed in the creator(s) of this game and so I'm going to voice my heart out and hopefully not get crucified in the comments by doing that. I am going to talk about the game shortly but I need to address the slow and devious waiting that the creator(s) is putting us through because it has become quite apparent that they no longer have the same love and passion for the game as they used to, they see the Patreon numbers going up and so they freeze everything else because that's where their passion lies now. I played this a year back because that's when I finished all the content it had at the time, only to come back to some text and like 8 new scenes added and nothing else... For people that don't know these people uses Ren'Py - a front end program for visual novels which allows for easy scripting to complex scripting and adding text, images, sounds etc. etc. and is extremely easy to use even if you are new to coding in general. However, you would still need to know how to code to use it efficiently. So what? Am I going to roast them for using Ren'Py? Of course not! What I'm saying is that after a full year this game should have been more polished, had more gameplay, had more interactions and had more H-scenes for us to explore. What makes it worse is that this in not their first game either and they are using materials/assets from the other game which should make making this game faster and easier, so what's stopping them from updating the game to give us more content to do? One word: greed. Anyways I wanted to get that off my chest before diving into the review so without further delay.
[STORY]
You play a male character that has been transferred to another world (yes this is an "isekai" in that aspect) that is both handsome in everyone's eyes and has a gigantic cock (I mean of course he does this is after all an erotic game) that every girl in the game goes "ga-ga" over and in his body he harbors a special power, so it's one of those male-fantasy and power-fantasy type of stories told through an anime format. Despite the overused trope(s) that this game has the story sets it apart and is really fucking good, you will be invested no matter what. I rather keep this part spoiler free as much as possible since I want people to enjoy this game for what it is and not tarnish it because it's clear that they put a lot of care and thought into the story aspects even down to the characters and their roles and personal events. Needless to say but the main character is special in this world for several different reasons. We have goddesses to enjoy as well... in more ways than one.
[CHARACTERS]
Like I previously mentioned all the characters have their own roles in this universe and each and everyone of them are unique in their own way with their own traits and personalities and variation is good and the only thing I don't like in this game is the main character because he feels a bit rape-y at times and that's because of the missing context or should I say laziness of how to appropriately handle the start of each erotic event so they basically said: "fuck it, just have him take control and have the female enjoy it" without the proper build up, however this is NOT the case for every scene which is why I typed "at times" still wish it was changed at least a little bit because he can still be a dominant male without crossing that line which turns him into a rapist. So, yes I find the guy unlikable for the most part.
[DIALOGUES]
Drama, action, sadness, comedic, goofy, dumb, serious, cute and somber. It is all there for your eyes, brain and other body parts to enjoy. Every scene has charm to them and really brings life to the characters. There isn't one moment that I can remember where I questioned anything, except for some comedic ones... which I rather not type about. I would go so far to say that the dialogues between characters is superb.
[GAMEPLAY]
Most of the time this is a visual novel so you only need to click through text which may or may not present you with a choice but don't let that discourage you because we have... drum roll please... fishing, woodcutting and a action mechanic (is what I'm choosing to call it) that is there for context purposes... Anyways, while it is more clicking to do it has functions and meaning which is necessary for progression. So; BANZAI! This is what I like to see more of going forward.
[ANIMATIONS]
Still images presented in a slideshow fashion with text that follows is what you can expect generally so nothing new there but of course you want to know about the H-scenes: "Ara~♡ ara~♡" - "Hey Hana get out of here this is my review make your own!" Now where were we? Ah yes the sex scenes. They are really well made, like REALLY well made and I fucking love the facial expressions of the female characters seeing them drool, eyes lost to lust and passion and have strings of saliva connected between their teeth is an arousing sight to behold. However I need to mention that you can't exactly choose what you want to do during them sexy times, it just an animation playing out until the male character climaxes and that's it. It would be nice if we got to choose but hey at least they are good and who knows maybe later on the options to choose what to do with the female will arrive, the dream is not dead... yet.
[MUSIC & SFX]
I'm sorry player but your "noises" are in another castle. I'm joking... sort of. While it may have some... sounds, it's a far cry from what people would call "OST" so yeah... anyways, moving on!
[MISC.]
I want to talk about the translations here and other miscellaneous stuff that comes to mind because good lord... the translations, grammar and spellings are all over the place with this game and to put it bluntly; it sucks. I get that they aren't native English speakers but holy fuck use a program even Google translate would not only be but do better than this! You have a whole community on Discord that can help you, don't be afraid to speak up and ask for help. I have to re-read each text sometimes up to 3-4 times to fully get what this person is trying to convey, mostly because when text isn't written/typed correctly it breaks my brain. Please add more cute scenes like the main character kissing and hugging them and things of that nature. Also can I just point out how weird it is that they use assets from their other game like Karyn having green toenails which doesn't fit her at all and was clearly from another body... yes I notice and pay attention to details what of it, wanna fight me? I'll 1v1 you in Minecraft come at me scrub lord I'm ripped!
I know that my reviews tend to gravitate towards the negative side a lot of the times but reviews generally speaking is to give insight to the developers to see what to improve upon but make no mistake this game is seriously good, one of the best on this site and if you like this game may I suggest also checking out 'Eternum' and 'Aurelia' for some added spice.
I love how people are actually down-voting a positive review, I mean shit guys if you don't like the game stop playing it maybe? No one is forcing you. On a another note constructive feedback is important to improve on the game and yes that means critiquing it at as well and if you don't like that then grow the fuck up.
MY THOUGHTS ON ETERNUM v.0.5 (Spoiler free)
Let's start this right because I have a lot to say about this game some bad and some good. So buckle up everyone it's about to get sexy... *clears throat* I mean bumpy.
First of all; the game is good so make no mistakes there, sure they might be some stolen ideas, sure it might have reused assets and sure the graphics isn't the best out there but all that aside this is definitely a hidden gem when it comes to porn games but I do have a few gripes with it and I will go over everything in sections down below so that people that doesn't want to read the full thing can skip to what they want to know. So, without further ado:
-STORY-
Yes we are absolutely starting with the story it's like the best thing in this game I promise to ease up on the drooling part... from both ends, and say that this is indeed something ripped from 'Sword Art Online' the anime and every other popular franchise that has this kind of premise and if it wasn't for that I am so damn intelligent, I could've enjoyed the story more than I did but sadly I know where this is headed and I knew it before it even started to take action.
So yes, the story is a bit predictable but is that necessary a bad thing though?
No, of course not, it doesn't bring it down one bit. The story has it's moments of being quirky, charming, comedic, sad and serious so it has a lot of mixed flavors.
So it captivates you in a non-aggressive way. The person is leaning you into it slowly and methodically almost invisibly and it feels natural, nothing is forced upon the player (that's a good thing) so the writer is clearly familiar with writing stories and knows what he or she is doing. Natural writing is the best kind, nothing is too excessive either which you will see in 80% of the porn games to date. Of course there is a lot of *harks* "borrowed" ideas to make some events more eventful so there's definitely humor to be had and parodies to be seen but nothing feel out of place, Hell this game made me laugh out loud on more accounts than I can remember.
-CHARACTERS-
Here is where I stop being nice. As cliche as the story might be and all of it's events it comes nowhere near close the charisma and personalities with the presented characters of the game I would go as far to say that Luna might be the only one with a hint of originality to her but even that is stretching it. As so many games before have done, it starts off all sweet and nice with lollypops and sunshine but quickly turns into every character from every porn game out there.
The main character is attractive with a gigantic cock (go figure, right...) with a nice guy attitude (someone who acts like a Romeo but has nothing other than sexual thoughts about everyone in the game, it's a bit overflowing... in more ways than one) with a positive and optimistic mind, who of which everyone adores. That's not say that there isn't anything positive to say. He has humor and some of the dialogues are really well written for him and the fact that you have choices to choose from really makes it good, I guess what I'm trying to say here is that it's a bit too easy to "woo" the girl(s). Now, don't get wrong idea here the choices you have and can do DOES MATTER to some extent but given as soon as the girl(s) sees your cock they turn into the most lewdest drooling slutty whores imaginable. I get that this is a sex game and all that but would kill to add some sort of romance into at all, instead of it just being about the cock being fucking huge? I wouldn't care if the main character had normal sized cock and the characters thought that it was big because of them being virgins or because they had been with guys with smaller or something but why is having any form of romance in a sex game so taboo? Given that it's just about the cock size and not about the person and the fact that every girl(s) turns sex-crazy is such a turn off for me. Anyways let's go over the roman- sex interests in this game:
Annie; is the adorable and shy one.
Dalia; is the sporty and competitive one.
Penelope; the I-like-it-rough and snobby one.
Nancy; the motherly and experienced one.
Nova; the intelligent and energetic one.
Alex; the emo and aggressive one.
Last but certainly not least Luna; the sad and lonely one.
Of course all of them are more or less cute and some even share some traits of being shy, Luna being my personal favorite of the bunch. But again despite have all those differences to them they are still a copy & paste - yes they all have different dialogues, yes they have different animations, yes they have their own sections in the game that makes them standout a bit but it doesn't hide the fact that it's a bit annoying for them to share so many similarities to one another especially when the cock comes out or should I say in, jeez...
-GAMEPLAY-
As you would expect it's just another visual novel with some elements of Point & Click but don't get too excited, it consists of just clicking to the next room or similar action(s). I would've loved for it to be more... engaging. With how good most of the other things are and the fact that creator is making bank on this, I would've expect a little more. Maybe in further updates more action-y things will be added.
-SEX SCENES/ANIMATIONS-
Now we come to the saucy bits and something that most people wanna know about: "hOw ArE tHe sEx sCeNes", easy the tiger let's talk about animations first. You can probably guess since I mentioned animations that it is gonna have animations in the game - and that... they do! I have to admit that they are good they even added a bit of cinematography to the game which helps its case severely BUT not everything is roses and butt-plugs because the characters themselves when speaking to them aren't animated, they are just jpegs on the screen but they do have several pictures of them that they switch between so you could say they are a bit... animated? The graphics is good not the best but good definitely a passing grade that's for sure, I'd say somewhere around 6 or 7 on the scoreboard because there are a lot of reused assets (which I can fully understand) and some jagged lines here and there nothing too bad. Now for what you have been waiting for the magical, spectacular, amazing, mind-blowing... average mediocre sex scenes - yeaaah don't get your hopes up here buddy you can find better sex scenes on Rule 34 or on Pornhub if you wanted but doesn't detract from the game at all but something that does detract from the experience is that you can't choose what to do, remember what I said about this game having Point & Click elements to it? Well, they don't have that for the sex scenes instead you have to choose which scene to play and then watch it. It's bit depressing to see so many games with the same GUI and no interactivity as to choose: what you want to do with the girl, control the speed, changing camera angle, zoom-in/out etc. etc. giving the player a choice instead of turning the main character constantly to a bitch-boy, who gets constantly ordered around as long as he can get laid and that we get to see it in full glory.
YOU MUST COMPLY. How about fuck off.
-MUSIC/SFX-
Ah yes the music, it's not music to my ears. Since music is subjective and depends solely on whether people like that type of genre, I can't really say much about it other than it certainly doesn't resonate with me at all, so I did what a sane person would do and turned it off. SFX or sound effects if you don't speak game is basically nonexistent there are a few of them here and there but nothing good. Then we have that ear piercing fucking sound effect that the creator is using WAY TOO FUCKING OFTEN and doesn't realize that it's actually a damaging tone to the ear and NO I'm not kidding. That sound can quite literally give you tinnitus or worse shatter (damage) your eardrum and I wish that they would remove it from the game before a lawsuit happens.
-FINAL THOUGHTS-
This game is a hidden gem that isn't a lie - the story is rich and deep, the dialogues well-crafted for the most part, some good animations and it has some uniqueness to it especially with the humor. The only downsides are the horrible character copy & paste sex freaks, the lack of GUI options for the sex scenes and that the game doesn't have much in the way of action-y stuff. Now I know there is only so much one can do and yes I know that this is a Visual Novel but it leaves me wanting more from it and not just be like the rest which there are plenty of already.
Pros:
Story
Dialogues (for the most part)
Animated sex scenes
Character design
Choices matter (to some degree)
Humor/parodies
Uses the word 'cock' (no seriously, it's difficult to find that in these games)
Cons:
Copy & Paste characters
Buggy
No sex scene GUI choices
No real gameplay interactions
Final score: 8/10
(Also there is a bug that if you choose to kiss Annie it will lock you out from getting further with Dalia, you're welcome)
There is a bug in your game then because I know for a fact that I chose her path (as well as everyone else) I clicked to go with her to the gym but that never happened and she still becomes "greyed out" after Roman world/server and it shouldn't be too surprising because the whole game is riddled with bugs, I get trapped in conversation/dialogue loops constantly most of them are when I load a save file.