for some reason, the game struggles a lot to run on my hardware. i assume this is due to compatibility issues since the game is pretty graphically simple. my PC really isn't that bad, so it's not an issue of raw power. i'm guessing the game is unoptimized since it's a demo
i'm very interested in this one, so i'm hoping for the full game so i can actually run it (given that you do fix this "bug").
NSFW game design analytic here. I think all games deserve to be judged equally, so i'm talking about Porn game design.
Simple Puzzle games are historically the cornerstone of NSFW vidya. Clear a line, Match 4 do whatever and you get to see boobs, in this case it's cocks i guess.
Let's talk about the important part first: the art. Art is amazing, characters are cute and the hyper aspects are really nice too.
In terms of actually getting to see those Drawings, this game feels specially slow. You can be playing a run for upwards of 20 minutes if you're slow and not as good at puzzle games as me. One thing that especially ticked me off was the fact that you simply lose your progress if you fail, which does makes sense, this is a video game, but seeing as the game has a slower pace, it feels bad. And seeing that the multiplier doesn't seem to affect the level bar at the bottom, playing slow and thinking moves through is actually the play here since you don't wanna get drowned out. There's also no full clear bonuses since when you get to about 20% of the board, it refreshes (also turning any sweets that were already dropping into obstacles, which feels really bad) making that bottom part of the board literally unreachable and just junk. Now, the powers alleviate that a little since you can actually clear those using them. At first i thought this game would have some meta progression, since you get Money instead of Score, but that seems to be only an aesthetic choice. But also, that made me think on my first playthrough that the game was designed that way. With slow progression and a very tiny window to think.
What i mean is: This game feels really good forg people that are good at Suika, but pretty much gatekeeps some Drawings to people that suck at Suika. Which also makes sense from a Game Design sense, but in this case it feels more like Arcade Eat-Your-Coins type of difficulty than a Harder Overcome-This-Challenge.
People might disagree with me, which is fine, but i think the game feels unbalanced right now. The game seems to be pretty Finished, so Pivoting and making a meta-progression system at this point would be pretty hard and uninteresting and i don't even really agree with it, honestly. People might just tell me to Git Gud, but i've actually unlocked about half of the final drawings for the cast, so it's not a problem of the actual difficulty, but more so that the difficulty feels bad, unlike other challenging games would. This game can be easily fixed by just making the windows for the Combo and the Drop Timer a bit bigger, making the progress faster or keeping the progress inbetween runs such that unlocking everything just becomes a matter of time, as opposed to skill.
Overall, 8/10 game if you're willing to stick with it
5/10 if you're looking for a quick fap.
so, i played about 1 hour straight of this game yesterday and let my opinions fester a bit.
this is a demo so i won't be as harsh because i'm sure you're already working on a better version.
the grapple-sex thing is really bad. but not totally, the idea itself isn't bad, it just needs some adjustments. i had an idea that, when you get grabbed, you can immediately get out of it by pressing a button really fast. this button would be a random direction that would show up very fast, so it would require a quick reaction time.
the dodge is also really weak and would be better if it got upgraded along depending on your stats or if you could just dash like, 2 times in a row before having to cooldown.
the cowgirl enemy is really annoying as you have to open the equip menu to get rid of the rope.
there's also isn't a lot of time in between waves so you can't do everything.
annoying things about playing this game are: enemies you can't do anything about, lack of options in spells and equips, cowgirl and way too fast pacing that makes it so you can't get acquainted with an otherwise simple game.
i thought you could put in some support spells, like for speed or for slowing enemies or something like that. they could drop from witches or some sort of stronger variation of one? and then you could equip them on the "T" menu.
please give us like, 3 minutes inbetween waves or make it so you can only go into the next one manually
i got to round 12, and stopped having fun midway through round 8, not because it was unfun but because of those things i listed above.
this might sound like a useless, harsh ramble but these are my strong feelings about a game i deeply enjoy but am unsatisfied with:
i really enjoy the game, the gameplay is fun, fast and easy to understand. but there's no variation, the new modifiers are cool but they barely change the gameplay really. the early parts of a match are really boring without any bytes, i think the map should start with some bytes already on it.
none of the weapons are really fun. they're boring, and whenever i get a bad one i have to force myself to keep playing so they change. it would be better if each doll had defined weapons and the weapon cards changed stats for the weapon and the secondary. For example, a "sniper weapon card" would change a full auto into a semi-auto with higher power or something like that.
the current system for getting cards suck. it's too grindy for a single-player offline game, and as i said, weapon cards are really boring so if you're not collecting everything you don't really feel the incentive to get new ones. i think there should be a separate weapon pack where you can only get dupes to unlock the variations "busty and nude" and when they're finished, you can't get them anymore. this would make it so you keep playing with the weapons you enjoy with the playstyle you like while still being able to get new things.
speaking of card packs. they shouldn't be limited to 3 per day, i think there should be a card shop where you can buy from, for example, a choice of 5 packs that get overwritten by other ones so you can still get the pack variation. these wouldn't reset with a day.
speaking of day resets, 8 is too much. 6 would be fine. and also, i like how you can get different byte types that cost more in harder stages, but i don't think card packs should cost specific bytes. they should cost money.
i also thought about a certain modifier that's applied before a match, onto a specific map when you're choosing. it's 2x speed. not really movement speed, but you get double bits and you only get 30 seconds to score. also, balls would count as 2. but the "skip modifier" that increases the minimum balls would be applied, so it's high risk high reward. this would make for a very fun variation i think.
i like how the new moves for each doll feels. they're great. the art is awesome, and the visuals of each map are awesome too. i think killing bytes should paint nearby tiles.
there's a bug where a impersonator's little body spawns below the ground and is unkillable.
i really like the new difficulty, the game feels way harder in a satisfying way.
so, basically everything that pertains to actual gameplay is very good and satisfying while everything you do outside of it is grindy and boring. also i think at max level, dolls should be able to equip 2 upgrade cards.
i love this game and i probably have about 200 hours, but couldn't even get myself to play 20 on the new update because it just feels weird.
also please give us a bloom and motion blur toggle
I am absolutely addicted to this game, it's very well made and yadda yadda, pretty much everything that everyone else has already said. this game is really fun and well made. but i feel the lack of keyboard use very deeply. I was thinking maybe we could milk with spacebar, finish the drink with "E" and reset with "R". Just for gamefeel. Also, i would really like either a toggle or a new difficulty where the drinks have timers and you gotta act fast. Maybe in that mode you'd also get a lot of timed events like in chaos mode, but with the added "bonus" of drinks having timers.
