Was thinking the same thing. Most of the "negatives" make the game shine at the moment, excluding the obviously still under developmental features mentioned.
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Bug for devs.
The UI when talking to Toni can completely disappear. See image attached. Talked to her about the first topic, ended convo, UI came up and disappeared like it was intentional; you know, the slower transition down and to the sides. Didn't just pop out of existence.
Gotta shoot the game down via task manager to fix this issue.
And this comment goes straight for the devs: Make The Bed Smaller. Every single misclick in that room is a potential to waste a whole day of a week. Just make the clickable part be the pillow or something or at the very minimum add a prompt of "Are you sure you want to end the day?" to clicking the bed.
Honestly just an amazing game if you don't manage to misclick once and literally destroy the game so you have to shoot it down via task manager and apparently destroy your 8 hour save
The sprite-like images, 80's Miami vibe really works. It's a beautiful game with solid mechanics. Every single minigame lacks a tutorial, so you're totally failing your first 3 or so weeks in the game in regards to each and every single one of them, but the minigames works when you suss out what the underlying mechanics actually are.
Be careful what you click in this game. There's a lot of transition screens which can be clicked away, but if you click, say during a transition away from a vacation event or just accidentally double click the last message of a vacation event, you're going to be clicking your bed. This creates a loop of "hey, what do you wanna do on this day" and double music and overlapping overlays that cannot be gotten rid of sometimes.
If, after this problem, you shoot he game down via Task Manager, there is a chance to lose all your saved data. It's just finicky this way. For instance, I personally just lost an 8 hours long playthrough.
There's also a multitude of QoL things that could be done, such as standardizing in which situations you back out of conversation screens and in which you don't, since this is decided by the devs apparently by throwing a dead swordfish at a wall and seeing which one sticks to a sticky note with the words "Fuck The System" in it. Or just plain giving the player a phone to use so the player could check their daily calendar to-do's when they're out of the house instead of having to go through a multitude of screens to get back to your own room and click an actual calendar on the wall. Window. Whatever it's stuck to. Beautiful room, though.
Or put in a button that takes us straight to the players room. Yeah, that would work as a workaround.
Despite all this vitriol I've vomited here like a southern giant petrel, this game is honestly just gorgeous and no amount of bugs, terrible quality of life in gameplay or losing save files is going to keep me from becoming the mother fucker and brothers girlfriend tag-teamer I am destined to become in this game. 10/10.
Edit: Almost forgot to say. MANUALLY SAVE FREQUENTLY. The autosave function works 50/50. I've started again from a part where people go on a hike for about 4 times because the game hasn't autosaved during the 2 weeks after that.
I still believe the files are downloaded from Itch's own servers, since the app doesnt give an error about the files being hosted on 3rd party sites. Looks to be a fairly recent thing as well, so we can easily say there's something wrong with the servers this game is being downloaded from.
Nothing Lustration can do about it, really.
How do you actually 3 star even the first one? I keep getting the biggest souls you can and tossing them in, yet this way it's not possible to get the 3 star clear it seems. The physics of throwing seem to be a bit off as well; sometimes the balls just refuse to leave the pot.
EDIT: Okay, so now I got the gist of this. It's all down to luck; if the little cauldron doesn't give you bigger souls all the time, you cannot get 3 stars. If you play this game, just forget about trying; throw balls in as they come and hope you get the bigger scoring ones.
Since there's no place other than the comments where I could drop my errors, here.
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "renpy/bootstrap.py", line 326, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "renpy/main.py", line 617, in main
run(restart)
File "renpy/main.py", line 148, in run
renpy.execution.run_context(True)
File "renpy/execution.py", line 922, in run_context
context.run()
File "script.rpyc", line 653, in script
File "script.rpyc", line 653, in script
File "renpy/ast.py", line 1397, in execute
renpy.exports.with_statement(trans, paired)
File "renpy/exports.py", line 1637, in with_statement
return renpy.game.interface.do_with(trans, paired, clear=clear)
File "renpy/display/core.py", line 2546, in do_with
clear=clear)
File "renpy/display/core.py", line 3007, in interact
repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, pause=pause, pause_start=pause_start, **kwargs)
File "renpy/display/core.py", line 3517, in interact_core
self.draw_screen(root_widget, fullscreen_video, (not fullscreen_video) or video_frame_drawn)
File "renpy/display/core.py", line 2381, in draw_screen
renpy.display.draw.draw_screen(surftree)
File "gl2draw.pyx", line 817, in renpy.gl2.gl2draw.GL2Draw.draw_screen
File "gl2texture.pyx", line 216, in renpy.gl2.gl2texture.TextureLoader.cleanup
File "renpy/log.py", line 231, in write
self.real_file.flush()
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Windows-10-10.0.22621
Ren'Py 7.4.2.1292
Shuggerlain - Beyond time 0.50
Sun Aug 4 16:59:26 2024
There's an option for skipping the minigames, which is great. What isn't great that it doesnt skip Tailwind, the most RNG game I've played in a while.
Please fix this. I've been trying to beat Lauren in it for almost an hour now and it's just not possible; when she gets to single digit ship numbers, the minigame starts handing her turns cards that massively either give her shield or ship
As someone who has played quite a bit of virtual casino on different platforms, I can't give this game a good score. The bots are always skewed against the player in a major way; there's no way that 20/20 hits in blackjack in a hand you a 10-value card when you're 12 or over.
Guys, it's a porn game. Skew it towards the players side, not against.
Edit: Also, add a "skip all animations" button. Knowing you cannot win 17 in this game and having to watch the dealer hit is just aggravating.
Edit2: And then you put the actual animations behind a paywall when the player manages to grind this terrible system to V.I.P. Wow, this is probably the most scammed anyone can feel.
Okay, I gave this a fair shot, but the game is extremely unplayable. I made it to the first time you see a policeman in the beginning and the woman berates you. At that time I had already gone through two gauntlets of renpy errors due to assets apparently not being defined properly. After that I was clicking on "ignore" on the errors for almost 3 minutes straight, not doing anything else.
I couldnt continue. This game should not be listed if it's this broken.
Has anyone encountered a bug where the UI is all messed up? For instance, no matter how many times I reinstall the game fresh, the wardrobe menu just shows one hair option which cannot be clicked. No upper menus, submenus or anything like that.
Tried running with -screen-fullscreen 0 -screen-height 900 -screen-width 1600 to see if the problem was my resolution; no dice, same problem. This affects, for instance, all shops, the computer menu (if I click on "experiments" it's pretty much game over; theres no way to click on "Locations" again).
Game worked just fine a couple of days ago.
How do you actually start the game? I'm in a screen where I can do customization of monsters, use inventory or shop, but there is no indication on how to proceed to actual gameplay. No button aside from these are present and nothing I press on the keyboard or mouse does anything. There is nothing clickable on the table, either.
I've been playing this for a couple of days now. The shrine maiden Alice seems to be bugged in the public 0.3.0 version (never seen her at the shrine since she was introduced) but otherwise it's been a real banger.
The animations are great, which was a surprise; by the aesthetic I thought this was another lazy Koikatsu game, but it really surprised me with the level of animation.