this is easily the most gorgeous fvn i have every seen and is simply amazing. like, this is already all ive ever wanted in a furry vn. also this is how you do wolves in a fvn!
as soon as i saw the animation style and the backgrounds, i immediately thought of the point and click adventure games i play (that usually end up having hidden object puzzles) like nightmare realm.
and now i have to make a moontouched version of myself XD
love this game so far, but the gameplay needs some improvements
-enemies can hit you from way too far of a distance and are extremely aggressive, hitboxes are very wonky
-this game is built around the idea that you are also spamming your heal item to just not die in a fight. this game seems to take many of its mechanics from the old korean/japanese p2w mmos. kill 20 of X, get 50 of X item but the drop rate is not guaranteed, endless grinding of mobs/quests to barely level up
-magic takes entirely too long to cast for minimal damage, even when focusing on mind stat when leveling
-all gear is rng drops from mobs, shop should periodically update
-mobs do too much damage, even for lower level ones
-respawn rate of mobs is INSANE, except for one spot with the big enemies
-dash/dodge and shield should not use the same resource
dont get me wrong, i LOVE how this game looks. the designs are really cute and the game itself looks very interesting. i know its still a demo but theres some deep seeded mechanic designs that need to be addressed
also enok is best boy, and i want a nipple option in character creation xD
finally sat down and played this and omg i want to run away with nomax and hold him while he talks to me about plants and we can sing terribly together xD also omg that scene, hes such a subby boy!
that pic of samuel during the dream though too is just mmph, would love to wake up to that haha
spoiler talk now
the part where we find out about samuels secret, at first i thought it was gonna be a le chevalier deon thing where samuel harbors the spirit of his dead sister who wasnt put to rest properly and gets taken over by her to battle and stuff lol
i have a theory that shax is nomino from the first timeline when all of this originally happened. future shax finds a way to turn back time over and over and over and over again, doing everything he can to make sure him and nerus end up together, but it fails every time. so the reason nomino-shax is so odd is cause his form and mind are barely holding it all together turning going back so many times
so heres some of my thoughts, spoilers obviously
ive reread the prologue quite a few times (cause i like making myself cry ha ha) so these theories will pertain to that, and what im currently rereading
for some dumb reason i never checked it when i literally knew it was a thing during my last playthrough which im kicking myself for but the burning sound effects that happen at certain points in the prologue means that lines of text are added to the backlog, and the static is either lines being erased or not recorded at all in the backlog.
the first line occurs when nerus is talking about how monotonous his life is and mentions how a clock just kinda does its thing on repeat, and in the backlog this line appears: "Perpetual... So boring..."
the second line comes when nerus thinks theres an intruder, which we know later to be lucusti checking in on obli, when nerus goes into shax's room and lights a fire, this line appears: "Sleeping like a little angel..."
theres more but i need to go through and find them all again so ill prob update this once i find them. theres one after nerus confesses to shax his feelings and they return home and mention having to bathe to get all the sand off that reads:
"Well, isn't this cute? Too bad you have already failed him, though. And you know what the best part is? You didn't even notice, despite him acting up in front of you.
Bravo, four eyes and for nothing. Let us see how much longer you manage to retain this tiny bit of "peace" before it all falls apart. I can hardly wait."
now for a theory. the redd manor is nerus's house, im like 99% sure it is. my idea is that theres some time shenanigans going on
im assuming obli is maybe trying to change how things played out but is either being stopped by someone or is just unable to
also, and this is just highly speculating cause my brain likes to associate things a lot, the whole redd manor thing makes me think of a song by Blackbriar called "Crimson Faces" which is about the novel "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier, in which the narrorator marries a man whos manor is haunted by the ghost of his dead wife. "Nerus" definitely reads to me like a classic gothic horror romance novel.
just some thoughts i wanted to get down. Nerus is easily one of my absolute favorite VNs. the unique story and characters, and excellent writing, i cant wait to see how it all concludes.
i just hope that nerus and obli/shax end up happy together
as much as this game seems awesome, the current bug with the slugs basically able to one shot you due to you starting each fight with almost 0 health and no armor makes this unplayable after a certain point. im stuck taking kuno through the forest since the debuff ticks away what lil health you start the fight with and you not being able to do enough damage to quickly kill the slug even with triple blitz or w/e the one move is called.
