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No, you don't NEED to use a guide to "play" the game, but without it you WILL get stuck, you WILL miss key choices, you MAY potentially lock yourself out of a romance and waste your time playing through multiple chapters before you realise your mistake. The mission log is very generic - forgot the exact details? Oh, well best get to clicking around. Got stuck? Ah well, best go to the discord and wait for someone to respond. 

I think it's disengenous to new players to give them the wrong idea going into this game. It can be confusing and complex. For a renpy novel made by such a small team, its brilliant - but If you want to make your life easier, just buy the guide - otherwise expect intense frustration

I also think you touched on something very important here: "Will you make mistakes? yes. Not every run is perfect" One of the main issues with this game is the amount of time it takes to play through it for one romance. Mess something up? Well that's another 30 hours bucko. Better to try and get everything right the first time so you don't have to redo hours and hours worth of content.

Want to give a quick little summary of my thoughts on this game:

+ The game has some really high quality CGs, a huge amount of content (I mean hundreds of hours if you want to try and unlock every CG) and actual gameplay. It's very rare to find a game this ambitious in this category.

- However, and these are some of the biggest detractors: the game is extremely tedious and very grindy. You will NOT be able to complete it without the PAID guide, I repeat you will NOT!!!! be able to complete it without the PAID guide. At times you have to go through 40 locations tediously clicking to find something you missed - and this is WITH  a guide. I do not remotely think this game is completable without the guide, at least, not without huge amounts of frustration. The paid for guide is somewhat useful but even then you might still have to go into the discord and ask for help. 

- You will have to replay through vast swathes of the game again to unlock different CGs as you can only have one romance at the time.

- Combat is repetitive and slow, multiple times just wanted to skip it

If you do buy the game, I beg of you to use a save editor to give yourself more resources/energy/romance scores otherwise the grind is monumental. You can use this: https://www.saveeditonline.com/
Find your save files in %appdata% renpy, ergi.

A good game that could use some checkpoints (other than saves) so you don't have to redo entire chapters for different romantic interests. Adding a cheat menu would be great.

Great game! Looking forward to more :)

P.S - I think his old classmate is very hot...

Highly enjoyed the demo. Reminds me a lot of roadwarden, another brilliant game which I'd recommend. Would love to be able to build up a town/invite people along. Could gather materials by fighting mobs.

I believe an update is planned for november from their patreon

Hey all, wondering if its possible to use the artwork of the previous artist? Nothing against the new style, I just prefer the looks of the old one!

Looks like chatGPT has censored it. Deepl might be able to get around it - as the author probably puts this through translation software, the above reads:

"I cannot translate this content as it contains inappropriate language and promotes violence."

English version in the future...? I can't even translate this one with textractor :((

A compelling game with an enjoyable premise. I enjoyed what content I understood and want this project to succeed so I'm going to go over roughly what I liked and what I believe can be improved. Please bear in mind this is but one man's opinion so feel free to disagree. I can only comment on the current state of the game in the English translation so I apologize if I miss anything that's in the Chinese/Japanese version.

As a side note: to move the furniture Press B then press Z

Strengths

+ Love the furniture options

Haven't seen this in an RPG maker game before, but the possibility to design my own house/shop is very compelling. Adds an interesting gameplay loop, possibility of crafting? possibility of gathering resources? possibility of shops to buy new furniture/upgrade/expand facilities? Possibility of furniture granting stat bonuses? Possibility of expanding the parlour through upgrades? Really good idea, looking forward to seeing more about it.

+ A lot of content already

This speaks for itself, if more of the game is able to be translated I believe there's already a lot of content to be enjoyed by players. 

+ Good art!

A lot of assets have already been made and the quality of the art is extremely good! Whilst I'd love to see more CG scenes rather than sprite art, it's already very promising. 

+ Wide range of characters

Whilst I can't speak to the depth of the characters or their relationship with the main character due to the limited dialogue currently, the wide range of designs is interesting. I'd definitely recommend creating a few furry characters, but that's up to your preference.

+ Sound Design already!

Music isn't annoying and from what I've seen, fits with the zones. Already small sound effects are scattered about here and there which helps with immersion.

Weaknesses and Possible Solutions

-The menu nearly stopped me from playing

Possibly the biggest issue I found so far, especially for something which seems relatively minor. The game doesn't immediately present an 'English' option and starts up in Chinese, I, therefore, assumed the translation was broken or I installed the wrong file. If I was in a different mood I would most likely have uninstalled the game and played something else (I would imagine other people at this stage would do the same thing). I really do think this should be fixed asap.

Possible Solutions:

1. I think this one is a fairly easy fix, start the game up in English depending on which language settings are installed on the PC (probably quite complex)
2. Include separate download files for Chinese, Japanese, and English
3. Include an option on the title screen for changing language. This could be with a flag (if you have the technical know-how) but it should be very easy to spot

- Necessary gameplay instructions should be translated asap

Much like above, anything which requires an in-game description in order to advance (quests, etc) should be prioritised. I struggled to pick up furniture and place it due to not understanding the instructions (No Z instruction given). Solutions for this should be obvious!

- The English translation reads poorly:

 Whilst I'm no translator, I'd imagine that whoever is doing the translations currently is able to get the gist across from Chinese into English. I've found this game to suffer from the same problem as Uncle Neighbour: a game which is understandable in English, however, breaks the player's immersion due to the way it's been translated. I.E, wrong tenses, wrong pronouns, strange way of wording, or the occasional nonsense sentence (imagine machine-translated Chinese).

Possible Solutions:

1. Leave it as is, focus on translating as much of the game as possible and hopefully fix it at the end: This was the goal of Uncle Neighbour, but sadly due to whatever reason it didn't happen. 
2. Hire a professional translator, this will solve the issue of English Translation but would be extremely expensive depending on scope. I.E. following along the same vein as Hachienden Heroes. This game receives small but regular updates monthly to very high translation quality.
3. Continue with translation services as they are and set up a discord for the game. Using the discord try and find native English speaker volunteers to edit the script in order for it to read well. If you know any native English speakers willing to help out, try asking them. The obvious downside is you will potentially lose the original meaning/or intent of the writing. This is my preferred solution, but it's not my game.

- Words are cut off at the end of sentences:

 Following in the same vein of the English translation being off, the cut-off words break the flow of the story as well as immersion. I'm no programmer so please ignore the solutions if they don't offer a fix or are downright wrong.

Possible Solutions:

1. I'm unsure of your proficiency in English but if it's to a conversational level, play through the version in English and edit what words are cut off. If not, try and find someone to go through and find potential issues.
2. Check whatever you're using to program the game to see if it's able to identify English words, if so, is there an option to automatically go to a new line? For example, what I'm typing right now when I reach the borders of the textbox and my word isn't finished, it will automatically go to a new line.

- Some content is too extreme for a more casual player:

Honestly, I'm a degenerate so I'll like almost all content apart from super extreme (I.E. shota, scat, gore). However, as a commenter below mentioned, they tried to skip a WS scene. No matter what 'solutions' I propose here, it really depends on your vision of the game. I also wouldn't call these steps particularly vital at the moment, just things to consider.

Possible Solutions:

1. Include a preference section OR an option to 'skip' the extreme content before the CG appears
2. Fade to black instead of a skip, keeping text but removing CGs.

Conclusion

A game with combat, house design and lots of areas to expand and is well thought out. Glad to see more Chinese BL games being brought over to the English market, God knows I want to play them but am limited by my language skills. Would love to see corruption/mind control content but that's personal taste.

Whilst the weaknesses/solutions section looks dense it's mostly reiterating that the game is currently difficult to understand from an outside English perspective. I'd highly encourage setting up a discord server and looking for help from native English speakers to help translate certain texts or give feedback.

Too complicated, too confusing. Not even sure where the porn is if there is any. Not particularly fun in its current state

Agreed, nice art - writing and story needs work

Agree with the above comment. The writing definitely needs a bit of work. However, please don't go the same route as other VN's where many characters are written as the: "OMG, XD, I'M SO CUTESY AND RANDOM!" shtick which not only gets old pretty fast but is extremely annoying, at times feeling like a self-insert of the author?  

Fun game, very promising story - would love to see an update

Very enjoyable little game. Happy that I picked it up, I saw it on itchio a while ago whilst there wasn't much content so I ignored it, however upon returning it seems very promising. A couple of sound bugs/visuals could be worked on but for a very early game, it looks great. If you enjoyed small on top you'll almost certainly enjoy this one.